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This is a Dock, bearing the name of Rubarb, for some purging quality therein, and groweth up with large tall Stalks, set with somwhat broad and long fair green Leavs, not dented at all; The tops of the Stalks being devided into many smal Branches, bear reddish or purplish Flowers, and three square Seed like unto other Docks. The Root is long, great and yellow like unto the wild Docks, but a little redder, and if it be a little dried sheweth less store of discoloured veins, than the next doth when it is dry. |