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144 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 55
base ;
inner segments inversely egg-spoon-shaped. Nut i in.
long, broadly egg-shaped, sharply 3-angled, pale, rather longer
than the enlarged perianth.
Flowers. June, July.
Locality. Gulmarg ;
Liddarwat ;
Gadsar ;
at higher elevations
up to 12,000 ft.
Distribution. Kashmir, Kulu, Turkestan, westward to
Spain, Siberia, N. America.
Polygonum aviculare, Linn.
Knotgrass, Pig-weed, Bed
Legs, Nine-joints, Sparrow-tongue.
(Aviculare from the Latin avis, bird, because it is used for
bird-seed.)
A very variable plant, widely spreading, trailing, twining,
with numerous branched, slender, finely furrowed, smooth,
jointed stems with swollen joints, flowering throughout their
length or sometimes barren. Leaves nearly sfcalkless, narrowly
lance-shaped, i-1 in. long, sometimes gland-dotted. Stipules
tubular, long, nerves several, strong, straight, the tips more
or less projecting. Flowers small, green, tipped with white
or red, in axillary clusters. Perianth 4- or 5-parted, cleft to
near the base. Stamens 4 or 5. Styles 3, free, minute. Nut
ovoid, obtusely 3-angled, minutely wrinkled.
Flowers. June to September.
Locality. At altitudes of 6,000-12,000 ft.
Distribution. Punjab, Kashmir, N. and W. Asia, arctic
and temperate Europe, introduced into N. America.
Polygonum cognatum, Meissn.
(Cognatum means to be related to something or somebody.)
A more or less hairless herb. Sterns short, almost simple,
prostrate and ascending, angled. Branches many, stout,
2-6 in. long, from a woody stock, scaly at the base, but not
rooting. Leaves rarely 1 in. long, stalked, elliptic, blunt or
sharp-pointed, thick, nerveless. Stipules egg-shaped, silvery,
blunt, sharp- or long-pointed. Flowers in axillary clusters ;
flower-stalks crowded, short, jointed at the tip. Perianth
very thick, lobes with white margins, fruiting perianth pitchershaped,
tube twice as long as the rounded lobes. Stamens
very short. Styles 3, free. Nutlets rfr in. long, egg-shaped,
compressed, or obtusely 3-angled, black, shining.
Locality.At elevations of 11,000-16,500 ft.
Distribution. Kashmir to Garhwal, Afghanistan, Caucasus,
W. Asia, Soongaria.