. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POLYGONUM varieties, as var. variegitum, Hort.,with foliage marked with vellowish white, and var. ptimilum, Hort., with compact haljit and the stature half that of the type. 4. Persicaria, Linn. Lady's Thumb. Fig. 1879. One of the Smartweeds, but sold by seedsmen as a
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. POLYGONUM varieties, as var. variegitum, Hort.,with foliage marked with vellowish white, and var. ptimilum, Hort., with compact haljit and the stature half that of the type. 4. Persicaria, Linn. Lady's Thumb. Fig. 1879. One of the Smartweeds, but sold by seedsmen as a suitable plant for backgrounds; glabrous or nearly so, erector somewhat diffuse, 1-2 ft. tall: Ivs. lance- olate to linear-lanceolate, slightly cili- ate, usually with a triangular or cres- cent-shaped spot near the middle of the blade (whence the name Lady's Thumb): sheaths short, hairy on the margin: tls. in short spikes, pink or greenish purple, the stamens 6 and the akene lenticular or triquetrous. Ku. âNaturalized every- where about dwellings. 5. arenirium, Waldst. & Kit. (P. He- gaiis, Ten.). Dwarf species with slen- der wiry branches and long internodes: Ivs. small, linear-lanceolate, l-nerved, bearing great numbers of little whitish Hs. along the stem, the terminal clusters leafless. S. in Calif., for rockeries and bouquets. BB. Perfttnial plants of various liahit, Hsualli/ with strong rootstocks. c. yalh;' xmartwint-like plants, some- tiiins for naturalising in POLYGONUJl 1393 1879. Lady's Thumb â Polyeonum llueh reduced. 6. amphibium, Linn. Much spreading id creeping, rooting at the joints, at â st more or less pubescent but be- coming glabrous with age: Ivs. rather thickish and large, oblong, elliptic or lance-elliptic, mostly obtuse or very nearly so: sheaths short, usually not fringed or bordered at the summit: tls. light , in a short, dense, terminal spike, the stamens 5 and ex- serted, and the akene lenticular. In water or
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