HEXANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Runiex. 191 



Rumex Nemolapathum. Ehrh. Phytoph. 94, Linn, suppl. 2]2. 



mild. Sp. PL V. 2. 252. 

 R. acutus ^. Huds. 155. 

 Lapathum viride. Dill, in Baii Syn. 141. 

 Bloodless Dock. Pet. H. Brit. t. 2./. 6. 



In shady places, and by road sides. 



In woody situations about Hampstead, Merret. Near Maidstone". 

 Huds. On Headington hill, near Oxford. Sibth. In Kingston 

 wood, Cambridgeshire. Relh. In the county of Durham. Hlnch. 

 At Lowestoft, Suffolk, and about Bristol. 



/3 is veiy common in woods and other dry shady places. 



Perennial. July. 



Root tap-shaped, black j internally of a dull red. Stem 2 or 3 feet 

 high, erect, branched, angular, leafy, smooth, reddish. Leaves 

 all stalked, lanceolate, acute, smooth, veiny, slightly crisped at 

 the edges j the radical ones largest, heart-shaped at the base. 

 Clusters terminal, long, a little drooping, formed of numerous, 

 not very distant, whorls, of pendulous green ^ower^ ,- some of 

 the lower whorls accompanied by small solitary leaves. CaL 

 quite entire, as well as the petals. The latter become oblong, 

 converging, one or more of them bearing at the back a large red 

 tubercle. Seed small, brown, polished, with 3 prominent blunt- 

 ish angles, and deep intermediate furrows. 



The footstalks and veins of the leaves abound with a fine deep 

 crimson juice, wanting in the far more common variety /3, 

 whose herbage is of a peculiarly bright and pleasant green. 

 Curtis has certainly confounded this with his description of 

 R. acutus. fasc. 3. ^ 21. 



2. R. crispus. Curled Dock. 



Permanent petals ovate, entire, all tuber culated. Leaves 

 lanceolate, wavy, acute. 



R. crispus. Linn.Sp.PlAlQ. Willd.v.2.2:A. Fl.Dr.39\. Engl. 

 Hot. V. 28. t. 1998. Curt. Land. fasc. 2. t. 20. Hook. Scot. 112. 



Lapathum n. 1589. Hall. Hist. v. 2.27 \. 



L. folio acuto crispo. Raii Syn. 141. 



L. longifolium crispum. Munt. Brit. t. 104. 



Curled Sharp Dock. Pet. H. Brit. t. 2./. 2. 



In waste ground, pastures, and by road sides, common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root tapering, yellowish. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, angular, furrowed, 

 somewhat zigzag, smooth to the touch, paniclcd, leafy. Leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, strongly undulated and crisped at the edges, 

 smooth, of a lightish green ; the radical ones on long stalks ; 

 the uppermost narrower, and nearly sessile. Clusters of nume- 

 rous, rather crowded, tufts, or whorls, of drooping pale green 

 flowers } in tlie lower part leafy. Petals always much larger 



