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SORREL, COMMON. Rumex Acetosa. Bryant says the Irish, who are particularly fond of acids, eat the leaves with their milk and fish; and the Laplanders use the juice of them as rennet to their milk. The Greenlanders cure themselves of the scurvy, with the juice mixed with that of the scurvy-grass.
"You quite forget the cochlearia, or scurvy-grass, so useful to sailors as a remedy for scurvy?" said Sumichrast. "You are right; but I think I've said enough about the Cruciferæ for Master Sunbeam to remember." Instead of flying towards the water, these reptiles made for the woods.
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