190 FERGUSON: CONTRIBUTIONS TO FLORA OF LONG ISLAND 
POLYGONACEAE. Buckwheat Family 
Persicaria pennsylvanicavar. 
laevigata Det. by M. L. Small colony. Pine barren bog. 
Fernald Det. by Bayard Sandy pond. Manorville. 
Long. 
Persicaria Careyi (Olney) Wet shore, Edwards Pond, Coram. 
Greene Wet shore, Long Pond, Wading 
River. 
Swamp southeast of Deep Pond, 
Wading River. 
All in pine barrens. 
coccinea (Muhl.) Aquatic form, pond Cypress Hills. 
Greene Aquatic form, Bowne Pond, 
Flushing. 
Terrestrial form in swamps and 
wet pond borders, Woodside, 
Queens, Plattsdale, Bowne Pond, 
Flushing. Edwards Pond, Cor- 
am—the last in pine barrens. 
This name is from a revision of the group in Flora of the 
Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains by Dr. P. A. Rydberg 
who kindly determined the Long Island plants. 
The aquatic form was reported in my former paper Torreya 
22: 43-49 as P. amphibia (L.) S.F.Gray. The terrestrial form 
as P. muhlenbergi (S. Wats.) Small; both octal: description 
in Britton and Brown’s “Tilustrated Flora 
umex persicarioides L. This plant was so reported in my 
former paper Torreya 22: 43-49 following treatment in Britton 
and Brown’s “Illustrated Flora.’’ Salt wet shores at Great 
pond and Oyster pond. Montauk. Shore of bay at Point of 
Woods. 
The plants were sent to Professor M. L. Fernald who named 
them Rumex maritimus var. fueginus (Phil.) Dusen. See Rho- 
dora, April 1915. Rumex eevee and its allies. H. St.- 
John. 
Rumex britannica L, Swamps, Flushing, Kissena and 
swamp northeast of Bowne 
Pond. 
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