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in fruit rhombic-triancular, wedgeshaped at the base, acute, with two 
setaceous teeth on each side about the middle, reticulated, each of them 
with a long oblong-cylindrical tubercle; teeth bristle-like, as long as 
or longer than the length of the petal. Sepals much shorter than 
the tubercle. Nut attenuated at each end, broadest in the middle. 
In wet places. Rare, but widely distributed in England, except in 
the extreme north. Not certainly known to occur in Scotland, 
though it has been reported from several stations. In Ireland, it is 
found only in Curragha bog near Garristown, co. Dublin. 
England, Ireland. Biennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem rooting at the lower nodes, erect, 6 inches to 2 feet high, 
simple when small, branched with incurved branches when large. 
Radical leaves in a rosette, abruptly attenuated into short petioles, 
the lamina commonly unequal at the base, 2 to 9 inches long, rather 
broader towards the apex, slightly undulated; lower stem leaves 
similar to the radical ones, but attenuated towards the apex as well as 
to the base, so as to be widest in the middle ; leaves at the base of the 
whorls nearly sessile, elliptical-strapshaped, spreading, all much longer 
than the whorls. Fruit whorls many-flowered, globular, approximate, 
often confluent, but by no means always so, especially when the main 
stem is injured, for then it sends out secondary shoots, which have the 
whorls quite distinct. Fruit petals bright yellow, =, to } inch long, 
the spines } to} inch long; tubercle more than half as long as the 
petal, pale yellow. Nut 51, inch long, shining, trigonous, with the 
faces elliptical, equally attenuated at each end, fawn colour. Plant 
yellowish-green, glabrous. 
Golden Dock. 
French, Patience maritime. German, Goldgelber Ampfer.. 
SPECIES IV—RUMEX PALUSTRIS. Sm. 
Pratr MCCXII,. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1760. 
R. palustris and R. Stenii (Beck.), Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 704, 
R. limosus, Thwil. Fl. Par. p. 182. 
R. maritimus, Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. ed. ii. p. 172. Curt. Fl. Lond. Vol. I. tab. 68, 
Leaves thin, the radical ones strapshaped-oblong or strapshaped- 
oblanceolate, abruptly wedgeshaped or subcordate at the base, subacute ; 
lower stem leaves similar but more attenuated towards the apex; leaves 
at the base of the whorls strapshaped or elliptical-strapshaped. Branches 
of the panicle spreading-ascending, leafy to the apex. Pedicels nearly 
twice as long as the fruit petals, articulated close to the base, spreading 
all round the stems. Flowers perfect. Enlarged petals in fruit triangular, 
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