shepherd's-purse

The shepherd's-purse, already studied, belongs here, and may be taken as a type of the family.

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

The shepherd's-purse is an admirable plant for the study of the development of the flower which is much the same in other angiosperms.

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

One of the commonest of weeds, and at the same time one of the most convenient plants for studying the characteristics of the dicotyledons, is the common shepherd's-purse (_Capsella bursa-pastoris_) (Figs.  93-95).

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

-- _A_, cross-section of the stem of the shepherd's-purse, including a fibro-vascular bundle, × 150. _ep.

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

E.M. East has obtained evidence from maize and G.H. Shull from shepherd's-purse, which bears out the multiple factor hypothesis.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

The shepherd's-purse, with others, is common in China, on the most eastern coast of Asia.

Rural Hours 1887

The shepherd's-purse and many other common garden weeds of cultivation are of Eastern origin, and came to us at first with the seed-corn and the peas from the Mediterranean region.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

At the verge of the ploughed field below, exposed as it is, chickweed, groundsel, and shepherd's-purse are flowering.

The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867

In the rich soil about the cottages were crops of dock, shepherd's-purse, _Thlaspi arvense,

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

_ By the cottages was abundance of shepherd's-purse, _Lepidium, _ and balsams, with dock, _Galeopsis, _ and _Cuscuta.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864