WEEDS AND WEED SEEDLINGS. 



hooks by which the plant chmbs. The seedUng of two or three inches 

 in height strikingly resembles the older plant, but is not branched. 

 The stems of cleavers are four-angled ; the flowers appear from July 

 onward, are small, white, and in small clusters ; the fruits are two- 



lobed, roundish, and rather large, purplish, and very rough owing 

 to hooks which serve to distribute the weed, as the fruits become 

 attached to animals and man and are later rubbed off. 



Groundsel is an ephemeral composite weed which gives rise to 



