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the blossoms very small, with silvery white, five-parted calyx, 
subtended by three dry, white, papery bracts; the pistillate 
flowers are densely white-woolly at the base and much longer 
than the bracts. Seed small, nearly globular, with valveless 
utricle, included in the calyx. (Fig. 79.) 
Means of control 
Close cutting or pulling in early summer before any seed has 
matured. Enrichment and cultivation of the ground, providing 
humus which will enable the soil to retain moisture and support 
better plants. 
FRELICHIA 
Frelichia floriddna, Moq. 
Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to September. 
Seed-time: July to November. 
Range: Southern Wisconsin and Minnesota 
to Colorado, southward to Texas and 
Florida. 
Habitat: Dry, sandy soil; cultivated crops, 
fields, waste places. 
An unpleasant, woolly-hairy plant, closely 
related to the Rough Pigweed and nearly as 
troublesome, intruding in all sorts of crops 
and, by its long flowering season, compelling 
late tillage. 
Stem rather slender, erect, one to three 
feet tall, with a few ascending branches 
near the base, or often simple, leafless near 
the top. Leaves opposite, rather thick, 
narrowly lance-shaped, sessile, or the lower- 
most ones somewhat spatulate and tapering 
to margined petioles, entire, downy on the 
under side. Flowers very small, perfect, 
three-bracted, on densely crowded spikes 
disposed oppositely in branching panicles ; 
Fie. 80.— Freelichia 
calyx densely woolly, tubular, five-toothed (Frelichia floridana). 
at the apex, and has irregular toothed wings X+- 
