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S O R 



*owers. /rivolucrumj of from five to feven narrow-lanceolate 

 bearded leaves. Corolla equal, deeply divided. Style ilraight, 

 with a thick equilateral_/?/jma Nul finely downy, with a 

 thin, brown, (lightly rugged, (hell ; its Italk very (hort. 

 The leaves are occafionally roughilh or fmooth, their keel 

 rounded or acute. 



7. S. imbricattis. Imbricated Sorocephalus. Br. n. 7. 

 Ait. n. t.. (Protea imbricata ; Thunb. DifT. n. 45. t. 5. 

 Linn. Suppl. 116. Willd. Sp. PI. v. I. 527. Andr. 

 Repof. t. 517. — Leaves lanceolate; rough Bnderneath. 

 Bale of the corolla clothed with glandular hairs. Stigma 

 club-fhaped. — Found on hills at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Sent to Kew, by Mr. Maflon, in 1794. Mr. Hibbert alfo 

 obtained it from his colleftor there, Mr. Niven. This has 

 the habit of the foregoing, but the leaves are lanceolate, 

 near an inch long ; hairy beneath, and at the edges ; fmooth 

 above. Head felTile, ovate or oblong, either folitary, or 

 compofed ol two or three crowded together ; with a com- 

 mon iiAolucrum, of many lanceolate coloured leaves. Each 

 partial involucrum, of four lanceolate hairy leaves, ufually 

 contaipis four flowers. Corolla (lender, purplifh ; its feg- 

 nients bearded, with a long denfe tuft of white hairs, as 

 is likewife the gerjneti. Style ftraight. Stigma a little gib- 

 bons. Nut oblong, brown, very fmooth and (hining. 



8. S. diverjif alius . Various-leaved Sorocephalus. Br. 

 n. 8. — " Leaves fpatulato-lanceolate ; fmooth underneath : 

 the lowermofl doubly pinnatifid. Corolla bearded through- 

 out. Stigma cylindrical." — Gathered by Mr. Niven, on 

 (lony hills near Goud Rivier, at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 A. (vnooth /hrub, v/hote Jlem is from two to fix feet high, 

 either fimple or divided, ilraight, ereft, as thick as a fwan's 

 quill; downy in the upper part. Leiver leaves two inches 

 long, twice three-cleft, channelled ; the reft imbricated, 

 bluntifh, fcarcely concave, hardly half an inch in length. 

 Head feffile, folitary, ovate, obtufe, the fizc of a fmall 

 plum. 



SOROCHTNSKAIA, in Geography, a fortrefs of Ruf- 

 fia, in the government of Upha, on the Samara ; 80 miles 

 N.W. of Orenburg. 



SOROE, a town of Denmark, in the idand of Zealand, 

 furrounded by three frefh-water lakes. In this place is a 

 royal academy, endowed with the revenues of a ricii con- 

 vent, which was didolved at the revolution ; 35 miles 

 S.W. of Copenhagen. N. lat. 55° 27'. E. long. 1 1° 30'. 

 — Alfo, a fmall ifland in the North fea, near the coalt of 

 Norway. N. lat. 70'' 30'. 



SO ROOM AN, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Oman ; i lo miles S.W. of Julfa. 



SOROTO, a town of Thibet ; 70 miles W.N.W. 

 of Cha-tciieou. 



SORRANCES, among Farriers, fignify two things; 

 OTz. either an ill Hate, or habit, of a horfe's body, arifing 

 from fome part difeafed ; or a lonfening and foiution or 

 the continuity of the parts ; which, according to the va- 

 rious circun-iftarces of it, acquire new names, as frac- 

 ture, wound, ukcr, rupture, convulfion, cramp, excori- 

 ation, &c. 



SoniiA}^CE-lVtiler, a name given by our farriers to a 

 foiution of vitriol, and fome other ingredients, in vinegar ; 

 a medicine much eitecmed in many of the difeafes of horfcs. 

 It is prepared in the following manner. 



Take Roman vitriol, and roach-alum, of each an ounce 

 and a half; verdigris, an ounce; copperas, two ounces: 

 reduce all thefe to powder together, and put them into a 

 two-quart bottle, into which pour a quart of the llrongell 

 and bell wine-vinegar ; this is to be fct in balneo Maria:. 

