378 OCTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Polygonum. 



In gravelly spots, and road sides. [Sandy road near Ingestre 



Heath, Staffordshire. St.] 



Var. 3. an gu it i folium. Retz. Leaves strap-shaped 





Leaves very slender. 



Pet. 10. 4. 





Camberwell, and amongst corn in Houndfield by Pounders, 

 end. Ray. 



Var. 4. Huds. Leaves ovaL 



Pet. 10. 2. 



Uncultivated places. Ray. [Near ColeshilljWarwicksh. St.] 



Obs. No plant varies more in the shape and size of the 

 leaves, from strap-shaped to oval, and in breadth from a line to 

 | inch. Mr. Woodward. 



Var. .5. Huds. P. martthnum. Stamens 8 : styles 3 : flowers 

 axillary : leaves oval egg-shaped, evergreen : stem somewhat , 

 shrub-like. Linn. 







J. B. iii. 377- 1-P*/. 10. 5-#. v. 2Q. row 3. [3-Lch. 



ad<v. 179. ■ 



So nearly allied to P. aviculare as scarcely to be distinguished 

 from it. plonkers in fours. Stem flatted on one side, shorter, hard, 

 perennial. Leaves egg-shaped, leather-like, turning bluish in 

 drying. Linn. S. Linn* 



(5) Leaves somewhat heart-shaped. 



Fagopy'rum.P. Leaves heart-arrow-shaped : stem nearly upright ; with- 

 out prickles : angles of the seeds equal. 



Bod. 5l2~Lot>. els. 513. Z-Ger. em. %q~Part. 114l~#. «*• 



leaves. 



v. 29. row 1. 1,/. l-Pet.2. \2~Trag. 648-J. B. ii- 993- 

 Ger. 82.2-C. B. th. bob-Lome. i. 253, 1 and 1. 



BIoss. purplish white. Flowering spikes shorter than the 



Wheat. Snakeweed. Bucke. Branks. French Wheat. 



/* * 1 t T 1~- A nnr * 



Crap. Corn fields ♦ 



j 



* This plant is very impatient of cold, dying at the very first attack 

 of frost. The seeds furnish a nutritious meal, which is not apt to turn 

 acid upon the stomach. It is made into thin cakes in some parts °^ En ^" 

 land, called Crumpits. It is usual with farmers to sow a crop of Buc - 

 wheat, and to plough it under, when fully grown, as a manure to t 

 land. The seeds are excellent food for poultry. Sheep that cat this p^n 

 become unhealthy. As it flowers late in the summer, M. DuHanielfi 

 his observations upon the management of bees, advises to move th^ m ^ 

 in the autumn, to a situation where plenty of this plant is sown. Cuvr* 



goats, and sheep eat it ; swine and horses refuse it. 



