252 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ocTOBER 
Gomphrena globosa, L., globe amaranth, bachelor’s button, Sulphur 
Grove, i0. 
bachelor’s button, Ala. 
CHENOPODIACE. 
Chenopodium album, L., black weed,! Eastern Long Island. 
Chenopodium capitatum, Watson, garden strawberry, Paris, Me. 
Salicornia ambigua, Michx., lead grass, lead weed,? Southold, L. L 
PHYTOLACCACEE 
Phytolacca decandra, L., poke berry, poke root,? Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
cocum, pocum, pigeon berry, West. 
ink bush, ink-berry bush, Southold, L. E 
haystack weed, Conn. 
POLYGONACEZ. 
Polygonum aviculare, L., dog-tails, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Polygonum-convolvulus, L., wild bean, Oxford County, Me. 
Polygonum dumetorum, L., var. scandens, Gray, wild buckwheat, 
Burnside, S. Dak. 
Polygonum erectum, L., goose grass, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Polygonum orientale, L., Gentleman’s cane, prince’s feather, Sul- 
phur Grove, Ohio. 
kiss-me-over-the-fence, Sulphur Grove, 
Ohio. 
ragged sailor, Paris, Me. 
Polygonum Persicaria, L., heart weed, Oxford County, Me. 
black heart, Lubec, Me. ; Mass. ; South- 
ern Vt. 
Polygonum terrestre, heartsease, Nebr. 
gles eet (twining species), pull-down, blind weed, Sulphur Grove; 
io. 
Polygonum, sp., heart’s ease, Erie County, Pa. 
Rheum Rhaponticum, ., wine plant, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Rumex crispus, L., narrow dock, curled dock, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Rumex obtusifolius, L., sour dock, poison dock, Sulphur Grove; Ohio. 
ARISTOLOCHIACE. 
Asarum Canadense, L.., colt’s foot, West. 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, 
1 Because it stains the fingers black. 
* From its weight in the salt-meadow hay. 
* The friends of J. K. Polk used this plant as their symbol when he was ~~ 
ning for president, and marked their hats with juice of the berries. 
