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Full Title
Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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CH’AP. LXI.
BEETS Red.‘
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mime, 3111 Beta mgrzz: and by us in Englljh, The
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enerick Kind, as is before declared.
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111. The Defcti tion. This Kind J; 0:: .Imhing
from theformr Vilahite Beet, but onl t arm: new;
great, and that both the Root: and am: are-hm:-
whnt ml: the Root is red , fpongy ., 4an no! uftd fa
be eaten. : Leann are in om more ml that: m
nthtrx, which have but red Vnm' or Streak: 171 than ;
”Ill-7”” 12f d foh ml, in all)”: of 4 on dark red,
jlreaktd here and there canfzgfedly. 9 Flower:
end Srzd difer little ar nothing from thtformr.
IV. The Placer. It gxows where the-former
grows, and with us are only brought up in Gar-
dim.
V. '17): Timu. They are Sowed in the S .rmg:
enduie all Summer , and fometimes sill I. mter,
lloiwer in July, and the Seed is Ripe in Au-
gtfl .
VI. The Qualiriu. It is temperate as to hen and
(Old; and dry in the Exit fome think in the fecond
D9966: It is Ablletlive, Alh'ingent, and Vlrlnerary:
Cephglick, Splenetick, Nephxitick, Hyftetick and
Arthrltlcl‘,‘ Altmtivg. and Analeptick.
V”- 1]I6 SPtflfmliM. It is :1 peculiar thing
for (topping the Blood in any kind of Hemor-
tiage. t
VIlI. Tb: Prtpmlim. They are the fame with
the former, 33,, 1. Liquid juice. 2. An In-
”all?! fake. a. All Ellen”. 4. A DetoSiun.
5. A11 Err‘bmt.‘ 6. A Cataply’m. ’
The Virlun.
IX. All thrf: Prtparatiam haw 1h: jz‘m: Virtue:
with thefarmr, and my be given in thtfam mm-
It” and qulf. But this differenc: is’obfen'od, that
theie are more Aftringent or Binding; and there‘
fore, both the Li aid and Solid fair“, the Ejfmr:
and Duoliion, all very eiTeEtually lie the over-
flowing of the Terms in Women, andpilop other
Fluxes of Blood: and are more elieaual for curing ’
any Ulcer, or running Soxe, and to dry up and re-
move moilt and running Subs, and other like de-
fcxdations of theSkin. They are good againft the
Blood Flux, and other Fluxes of the Bowels, [top
the l bite: in Women, and hel the Yellow Jaun‘
dice, and this more efggcially if‘dgily iven for fomc
titty;i mixed with a all quantity 0 the TinEtute
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I. HE Nam. This Plant is milled in Grmf,
"an" (may: In Latin, Beta Romans, Ro-
mma rulmz, Raqua, Etta rubra radire Raft, nadir:
rulmz craft; and in Englilh, Roman Beet; Rd Bar,
and Carrot But. ’ i
II. Tb: Kind. It is on: Fourth Species of Ben;
and a fingular Kind. v ‘
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III. The Defaiptions. It ha: 4 Root red 4) Blood,
and a: long and w big 4’ ’bt’gn’alejf Carrot, or? m!
but]: within and withouqu: f met and good, an :0
be eaten (which mm: of t t 1167M” art) and [am-
time: the R00! is jhort like a lamp, whmtt 11'ng
the Name Rapa and Rapofa: From thir Roatfpmtg:
up a’Smlk, higher than our Common Red Beet, which
171 1!: ”wk: and farmqf the Leaver, andproporti-
on, JWI‘J' little or nothing fiom tbehfmrr, but only
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