DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME COMMON WEEDS 163 



valve bearing a seed. Found along roadsides and in 

 meadows across the continent, and in Europe. 



Pale Dock or Peach-leaved Dock (Rumex altissimus, 

 L.). Closely allied to preceding; from two to six feet 

 tall ; leaves longer than those of R. crispus, oblong, lance- 

 olate, acute, rather thick, and without the wavy curled 

 margin of curled dock; flowering racemes long, spike- 

 like, petioled, and nearly leafless ; one of the three valves 

 in fruit bears a conspicuous grain. 



White Dock (Rumex wiex- 

 icanus, Meisn.). Lower 

 growing than either of the 

 preceding, being not more 

 than three feet in height; 

 white root; narrow lance- 

 olate or linear leaves, the 

 lowest sometimes oblong; 

 flowers in crowded whorls, 

 the pedicel much shorter 

 than the fruiting calyx; one, 

 two, or sometimes, all three 

 of the valves of the achene 

 bear each a conspicuous 

 grain. Low grounds from 

 New England to California. 



Patience Dock (Rumex 

 Patientia, L.). A tall, glab- 

 rous perennial; lower leaves 

 long petioled ; dense fruiting 

 panicles. In low and moist cr V 7 A uouMesot wfedT 

 grounds from New England fields, meadows and along road- 

 to Utah. The broad leaved sides - (Harrison and Lockhead.) 

 or bitter dock (R. obtusifo- 



lius, L.) is a glabrous perennial with erect stem; lower 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate ; open panicle ; wings of fruit with 

 few spreading, spiny teeth. Naturalized from Europe. 



