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Rumex | XCIX. POLYGONACEJE. 263 
Branches erect. Flowers numerous and very small in 
dense clusters. Fruiting perianth small, with a tu- : 
er E on "a € ni 6. R. halophilus. 
Flowers moncecio Stems mostly simple, the upper clusters 
males, fen ‘without floral leaves, the lower clusters females, 
mostly ax ary 7. R. bidens. 
Flowers feces, Small ‘plant, v narrow leaves mostly 
gittate, Stipules silvery-shin . 8. R. bae 
in the Index of seeds of the Garden of Co penhagen for e year 1861, from plants 
F. Muelle h 
reat for that year, and am quite unacquainted with the plant in question, 
which, if re is ] Fase so Saat with some one of those ed enumerated. 
rispus, Linn. ; voee in DC, Prod. xiv. 44. A erennial 
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gradually into bracts. ipai us usters numerous, an 
much erowded into a long narrow and dense terminal panicle. Inner 
segments of the fruitin pati broadly ovate, entire, 2 to 3 lines 
long, with a decia tubercle Bn the midrib. 
N. Ee E unter's river, Oldfield. 
Victoria. On rüsdaldes ui t Melbourne, Adamson, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Parker a 
pu mon in Europe and te ien now RM in many other seed 
i globe. The Aoi 4 prx like others grown in warm and dry " 
ac tubercles on all three inner perianth-segments. Mon pisci prre ave 
em frequently only on one segment of each perianth. 
lomeratus, né ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 49. e 
*. R. cong 
eet perennial of 2 or 3 ft. e br ient ian R. erispus. Radical 
long rather spreading branches, the clusters of flowers qe peris 
tant even when in fruit. ruiting perianth apn prst 
in 
the midrib o each.—R. acutus, Sm. and s feist rs. 
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um Wo 
^ &. ira Milkogibe. F. Mueller. 
s, this species is indigenous in ca and temperate Asia, 
in many other parts of the g 
i oe mu with a thick 
rownii, | Campa. Monogr. Rum. 8 pe Eon Be 
and is now 
5$. naturalized i 
tia and lower leaves o ong petioles, often cor late or hasta, ane 
a obtuse, the pee ase ne mostly lanceolate and acute, the flo ones 
uced to small ptu: or quite deficient us remote, many- 
el 
RE pedicels slender or thie ,1to3 lines long. "us o segments of the 
ng perianth b lar, 1 
each side by 4 to eias re d or os Taela at the end, 
