42 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Yar. |3, genuinus. Koch. 



R. saTiguincns, JAnn. Sp. PI. p. 470. 



Stem and veins of tlie leaves blood-red, from their first appearance. 



In woods and by roadsides, and in hedgeba]iks. Var. a rather 

 frequent, and generally distributed in England. Rather rare in 

 Scotland, and not extending to the extreme north. Frequent, and 

 generally distributed in Ireland. Var. 3 rare, occasionally met with 

 tlu'oughout the country, but doubtless often the outcast of gardens. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



Extremely like R. conglomeratus, but the leaves slightly narrowed 

 in the middle of each side, though not so much as in R. pulcher. The 

 panicle is rather more lax, and almost all the whorls on the branches 

 and at the apex of the stem have no leaves at the base, though there 

 is one at the base of each branch, and frequently at the base of the 

 lowest whorls. Pedicels jointed immediately above the base, not 

 considerably above it, as in the last sjDecies. Enlarged petals ^ inch 

 long, narrower at the base than those of R. conglomeratus, with the 

 tubercle much more globular, not half the length of the petal, those 

 on two of the petals not half the size of the other or absent. Un- 

 opened anthers pale yellow, nearly white in the preceding species. 

 Nut similar. Whole plant more or less tinged with red in autumn, 

 but in var. /3 the leaves have bright blood-red veins. The var. 3 

 appears to come up unaltered from seed, but the difference is too 

 slight to constitute a subspecies. 



Bloody-veined Dock. 



French, Patience des hois. German, Hcvin-Airvpfer. 



SPECIES III.-E, UMEX MARITIMUS. Linn. 

 Plate MCCXII. 

 Billoi, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1948. 



Leaves thin, the radical ones strapshaped-oblong or strapshaped- 

 oblanceolate, abruptly wedgeshaped at the base, subacute, entire or 

 repand ; lower stem leaves similar, but attenuated towards each end, 

 more acute; leaves at the base of the whorls mostly strapshaped. 

 Branches of the panicle ascending-erect (or none), leafy to the apex. 

 Pedicels* twice as long as the fruit petals, articulated close to the 

 base, spreadmg all round the stem. Flowers perfect. Enlarged petals 



* The pedicels in the false whorls are unequal in length, but the size given in the 

 description is that of the longest. 



