beggar's-ticks

(_Myosotis_) and a few pretty wild flowers, _e. g._ the orange-flowered puccoons (_Lithospermum_); but it also embraces a number of the most troublesome weeds, among which are the hound's-tongue (_Cynoglossum_) (Fig.  119, _A_), and the "beggar's-ticks" (_Echinospermum_), whose prickly fruits (Fig.  119, _C_) become detached on the slightest provocation, and adhere to whatever they touch with great tenacity.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell