136 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
anthers, exserted together with the style, twice é as ong 
perianth: bracts brown, scarious. 
Type locality: ‘“in low grounds on the banks of the Missouri, 
Quamash-flats. M. Lewis.’’ Too young for fruit. 
46. PoLyGonuM vivIPARUM L_ Sp. PI. 360. 1753— 
erect from a bulb-like rootstock: radical leaves oblong to lance 
late, or sometimes ovate-cordate, dark green and glabrous 
glaucous and sparsely pubescent below, tapering at both M 
3-4™ long, 3-6™™ wide; petioles about as long as ie 
stem leaves strongly revolute, with the brown s 
than the petioles: spicate raceme linear-oblong, 
including the bulb-bearing lower half: stamens alm 
long as the perianth, with filaments longer than the 
anthers dark purple. 
Type range: ‘in Europae subalpinis pascuis — 
47. Rumex Acerosa L. Sp. Pl. 337. 1753.— 
erect, ribbed, 4-5 ™ high, glabrous throughout: leaves fe 
auriculate or sagittate at base, acute or obtuse 
long; sheaths about as long as the broad petioles 
leaves, much shorter on the radical: flowers pam 
| jointed in the middle; perianth divisions reflexe 
_ ovate, veiny, reddish, without grains on the back 
at base: seeds wing-angled. 
Type range: “in Europae pascuis.” : 
48. Rumex sp.—Stems. 2-3 high, ike 
red or green, striate, from a thick root: radical 
_ oblong on broad petioles, usually cordate at b 
cauline leaves one or two, with sheaths as | 
often with crisped margins: panicle thyr 
flowers drooping on slender pedicels, hermap! 
_exserted: valves of the immature fruit obo 
: scales. 
_ Too immature for determination, but it seems to be 
— — oust Mo. Bot. Gard. 3: ee acai 
