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BUCKWHEAT FAMILY, Polygonaceae. 
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Buckwheat Bash. In favorable situations this is an attrac- 
Flat-top tive shrub, from two to four feet high, 
Eriégonum with shreddy, reddish bark and long, 
fasciculatum straight branches, standing stiffly up and 
wate crowded with small, thickish, stiffish 
Spring, summer . 3 
Snittemect leaves, dark olive-green on the upper side 
and pale with down on the under, with 
rolled-back margins. The flowers are about three-eighths 
of an inch across, dull-white or pinkish, with pink buds, 
forming large, feathery, flat-topped clusters, on long, stiff, 
bare, reddish flower-stalks, standing up stiffly all over the 
bush. This is a very valuable bee-plant and grows on 
mesas and mountain slopes. 
Aik Pie This plant is quite pretty and conspic- 
Eriégonum Bakeri UOUS, as the flowers are bright in color and 
Yellow, Summer a peculiar shade of sulphur yellow. The 
Ariz., Utah, New stem is downy and often reddish, about a 
Mex., Col., Wy 55+ tall, with two or three branches at 
the top, each bearing a cluster of numerous small sweet- 
scented flowers with pretty stamens. The gray-green 
leaves grow mostly in a rosette on the ground and are 
covered with close white down on the under side. Their 
soft tints tone in well with the bright color of the flowers 
and the pale sandy soil in which they grow. E. fldvum is 
similar and widely distributed. EE. incdnum is the same — 
color but much smaller, often tinged with red, the gray 
leaves forming a dense velvety mat, and it grows at high 
altitudes, in sandy spots on rocks, and is found around the 
Yosemite Valley. The alpine form is very small. There 
are several other kinds of Sulphur Flower. 
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