376 OCTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Polygonum. 



Var. 4. Leaves hoary underneath. Ray. 



Pet. 3. 8. 



Willonv-lea<ved. Corn fields, and other situations where the 

 soil is not very rich. 



(3) Flowers with S stamens and 3 pistils: spike single : stem 



undivided. 



Bistor'ta. P, Leaves egg-shaped, extended at the base along the leaf- 

 stalks. 





E. lot. 50£-Lud<w. 3\-Knlph. l-Curt.-B/ack<w. Q54-MM. 

 66-FL dan. ±2l-Wood<v, 3\-Sheldr. 1\\-Clus. ii. 69. 1- 



Dod. 333-Lol. obi. 156". 3-Ger. em. 399- l-l£ «*• v * ?**. 

 rona 3. 2-Matth. 9±6-Park. 302. \-Fuchs. 113-Trag. 



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321-J. B. iii. 539. l-Lonic. 

 iii. 538-Ger. 322. 1 and 3. 



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Upper-leaves arising from long sheaths inclosing the stem. 

 Mr. Woodward. Sheaths of the leaf-stalks sometimes rising 

 above the insertion of the leaf-stalks to half the length of the 



leaves. St* Root-leaves extended down the leaf-stalks. Stem- 

 leaves sheathing the stem. Flowers in a spike. Common calyx of 2 

 valves, skinny, the one large, lopped, the other smaller and ter- 

 minated by a skinny projection. Flovuers y 2 within each com- 

 mon calyx, one of them on a fruit-stalk, the other sitting, sur- 

 rounded with a kind of proper cup, thin, skinny, nearly cylin- 

 drical ; mouth even and very entire. Blossom with o divisions, 

 pale red. Anthers double, the 2 parts being only united by the 

 filaments. 



Great Bhtorf 9 or Snalevoeed. Moist meadows in the north- 

 cm counties. Bishop's Wood near Hampstead and Battersea. 

 [Brome, Norfolk. Mr. Woodw. Ham Green near Mathon and 

 Martley, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. Near Derby. Mr. 

 Whately. Near the Infirmary, Stafford. In the Garlic Mea* 

 dows, near Penn's Mill, Erdington, Warwickshire.] 



P. May, June.* 



vivip'arum. P. Leaves spear-shaped : spike terminating. 



E. lot. 66S-FI. dan. \?,-Kmph. 2-Clus. ii. 6.0. 2-Ger. em. 



399. 2-Park. 392. t-Ger. 322. 2-J. B. iii, 539- 2-Phh 

 151. 2, 



* The root is one of the strongest vegetable astringents. The y°** n S 

 shoots are eaten in herb pudding in the north of England : St. and about 



Manchester they are substituted for greens, under the name of Patience 

 Pock. Mr. Caily. 





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