68 Mitchella repens.
This plant is slightly diuretic, and is used in Jersey in calculous affections,
but is not, I think, entitled to any notice on account of its
medicinal virtues.
The figure represents the plant the size of nature—a. in flower, b.
in fruit.
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POLYGONUM LINIFOLIUM.
FLAX-LEAVED POLYGONUM.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix 5-parted, petaloid, persistent. .Seed 1, superior, 3-sided, covered by the con-
nivent calix. (The number of the styles and stamina uncertain.)
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Very much branched; stems and branches angular-flexuose; leaves linear, channelled,
short above, somewhat subulate, all very upright, rigid, sub-mucronate, sessile
j flowers axillary, remote, alternate, solitary.—Bart. Prod. FI. Ph.p.48.
SYNONYMS.
P. tenue, Michaux? '
P. barbatum, Walt. ?
A small and inconspicuous annual plant, scarcely exceeding a span
in height. Very much branched. Leaves linear, erect, somewhat channelled,
acuminate, rigid. Flowers small, not conspicuous, and rarely