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Eipe fruits, preserves, jam, jelly or sjrup grateful and 

 beneficial in diarhea, gravel, hemoptysis, phthisis, sore- 

 throat, putrid and malignant fevers, scurvy. Black- 

 berries dye purple, are more astringent and acid. 

 Raspberries afford delicious distilled water, beer, mead 

 and wine. Said to dissolve tartar of teeth. Twigs dye 

 silk and wool. 



RUMEX, L. Dock, 25 sp, mostly eq. R. briianica, 

 sanguineus and aquaticus^ chiefly used. Roots astrin- 

 gent, deobstruent, tonic, diaphoretic: useful in scurvy, 

 cutaneous eruptions, syphilis, ulcers of the mouth, foul 

 ulcers, itch, cancerous tumours, &c. in decoction, wine, 

 lotion. They dye yellow. Contain sulphur, starch, 

 oxalate of lime, &c. Syrup with Prunus or Diospyros 

 used for dysentery. Leaves edible equal to splnage. 

 B. patientia^ ohtusus^ .aciitiis and crispusj similar, but 

 root less astringent, laxative or purgative, diuretic, seeds 

 used in dysentery. J?- acetosa or sorrel is cult, fine 



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acid vegetable, laxative, refrigerant and antiscorbutic. 

 7?. acetosella or sheep sorrel, similar bat subastrinnent. 



SABAL, Ad. Su.ulpalm, Latanier, 7 sp. eq.of o/^a- 

 merops for mats, hats, baskets, thatch, fans. Fruits 

 bad. in S. adansoni black and sweet. 



SAC CH ARUM, L. Sugar Cane. Sugar is made - 

 \vith S. qfficinarum, the taller and hardier Tahiti cane 

 ives most, S. sinensis Chinese sugar, S. violaceum 

 ava sugar, the worst kind, but gives most rum. Su^ar 

 is edulcorant, relaxant, pectoral, vulnerary. Affording 

 molasses, rum, cand^, syrups, cordials, &c. Used as 

 food, condiment, and preservative. 



SAGITTARIA, L. Arrowleaf, Katnip of Lenaps^ 

 TJapahi of Oregon tribes, 12 sp. eq. valuable esculent 

 "roots of Indicus, (cult, in Ciiina and Japan) trade with 

 it, make bread, soups, dishes, &c. Refrigerant, sub- 

 astrih«^ent; useful applied to feet for yaws and drupaf- 

 cal lejs; leaves applied to breast dispel milk of nurses 



like mcinus. ^ 



SALICORNIA, L. Kelpwort, Samphire. All sp. 



furnish Kelp by burninz. Edible, fine pickle, liked by 



•heep: med. eq. of Fucii^- Antiscorbutic, give appe^- 



tite, used as deobstruent in abscesses, seel otyrbe, hyper- 



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