 The fliort way of doing which by the farrier, is this ; he 



puis a wifp of hay into the bottom of the kettle, and then 

 tying fome pieces of lead or iron about the neck r.f the 

 bottle, to make it heavy enough to fink in water, it is fet 

 upon the hay fo, as to (land very upright ; then three 

 notches are cut lengthwife in the cork to give pallagc to 

 fome of the vapours when the bottle is heated, that it may 

 not burll. When every thing is thus prepared, fo much 

 cold water i^: to be put into the kettle, that the neck of the 

 bottle may Hand two or three inches above it ; the kettle 

 is then to be fet over the fire, and the water is to be made 

 to boil, and kept boiling about half an hour, the bottle 

 being at times taken out, and thoroughly (haken. When 

 the falts are thus thoroughly didolved in the vinegar, the 

 whole is to be kept for ufe. 



The method in which they ufe it is this : take an 

 earthen pan, which will hold about twelve quarts ; let this 

 be filled with urine that has been made by found, healthy, 

 and young perfons ; the ftaler the urine is, the better it is 

 for ufe, and it ought indeed always to Hand, at lealt, three 

 weeks before it is ufed. It is proper for the farrier, 

 therefore, always to keep a quantity of this ready, and 

 when the water is to be ufed, half a pint of it is to be 

 mixed with a quart of the urine ; or, if it be required Itronger, 

 more of the water is to be added : thefe are to be tho- 

 rougly mixed together, and the legs, or other affefted part 

 of the horfe, bathed with it with foft rags twice a-day. 



The virtues of this water are highly extolled : it is faid 

 to cure the malanders in two or three times drelTing ; it is 

 alfo a fovereign remedy for the mange, either dry or wet, 

 and for the rat -tails, fcratches, gourded or fwcUed legs and 

 heels, and it alfo cures horfes when the gre-ife is f.dlcn into 

 their heels, as the farriers exprefs it. The farcy is alfo 

 faid to be often cured by a long continuance in the nfe of 

 it, purging the horfe two or three times, at different diftanccs 

 of time, during the time of his being under cure by the 

 water. They alfo find it a good cleanfcr and healer of 

 foul ulcers, and that it prevents the breeding of proud-fle(h 

 and worms in wounds, and drives away a flux of humours 

 that were falling upon any part. They ufe it alfo in 

 clefts and cracks of the heels, and in windgalls, efpccially 

 in the prevention of the lall, by its repellent qualities. 

 The green water alone is an excellent remedy for filliihis, 

 cankers, and the galled backs of horfes ; difpoliiig inch lor- 

 rances, as they are called, not to feller, rot, and grow 

 worfc, as all gieafy and oily medicines do, but cleanfing 

 them, and preparing the way to a very found and Itanding 

 cure. 



SORREL, AcF.ro.sA, in Botany, Gardening, and the 

 Materia Medica. See RuME.x. 



SoRKELS, Indian Red, and Indian White, or Syrian Mai- 

 htv, in Botany, are Ipecies of Hilifcus ; which fee. 



SoKREL, Wood, in Botany, Gardening, and the Materia 

 Medica^ Sec Oxalis. 



SoKBEL, Common and Curled, in /Igrictdture, troiible- 

 fome weeds in meadows and pafture lands ; alfo the latter 

 in cultivated arable ground, where neither horfes nor neat 

 cattle will eat it, which, of courfe, renders it necedary to 

 be eradicated. This is molUy accnmplilhtd by rooting it 

 out, or frequently cutting the ilalks over jiill below the 

 furface of the land. It has often the title of curled dock. 

 See Wee».s. 



SonitEL, in the Manege, is ufed for a reddidi colour. 

 The mane ought to be red or white, in a horfe of this 

 colour. It is dillinguiflied, according to the degrees of its 

 deepnefs, into a hurnt forrel, and a bright or light forrcl. 

 Generally fpeaking, it is a fign of a good hoi le. 



Sonujii., Salt >jJ\ in Chemtjlry, the native luper-oxalat of 



putafhi 



