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with dull red. Whorls near together but not crowded, mostly 
leafless. Unopened anth. white. Nuts elliptic, abundant. 
One enlarged pet. larger than the others, sometimes aU 3 equally 
tubercled. — Marshy places, rare. P. VI. — IX. E. S. 
8. a. cris'ims (L.) ; enlarged jiet. cordate entire or crenulate 
one principally tubercled, 1. lanceolate acute wavy crisped. — E. B. 
' 1998. — Height 2 — 3 feet. St. and whorls sometmies tinged with 
bright red. L. narrowed or truncate below. Nut elliptic. En- 
larged pet. equal, sometimes all equally tubercled. — Road-sides, 
fields, &c. P. VI.— Vm. Curled Dock. E. S. I. 
9. It. aquat'icus (L.) ; enlarged pet. hroadh/ cordate membra- 
nous entire or wavy loithout tubercles, 1. lanceolate, lower 1. some- 
what cordate, petioles flat and finely margined above. — E. B. S. 
2G98. It. domesticus Hartm. (not Meisn.). R. longifolim Meisn. 
— Height 3 — 4 feet. L. very large. Whorls crowded, mostly 
leafless, forming a large dense lobed panicle. Nut elliptic.— In 
the North of E. and m S., prefemng spots liable to be flooded. 
P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
10. B. Hydrolap 'athum (Huds.) ; enlarged pet. ovate-triangular 
nearly entire all tubei'cled, I. lanceolate acute tapering below, pe- 
tioles flat but not margined above.— ^. B. 2104.— St. 3—5 feet 
high. L. often more than a foot long. ^Tiorls crowded, mostly 
leafless. Nut elliptic. — Ditches and river-sides. P. VH. VIII. 
Great Water-Dock. E. S. I. 
*II. B. alpimis (L.) ; enlarged pet. cordate-ovate membranous 
entire or denticulate without tubercles, I. roundish-cordate blunt 
icith channeled petioles, upper I. ovate. — E. B. S. 2694. — ^\Tiorls 
crowded, mostly leafless. Nut elliptic. — Formerly cultivated. 
P.Vn. Monkh Rhubarb. E. S. 
** Fl. dioecious. Herbage acid. Acetosella Tourn. SoiTsl. 
12. R. acetSsa (L.); enlarged pet. roundish-cordate entire 
membranotts with a very minttte tubercle at the base, sep. refiexed, 
1. oblong sagittate, stipules laciniate-dentate. — R. pseudo-acetosa 
Bert.—<S<. 74. 7.— Height 1—2 feet, morls leafless. Nut el- 
liptic with acute ano-les. — Smith describes under this name the 
R. hispanicus (Koch) which is occasionally cultivated. — Woods. 
P. V. VI. E. S. I. 
[iZ. seutdtus (L.) ; 1. hastate-ovate slightly fiddleshaped ; has 
been found " naturalized " near Edinburgh and elsewhere.] 
13. R. Acetosel'la (L.) ; petah scarcely enlarged ovate not 
tubercled, sep. ascending, 1. lanceolate-hastate or linear with en- 
tire lobes, stipides torn. — E. B. 1674. — Height 6 — 10 in. "WTiorls 
leafless. L. very variable in breadth. — Dry gravelly places. P. 
v.— VII. Sheep's Sorrel. E. S. I. 
