442 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
SORREL. 
ACETOSA. 
A Common Plant in our Meadows, with broad 
and oblong Leaves, ftriated Stalks, and red- 
ith Tufts of Flowers. It is a Foot and half high. 
The Stalk is round, not very firm, upright, and 
little branched. The Leaves are of a deep Green, 
angulated at the Bafe, blunt at the Point, and not 
at all indented about the’Edges. The Flowers 
ftand on the Tops of the Stalks, in the Manner 
of thofe of Docks, of which Sorrel is indeed a fmall 
Kind. They are redifh and hufky, the Root is 
fmall and fibrous, the whole Plant has a four 
hatte: 
The Leaves eaten as a Sallet, or the Juice taken, 
are excellent agai ayes The Seeds are 
aftringent, and may be given in Powder for Fluxes. 
The Roor-dried and powdered, is alfo good againft 
Purgings, the Overflowings of the Menfes, and 
_ Bleedings. 
___ “There are two other Kinds of Sorrel, nearly of 
y this, and of the fame Virtue : One fmall, 
called SheepsSorrel, common on dry Banks; the 
other large, with broad Leaves, called Garden 
Sorrel, or round leaved Sorrel: This is rather _ 
preferable to the commen Kind. Befides thefe, there 
is a Plant called in Engle a Sorrel, fo. different 
from them all, that it muft be deferibed fepa- 
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rately. 
