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In moist or wet soil and thickets, New Brunswick and Ontario to 

 Minnesota, south to Georgia. Flowering from July to September. 



Climbing False Buckwheat 



Bilderdykia scandens (Linnaeus) Greene 

 (Polygonum scandens Linnaeus) 



Plate l$b 



Stems slender or stout, glabrous, high climbing, 2 to 20 feet long from 

 a perennial root, somewhat rough on the ridges which mark the stem. 

 Leaves ovate, sharp pointed, cordate at the base, i to 6 inches long, or the 

 upper ones smaller, finely dotted, ocreae oblique, smooth and glabrous. 

 Flowers in numerous panicled racemes, 2 to 8 inches long, usually inter- 

 rupted with small leaves, yellowish green or whitish; calyx five-parted; 

 stamens eight; calyx in fruit about one-half of an inch long with crisped 

 wings. 



In woods, thickets and on banks and along fence rows, Nova Scotia 

 to Ontario and British Columbia, south to Florida, Nebraska and Texas. 

 Flowers in August and September. 



Coast Jointweed 



Polygonella articulata (Linnaeus) Meisner 



Plate 49a 



Stems slender, wiry, erect or somewhat diffusely spreading, annual, 

 glaucous, simple or the larger ones often much branched, 4 to 12 inches high. 

 Leaves linear or linear-subulate, with revolute margins, sessile, one-third 

 to \\ inches long, jointed to the summits of the ocreae. Flowers small, in 

 numerous terminal racemes on reflexed pedicels; calyx five-parted, its 

 segments white with a conspicuous purple midrib. 



In sand near or on the seashore from Maine to Florida, and inland on 

 the Schenectady plains, those east of Oneida lake, and along the Great 

 Lakes. 



