lujula Obs.
[a. It. lugliola, f. Luglio July.]
An old name of Wood Sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella.
| 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶166 So also vegetables may assume a vitriolate energy, as Lujula, Limons, succory. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cxxiii. 179 It [Wood-Sorrel] is called by the Apothecaries in their Shops, Alleluja and Lujula..the other [name] came corruptly from Juliola, as they of Calabria in Naples do call it. 1687 Clayton in Phil. Trans. XLI. 152 The Sorrel-tree bears a Leaf something like a Laurel, in Taste much resembling Lujula. |