RUMEX ACETOSA. 



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COMMON "SORREL. 



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STNO NTMJ. Acetofa/ Pharm. Land. 



Ed'mb, Acetofa 



pratenfis. Baub. Pin. p. 



1 14. 



Oxalis crifpa. y» Bauh. u. p. 



990 



Oxalis feu Acetofa. Gerard. Emac. p. 396. Acetofa vul 



aris 



rk. p, 742 

 R aii 



Lapathum acetofum vuls'are. 



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Synop, 

 p, 148. Rail Hiji. p, 178. Lapathum fexubus d*ftirid;is/foIiis 



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fagittatis, hamis retrorfum porredis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 1597. 

 R. Acetofa. Witberifig. Bot. Arrang. p. 376. Relhan Flor, Cant* 



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Hudfons Ang. 156. 



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6"/^//} Hexandria.*, Ord. Trigynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 451. 



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EJf.Gen. Ch. Cal. 3-p!iyIlus. Petala 3, conniventia. Sem. i , triquetrum 



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' Sp, Ch. R. Flor. dioicis, fol. obloiigis fagittatis 



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THE root is perennial, flender, long, "and fibrous: the flail 



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ered, channelled, branched at the top,' partially of a purplifh red 

 colour, and ufually rifes from one to two feet in height : the radical 

 leaves are narrow, oblong, arrow-fhaped, of a bright green colour, 

 and (land upon long footftalks, but thofe on the Hem are without 

 footftalks, and placed alternately : the flowers are produced in ter- 

 minal branched fpikes, partly tinged of a reddilh colour, and ftand 



upon fliort flender peduncles : the calyx is compofed of three 

 oval 



ments : the corolla confifts of three petals, fliaped like the 

 divifions of the calyx : the fix filaments are fhort, flender, and fur- 

 niflied with ere£t double anthers : the germen is triangular, and 

 fupports three fimple refleded ftyles, with bearded ftigmata : the 

 feeds are naked, fmgle, and of a triangular fliape. It is common in 

 meadows and paftures, and flowers in June. 



Some writers have referred this plant to the Lapathum quartum'of 



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This, plant., accordins: to the flri6i:nefs of 



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fio;ure reprefents the former 



diftni£tly male and female in different 



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