54 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Srorion II.—ACETOSA. Tournef. 
Styles adnate to the angles of the ovary. Leaves commonly sagittate 
or hastate, acid. Flowers generally polygamous or moneecious, or 
dicecious. 
SPECIES XIL—RU MEX SCUTATU S. Linn. 
Prats MCCXXII. 
Leaves very succulent, roundish deltoid, subpanduriform, hastate 
or hastate-sagittate, with the basal lobes divaricate, subobtuse; lower 
stem leaves similar; the upper ones narrower and more triangular 
and frequently acute; all stalked. Ochree entire, dim, pure white. 
sranches of the panicle few, ascending, leafless. Pedicels rather shorter 
than the fruit petals, articulated a little below the middle, spreading 
half-way round the stem. Flowers monecious. Sepals applied to the 
base of the fruit petals. Enlarged petals in fruit scarious and some- 
what coloured, suborbicular, deeply cordate, rounded at the apex, 
entire, extending far beyond the nut, rather faintly reticulated, destitute 
of tubercles, and without greatly thickened midribs. Leaves acid, 
glaucous. 
On old walls and in pastures. Rare, and certainly not native. It 
occurs in Glamorganshire; at the head of Silverdale in Yorkshire; near 
Keswick, Cumberland. In Scotland it is naturalised at Craigmillar 
Castle, near Edinburgh; it is also reported from Burntisland in Fife. 
[England, Scotland.] . Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock slender, creeping. Stem slender, decumbent at the base, 
then erect, flexuous, sparingly branched, 8 inches to 2 feet high. 
Leaves few, the lowest 1 to 2 inches long, and nearly as broad, some- 
what panduriform, from the basal lobes projecting beyond the general 
outline of the leaf. Stipules large, scarious, pure white. Panicle very 
lax. Whorls few, remote, 3- to 5-flowered. Fruit petals } inch in 
diameter, white tinged with pink, semitransparent. Nut } inch 
long, oval, triquetrous, pale brown, smooth, shining. Plant intensely 
elaucous and very acid, the leaves fleshy and brittle. 
French Sorrel. 
French, Patience & écussons. German, Schildblattriger Ampfer. 
SPECIES XIV—RU MEX ACETOSA. Lim. 
Prats MCCXXIL, 
Pillot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2528. 
Leaves rather succulent, the radical ones oblong or oval-oblong, deeply 
