. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 310 ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) STAGGER-BUSH Lybnia mariana, D. Don. (Pieris mariana, B. and H.) Other English names: Maryland Andromeda, Calf kill, Sheepkill, Native. Perennial. Propagated by seeds. Time of bloom: May to June. • Seed-time: August to September. Range: Rhode Island to Florida on the Atlantic slope; also in Tennessee and Arkansas. Habitat: Low, moist soil; wet meadows and pastures. Like t
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 310 ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) STAGGER-BUSH Lybnia mariana, D. Don. (Pieris mariana, B. and H.) Other English names: Maryland Andromeda, Calf kill, Sheepkill, Native. Perennial. Propagated by seeds. Time of bloom: May to June. • Seed-time: August to September. Range: Rhode Island to Florida on the Atlantic slope; also in Tennessee and Arkansas. Habitat: Low, moist soil; wet meadows and pastures. Like the Sheep Laurel, this poisonous plant does most harm while very small; for, though cattle and sheep sometimes browse, they prefer to graze, and it is usually the young, green shoots which spring up in damp, sandy pastures that are eaten by sheep and calves and cause them to stagger dizzily about, with slaver- ing mouths and labored breathing, until they fall and die. (Fig. 216.) Stems one to four feet tall, with slender branches held nearly up- right ; the bark of old wood is specked with black dots. Leaves alternate, oblong, smooth and glossy above but sparingly hairy on the heavy veins and the mid- rib below, the under surface black- dotted, two or three inches in length, pointed at both ends, with short petioles and entire edges, the margins slightly revolute; they cling to the twigs until very late in the season, but are not ever- green. The flowers grow on the leafless wood of the preceding year's growth and are clustered just above the scars of last year's leaves; they are white or faintly rosy nodding bells, with bulging bases and slightly constricted throats, a little larger than lilies of the valley, which they somewhat resemble in form. The calyx is. Fiq. 216. — Stagger-bush (Lyonia mariana). X i-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustra
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