Cicho, bin& intybus. Wild Succory, chiccory, (p.) This foreigner is becoming extensively naturalized. Some European' agriculturists recommend it as a valuable forage plant, and cattle eeem fond of it; though it is he.ieved to impart a bad taste to the milk f cows which feed upon it. In Europe the roasted root is used as a substitute for coffee. In this country the plant is gen erally regarded as an obje. tionable weed.
Turaracurn dens-leonis. Dandelion, (p.) An intro duced plant, and now EO extensively naturalized in our grass-plot., fields, and meadows that although not very obnoxious as a weed, it will be found a difficult task to extirpate it. The leaves and flower buds are frequently used. wilted. as a salad, and boiled as greens, and the root has been inuch employed recently in domestic econ omy, and is efiteemed a pleasant and salutary substitute for the ei dice berry.
Lo';e1;a inflata. Eye-bright, Indian tobacco, (b.) A native weed possessing acrid properties. and sometime& employed as an emetic, and as an expectorant in asthma Andromeda mariana. Stagger-bush, (s.) This native shrub is very abundant in the sandy districts of NeW Jersey, where it is reputed to be injurious to ehe-p when tbe leaves are eaten by them, producing a disease called the staggers. The evidence on this point is not quite conciusive, but if established would cause the bush to be deservedly ranked among the pernicious plants Plantar major. Common plantain, way-bread, (p.) This foreign plant is remarkable for accompanying civil ized man. growing along his foot-paths and flounshing around his settlemenis. It is alleged that our aborigines call it the white man's foot, from that circumstance. Another foreign species, the P. lanceolata, known as English plantain, rib-wort, ripple-grass, and buckhorn plantain, is becomkg particularly abundant in our upland meadows or clover grounds. The farmer should keep its seeds from mingling with those of the red clover, and thus injuring the sale of cloy, r seed in the market Teeorna radi;ans. Trumpet-Hower, (p.) This showy native climber is often cultivated and admired in the northeastern States, but in the West, along. the Ohio river and its tributaries, it is regarded as an intolerable nuisance.
Verbascum thapsus. Common Mnllein, (h.) An intro duced, homely weed in our pastures and cnItivated grounds. There is no surer evidence of a elovenly and negligent farmer than fields overrun with mulleins. As the plant produces a vast number of seeds it can only be kept in due subjection by eradication hefore the fruit is mature. There is another species called moth mullein, blatta, ia, more slender, and equally worthless, becom ing frequent in our pastures.
Linarat vutgaris. Toad-flax, Ranstead weed. (p.) A rather showy, but fcetid weed, said to have been introduced into Pennsylvania by a Mr. Ranstead, from Wales, as a garden flower. It inclines to form large, dense patches in our pastures by means of its creeping roots, which take almost exclusive possess on uf the soil.
Nepeta cataria. Cat mint, cat-nip, (p.) This is com mon about old settlements. Another perennial species, N. Glechorna, (Benth..) called ground-joy, and gill, is also common in moist, shaded pis ces about farm houses.
Lam um amplexicaule. Dead nettles, hen -hit, (a.) A worthless little weed, abundant in and about gardens in the Middle States, requiring some attention to keep it in due subjection..
Leonarus cardiaca. Motherwort, (p.) homely, ob noxious weed, found in waste places about houses and farm-yards.
7'eucrium Canadense. Wood-sage, germander, (p.) This, native plant, which is frequently seen in low, shaded grounds along streams, where it harmless, has recently got into the fields of some of the best farms of eastern Pennsylvania., where it is now regarded as an obstinately persistent nuisance.
Echium vulgare. Blue-weed, vipers bugloss, blue devils, (s.) A showy, brit vile weed, extensively.natural ized in some portions of our country, especially in Mary land and in the Shenandoah Valley, Va. Wherever it makes its appearance the fanners should act promptly on the Ovidian maxim, Principiis obsta, etc.: Meet and resist the beginning of evil.
Echinospermwm la ppula. Stick-seed, beggar's lice, (a.> The slovenly farmer is apt to get practically and vexa tiously acquainted with this obnoxious native weed iu consequence of its racemes of bar-like fruit entangling the manes of his.borses and the fleeces of his sheep.
Convolvulus arvensis. Biud-weed, (p.) This foreign plant has been introduced into some portione of our country, and will give the farmers much trouble if they do not carefully guard against it.
Cuscuta eptlinum. Dodder, flax-vine, (a.) This re markable parasitic plant, somewhat resembling copper wire in appearance, was introduced with oar flax crop, aud was formerly a great pest in thitt crop, by winding round and entangling branches of' stalks so as to spoil them: hut the vine has become rare, and has nearly died out since the culture of fiax has declined us.
Solanum nigrum. N ight-sh a tie, (a.) Freq nen t in shaded. waste plsees about dwellings. It is reputed to be deleterious in it. properties, and ought, therefore, to b • excluded from the vicinity of sll farin-houses, %%here its berrtes may tempt children to pluck and eat.
Solanum Carolinense. Horse Nettle, (p.) An exceed ingly pernicious w eed, tnd the roots are so penetrating and so tenacious of life that it is difficult to get rid of. It was probably introduced from the South by Ffumphrey Marshall into his botanic garden at Marshulltou, Pa, whence it has gradually extended iteelf round the neigh borhood, and forcibly illustrates the necessity of caution in admitting mere hotanical curiosities into good agricul tural districts.
Datura stramonium. Thorn Apple, Jamestown (or Jimson I weed, tu.) Two v rieties of this coarse, fcettd, narcotic plant twhicb is probably of Asiatic origin) are common among us as an obnoxious weed, and they should be cionfully excluded from the vicinity of all farin houses.
Enslenia atbida. Whitish Ensleaia, (p.) This twining plant, allied to the Aselepias or Milk-weed family, and happily as yet unknown to the f armers of the Eastern States. is reported by Prof. Short, a distinguished botanist of Kentucky, to he an intolerable nuisance on the farms along the river banks in Ohio, Illinois, etc.