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this treatment 



BIGNONIA FAMILY, BIGNONIACK.K. 

 293 Trumpet=creeper (P) Tccoma radicans (L.) DC. Is a woodv, climbimr 

 vine with 9 to 10 leaflets aud clusters of tapering:, scarlet flowers, 2 1-2 to 3 

 inches long-, handsome in cultivation, but a serious pest when in fence-rows and 

 waste places. It requires repeated grubbing- to destroy it, and 

 is deserved when aggressive. 

 PLANTAIN FAMILY, 



plant agin ace -f;. 

 294 Bracted = plantain (A) 



*PlatrfagO aristata Michx. Bracted- 



plantain is comparatively a new 



weed in Ohio, and has attracted much 



notice during- the past few years. 



It has apparently been widely intro- 

 duced through the use of western 



seeds and forage. It commonly 



grows less than a foot high with 



rather long-, narrow, pointed, ribbed 



leaves and naked flower-stalks, 



bearing- long clusters of flowers 



intermingled with short, narrow 



leaves (bracts), hence the name. 



Bee Fig-. 55. It most resembles 



the narrow plantain. The weed 



appears thus far to have been less 



aggressive than either the broad or 



narrow plantain, but has become 



so widely diffused that it may be 



expected to prove w r ell suited to 



certain soils. 



The seeds are dark brown, 



rounded at the ends and on one side, 



flat, grooved lengthwise on the 



other, 1-10 inch long- with a trans- 

 verse groove midway across the 



smooth, rounded side. (See Fig-. 



tSd ) Distinguished from the seeds 



of narrow plantain by this transverse groove. Very. frequent 

 in clover and timothy seeds from west of the Mississippi. 

 This is rather a short lived plant, a winter annual or 

 biennial, which can best be removed through cultivation or 

 by hand digging in the spring. The methods of control 

 are much like those of the narrow plantain, while it prom- 

 ises to be less noxious. 



295 Sandwort=plantain (P) *Plantago arenaria L. 

 This is the latest importation from Europe, represented in 

 Fig. 56, which is drawn from a specimen collected in Day- 

 ton, Ohio, by the late Bro. H. Jaske, a careful collector. 

 The leafy stems are much taller, the resemblance to the 

 other plantains being suggested only in the narrow, ribbed 

 leaves and in the flower clusters. It is' illustrated that it 

 may be distinguished should it appear elsewhere. Its 

 possibilities as a weed can hardly be predicted. From what 

 we know of the others the destruction 

 plantain. weed would be a safe measure. 



Fig. 55. Bracted-plantain. 



[After Dewey . Bulletin 28. Division of Botany, 



U. S. Dept. Agric.) 



of the plant as 



