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Fig. 290. I'ield or sheep sorrel (Rumcx AcetoscUa), a common weed containing- a 

 sour juice and growing in open fields; i to 3 dm. high, having narrow-lanceolate or halberd- 

 shaped leaves, and somewhat reddish flowers in a panicled raceme. — After Brown. 



The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, with an undulate margin and 

 rather long petiole. The flowers have a 6-parted, dark green 

 perianth, and are perfect or polygamo-dioecious. The fruit is a 



