Annual report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan .. (1862-) (18746424313)

Title: Annual report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan ..
Identifier: annualreportofse51mich (find matches)
Year: 1862- (1860s)
Authors: Michigan. State Board of Agriculture; Michigan State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Agriculture -- Michigan
Publisher: Lansing : The Board
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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394 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. FIGWORT FAMILY. SCROPHULARIACEAE. A large family of seed plants consisting of 2,500 species most abundant In temperate regions. Its botanical peculiarities on one side shade off into the potato family and on the other into the mint family. A remarkably small number of plants are distinguished for economic qualities. A few are orna- mental, a few are weeds; there is not a 'fruit," "vegetable" or forage plant in the list.
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Fig. 186 (164). Beaked Nightshade. Solanum roatratum Dunal. A very prickly, bushy, yellowish, annual, 30-60 cm. high; leaves pinnately-lobed; calyx densely prickly; corolla yellow; fruit a formidable, spiny bur, about 3 cm. in diameter. Waste places, hailing from the south and west, where it was the original food of the famous potato beetle. (Fig. )86 belongs to Nightshade family.) Fig. 187 (165). Butter and Eggs. Toadflax. Linaria vulgaris Hill. (Linaria Linaria (L.) Karst.) A pale green, erect perennial, 30-90 cm. higli, spreading by slender underground stems; leaves very numerous, very narrow; flowers light vellow and darli orange having a spur at the base. Naturalized from. Europe and widely dis- tributed as a weed in temperate regions.