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Fip. 560. GREAT WATER DOCK (Rumex hydrola-pathum). 



The largest of our species of Docks, growing bv river-sides and attaining a height of five or six feet. The wind- 

 pollinated flowers are minute, but conspicuous by being combined in large panicles, which give it a very handsome 



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mid striking appear,! n.-e. 



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is restricted to Kurope. 



