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| − | Polygonum orientale, Linn. (Persicaria orientalis, Spach). Prince's Feather. Fig. 3104. Tall-growing annual, much branched above, hairy: lvs. large, ovate or cordate-ovate or broad-oblong,acuminate; sheaths short, ciliate and sometimes bordered at the summit: fls. bright pink, in close, cylindrical spikes that are arranged in open panicles, the stamens 7 and the achene lenticular. India. B.M. 213. J.H. III. 51:305. G.W. 6, p. 148.— An attractive old-fashioned plant growing as high as the fence. It is most easy of cult.; in fact, it usually self-sows in old gardens. In some places it has run wild. There are horticultural varieties, as var. variegatum. Hort., with foliage marked with yellowish white, and var. pumilum, Hort., with compact habit and the stature half that of the type.
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