82 Polygonum arifolium.
till they are only an inch or half an inch in length. They are triangular,
hastate, acuminate, with all the angles very long and sharp, and
the texture of the leaf itself roughish, being invested with hispid pubescence,
particularly abundant on the costa and nerves of the under disk.
Branches bright red, very slender and often filiform. Ochese stipulace-
ous, and of a red colour. Flowers globose, except when expanded,
which is only for a short time in early morning and after heavy rains.
Petals white, tinged with rose-red.
Grows throughout the union, in meadows and watery thickets, and
on the borders of drains in low grounds of damp soil, delighting in
moisture—in very favourable situations is not destitute of beauty.
Flowers in August and September. "
The plate represents the plant as large as nature.
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