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It U M E X crispus*
Curled Dock.
HEX AND RIA Trigynia.
Gen. Char. Cql. 3-leaved. Petals 3, closed. Seed ffjj
superior, naked, triangular. Stigmas many-cleft.
S pec. Char. Valves ovate, entire, all grained. Leaves
lanceolate, undulated, acute.
Syn. Rumex crispus. L inn. Sp. P L 476. Sm. F I.
B rit. 391. Huds. 153. With. 353. H ull. 77.
Relh. 142. Siblh. 117. Abbot. 81. Curt. Land,
fa s c . 2. t. 20.
Lapathum folio acuto crispo. R a ti Syn. 141»
VERY common in waste ground, by road sides, and in
meadows and fields, flowering in June or July, and accidentally
throughout the summer.
The root is perennial, tap-shaped, yellowish. Stem 2 or 3
feet high, angular, furrowed, nearly smooth to the touch,
leafy, branched. Leaves stalked, lanceolate, acute, strongly
waved, crisped and somew.hat crenate, of a lightish green;
the upper ones narrower and nearly sessile. The little bundles
offlowersarenot far distant from each other, but form longish,
nearly upright clusters, leafy in their lower part. Valves of
the fruit large, ovate inclining to heartsh^ped, reticulated
with veins, undivided, waved not toothed, each bearing a
conspicuous, ovate, prominent, reddish, central grain. Seed
larger than in R. sanguineus, t. 1533.
The Curled leaves, and large entire calyx-valves, readily
distinguish this species, which is a very troublesome and unprofitable
weed.