PIGWEED FAMILY. Chenopodiaceae. 
Wid Backwhée! A pretty desert variety of Wild Buck. 
Eviisokun wheat. The pale downy stem is from 
racemodsum one to two feet tall, rather stout, with two . 
Pink, white or three erect branches at the top, and the 
Summer 
leaves are all from the base, gray-green in 
color and covered with close white down 
on the under side. The small white and pink flowers are 
clustered along the branches in small heads, with reddish 
involucres, forming a spike about three inches long. The 
whole effect of the plant is curiously pale, but quite pretty. 
It grows plentifully on the rim of the Grand Canyon. 
There are many kinds of Polygonum, East and West, 
many of them insignificant, some aquatic, some woody at 
base, with alternate leaves, and sheathing stipules; the 
sepals four or five; the stamens five to nine; the style with 
two or three branches and round-top stigmas. The name 
is from the Greek, meaning ‘“‘many knees,’’ in allusion to 
the swollen joints of some kinds. 
This is about two feet tall, very pretty 
Ariz., Utah 
Knot-weed . 
Alpine Smartweed 22d rather conspicuous, and the general 
Pol}gonum effect of the smooth stem and sheathing, 
bistortoides green leaves is somewhat grasslike. The 
bess flowers, which are small and cream-white, 
Summer ? ; Peng, « 
West with pretty stamens and pinkish bracts, 
grow in close, roundish, pointed heads, an 
inch or two long, at the tips of the stalks. The buds are 
pink and the heads in which the flowers have not yet come 
out look as if they were made of pink beads. This is an 
attractive plant, growing among the tall grasses in moun- 
tain meadows, and smells deliciously of honey. 
PIGWEED FAMILY. Chenopodiaceae. 
A large family, widely distributed, growing usually in 
salty or alkaline soil; herbs or shrubs, generally succulent 
and salty or bitter, often covered with white scurf or meal, 
without stipules; leaves thick, usually alternate, sometimes 
none; flowers perfect or imperfect, small, greenish, without 
petals; calyx with two to five sepals, rarely with only one, 
pistillate flowers sometimes with no calyx; stamens as 
many as the sepals, or fewer, and opposite them; ovary 
mostly superior with one to three styles or stigmas; fruit 
small, dry, with one seed, sometimes with a bladder-like 
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