362 
P. crassinerve, Cesati, Stirp. Ital. fas. ii. (1840). 
Canada: shore of Thunder Bay (Britton); Pennsylvania : 
Lycoming Co. (Small & Heller); Illinois: Sandy Plains (Short); 
Missouri: St. Louis Co. (Engelmann). 
Var. BUXIFOLIUM, (Nutt.), Meisn. in D.C. Prodr. xiv. 98 
(1856). 
P. aviculare, L., var. buxtfolium, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ili. 532 
(1847-49). 
P. buxifolium, Nutt. in Bongard, Veg. Ins. Sitcha, 161 
(1831). 
P. aviculare, L., var. latifolium, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i. 237 
(1803), fide Bongard. 
Island of Sitcha. 
37. POLYGONUM BELLARDI, All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 205, t. 90, f. 2 
(1785). 
Introduced into the agricultural grounds at Washington, 
TD. C. (Vasey). 
38. POLYGONUM MARITIMUM, L. Sp. Pl. 361 (1753). 
P. glaucum, Nutt. Gen. i. 254 (1818). 
Along the sea coast of Eastern North America. Maine: 
Mt. Desert (Miss Knight); Massachusetts: Nantucket (Mrs. 
Hubert), Martha’s Vineyard (C. C. Curtiss), Bristol Co. (T. A. 
Greene); New York: Long Island (Torrey), Hog Island (E. H. 
Day); New Jersey: (A. Gray), Angleseaand Atlantic City (Brin- 
ton); Maryland; Worcester Co. (Rusby); Southern Florida: 
(Chapman). 
39. POLYGONUM RAYI, Babingt. Man. Brit. Bot. 2nd ed. 275. 
Naturalized on the Atlantic coast. New York: on Harlem 
River (Bicknell); Virginia: Portsmouth (Rugel); Norfolk (Brit- 
ton). 
This species of Polygonum has long been in the country, nat- 
uralized at the above cited localities. It was first collected at 
Portsmouth, Va., by Rugel. This specimen was deposited in 
the Herbarium of the British Museum. Later it was transferred 
to the Herbarium of the Geological and Natural History Survey 
of Canada, whence it found its way to the Columbia College 
Herbarium. 
