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PEACH-LEAVED DOCK OR PALE DOCK (RumCX dltissimUS Wood). 



A tall perennial with multiple roots; leaves oval, oblong, lan- 

 ceolate extending into a point, pale and thickish; the 'flowers in 

 spike-like racemes or panicles, flowers with nodding pedicels, the 

 valves of the flower are obscurely heart-shaped; commonly with 

 a conspicuous inflated grain. Common in alluvial soil every- 

 where in the state. 



SHEEP SORREL (Rumex dcetoselld L.) 



A low smooth annual or perennial, usually the latter, growing 

 from six to twelve inches high ; producing an erect stem ,with 

 horizontal, creeping, woody rootstock or rhizome ; petioled, nar- 



Sheep sorrel (RCMEX ACETOSELLA) . 

 Dept. Agr.) 



1 staminate flower; b. pistillate flower. (U. S. 



rowly hastate, narrow, lanceolate leaves, the upper linear ; flow- 

 ers on jointed pedicels ; dioecious small in a terminal naked pan- 

 icle ; small green calyx; exserted stamens; the valves (inner calyx 



