Burdocks yield a valuable medicine; so they are useful as well as troublesome.
COCKLEBURS AND SAND SPURS.
Cockleburs are covered with hooks, too, but they are much uglier than burdocks, for their seed pods are very hard and are covered on the outside with stiff, strong hooks that prick like needles.
When one walks among cockleburs, he soon stops to pick them off, for they hurt so, he cannot bear it.
Sand spurs are even worse than cockleburs. They are the seed coverings to a kind of grass.
Cockleburs.