Rumex.] polygonace^. 439 



2. R. conglomeratus, Murr. Sharp Dock. " Enlarged sepals 

 linear-oblong obtuse entire or obscurely toothed all bearing a 

 tubercle, leaves oblong pointed, lower ones cordate or rounded at 

 the base, whorls distant leafy." — Br. Fl. p. 359. R. acutus, Sm. : 

 E. B. t. 724. 



In moist meadows and pastures ; frequent. Fl. June — August. If. 



3. R. sanguineus, L. Bloody-veined Dock. "Enlarged sepals 

 narrow oblong obtuse entire one at least bearing a tubercle, leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate, lower ones somewhat cordate, whorls distant on 

 long generally leafless branches." — Br. Fl. p. 358. E. B. t. 1533. 



/3. Nemolapathum, Ehrh. R. Nemolap., Wahl. Fl. Suec. i. p. 222. 



In moist shady places, woods, hedges and pastures ; abundant. Fl. July. !(.. 



The leaves of the present species are equal or subcordale at the base, broader 

 and less waved than those of R. crispus, whose very narrow leaves are oblique on 

 one side of the footstalk, and much more waved or crisped along the margin. 



/3. This, which, if only a variety of It. sanguineus, seems ihe only Swedish form 

 of it, has the uppermost enlarged petal hearing a grain nearly of its own diame- 

 ter, and of a bright crimson-colour ; the two other petals usually carry each a 

 smaller and paler grain ; at other times all or only two of the petals bear fully 

 formed tubercles. Readily distinguished from M. crispus by its more slender 

 habit, and more distant whorls of smaller flowers. 



4. R. pulcher, L. Fiddle Dock. " Enlarged sepals triangular 

 ovate reticulated with prominent veins deeply toothed one of 

 them principally bearing a tubercle, lower leaves panduriform or 

 cordate oblong obtuse, upper ones lanceolate acute, stem spread- 

 ing."— 5r. Fl. p. 359. E. B. t. 1576. 



In pastures, waste places, churchyards, and by waysides ; not unfrequent. FL 

 June — September. Fr. July. !(.. 



E. Med. — By Quarr abbey, 1849. Border of a cornfield above Sandown bay, 

 but sparingly, 1848. On the virgin turf of Brading down, near its summit; and 

 on the souihern slope of the down, near its base, a little beyond the second chalk- 

 pit from Morton, in considerable plenty, 1849. Abundant in Newchurch^hurch- 

 yard, 1841. Bonchurch, just at the entrance on the new building-ground below 

 the cliff, in plenty. On the shore at Bembridge. In Binstead churchyard, W. 

 Wilson Saunders, Esq. (where it grows plentifully) !!! 



W.Med. — Abundant between Yarmouth mill and the town, 1846. Remark- 

 ably luxuriant and with very large radical leaves in Brixton churchyard. In 

 Calbourne churchyard and at Freshwater Gate. In Tborley and Freshwater 

 churchyards. About Freshwater, Yarmouth and Alton, B. T. W. 



Root long, cylindrical, not much branched, covered wiih a smooth brown bark, 

 bright yellow or orange-coloured within, fleshy and somewhat brittle. Stem 1 or 

 several, from a foot or less to 18 inches high, pale green, erect or partly procum- 

 bent, wavy, deeply angulato-sulcate, roughish with minute cartilaginous asperities 

 or glabrous, much and irregularly branched, often from the base; the branches 

 variously spreading and divaricate, simple or compound, slender, flexuose and 

 angular. Leaves dull green, flaccid and glabrous, much waved, crisped and sinu- 

 ately crenulate along the margins, the lower and radical ones on long footstalks, 

 oblong, elongato- oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse, pointed or even acute, retuse 

 or sometimes abruptly acuminate, cordate at base, with overlapping crisped lobes, 

 commonly with a deep and obtuse sinus a little below the middle, like the con- 

 tracted sides of a violin, — hence the name, — and which is found in those higher 

 on the stem, though occasionally either wholly or partially wanting to all the 

 leaves or very indistinct ; upper stem-leaves gradually becoming narrower and 

 more acute, very shortly stalked, reduced below the whorls to linear bracts, which 



