

HEXANDRIA. TRTGYNIA. Rumex. 347 



beads pale when young, changing to blood red and then to brown 

 red. 



Curled Dock Meadows, pastures, road sides, and cultivated 

 ground* In almost all soils. P. June, July.* 



R. Valves veinless : leaves oval-spear-shaped, uneven at acu'tus. 





the edges. 



Curt. \8l-Black<w. l$\-Knipb. 3~Fuchs. 4>6\. 



The edges of the leaves, though seldom very entire, are by 

 no means waved and curled, as in the preceding species. The 

 valves are much smaller than in any of our other hermaphrodite 

 species ; very entire, all of them beaded. In sunny situations, 

 both the stem and leaves are apt to get a tinge of purple red- 

 R. sanguineus, var. 2. Bot. arr. ed. ii. Lapathum viride. Ray 

 Syn. nl. * 



Linnaeus says, that in his R. acutus, the valves are too&ed. 

 which is not the case with our plant, but then his Synon. accord 

 with ours, and with the Lapathum acutum of Ray, which he 

 quotes. We must therefore either suppose the Synon. to be 

 wrong, or else that the teeth of the valves are uncertain things. 

 I have purposely avoided more references to figures, that of J. B* 

 ii. 984. 1, being a wretched reduced copy of that of Fuchsius ; 

 Pet. ii. 3. is inexpressive; Lob. ic. 284. 1. Lob. obs. 150. 2. 

 Park. 1224. 1. Ger. em. 388. 1. Matth. 353, 1. and Dod. 648. 

 1 . are all the same, and therefore all equally bad, nor would the 

 subject be illustrated by quoting the mutilated representation in 

 H. ox v. 27. 3. Lonic. i. 87. 1* is tolerable. 



Woods, hedges, sides of rivers and roads, and sometimes in 

 fields and meadows, common. P. June, July.t 



R. Leaves heart-spear-shaped, bluntish: whirls of flowers paludo'sus, 



distinct 3 beneath the floral-leaf. 



E. hot. 72*-Munt. 194. 



Root branching. Stem upright, 4 feet high, scored, branchin 



tranches alternate, upright. Root-leaves egg-shaped, bluntish, 

 somewhat finely notched ; stem-leaves alternate, on leaf-stalks, 

 somewhat finely notched, rather pointed, flat, naked, on short 

 leaf-talks. Leaf -scales sheathing, membranaceous Flo-wers in 

 whirls, on fruit-stalks. Whirls generally distinct. Valves, the 



* In Norfolk it is the pest of clover fields. Mr. Woodward. — The 

 fresh roots bruised and made into an ointment or decoction cure the itch. 

 The seeds have been given with advantage in the dysentery. —Cows and 

 goats and horses refuse it. 



t Cows and horses refuse it. It is infested by the Aphis Rumicis* 

 ^inn. — The root is used by the dyers. It gives a great variety ot* hades, 

 from straw colour to a pretty fine olive, and 4 tine deep green to cloths 

 which have been previously blued. Stokes. 



