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portion. Panicle lax; the fascicles distant, many-flowered, all of them, 
except those at the apex of the stem and branches, with a stalked leaf 
or leaflike bract at the base. Longest pedicels scarcely twice as long 
as the fruit petals, and often scarcely exceeding them in length; all of 
them bent downwards from the articulation. Fruit petals about } inch 
long, slightly dilated at the base, and with a long nearly parallel-sided 
point beyond the tubercle, indistinctly reticulated, olive or more or 
less tinged with dull red; tubercles very prominent, about half the 
length of the fruit petal, scarcely twice as long as broad, red or yellowish. 
Nut dark brown, shining, ovate, trigonous, acuminated, the faces all 
nearly flat. Plant dull and rather pale green, the stem and veins 
of the leaves often tinged with red in autumn, when it is sometimes 
mistaken for R. sanguineus. 
Sharp Dock. 
French, Patience agglomérée. German, Gekniiulter Ampfer. 
SPECIES l1—RU MEX SANGUINEUS. Koch. 
Pirate MCCXI, 
R. nemorosus, “ Meyer;” Fries, Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 52. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 
Vol. IIL. p. 37. 
R. Nemolapathum, Wall, Sched, Crit. p. 158. 
Leaves thin, the radical ones oblong-lanceolate or oblong, often 
subpanduriform, rounded or subcordate at the base, subacute, entire 
or repand or faintly crenate, scarcely undulated at the margins ; 
lower and middle leaves similar, but smaller, scarcely at ali pan- 
duriform, and with shorter stalks; those at the base of the whorls 
lanceolate. Branches of the panicle ascending, leafless, or with leaves 
only at one or two of the basal whorls. Pedicels not much longer than 
the fruit petals, articulated immediately above the base, spreading 
half-way round the stem. Flowers perfect. Enlarged petals in fruit 
natrowly-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, rounded at the base, sub- 
obtuse, entire, indistinctly reticulated, each of the two inner ones with 
astrong midrib, but no tubercle, or only a minute one, the outer petal 
with a large globular-ovoid tubercle. 
Var. a, viridis. Koch. 
Prats MCCXI. 
R. viridis, Sibthorp, Fl. Oxon. p. 108. 
R. nemorosus, Schrad. in Willd. Enum. Hart. Berol. p. 397. 
R. Nemolapathum, D.O. Fl. Fr. Vol. Il. p. 73. 
Stem and veins of the leaves greenish, or the stem and midrib tinged 
with red in autumn. 
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