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PoLYGONUM CRISPULUM (a), CuRLED 
| POLYGONUM. 
Cla/s aud Order. 
OcTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Charager. 
Cal. §-partitus, perfiftens. Cor. 0. Sem. angulare, 
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ee Specific Charaffer and Synonyit. 
POLYGONUM ecri/pulum ; (atraphaxoide) caule fruticofo, — 
foliis petiolatis glabris obovatis mucronulatis ; 
margine crifpulo revoluto, ftipulis biariftatis. 
#. ramis inermibus, : 
B. ramis fpinofis. 
ATRIPLEX orientalis, frutex aculeatus flore pulchro, Dill, 
_ ~Elth, 47. t. 40. fo 47. 
Descr. Stem fhrubby, with an afh-coloured, fibrous bark ; 
branches ere&t knotted; /fipules fheathing the ftem, lanceolate, 
awned. Leaves alternate, obovate, obtufe, with a fhort mucro: 
margin undulated and reflexed, one-nerved, veined, {mooth, 
narrowed at the bafe and terminating in a pefiole, a quarter 
the length of the whole leaf, fometimes much longer. Flowers 
in long racemes, nodding. Brades chaffy. Peduncles filiform, 
feveral times longer than the braétes, two or three from the 
fame point. Calyx five-cleft, perfiftent: two outer fegments 
{malleft, refle€ted, three inner ones corolla-like, larger, orbi- 
cular, undulated, patent. Filaments eight, dilated at the bafe, 
perfiftent, attached to the bafe of the calyx. Germen three- 
cornered: fly/e none: /figmas three, globular, fpongy, united 
at the bafe, and therefore perhaps ftriftly one, three-lobed. 
_ Seed one, large, black, three-cornered, enclofed in the per- 
fiftent inner fegments of the calyx, changed from a white to a 
red colour, 
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