Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygonums
Literary usage of Polygonums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Most polygonums are weedy plants, and only a very small proportion are of merit
for cult. One of the commonest species is the ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Most polygonums are weedy plants, and only a very small proportion are of merit
... Other polygonums are the common Smartweeds of swales and damp grounds. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"A comparison between the Docks and polygonums even indicates that in anemophilous
plants, such as the Docks, hybrids come into existence more readily than ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"40 THE NEW ENGLAND polygonums OF THE SECTION AVICULARIA. ... IT has long been
known to several careful observers that our polygonums of the Section ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1894)
"The polygonums should never have been separated from their relatives the pinks,
simply because they have undergone such comparatively slight modifications ..."
6. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... represents as does the next species that sub-genus of the polygonums ...
which includes those polygonums with a twining habit of growth. ..."
7. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"A tall-growing, branching annual, perhaps the best garden representative of the
polygonums. Sparingly escaped into waste grounds; native to India. Summer. ..."
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