194 HEXANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Rumex. 



R. maritimus. Linn. Sp. PL 478. Willd. v. 2. 253. FL Br. 393. 

 E7igl. Bot. v.W.t. 725. Hook. Scot. 1 13. FL Dan. t. 1208. 



R. aureus. PVith.356. Hull78. Abbot 81. 



Lapathum folio acuto, flore aureo. Bank. Pin. 1 15. Rail Sijn. 142. 



L. sylvestie, quaitum genus, Dalech. Hist. 603./. 



L. anthoxanthum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 987./. 988. 



Bur Gold Dock. Pet. H. Brit t. 2./ 8. 



In marshes, especially near the sea. 



Perennial. Jultj, August. 



Root with many whorled fibres. Stem branched, leafy, angular, 

 furrowed, often zigzag, sometimes of a tawny red, from 1 to 2 

 feet high. Leaves stalked, linear, acute, entire, flat, not undu- 

 lated. FL very numerous, in dense leafy whorls, very near to- 

 gether, and finally confluent, assuming, like the whole plant, a 

 rich tawny-golden hue, very conspicuous. The petals, as the 

 seeds ripen, become dilated, triangular, fringed at each side with 

 about 4 bristle-like teeth, exceeding their own length, and 

 spreading widely, giving the whole dense cluster a hairy ap- 

 pearance. Each petal bears a large, tawny, very prominent, ob- 

 long, not globular, tubercle. The seeds are acutely triangular, 

 very small. 



7. Vl. palustris. Yellow Marsh Dock. 



Permanent petals lanceolate, tuberculated, toothed at the 

 base. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Whorls distinct. 



R.palustris. H.Br. 394. EngL Bot.v.27 .t.\932. Galp.Comp.30. 

 Hook. Scot. 1 13. 



R. maritimus. Huds.lbh^. n'ith.356. Hull78. Curt. Lond. 

 fasc. 3. t. 23. Ehrh. Herb. 74. 



Lapathum aureum. DHL m Rati Sijn. 142. 



L. aquaticum, Luteolae folio. Bocc. Mus. t. 104. 



L. aquaticum, angustissimo acuminato folio. Ibid.] A3. 



Hvdrolapathum minus. Lob. Ic. 286 . f. Ger. Em. 389. f. 



Gold Dock. Pet. H. Brit. t.2.f. 7. 



In marshes, ditches, and waste boggy ground, remote from the sea. 



About London in several places. Dill. Curt. By Acle dam, Nor- 

 folk. Mr. Pitchford. At Saham, Norfolk. 



Perennial. Juhj, August. 



Root tapering, red internally, with whorled fibres. Stem 2 feet 

 high, or more, nearly upright, stout, branched, furrowed, leafy, 

 roughish, sometimes tinged with red. Leaves stalked, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, slightly crisped at the edges ; the radical 

 ones large, a span long, ovate at the base ; the rest much 

 smaller J those which accompany most of the flowers very small 

 and narrow. Whorls numerous, many-flowered, at first consi- 

 derably distant; but those of the lateral branches, at least, be- 

 come crowded as the seeds rij)en, In this state the petals are 

 elongated, bluntly lanceolate ; in their upper half quite entire ; 



