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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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green. The plant trailing or twining. Common inwaste grounds. 25. P. cilincde, Michx. (Fig. 12, pi. 34.) Fringed Black Bind-weed. Leaves l)rnad egg-shaped or spear head-shaped; collarets fringedwitli depressed bristles, not at border but near the base. Clusters offlowers on stems only slightly spreading or branching. Plant generallytwining or trailing over stone fences, etc. Var. crectum, Peck. Rocky places; generally distributed. 26. P. scandens, L. (Fig. 0, pi. 34.) Climdino False Buckwheat.Vine, sometimes 20 ft. high, smooth. Leaves cgg-sliajjcd, heart-shapedat l)ase, sharp pointed. Seed hull conspicuously winged at tiie angles,the wings with entire borders. Fruiting calyx about A in. long. Woodsand tliieUets. Common. Tlie form /. (lunictortun, T^., fruiting calyx aboutJ in. long, occasional in our region and very similar to P. scandens. 27. P. dumetorum, L. (Fig. 0. pi. 34.) Ckksted False Buck-wheat. (/. cristatum, Engelni. and Gray.) Vine similar to No, 24, BUCKWHEAT FAIMILY 209
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Plate 341. Polygonella articulata. 2. Polygonum tenue. 3. P. arifolium. 4. P.exsertum. 5. P. erectuin. 6. P. scandens 7. P. aviciilare. 8. P. convolvulus9. P dunietoium. 10. P. littorale. 11. P. sagittatum. 12. P. cilinode. 210 CHENOPODIACEAE but leaves broad triangular with depression at base. Margin of wingsof seed hull irregularly notched. Shady woods, New York and southward. 28. P. sagittatum, L. (Fig. 11, pi. 34.) Arrow-leaved TearThumb. Stem slender, 4-angled, the plant reclining upon other plantsand clinging to them by recurved prickles. Leaves narrow arrow-head-form, heart-shaped at base; leaf-stalk short. Wet or moist soil; com-mon. 29. P. arifolium, L. (Fig. 3, pi. 34.) Halbekd-leaved TearThumb. Stem 4-angled, armed with recurved prickles, climbing by these.Leaves broad egg-shaped with spreading wings at base, on long leaf-stalks. Flowers few in an elongated cluster. Moist soil. Common. 4. OXYRIA, Hill. A few alpine species with round kidney-form leaves on long leaf-stalks m

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