20 Sierra Club Publications. 



Rumex Qeyeri Trelease. Mountain Dock. Perennial, with 

 smooth^stems, dioecious. L,eaves lanceolate, less than half an 

 inch^wide, %f inch long, on short petioles with papery sheaths at 

 base. Flowers small, reddish, in terminal panicles, the branches 

 from papery sheaths. Perianth of 6 parts which become larger 

 in fruit, cordate-ovate. Pedicels thread-like, very short, jointed 

 at base. At the upper altitudes. 



Polygonum Parryi Qreene. A low annual a few inches high, 

 branching/chiefly from the base. Leaves linear, pointed, short, 

 crowded. Flowers minute, sessile in all the axils, even the low- 

 est. Millwood, trail to East Lake. 



Polygonum Watsoni Small. Tiny annuals an inch or so 

 high, branching or simple. Leaves linear, pointed, crowded at 

 the ends of the branchlets, with thickened margins and promi- 

 nent midveins, sheathed at base by long papery bracts. Flowers 

 sessile in the axils, generally solitar}', deep rose color at tip. 

 Lower leaves much longer than the floral leaves. East Lake 

 trail. 



Polygonum minimum Watson. Low and slender, i-6 inches 

 high, with rough, reddish stems. Leaves ovate or oblong, very 

 small, acute or pointed. Flowers in all the axils very small, erect 

 on slender exserted pedicels, often rose-color. Stamens 5-8. 

 Akenes^smooth and shining, longer than the perianth. Trail to 

 East Lake. 



Polygonum exile Eastwood. Annual with very slender 

 stems and a few erect branches, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves linear, less 

 than an inch long, with the sheaths fringed. Flowers very small, 

 erect in the leaf axils on very short pedicels or sessile. Kings 

 River Canon. 



Polygonum bistortoides Pursh. Pussy Tails. Perennial 

 with woody"roots. Stems simple, with few leaves ; these linear- 

 lanceolate, sessile by a cordate base, midrib thick ; radical leaves 

 on long petioles, broader than the stem-leaves. Flowers in dense 

 spikes at the ends of the stems, small, white. Perianth 5-cleft, 

 stamens^S. This is common in all the higher meadows and is one 

 of the most conspicuous plants. 



Eriogonum nudum Dougl. Perennial with stout woody root. 

 Leaves all radical, oblong, on long petioles, densely white tomen- 

 tose on the lower surface, smooth on the upper ; stems generally 

 branching, naked, the involucres in the axils of the branches or 

 terminating the^^branchlets, involucres ribbed, flowers very small 

 on hair-like pedicels. Kings River Canon, Bubbs Creek. 



