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HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Rum ex. 
E. Bot. 1533— Munt. Brit. 113; and Phyt. 196— Pet. 2. 5— J. B. ii. 989. 1 
— Blackw. 492— Dod. 650. 2— Lob. Obs. 154, and Ic. 1. 290. 1— Ger. Em. 
390—Park. 1226. 10— H. Ox. v. 27. 6. 
Bloody-veined Dock. Welsh: Tafolen goch . R. sanguineus of authors, 
but which, on continued observation during the last season, we cannot 
perceive to be specifically distinct from R. acutus. Woods near Hamp¬ 
stead, but not frequent. Merret. Near Maidstone. Hudson. At Lea¬ 
mington, near Warwick. Perry. Wood above Baron-hill, Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. On Headington hill, near Oxford. Sibthorp. In Kingston 
wood, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. At Lowestoft, Suffolk. Smith. King's 
Park; Mr. Neill: Abercorn woods; Mr. Maughan: Lochend; Mr. J. 
Stewart. Grev. Edin. Pointed out to the Editor by Mr. Frederick Rus¬ 
sell on the side of a foot path by the high-wall of the church-yard, and 
adjacents, at Brislington, near Bristol. By the side of the road a few 
hundred yards before entering Mary-church from Shaldon, Devon. 
Var. 2. Herbage bright pale green. This we apprehend to be scarcely a 
permanent variety, as in the course of a few months we have remarked 
the one to assume the appearance of the other. 
Green-veined Dock. Bloodless Dock. Pet. Welsh: Amrywiaeth , werdd. 
(3 viridis. Sibth. R. acutus (3. Huds. Lapathum viride. Dill, in R. Syn. 
In woods and shady places, more frequent than the former. 
Sharp Dock. Gaelic : Copagach. R. acutus. Linn. In moist situations, 
under hedges, and in meadows. P. July. E.)* 
R. cris'pus. Valves strongly veined: leaves spear-shaped, acute, 
waved and curled at the edge. 
Curt. 104—( E. Bot. 1998. E.)— Munt. Brit. 104; and Phyt. 190— Ger. 312. 
4 —Pet. 2. 2. 
( Stems two to three feet high, somewhat flexuose. Whorls of numerous, 
pale green, drooping flowers, rather crowded. E.) Grains on the 
valves very large, nearly round. Woodw. Root yellow. Curt. Beads 
one or three, rarely two. St. Leaves strap-spear-shaped. Valves large, 
brown red when ripe; beads pale when young, changing to blood red 
and then to brown red. 
Curled Dock. (Welsh: Tafolen grych. E.) Meadows, pastures, road 
sides, and cultivated ground. In aimost all soils. P. June—July.f 
(R. alpi'nus. Petals one or two, graniferous: leaves ovato-cordate, 
obtuse, wrinkled. 
* Cows and horses refuse it. It is infested by Aphis Rumicis. Linn, (also, both this 
and other species, with AEcidium Rumicis , with “ capsules pearly white, imbedded in spots 
of a bright red colour, chiefly on the under side of the leaves.” Purt. Tab. 26. E.)— 
The root is used by the dyers. It gives a great variety of shades, from straw colour to a 
good olive, and a fine deep green to cloths which have been previously blued. Stokes. 
(The root has long been used in medicine, and considered useful in obstructions of the 
viscera, and in scorbutic and cutaneous maladies, in which case both internal and external 
applications of it have been made. Lewis’s Mat. Med. This is the Oxylapathum of the 
shops ; though the roots of other species are too often indifferently substituted. E.) 
+ In Norfolk it is the pest of clover fields, Mr. Woodward ; (but wherever it appears it 
should be drawn or spudded before the clover becomes too high to walk in. E.)—The fresh 
roots bruised and made into an ointment or decoction cure the itch. The seeds have been 
given with advantage in the dysentery.—Cows, goats, and horses refuse it. 
