Rumex obtusifolius. Broad leaved Dock. 
RUMEX Lififja-i Gen. PL Hexandria Trigynia. 
Cal. 3 phyllus. Peiala 3 conniveatla. Sem. i triquetrum. 
Rail S}'n. Gen. 5. Herra: flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apetalo potius. 
RUMEX obtufifolm floribus hermaphroditis, valvulis dentatis graniferis, foliis cordato-oblongis obtufis 
pubefcentibus, Lin. Syjl. Vegetab. p. 285. Pl. 478. F/. Suecic. n. 315. 
LAPATHUM foliis ovatis, circa petiolum emarginatis, floribus denfe paniculatis, dentatis, verrucofls. 
Haller, hift. Heh. n. 1592. 
LAPATHUM vulgare folio obtufo. J. B. ii. 984. 
LAPATHUM fylveftre, folio fubrotundo. Baub. p. 115. 
LAPATHUM fylveftre, folio minus acuto. Ger. emac. 388. 
LAPATHUM fylveftre vulgatius. Parh 1225. 
Rail p. 141. The moft common broad leaved wild Dock. 
Hudjon. Pl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 155. Ligbtfoot FI. Scoi. p. 189. 
RADIX 
perennis, in terram alte et re£te deftendens, 
fufiformis, craflitie digiti intermedii, fons lor- 
dide fufca, intus flavefcens, in junioribus fim- 
plex, in annofis multiplex, ramofus. 
CAULIS tripedalis, ereaus. ad bafin ufque ramofus, 
tercl iKvis, fuperne fcabnusculus, 
folidus, geniculatus, geniculis ftipulis oblo 
letis, marcescentibus vertitis. r r . 
FOT lA radicalia, cordato ovata, petiolata, obtufiuicula, 
folia Jdio fepius tubemmo, 
caulina acuta, fubuiidulata. 
PETIOLI fubtus rotundati, fuperne plano-concavi. 
racemi florum axillares, fubereai, nudiusculi. 
CALYX: Pekianthium triphyllum, fouobs lanceo- 
lato-linearibus, concavis, margme membra- 
naceis, corolla brevioribus. 
COROLLA: Petala tria, ovata, obtufiuscula, pa- 
tentia, margine membranacea. 
STAMINA; Filamenta fex, breviffima, alba . An- 
thers fublineares, flav^, apice bifida:. 
PISTILLUM; Germen trigonum; Styli tres, ca- 
pillares, reflexi, inter rimas petabrum con- 
niventium exferti; Stigmata lacimata. 
PFRTCARPIUM nullum; Corolla trivalvis, conniveiis, 
includens femen; valvulis ovato-acutis, ve- 
nolis, margine denticulatis, unica gramrera. 
fg. 1. 2. 3. 
SEMEN unicum, triquetrum, fufeum. 
ROOT perennial, running deeply and ftralghtly into 
; the earth, tapering, the thicknefs of the 
: middle finger, on the outfide of a dirty 
; brown colour, internally yellowifti, in the 
young ones fimple, in the old ones divided 
into many branches. 
i STALK three feet high, upright, branched down to 
: the bottom, round, fmooth, upwards flightly 
; rough, grooved, folid and jointed, joints co- 
vered with obfolete, withered ftipul*. 
' LEAVES next the root of an heart ftiaped oval form, 
: ftanding on footftalks, bluntifh, veiny under- 
neath, the middle generally very red, thofe 
on the ftalk pointed and fomewhat waved. 
: LEAF-STALKS round underneath, above plano-con- 
cave. 
: FLOWER-BRANCHES, proceeding from the ala: of 
the leaves, nearly upright, and furnilhed 
with but few leaves. 
■ CALYX: a Perianthium of three leaves, which are 
of a ftiape betwixt lanceolate and linear, hol- 
low, membranous at the edges, and fliorter 
than the corolla. 
;; COROLLA: three oval Petals, bluntifh, fpreading, 
membranous at the edges. 
■ STAMINA : fix Filaments, very fhort and white ; 
Antherje fomewhat linear, yellow and 
forked at top. 
PISTILLUM: Germen three cornered, Styles 
; three, very fine, turning back, and projeft- 
' : ing from betwixt the clofed petals. 
I SEED-VESSEL none: the Corolla, which is com- 
f pofed of three valves, clofes and contains 
? the feed; the valves are oval, pointed, 
I and veiny, toothed on the edge, one of them 
t bearing a granule, fig. 1 . 2. 3- 
I SEED fingle, three cornered and brown, fig. 4. 
T- i-ru r. r-l-c nerhans mav be faid to be the moft common, and confidered as a weed the 
OF all our Enghfh Docks, this pe p - ^ -^ock, and refufed by cattle in general ; 
mod pernicious, being the Id clean has a rooted enmity to it, and for ns def- 
hence the Hulbaiidman who wirties to fee g invented by fome one more ingenious than the reft, 
ttuaion ail iufttument^ called ^ infttument is to draw the plant up by the toot, from an 
which is frequently ™ , ,£f/^hile any part of the root remained, it would grow again ; ^ but this 
idea, that if it w^as „t mils ”>»/ ««'»''■?>' ‘¥"1" '>• frient fpudding it ,s pre- 
ited ISd feme eifea. but 'Jd it be done carefully, and at ftated periods, little good is to be ex- 
pefted. . , . .p Vurdc; Courts bv the fides of Ditches, and elfewhere, we find this 
In all forts of cultivated ground n f Hpens its feed in July and Auguft. 
fpecies moft abundantly, It flower ^ j a„v of Ae Docks, Its broad bottom leaves readily difti i- 
Our prefent plant fom^hat in fixe according as the foil is more or lefs luxuriant, vary 
buUhdek general ihe younger the plant the mote obtufe are its radical leaves. 
