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Warer-PEPPER Potyconum. Water-pepper. Smart-weed. 
Annual. Stem 1-2 fect high, more or less branched, sometimes decumbent, often pur- 
plish. Leaves 2—4 inches long, acute at each end, subsessile ; maps tubular, ” somewhat 
inflated, airy; fringed with bristles, 14-25 the leng , the’ Racemes 2-4 inches 
long, slen and interrupted, En first poe ng, final t ; vaaniae 2-4-flowered ; 
Jlowers pein with white edges ; pedice is proceeding tren bristly-ciliate sheathing bracts. 
Styles 2-3. Achentum flattish o or obtusely triangular. 
Moist waste grounds : introduced from Europe. Aug. —Sept. 
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ties, but it is not used at <x BZ 
** Flowers axillary, 2-3 Siok ~Y 
5, P. avicula’ re, L. Stems pro- A We 7 
cumbent readi eaves ses- say ye 
acerate; stamens 5-8; akenes 34.4 a 
uetrous. ' : of 
Brrp Porygonum. Knot-grass. 
Goose-grass. Door-weed , 
Annual. inches long, “gies. 
branched and ecalinge ae 
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34 an inch to an inch long. Stipules w rg "4 WZ) a) 
Flowers green, edged with white ae . Te } Fy RX 
tinged with alpen sciaal, popes Pruit \ 
enclosed in the calyx, d rafambaly wrin- 
kled or granular under a lens. \ 
Yards and foot-paths. June—Aug “e 
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