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Sneeze-wort - or gobse-tongue 
Sneeze-wort, Austrian 
Snow-ball tree ; or Gelder rose ^ 
Snowberry bush 
Snowdrop 
Snowdrop, Summer 
Snowdrop tree 
Snowy mespilus 
Soap apple, or befry 
Soap-wort, or bruise+wort, common 
Soda* 
Soldanel 
Soldier, water ; or water aloe 
Soldiers millions 
Solomon’s seal 
Solomon s seal of America 
Sorgo; or Indian millet 
Sorrel; or green-sauce 
Sorrel, French or Roman 
Sorrel, wild 
Sorrel, Indian ; or ocra 
Sorrel, wood 
Sorrel, sensitive wood 
Sorrel tree 
Sorrowful, or melancholy tree 
Sour sop 
Achillea ptarmica 
Xeranthemum annuum 
f Viburnum opulus (fibre, 
plena) 
Chiococco racemosa 
Galanthus nivalis 
Leucojum ocstivum 
Halesia tetraptera 
Mespilus canadensis 
Sapindus saponaria 1 
Saponaria officinalis 
Sa Iso la soda 
Soldanella alpina 
Stratiotes aloides 
Orchis pyramidalis 
Convallaria polygoriatum 
Uvularia 
Holms sorghum. 
Rumex acetosa 
Rumex scutaius 
Rumex acetosella 
Hibiscus escuhntiis 
Oxalis acetosella 
Oxalis sensitive 
Andromeda arboreu 
Nyctanthes arbor tristis , 
Annona muricata 
* Soda is an alkali extracted in the same manner as pot-ash alkali, but hath 
some very different properties; soda, a!s obtained from marine plants, is usually 
entirely saturated with carbonic acid, doth not attract the humidity of the at mo. 
sphere like pot-ash, but desiccates, and is converted into a white powder.—Lavoi¬ 
sier’s Elements of Chemisty. It will not, therefore, make good pot ash, but is 
used in glass, &c. 
Soda is now chiefly obtained from a mineral fixed alkali, found in Egypt, Persia, 
and Arabia; and in its crude state, in commerce, is called soda, or l-ariila. When 
it is obtained from vegetables, it is only from those which grow upon the sea side, 
or salt lakes, and especially from the plant kali, from whence the name, to which 
the Arabians add al (the) by way of eminence, as they do to the Koran, and we 
to the Bible.—It is a very curious fact, that the ashes of all plants growing at a 
distance from salt water, afford the vegetable alkali, or pot-ash (used for making 
glass, soap, &c.),fwhile such as grow near the sea, or on borders of salt lakes, af¬ 
ford th z fossil alkali, or soda ; if, however, these same plants are cultivated in thA 
interior of the country, they produce pot-ash only.—See note to alkali in the 
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