Rumex. 
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PROPR. Jicc. Odor fere ut corium perfe- 
<ftjm, fimui in Pvheum incidens. Sapor lenirer 
amaricans, fubrhabarbarinus. Maflicata radix in 
ore facile emollitur, laliva crocea. • 
VIRTUS: leniter laxans, fubadftringens, to- 
nica. 
USUS. 
OBS. Infufum aquofum luteorubicundum, odo¬ 
re radicis , fapore eonfiimli, leniter amaricante. Ex 
vitriolo martis fufcefeir. 
184. RUMEX aquaticus. Linn. Sp.pl. Mat. 
m. /77. 
Britannica antiquorum vera. Munt. Aardge- 
jpajf, t. ^7. 
Lapathum paluftre. Tabernam. Icon . ^57. 
Hydrolapathum. Dalech.. Hift . 604 . 
P/jarm. HERE/E BR IT AN NIC TE Radix, 
Herba. 
Locus. Europa, ad ripas fluviorum & folia¬ 
rum. Perennis. 
FORMA, rec. Radix majufcula, fuperne di- 
vifa in ramos plures, pollice grandiores, fuflfor- 
mes, glabres, fufeos, apice fubramofos, ferie tri¬ 
plici vel quadruplici longitudinaliter fibrillofos, 
pedales vei longe ultra; parencymate carnofo, 
croceo; poft fedionem transveifalem difeo un¬ 
dique obfolete ftriato, centro medullari amplo, 
initruclo ftella ftriata, cincfto annulo tenuiore, 
per ambitum minutim undique ftriato; corticali 
parte tenuiore, coriacea, facile fecedente* Cau¬ 
lis tripedalis, ereftus, teretiufculus, geniculatus, 
fubangulatus, undique fulcatus: fulcis atomis 
parvis elevatis fcabriufculis notatis; fuperne ra- 
molus. Rami alterni, axillares e foliis, eretfti, 
