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and rather long petiole. The flowers have a 6-parted, dark green 

 perianth, are perfect or polygamo-dioecious and arranged in a 



Fig. 138. Curled dock (Rumex crispus) showing two lower, long-petioled, oblong- 

 lanceolate and wavy-margined leaves, and a flowering branch, the upper leaves of which 

 are narrowly-oblong and short-petioled. 



compound panicle. The fruit is a dark brown, cordate-winged, 

 3-angled akene. The root was formerly official. The dried root 



