CXI. PHYTOLACCACE. Cid 
4. R. verTicinLAtus. Naked-spiked Dock. 
_ Iws. oblong-lanceolate; valves entire, all bearing granules ; spikes leafless 
with flowers in half-whorls.—| Northern States. An aquatic species of mudd ; 
situations. Stem 2f high, with long, tubular sheaths and few branches. Leaves 
long, narrow, acute, flat. "Whorls few-flowered. Pedicels 3—1/ long. June. 
5. R. aquaticus. Great Water Dock. 
Lvs. lanceolate, acute, lower ones cordate, on long petioles; valves ovate, 
entire, all of them bearing granules.—2| Northern U. 8. Ponds and ditches. 
Root large, very astringent. Stem 3—4f high. Leaves somewhat glaucous, 
the lower ones distinctly cordate at base. Flowers verticillate, in a terminal, 
leafy panicle. Pedicels nodding. 
6. R, attissimus. Wood. (R. verticillata, Mead?) Peach-leaved Dock. 
Glabrous, tall, erect; dvs. linear-elliptic, entire, petiolate, tapering to each 
end; rac. slender, paniculate, somewhat secund, leafless or the lowest verticil 
axillary; fis. all 9; inner sep. broad-cordate, one graniferous, one abortively 
so, and the third naked.—| Marshy prairies and borders of streams, Indiana! 
A very showy Rumex, 3—6f high, slightly branched above. Leaves 3—5/ by 
3—1’, somewhat acuminate, broadest in the middle. Verticils approximate, 
pedicels 2—3” long. Achenium exactly resembling a beach-nut in form and 
color. June. (Nov. sp.) 
* * Inner sepals toothed. 
7. R. acttus. Dock. 
Las. oblong-cordate, acuminate; whorls leafy ; valves oblong, subdentate, 
all of them bearing granules.—2, N.States. Ditches and waste places. Stem 
2—3fhigh. Leaves large, the lower ones distinctly cordate, on long petioles. 
Racemes paniculate, composed of dense, leafy, dimidiate verticils. Granules 
large, red, one upon the back of each valve. May. § 
8. P. patLipus. Bw. White Dock. 
Lvs. linear-lanceolate, acute; spikes slender; valves ovate, entire, hardly 
larger than the granule.—2 Found in salt marshes, Ms. Stems numerous, 
ascending. Leaves smooth, acute, petioled, wavy on the margin. Flowers 
crowded, on short pedicels. Granule large, white, nearly covering the back of 
each valve. June. 
9. R. mariTimus. Golden Dock. 
Lvs. linear, very long, entire, acute at each end; fis. in leafy racemes; 
inner sepals dentate, all graniferous.—2 “ Borders of brackish ponds in Mar- 
tha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.” Oakes. Plant a foot or more high. Flowers 
yellowish-green, in crowded half-whorls on the branches and main stem above. § 
10. R. optrusirotius. Broad-leaved Dock. 
St. roughish; radical lvs. ovate, obtuse; valves toothed, one of them prin- 
cipally bearing a granule on the back.—2| N. States. A weed as troublesome 
as the first, growing about houses and fields wherever it is least welcome. Stem 
2—3f high, furrowed, branching, leafy. Leaves oblong, cordate, obtuse, cre- 
nate-wavy; upper ones narrower and more acute; root leaves very large, 
oblong, heart-shaped, often with stalk and veins red. Flowers in long, nearly 
naked racemes. July. § 
§ 2. Acerosa. Flowersd 2. Inner sepals without granules. 
11. R. acerosetua. Feld Sorrel. Sheep Sorrel. 
Lvs, lanceolate-hastate; fis. Q 3.—2 A common weed, growing in pas- 
tures and waste grounds throughout the U.S., preferring dry, hardsoils. Stem 
3—1f high, leafy. Leaves halbert-shaped, very acid, but pleasant to the taste. 
Flowering all summer. Flowers small, red or reddish, collected in panicled 
racemes, the valves destitute of granules. The stamens and styles are on sepa- 
rate plants. 
Orver CXI. PHYTOLACCACE #.—Payroraccaps. 
Herbs or undershrubs, with alternate, exstipulate leaves. 
. Tacemose, perfect. Sepals pi gga 
Sta. 4—5 and alternate with the ap , or indefinite. 
Ova, 1—several-eelled. Styles and stigmas equal in number to the cells. 
