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Round-leaved Dock | | Name : | Round-leaved Dock | | Botanical : | Rumex obtusifolius | | Synonyms : | Common Wayside Dock. Butter Dock. | | Description : | It is a large and spreading plant, its stout stems 2 to 3 feet high, the leaves 6 to 12 inches long, with rather slender foot-stalks, the margins waved and the end or apex of the leaf rounded. The flowers are small, green and numerous, arranged in whorled spikes at the ends of the stem. In this, as in all the Docks, the flowers contain both stamens and pistils - the nearly-related Sorrels, on the contrary, having their stamens and pistils on different plants. This Dock is so coarse that cattle refuse to touch it. It is a troublesome weed, all the more because it prefers growing on good land, not thriving in poor soil. Its broad foliage serves also to lodge the destructive turnip fly. The leaves are often applied as a rustic remedy to burns and scalds and used for dressing blisters, serving also as a popular cure for Nettle stings. The cure was accompanied by the words: 'Nettle in, Dock;Dock in, Nettle outDock rub Nettle out,'and is the origin of the saying: 'In Dock, out Nettle', to suggest inconstancy. A tea made from the root was formerly given for the cure of boils. The plant is frequently called Butter Dock, because its cool leaves have often been used in the country for wrapping up butter for the market. |
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