44 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
subtruncate at the base, acute, with 2 or 3 setaceous teeth on each 
side about the middle, reticulated, each with an oblong-ovoid tubercle ; 
teeth bristle-like, shorter than the length of the petal. Sepals as long 
as the tubercle. Nut broadest towards the base. 
In wet places. Rare, but widely distributed throughout England. 
Not known certainly to occur in Scotland, though said to have been 
found near Dunbar. In Ireland it is not known to occur. 
England. Biennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Very like R. maritimus, with which Mr. Bentham joins it, but it is a 
larger plant, with the stems often 2 or 3 feet high, often more or less 
decumbent, and always branched, with the branches curving inwards. 
Leaves not distinguishable from those of R. maritimus; for though 
usually larger and more abrupt at the base, the same series of forms 
occurs in each. ‘The whorls have usually fewer flowers, and are more 
distant than in R. maritimus, but sometimes they are confluent as in 
that species. The fruit petals are 5 inch long, yellowish-olive, broader 
at the base, and so more triangular; the tubercles yellowish-white, 
sometimes more or less tinged with red, about half the length of the 
sepal, much larger and broader in proportion than in R. maritimus; the 
teeth are broader at the base and much shorter, and the sepals are 
much longer. The nut is rather more than } inch long, darker in 
colour, broadest near the base, and acuminated at the apex, so that 
its faces are ovate. 
R. limosus, Thuillier, is commonly referred to R. palustris, but it is 
possible that it is made up of forms of R. maritimus with distant 
whorls, as well as of states of R. palustris, The form of the base of 
the leaves is too variable to found even a variety upon. 
The plate in Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1932, is drawn partly from R. 
pratensis, but the dissections belong to the true R. palustris. 
Yellow Marsh Dock. 
SPECIES V—RUMEX PULCHER. Lim. 
Pirate MCCXIV. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3196. 
Leaves thin, the radical ones broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, panduri- 
form, subcordate or cordate at the base, obtuse, crenate and slightly un- 
dulated at the edges; lower stem leaves similar, but narrower and on 
shorter stalks; leaves at the base of the whorls lanceolate or elliptical ; 
the upper ones strapshaped and subsessile. Branches of the panicle 
divaricate, leafy nearly to the apex. Pedicels shorter than the fruit 
petals, articulated below the middle, spreading half-way round the 
stein. Flowers perfect. Enlarged petals in fruit oblong-triangular, 
