Th BRITISH HERBAL, 
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DIVISION i 
1. Great Water-Dock. 
Lapathum aquaticum maximum. 
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The root is long, thick, and brown, 
The ftalk is thick, purplifh at the bottotn, 
green upwards, rarely much branched, and five 
feet high. 
The leaves are long, and extremely large, of a 
fine green, and waved at the edges. 
The flowers are greeaifli, and the feeds latge 
and brown. 
It is common about waters, and flowers in 
Julysae: 
C. Bauhine calls it Lepathum aquaticum folio 
cubital. 
It is celebrated againft the feurvy. 
2. Sharp-pointed Dock. 
Lapatbum folio acuto. 
The root is long, thick, brown on the out. 
fide, yellow within, and of a raw, auftere tate. 
The ftalk is round,. firm, branched, and three 
feet high. 
The leaves are long, large; even at the edges, 
and fharp-pointed, 
The flowers are greenifh. i 
It is common in rich foils, and flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lapathum folio acuto plano. 
The root is excellent againft the feurvy, much 
preferable to the great water-dock : it is beft taken 
in a ftrong infufion. 
Befide thefe, our wafte grounds afford not lefs 
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than nine other fpecies of the common dock, not 
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Monks Rhubarb. 
Lapathum folio oblongo acuto. 
The root is long, very thick, and within of 4 
ftrong and fine yellow. 
The ftalk is thick, and five feet high, purple 
at the bafe, green upwards, and branched. 
The leaves are very large, oblong, of a deep 
green, often purplifh, and have purple foot- 
ftalks. : 
S5Pi EEG 1sE)S; 
including the forrels, which ate diftinguifhed by 
their peculiar manner of growing. 
_ In all thefe kinds the flowers, feeds, and man- 
ner of growth, ate the fame; their principal dif- 
ference confifting in the form of their leaves: 
We fhall therefore lay them before the reader in 
One view, without the interruption of divifions, 
into feparate articles, They are, 
1. The common Dock, Lapavhum ouleare obiu- 
Jum, Diftinguithed by the bluntnefs of its 
leaves, 
+ The curled-leaved, fharp pointed Dock, La- 
pathum acutum crifpum. Common by waters. 
» The fmooth, narrow-leaved, fharp-pointed 
Dock, Lapatkum acutum anguftifolium non 
crifpum. . 
Dwarf, fharp-pointed Dock, Lapathum acus 
tum minimum. Whofe flowers ftand in thick 
tufts. 
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» Green Dock, Lapathum acutum viride. In 
this there are no leaves among the clufters 
of flowers. 
Fiddle-Dock, Lapathum pulchrum Bouonienfe 
Sinuatum, Whofe leaves are hollowed out on 
each fide. : 
+ Golden Dock, Lapathum anguftifolium floré 
aureo. Whofe leaves are whitifh, and the feed 
{mall. . 
: Taller golden Dock, Lapathum aureum an- 
gufto folio. Whofe leaves are very narrow; 
and feeds large. 
9. Bloody Dock, Lapathum fanguineum. Dittin- 
guifhed by red veins in the leaves. 
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REIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers ate very numerous, thready, and 
whitifh. 
It isa native of Germany and Italy, and flowers 
in May. 
€. Bauhine calls it Hippolapathum latifaium. 
The frefh root is a purge; and fome have ufed 
it in the place of rhubarb: but -it is vaftly in- 
ferior: 
DOCKS, called SORREL 
"THE: flowers and feeds in’ the feveral kinds of /orrel are of the fame form with thofe of the common 
docks ; but their different manner of growth, 
mands alfo a peculiar defeription. 
1. Common Sorrel: 
Lapathum acetofum oulgare. 
The toot.is long, flender,. and hung with forme 
fibres. 
* The ftalk is a foot and half high, redith at the 
bottom, and not branched. 
The leaves have fedith footftalks ; and they are 
of a fine frefh green, of an agreeable acid tafte; 
and of an.arrow-headed fhape. 
The flowers are {mall and redifh: 
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which has obtained them a feparate name, de- 
Tt is common in paftures, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Acetofa pratenfis: . 
It is cooling and deobftruent. 
2. Sheeps Sorrel. 
Lapathum acetofum foliis lanceolatts: 
The root is fibrous and creeping. 
The ftalk is flender, of a pale green; and eight 
| inches high, 
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