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These plants belong to the order Polygonacece or Buckwheat 

 Family, and are related to the smart weeds and the cultivated 

 buckwheat. They are figured in the U. S. Agr'l Rept., 1889, 

 PI. VIII and IX in the Rept. of the Botanist. 



Those interested in the species of Rnmex (docks) occurring in 

 the United States, will find all the species considered (about 

 twenty) and finely illustrated in the Third Annual Report of the 

 Mo. Bot. Garden, in an article from the pen of Prof. Wm. Tre- 

 lease, Director, St. Louis, Mo. 



