

NOTES ON PLANTS OF THE SEASON. 

 F. L. Harvey. 



More plants have been received at the Station for examina- 

 tion the past season than ever before. They have been largely 

 weeds, forage plants and injurious fungi. Lectures upon weeds 

 and fungi delivered before farmers meetings, newspaper articles, 

 station bulletins on these subjects and the enactment of a seed 

 inspection law, have awakened an interest in these pests of the 

 farm. The following table includes those species received that 

 are of economic importance. 



Wild Peppergrass (Lepidium apetalum, Wild.) still continues 

 to be reported. Many samples of seed examined this season 

 contained the seeds of this weed. Reported from Aroostook 

 as putting up shoots after haying and maturing abundant seed 

 by September. 



Shepherd's Purse is being widely introduced with seed. 

 It is not a very bad weed in fields, but a nuisance about gardens 

 and lawns in Maine. 



The Red Milkwort, though not a bad weed in Maine, has 

 been reported as abundant in some localities in low sandy soil. 

 It is not likely to give much trouble. 



Tufted Vetch or Blue Vetch (Vicia Cracca, L.) continues 

 to spread. Farmers are not agreed concerning it. Some 

 regard it as a good forage plant, while others condemn it as a 

 bad weed. It grows rank and gives a good yield per acre. 

 The patches die in the centre and enlarge from the outside. 



The Rabbit-foot and Hop Clovers are gaining ground 

 along highways and in waste places. If we must harbor weeds 

 along roadsides, I know of no more attractive ones. 



The Orange Hawkweed continues to be reported from 

 new localities. 



The Bristly Buttercup and Golden Ragweed have 

 been mistaken for the King-Devil Weed, a plant that is well 

 established about Gardiner and vicinity and is spreading. 



