f 
Plante Lindheimeriane. 231 
Jay. " low shrubby plant, 1-2 feet high, with the aspect of 
aheath.' - 
! This plant also occurs in Drummond's Texan Collection (No. 19 & 348 of 3d 
Coll.) ; from which source — Fischer and Meyer obtained the specimens, upón 
which oa established the genus Gonopyrum.' But their genus must be reduced to 
Polygonella, from which it 1 differs only in the rodite, in ced d dioico -poly- 
` POLYGON ELLA, Miche. (Trib. Rumicee, Meyer.) 
Polygonella and Gonopyrum, Meyer I. c. supr. 
Flores dioico-polygami vel hermaphroditi iti. Perigonium ——— — 
um; phyllis seriei exterioris 2 immutatis fructif. reflexis, seriei ssc 3 erectis 
planis post anthesin ampliatis conniventibus fructum triquetrum im ifo den eas 
l 3 i i posit 
ub t 
6 in axi albuminis rectiu s istic: ramosissimi glabri : in 
planitiebus aridissimis Am t calidioribus vi es; 
is ochreatis (ochreis brevibus nudis unidentatis) ; foliis crassiusculis 
parvulis linearibus spathulatisve TAT eR vam vel in axilli m ula. 
tis; floribus Aera vel roseis) pa cato-r se et appresse 
— reato-bracteati quasi aralit pedicillis sitine articulatis, fructi- 
feris pend ndulis ; racemis s sayin, pani iculatis 
1. E: polygama : foliis cun 1 
sepalis ovalibus ad e eie ; filamentis tribus basi ovato-dilatatis vix 
aut ne vix dentatis ; Mn. brevissimis. — Polygamum polygamum, Vent. Hort. 
Cels. n m E a I. p. 458. Polygonella a Michz.! Fl. II. p. 240; 
"Nut 6 (sub Polygono); t Gen. Vasc. Comm. p. peus 
num Penta i gracile, Nuit. Gen. — In arenosis (sandy pi ») 
Carolin mt Georgie ! Floride (Bartram ? Peen !) et, fide Nut. -— 
: virido-carinata ad anthesin su v tcm ; f ribus basi T. 
bidentato-dilatatis us quasi obcordatis ; stri longas lis. — Gonopyrum Americanum, 
Fisch. q $ Meyer, in Mem. Acad. St. . l. c. supra. — In planitiebus aridis 
Texas, Drummond ! Lindhcimer ! PM dea duplo majores qn 
dente, ramis cassonbus, e 
For the first spec “pug opted the older specific name of Tenes, in 
usd of that of Mi Micha, chiefly because it is. the largest-leaved species - the 
Piipan Bonum articulatum Linn., whi ich is by Nuttall and Meisner, to Poly- 
; joined, y 
gonella, with which, indeed, it nearly accords in habit habit (though an annual herb) = 
enlarg ng has all the sepals uniform and erect rect in fruit, the three inner not at 
and the embryo is lateral as in Polygonum. 
