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| | Polygonaceae - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | POLYGONACEAE, in botany, a natural order of Dicotyledons, containing 30 genera with about 700 species, chiefly in the north temperate zone, and represented in Great Britain by three genera, Polygonum, Rumex (Dock, q.v.) and Oxyria. |
 | | They are mostly herbs characterized by the union of the stipules into a sheath or ocrea, which protects the younger leaves in the bud stage (fig. |
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