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Herbs, eeect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Polygonum lapathifolium, 

 or simlense, 



POLYGOKACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 35. 



The Plains to 7,000 ft. 



Martiana, Theog (Col- 



lett). 

 Shahpur District 



(Douie). 



Polygonum persicaria, 



Knot grass, 



POLYGONACB^. 



F. B. I. V. 35. 

 Kashmir (Falconer). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



Polygonum minus, 

 Polygonum stagninum, 



POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 37. 

 The Plains. 



Polygonum barbatum, 



POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. L V. .37. 

 The Plains. 



Petals None. 



medium-size, annual, branched, smooth below, 

 rough with glands above; leaves 3-6 in., lanceolate 

 finely pointed, narrowed to the base, glandular, 

 leaf-stalk short, narrowly winged, upper leaves 

 sessile, margins, midrib and nerves somewhat hairy, 

 stipules tubular, not fringed ; flowers red, y|-| in. 

 in dense-flowered, erect or nodding racemes, 

 l|-2 in. long, axillary, or forming terminal 

 branching racemes, bracts tubular, short, not bristly, 

 calyx 4-fid, glandular, stamens 6, stj'les 2, joined 

 together close to the base ; nut round, flattened, 

 minutely dotted. 



very like the last sjpecies, but the leaves are 

 without glands, stipules hairy, fringed, bracts 

 bristly, flower stalks smooth, and calyx without 

 elands. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Sim- 

 ple. 



small, branched or not, smooth below and hairy 

 above ; leaves 3-5 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed, velvety with flattened down hairs 

 on both surfaces, glandular or not beneath, stipules 

 tubular, with flattened down hairs, bristles shorter 

 than the tube ; flowers white in straight, erect, 

 stout, or slender, long and strong stalked racemes, 

 bracts enclose many flowers, rough with long bris- 

 tles, calyx of 4-5 segments, without glands, 

 stamens 5-8, styles 3 ; nut 3-angled, intensely 

 black. 



very like the last species, but smoother, the 

 stipules more bearded, the racemes long, weak and 

 slender, the bristles of the bracts shorter and 

 weaker. 



