24A POLYGONACEJ!. 



Vn. Near the railway station at Chalk Farm, 1837 (the more densely 

 spiked variety) ; Babington in E. B. Sujyp. Parson's Green ; Irv. 

 H. B. P. 376. Eel-brook Meadow. Near St. Mark's College, Chel- 

 sea ! ; Newb. Gas Works, Sandy End. Victoria Street. Thames 

 Embankment. Behind Adelaide Eoad. Hackney Wick. Isle of 

 Dogs. 

 First record : Boody, about 1700. Very variable, but seems distinct from 

 lapathifolmm in the sense of being easily recognisable. The stem is 

 frequently spotted and much swoUen at the joints, when it is Rand's 

 Persicaria latifol. geniculat. caul, maculatis, frequent about London ; 

 B, Syn. iii. 145, and the P. Pensylvanicum var. caule maculato, beauti- 

 fully figured in Curt. F. i. f. 1. Plants precisely like this drawing 

 occurred in a brickfield near the South Heath, Hampstead. A small 

 procumbent plant with the leaves white beneath, is caUed Persicaria 

 macid.procumb. fol. subius incanis: about London; Boody MS8., Budd. 

 MSS. vi., and Herb, cxvii. f. 20. It is figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. iii. 

 figs. 9 and 10. We noticed it (V.) in cornfields on Horsington Hill, and 

 there is a specimen in Herb. Harr. from Greenford ( = ' P. la'pathifoUum^ 

 of Melv. 66). 



589. P. I c rsicaria, X. 



Persicariu macidosa, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 334. Curt. F. L. f. 1. 



Damp groimd, waste and cultivated ; common. A. July — September. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 75. 

 II. Eiver-bank, Hampton Court ! ; Newb. Bushey Park. 



III. Abundant about Twickenham, where P. nodosum is rare. Hounslow. 



IV. Hampstead ; Irv. MSS. Harrow district, very common ; Mdv. 66. 

 V. Near Ealing ! ; near Shepherd's Bush ! ; Newb. Perivale ; Lees. 



VI. Edmonton. 

 VII. Eel-brook Meadow. Euston Square gardens, and gardens in the 

 Euston Road, 1867, as a weed. Hackney Wick. Isle of Dogs. 

 First record: Petiver, 1713. A variety with leaves hoary beneath is 

 figured in Pet. H. B. Cat. iii. fig. 8, and given as frequent about London. 

 It occurs (III ) near Hounslow and at Fulham. Curtis's plate seems 

 to represent Syme's var. & elatiim, Gren. and Godr., which is the 

 commoner variety about town. 



590. P. mite, SchranJc. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 335 ; iii. 500. E. B. Supp. 2867, reproduced in Syme E. B. 



viii. t. 1236 (drawn from a Middlesex specimen). 

 Wet places ; rare. A. August — October. 

 II. Bushey Park. Bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge by the 



towing-path. 

 III. On soil brought from elsewhere, by the river near Twickenham Church, 

 abundant. 



