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Sorrel. 

 ACETOSA. 



Common Plant in our Meadows, with broad 

 and oblong Leaves, fVriated Stalks, and red- 



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ifh 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 

 rtand 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 PUnt has a four 

 Talle. 



The Leaves eaten as a Sallet, or the Juice taken, 

 are excellent againft the Scurvy. The Seeds are 

 ailringent, and may be given in Powder for Fluxes. 

 The Root dried and powdered, is alfo good againft 

 Purgings, the Overflowings , of the Menfes, and 



Bleedings. 



There are two other Kinds of Sorrel, nearly of 

 Kin to this, and of the fame Virtue : One fmall, 

 called Sheeps Sorrel, common on dry Banks ; the 

 ether large, wnth broad Leaves, called Garden 

 Sprrel, or round leaved Sorrel : This is rather 

 preferable to the common Kind. Befides thefe, there 

 is a Plant called in ^nglijh a Sorrel, fo different 

 from them all, that it mufl: be defcribed fepa- 

 rately. 



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