AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. IQI 
virens, has three to five male flowers in the 
clusters, each having 2 petals and _ four 
stamens, and one or two female flowers; the 
ovary becomes a 3-horned capsule, each cell 
containing two black shining seeds. The Box- 
tree is wild on Box Hill in Surrey, and at 
Chiltern, Herts. 
The genus umex, Dock, companion of 
Polygonum, and of Nat. Ord. PoLyconacea, 
has 13 species, of which FR. odtuszfolius, Dairy- 
maid’s Dock, which removes the pain of Nettle 
stings, A. crispus, Waved-leaf Dock, and 2. 
Acetosa and Acetosella, the last two with acid 
herbage, are very common. A very handsome 
plant, but not common, is R. Hydrolapathum, 
Great Water-Dock; the leaves of several 
species assume brilliant hues of red as they 
advance towards decay, and thus contribute to 
pleasing landscape effect; R. Acetosella is the 
Sheep’s Sorrel. 
This Order has been named the Rhubarb 
Family, and the resemblance of the flowers of 
the Rhubarb to those of the Dock will scarcely 
have escaped notice. The structure of the 
flowers is curious; there is a perianth of six 
divisions, the three inner ones, which may be 
