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Amarantus albus, L. 



A very common weed. (Probably adv. from Trop. Amer.) 

 Amarantus caudatus, L. (Love-libs-Blbeding.) 



"Amongst rubbish," 1783 (Rev. M. Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I, 



p. 490). This plant now only seen In old gardens is never noticed 



as escaped from cultivation. 



POIiYGOIirACE.2H. 



(Buckwheat Family.) 



Polygonum orientale, L. (Prince's Feather.) 

 Escaped from cultivation in a few places. Wenham, near the pond ; 

 Boxford (Miss Perley), etc. (Adv. from India.) 



Polygonum Careyi, Olney. 

 Chebacco woods, in damp places, 1876 (J. R.). 



Polygonum Pennsylvanicum, L. 

 Wet, but open places. Not rare. 



Polygonum incarnatum, Ell. 

 "In the environs of Salem with P. persicaria" (Dr. Chas. Pick- 

 ering, Chron. Hist. PI., p. 904, under P. lapathifolium). Marble- 

 head, 1859 (Rev. J. L. Russell), and damp places elsewhere. 



Polygonum Persicaria, L. . (Lady's Thumb.) 

 A weed in waste places. (Nat. from Eu.) 



Polygonum Hydropiper, L. CWater-pepper.) 

 Common in wet places as by brooks. " Apparently introduced 

 eastward, but indigenous northward" (Gray's Manual). 



Polygonum acre, S. B. K. (Water Smartwbkd.) 

 Chebacco (J. R.), and a few other places. Rather scarce. 



Polygonum hydropiperoides, Michx. (Mild Water-pepper.) 

 In water and wet places. Topsfleld (Oakes) ; Lynn (Tracy) ; out- 

 let of Chebacco pond ; Haverhill, etc. 



Polygonum amphibium, L., var. aquaticum, Willd. (Water 

 Persicaria.) 



Floats like a pond weed in the water. Peabody, North Andover, 

 Lynn (Tracy), Andover, Hamilton (G. D. Phippen), etc. Rather 

 frequent. 



Var. terrestre, Willd. 

 Grows on the shore often near the floating variety. 



Polygonum articulatum, L. (Jointwebd.) 

 Plum Island, Coffin's beach, Gloucester, Ipswich (Oakes), Grove- 

 land, Sept. 14, 1859 (Proc. E. L, Vol. II, p. 409). 



Var. multiplex (Oakes in Hovey's Mag., Vol. VII). 

 Ipswich, 1825 (Oakes) ; Turkey hill, Ipswich, 1877 (J. R.). This spe- 

 cies resembles a heath and has frequently been collected for Calluna. 



