BUCKWHEAT FAMILY, - 279 
2 1. Stems more or less erect. 
* Flowers in terminal racemes or — 
t Sheaths salver-form. 
g Hay adrspibe edt L. Saar hairy ; leaves ovate-acuminate ; sheaths salver- 
form, ciliate ; ns 7. 
ORIENTAL nen Ragged Sailor. Prince’s Feather. 
Annual. Stem 4-8 feet high, Parnery, branched above. some 4-6 inches rials 
often subcordate at base ; —2 inches in ee spaottial # inged by the decu: 
—. ne the eye ; stipules tubular with bay A _ pie sake ding - cpa Poa A 
» 2- nches in length, nodding on eae Flowers bright purple, 
pager peuky cmewaets git at Fase get da the Eiliate — bracts. 
Gardens and waste grounds. Native of Asia. July —Septe: 
Obs. This Are ar is sometimes cultivated, and has become 
ingly naturalized. N Bartram probably ay to it, in i poo 
to Miss Seo where an says: “The species of Persicary t 
tions, is what Toveszront brought from the three churches at the “foot 
of Mount Arara 
e* Sheaths cylindrical, not ciliate. 
2. P. Pe ennsylvan'i radeon L. Leaves lanceolate ; ‘sheaths smooth, not 
ciliate ; . spikes oblo: 
stame ens 5-8 
PrnnsyLvanian Potye@onum. 
Root annual. Stem 2-3 or 4 feet high, smooth PB iveptré geniculate, with tumid nodes, 
et ad branches glandula pid. Leaves 3-6 inches sPhare j 
petioles ab ut half an inch lon, ong. Stipules pote meine ap reie  B a mit. 
ous, salhier | Seas Pa ~-2 inches long.) Flowers aries palish-purple or ies eoluree in 
crowded fascicles ; pedicels rather longer than the s ing 
Moisi st grounds, ¥ places, &c. : 
throughout the s inkee Soapent Fl. July-Aug. Fr. 
Obs. This usually 
growing in company with it—and equally worthless. It is, i Fee, a 
stouter plant, and readily distinguished by the characters above noted. 
ttt Sheaths ciliate or fringed with bristles. 
unate or triangular spot 
ciliate at summit ; peduncles smooth ; stamens : 
PEACH-LEAVED Potyconum. Lady’s thumb. Spotted Knot-weed. ~ 
Fr. Persicaire. Germ. Flohkraut. Span. Persicaria. 
Stem 1-2 feet high, branching, smooth, often purplish. Leaves 2-4 ine 
deeb bag anes bt bass toa ve, petiole. Stipules truncate, fringed et — one- 
fourth to one-third their length. Spikes about an inch long. Sepals p or bright 
crimson. Pedicels aon as oh as the bracts. 
ow road-sides, &c. : introduced. Native of Europe. FI. Aug. Fr. Sept. — 
common weed bet foray anon hie abonld he kept 
ln eto yoy pater tents: : : 
