246 POLTGOXACEJ}. 



By roadsides, in waste ground, cornfields, &c. ; very common. A. June 

 — September. 



Throughout all the districts. 

 VII. A common London plant. Chelsea. Green Park. Bedford Place. 

 Thames Embankment. Isle of Dogs. 



First record : Boody, about 1700. Several well-marked forms are included 

 here, as was long ago noticed by Buddie and Petirer, the former of 

 whom distinguished four, and inclined to ' think them diflferent species' ; 

 and the latter figured them as London plants in H. B. Cat. x. figs. 1-4. 

 Mr. Syme enumerates six stib-species, of which we have probably all 

 except P. littorcde, Link. P. agrestinum, Jord., and P. vulgatum, Syme, 

 are certainly common enough. P. arenastrum, Bor., * common near 

 London,' occurs at Harefield, and by the towing-path at Hampton 

 Court; and Mr. Newbould has seen it at Acton, &c. It is the Thickset 

 Knotgrass figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. x. fig. 2. P. onicrospermum, Jord., 

 we have not noticed. P. rurivagum, Jord., is probably (see Budd. 

 Herb, cxvii. fol. 22) the Narrow Knotgrass of Pet. H. B. Cat. x, fig. 4, 

 and the P. oblong, angustoque fol. C. B. P., found (VI.) amongst the corn 

 in Houndfield by Poundersend, plentifully ; Boody MSS. and Bill, in 

 E. Syn. iii. 146. It grows (V.) in cornfields on Horsington Hill. 



59ft. P. Convolvulus, L. Black Bindweed. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 340. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1227. 



Cultivated and waste ground ; probably very common. A. July — Sep- 

 tember. 

 I. Harefield!; Newb. 

 II. Hampton ! ; Newb. 



III. Wood End ; Melv. 66. Cornfields, Hounslow. Twickenham Park. 



IV. Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. Bet. Einchley and Hendon ! ; Newb. 

 V. Apperton. 



VI. Edmonton! 



VII. Eel-brook Meadow, Parson's Green. Green Park. Victoria Street. 

 Craven Hill. Site of Exhibition of 1862, South Kensington. Prim- 

 rose Hill. Euston Road. Bedford Place. Isle of Dogs. 

 Eirst record: /rmwe, about 1830. No old authority. A form with the 

 perianth much winged (var. pseudo-dumetorum ?) occurs at Harefield, 

 Twickenham, and Hackney Wick. 



Fagopyrum esculentum, M'onch. Polygonum E., L. (Syme E. B.). Buck- 

 wheat. Fagopyron (Ger.). Cyb. Br. ii. 341. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1226. 

 About London ; Ger. 83. Near Kingston Bridge among potatoes. 

 Eubbish heap near Twickenham Station. Cultivated as a food for 

 pheasants. 



