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axils and curious tiny flowers that have no petals and only 

 one stamen inserted on the margin of the calyx. The plant 

 grows from eight to twenty inches high. 



STRAWBERRY ELITE 



Chenopodium capitatiun. Goosefoot Family 



Stems : ascending, erect, or prostrate, commonly much branched. 

 Leaves: sinuate-dentate, cordate or reniform, the apex and basal lobes 

 acute. Flowers: sessile in the axils and on the sides of the upper part 

 of the stem, small, greenish, becoming bright red in fruit. Fruit: some- 

 what resembling a strawberry. 



Strawberry Elite, or Indian Strawberry, as it is sometimes 

 called, is a very appropriate name for this plant, which flour- 

 ishes 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 or less indented. The flowers are small and greenish, 

 but the developed fruit is extremely attractive in appearance, 

 consisting of a brilliant red pulpy berry, which has numerous 

 seeds embedded in its wrinkled surface, similar to those which 

 cover the exterior of the Garden Strawberry. 



WATER PERSICARIA 



Polygonum afuphibium. Buckwheat Family 



Aquatic, perennial, glabrous when mature. Stems : floating or sub- 

 merged, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves : oblong, elliptic, petioled, 

 obtuse, sometimes ciliate ; ocreae cylindric, those of the branches often 

 longer than the internodes, their limbs sometimes spreading. Flowers: 

 small, in a terminal raceme, dense, erect ; calyx rose colour, five-parted ; 

 stamens five, exserted ; style two-cleft, exserted. Fruit : achenes orbicular- 

 oblong, lenticular, biconvex, black, smooth, shining. 



The dense rose-coloured spikes of the Water Persicaria 

 may frequently be seen rising above the surface of some 



