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Monks' Rhubarb

Name. Called also common garden patience.

Description. This is a dock bearing the name of rhubarb for some purging quality therein, and grows up with large tall stalks, set with somewhat broad and long fair green leaves, not dented at all. The tops of the stalks being divided into many small branches, bear reddish or purple 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, shews less store of discoloured veins than the next does when it is dry.