I20 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



The name Polygonum comes from the Greek, its meaning 

 being *' many-kneed," and refers to the enlarged joints of 

 the stems, which are sheathed by the stalks of the long- 

 shaped leaves. The flowers are very numerous in the 

 mountains, are white to rose colour, and grow in dense nar- 

 row spikes, which have several little bulbs below the full- 

 blown blossoms. The seeds are red. 



Polygonum bistortoides, or Heart-leaved Bistort, is cov- 

 ered with a white bloom throughout. The root leaves are 

 oblong, and the stem ones narrow and somewhat heart- 

 shaped, all with rolled-back margins and conspicuously 

 nerved. The elongated flower-clusters are usually white, 

 rarely pink ; they are very dense and are not bulblet-bearing 

 below. 



LAMB'S QUARTERS 



Chenopodium album. Goosefoot Family 



Stems: slender, erect, commonly much branched. Leaves: rhombic- 

 ovate, the upper ones lanceolate, obtuse or acute. Flowers: bractless, 

 densely clustered in a compound panicled spike; calyx segments strongly 

 keeled. Fruit: seed firmly attached to the pericarp. 



A weed that abounds near habitation, even in the moun- 

 tain regions. A commonplace plant, and yet one that is not 

 altogether without beauty, since its foliage is of an un- 

 usually delicate tender green. The white flowers, which 

 grow in dense spikes, are inconspicuous. This is an intro- 

 duced plant. 



Chenopodium capitatum, or Strawberry Elite, is a very 

 appropriate name for this plant, which flourishes best in 

 newly up-turned or half-cultivated soil, where its pale green 

 foliage and bright red fruit render it conspicuous. The 

 leaves are halbert-shaped, thin, and pointed both at the apex 

 and at the ends of the basal lobes, the margins being more 



