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34 MEMOIRS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 
[Puare 4.] 
4. Polygonum phytolaccaefolium Meisner. 
Polygonum phytolaccaefolium Meisner; Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 19: 360 (1892). 
Perennial, glabrous or very sparingly pubescent with slender inconspicuous hairs, 
light green, turning dark in drying. Stem erect, 4-8 dm. long, somewhat branched, 
channeled, slightly flexuous; internodes much shorter than the leaves; leaves ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, 3-14 em. long, 1-6 em. broad, acute or acuminate at the apex, often 
ciliate, obtuse or acute at the base, thin, undulate and somewhat crisped, sometimes coria- 
ceous; ocreae funnelform, 1-2 cm. long, brittle, early falling away, more or less pubes- 
cent; inflorescence rather simple, consisting of axillary and terminal racemes or panicled 
racemes; racemes few, loosely-flowered, 2-6 cm. long, more or less interrupted; ocreolae 
similar to the ocreae but smaller; pedicels slender, 2 mm. long, articulated above the 
middle; calyx whitish or pinkish, nearly 2 mm. long, not much enlarged in fruit, five- 
parted to below the middle, the segments obovate, two often much smaller than the rest; 
stamens eight, included; style less than .5 mm. long, three-parted to the base; achene tri- 
quetrous, nearly 4 mm. long, ovoid, somewhat pointed at both ends, exceeding the calyx, 
light brown, smooth and shining or slightly granular. 
Mountains of Washington, Oregon and California. 
