840 ^ oulfepkb'b completb herbal. 



The root in decoction or powder, is effectual for all the said 

 purposes. The decoction of the roots helps the jaundice, 

 and expels the gravel and stone from the rems and kidneys. 

 The decoction of the flowers made with wine, and drunk, 

 helps the black jaundice, and inward ulcerp of the body or 

 bowels. A syrup made from the juice an J fumitory, is a 

 help to kill those sharp humours that cause the itch. The 



1'uice with a little vinegar, serves well to be used outward- 

 7 for the same cause, and for tetters, ringworms, &c. 



SORREL (MOUNTAIN.)--^(?xyria lUniformisJ (Ru- 

 mex Digynu$.) 



Descrip, — The leaves are of a glaucous or blueish green 

 colour, broader, shorter, and rounder than the common, 

 and the ears that stand on each side, at their joining to 

 the footstalks, are very large. The stalks are smaller, weak- 

 er, and not so erect They flower and seed much alike. 



Place. — It is sown in gardens. 



Time^ — It flowers in June : the leaves are as sour as the 

 common, and may be used indifferently with it, both in 

 medicines and salads. 



SORREL (SHEEFa)— C/2wm&p Acetosdla,) 



Deicrip. — This is lower and smaller thao the common, 

 with narrow sharp-poioted leaves, each has two large ears 

 growing next the end of the stalk, which makes the leaf 

 appear Tike a bearded spear; they are sour like the common. 

 The flowers grow in spikes as the former, are small and 

 staminous, and the seed triangular, and less than the seed 

 of that The root is small and creeping in the ground. 



Place, — It grows in dry barren soil 



Time,— It flowers in May. 



Virtuea. — The leaves of all the Sorrels are very cooling, 

 allaying thirst, and repressing the bile; good in fevers, be- 

 ing cordial, and resisting putrefaction. They are of great 

 nse agaiDst scurvy if eaten in spring as salad; and the juice 

 is frequently taken among other antiscorbutic juices. 



SORREL (y<fOOJy,)^(Aceto8ella OxalU,) 



Descrip. — This grows upon the ground, with a number 

 of leaves coming from the root made of three leaves, like a 

 trefoil, but broad at the ends, aud cut in the middle, of a 

 yellowish green colour, every one standing on a long foot- 

 stalk, which, at their first coming up, are closely folded to- 

 gether to the stalk, but opening themselves afterwards. 



