The Tracfical Kitchen Gardiner. 149 



S E G T. III. CHAP. XXIX. 

 Of garden forreL 



SOrrel, in kitchen garden terms (fays 

 xMr. T)e la §luintinye) is placed un- 

 der the title of verdures, or green pot- 

 herbs;, and accordingly is much ufed in 

 the pot. 



It is caird * acetofa^ or oxalis, from 

 the fnarpnefs or fowernefs of its juice, 

 as botanids tell us. 



Our herbarifts fpeak of five or fix forts, 

 "viz. acetofa Germanic a ^ or o^ava^ the 

 large German forrel, the beft of all for 

 boiling 5 acetofa five oxalis Franca feti 

 Romana, {Gerard , 307. Tarkinfon^ 

 p, 742.) the French forrel, very much 

 efleem'd , Acetofa vulgaris, common 

 forrel 5 acetofa teniii folio, or the aceto- 

 fa min. lanceolata pradic. fheeps forrel ; 

 to which they add the acetofa minim/i 

 five oxalis minor, the fmall leav'd forrel, 

 the beft of all to cut into fallets, on 

 account of the fincnefs of its leaves 5 



* Acetofa (?|«A<f, ab acldo fapore didl. Catal. Hort. 

 Botan, p. 3» 



L 3 there 



