42 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. 2, genuinus. Koch. 
R. sanguineus, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 476. 
Stem and veins of the leaves blood-red, from their first appearance. 
In woods and by roadsides, and in hedgebanks. 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. @ rare, occasionally met with 
throughout the country, but doubtless often the outcast of gardens. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 
Extremely like R. conglomeratus, but the leaves slichtly 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 
“5 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 species. Enlarged petals 4 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. B the leaves have bright blood-red veins. The var. 6 
appears to come up unaltered from seed, but the difference is too 
slight to constitute a subspecies. 
Bloody-veined Dock. 
French, Patience des bois. German, Hain-Ampfer. 
SPECIES IL—RUMEX MARITIMUS. Lim. 
Prats MCCXIL 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. 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, spreading 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. 
