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HEXANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Rumex. 193 



L. sylvestre, folio minus acuto. Ger. Em. 388,/. Lob. Ic. 285./. 

 L. vulgare album, folio subrotundo. Munt. Brit, t. 68, bad. 

 Lapathum. Carrier. Epit. 228. f. 

 Broad Dock. Pet. H. Brit. t. 2./. 9. 



In waste ground, pastures, and by road sides, veiy common. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root black, many-headed ; yellowish within. Stems a yard high, 

 erect, branched, round, furrowed, leafy, rough chiefly in the 

 upper part. Radical leaves very large, stalked, deep green, 

 veiny, heart-shaped, more or less blunt ; the rest narrower, 

 more pointed, on shorter stalks ; all crenate and crisped in 

 some degree. Clusters long, of numerous, many-flowered 

 whorls, of which the lower ones are most distant, and leafy. 

 Pet. large, oblong, obtuse, veiny ; subsequently furnished with 

 3 sharp teeth at each side, one of them also bearing a brown or 

 reddish tubercle, of a smaller proportion than in most species. 

 Seed rather large, acute, with 3 sharp angles. 



This rank and troublesome weed can be conquered only by stub- 

 bing up the root. Mowing is to little purpose. 



5. R. pulc/ier. Fiddle Dock. 



Permanent petals toothed; one principally tuber culated. 

 Radical leaves fiddle-shaped. Stem smooth, straggling. 



R. pulcher. Linn. Sp. Pl.477. M'illd. v. 2. 254. Ft. Br. 393. Engl. 



Bot. V. 22. t. 1576. Hook. Scot. 113. 

 Lapathum n. 1593. Hall. Hist. v.2. 272. 

 L. pulchrum Bononiense sinuatum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 988./. Rail 



Syn. 142. 

 L. ramis procumbentibus, seminis involucro dentato, foliis inferio- 



ribus fidium instar. Moris, v. 2. 580. sect. 5. i. 27./. J3. 

 Fiddle Dock. Pet. H. Brit. t. 2./ 10. 



In pastures, church-yards, and dry waste gravelly ground. 



Perennial. August. 



Root tapering. Stems spreading, straggling, often procumbent, 

 much branched, striated, smooth, leafy. Radical leaves on long 

 footstalks, oblong, obtuse, slightly notched, contracted more or 

 less about the middle, so as to resemble a fiddle or lute. Stem- 

 leaves very numerous, alternate, small, lanceolate, undivided, 

 accompanying the numerous whorls oi flowers. Pet. much en- 

 larged after flowering, deeply and sharply toothed throughout, 

 each bearing an oblong reddish tubercle, which in one of them 

 is commonly larger than the rest. Seed polished, with very 

 sharp angles. 



6. R. mar'itwius. Golden Dock. 



Permanent petals triangular, tuberculated, fringed with 

 taper teeth. Leaves linear. Whorls crowded. 



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