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long ; lamina 2 to 4 inches, variable in the proportions of the length 
to the breadth, the latter usually } inch, whatever the former may be, 
margins narrowly revolute, even when full-grown ; stem leaves few. 
Ochre very long, continued far above the base of the leaf on the 
opposite side of the stem. Racemes 1 to 4 inches long, with scarious 
cuspidate bracts not surrounding the rachis, the lower part of which 
has minute ovoid acuminate purple bulbilles, the upper part cream- 
coloured or flesh-coloured flowers, with the perianth about + inch long. 
Stamens and styles exserted. Nut about +; inch long, pale brown. 
' Leaves subcoriaceous, deep green, and slightly shining above, dim and 
glaucous beneath. 
Viviparous Bistort. 
French, Renouée vivipare. German, Spitzkeimender Kniterich. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
RUMEX RUPESTRIS. Le Gail. 
Professor Babington says, “a plant found at St. Aubin’s, Jersey, is 
probably” this. I am unacquainted with the supposed species, of 
which I have seen no specimens. I can see but little in the descrip- 
tion to separate it from R. conglomeratus. 
RUMEX MAXIMUS. Schrib. 
A plant resembling R. Hydrolapathum, but with even the lower 
leaves subcordate, occurs near Lewes, Sussex. This may be R. maxi- 
mus, and should be looked after. 
RUMEX HISPANICUS. Kock. 
This plant is described by Smith under the name of R. Acetosa in 
Eng. FI, vol. ii. p. 196, no doubt from a cultivated example. The 
plate in Eng. Bot. seems to me the true R. Acetosa. 
ORDER LXII—ELAAGNACESA. 
Shrubs or small trees with the branches sometimes spinous. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, shortly stalked, simple, entire, or dentate, com- 
monly clothed beneath with peltate scarious entire or stellately-cleft 
scales. Flowers commonly unisexual and diccious, rarely perfect 
or polygamous, regular, axillary or in lateral clusters or in catkins 
or panicles. Perianth single, more or less coloured on the inside; 
2- or 4-partite in the male flowers, tubular and 2- or 4-toothed in the 
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