the water lemon, but the juice of it is not ſo ſweet.
The ſourſop is a fine fruit, large, and much of the ſhape of an heart. When unripe, it is of a brown colour, and its ſkin is covered with raiſed points like prickles, but they are not ſharp. When ripe, it is of a fine green colour, the points fall off, and the ſkin is quite ſmooth. It is a very wholeſome fruit, in taſle reſembling fine cotton dipped in ſyrup, with a little tincture of acid, of a very agreeable muſky flavour, and much recommended in fevers.
The fruit and the leaves of the ſourſop have a very ſingular quality in them, for the fruit will rot on the ground without the leaſt viſible appearance of worms, although moſt animals and birds are very fond of it; and the leaves being ſcattered in a room infeſted with fleas, ſoon clears it of thoſe troubleſome gueſts, by
