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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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llowerr. 01 the Bell-flower: of- which wefhall
take notice, there are two Principal Kinds, 1.11:. t.
The Small Boll-Hower, of which we Treat 3n thjs
Chapter. 2. The Great Bell-Flower -, of which in
the next Chapter. .
Ill. 0f the Small Bell-flower, we take notice of
three kinds : I. Campnnula Cerulea vel Rotundthtlm,
Blew or Roand’leov’d Bellflotoer. 2. Campanula al-
ba, White Bell-hoover. 3. Campanula lutea, Tellow
Belltfiower. ,
IV. The Dcfcription. The Blew or'Round-‘lelv d
ha: aftnall thread ' Root, from whence rtjh: 11 Leave:
which lye upon 1 te ground, round and f'na l, almoji
like unto a Vthlet-leaf, but rounder, and [nipped or
denied, from whence rife up diver: weak, [lender
Stalk: about two hot high, fet from the bottom to
the top:, with many vetyjinall, long, narrow leavet,
where the flower: jland upon fmall long jialke, very
like in fajhian and bignef: unto the fmall Garden
Rampionr, but of a perfetfl blew colour, moft‘ common.
I) turning toward: Purple, and fornetime: White, tho’
jeldorn: after whieh hollow: fmall Seed:, in fmall
Head: like thtfeo Rampionr. -
V. The White ell‘flower ( whiehfome account a.
kind of Wild Rampion ) i: ofmall Plan! with a fien-
der Root, of the ignef: of a fmall jiraw, with [me
jlringrforinging from it. The leave: are foraewhat
long, fmooth, and of a pezlet? green colour, dlying flat
at on the ground. From t enee rtfefmall ten er alk:
[ft here and there with a few larva; and the ower:
grow at the tyD’DI of them of a Milk-white colour.
VI. The ellow Bell-flower 1': a very beautiful
Plant of an handful high : It ha: root: like to the Blew
or Round-leav’d ; and the leave: ‘are along]? like to
the fame, fave that thofe whioh lie next the ground
are noth) round a: the fhrnter, a little larger, and
Iongtjh, and jhnte of them a little dented about the
edge: ;’ the flower: in their at and manner ofgrow
ing, are like the former, but dmfer only in the eolour,
theft being 1] a pale yellow. .. . t ' ..
VII. The Plaeer. They grow wild in molt laces
in England, etpeciall upon barren ‘Iindy l-Feaths,
and fuck other like p ces. = ‘ -. ,
VH1. The Time:. They flower all the Summer
long, fome continuing till the cold of Autumn makes
em decay. . . ,
IX. The Qualttier. They are cold and dry in the
fitlldegree, of the nature of Rampions: ,Aitringent,
Stomatick, and Alterative. ‘ -
X. Pre oratiom. You ma make therefrom, LA
d1 illedl ater of the whole lart . " 2. A Cataplo m
o the Root.
‘ The Virtuer.
XI. The Di illed Water. It is, good againfl dif-
colourings an deformities of the skin, cleariiing it,
and making the face very elem and Exit.
XII. The Cotopla III. The roots beaten into a Mafs,
and made into a Cataplafm, with Meal ofLu in:
3UdV1negar, is reftriElive, abates the Milk in o-
m?“ Emails, takes away fpots and marks of the
Skin, and removes many other of its defomtities.
6%‘33M3’ LXIVK
BELL-FLOWER Great.
I. HE Nara“. It has no known Greek Name:
the Lotto: call it Cam cattle, and Campanola
magna: 1n Engltjh, Great Be l-fiower.
11. The Kind:. This is the fecond Species of our
Generick Kinds, and is three-fold. 1. Campanula
petfci olia, the Peach-letw’d Bell-flower. 2.. Compo-
nula age entriyramidalr's, Campanula major, the
y Bell;flouer.
P 'ramidal mil 3. Viola Mariana,
ovontry Bella
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III. The Defcription. 'Ihe Peach-lava Bell
flower har aRoot very fmall, white, and thready,
creeping under the upper era]? of the ground, jll that
oft time: the heat and drought if the Summeradoe:
pareh it, and taufe it to wither awty : from whenee
fpring: many Taft: or Breathe: of Leave: lying up-
on the ground, which are long and narrow, much
like to an Almond or Peaoh leaf, being huehr nick’d
about the edge:, and of a Jhd green colour. From
among thehe nfe up diver: Stalk: two foot high, or
more,fet with Leave: to the middle; and from them:
u word:, with mayhowertjianding onfmall Foot-
]lhlkt, one above another, with afntall Leaf at the
foot of we? one. The flower: jiond in [mall green
hmk:,fmo l and round at bottom, but wider open at
the brim, and endtng in live corner: with a three
forked Clapper. III the middle, fet about with .hlll!
fmall thread: ttpt with Tellow, which flaw!" infant:
Plant: are pure White,.but in other: qfa pale Blew,
or Watehet colour, having little or no fcent at all:
the Seed itfmall, and 'eontained in round flat Head:,
or Seed-Vt el:. , '
IV. e Laaefcens Pyramidalis is a great Bell-
hnwer, who e Root i: thick and whitijh, yielding more
jiore of Milk, being broken, ( (U the Leave: and
Stalk: alfo do) than any other of the Bell-flowers,
every one of whieh do yield Milk,htme more, hit”!
le : .- From this Root rife: diver: Slalkr, a‘yard high,
or better on which grow diver: fmooth, dark, grew
Leaver, brood at the bottom, and mall at the point,
homewhot unevenly noteh’d about t e edger, andjitmd'
tng upon longer Foot-jialkrjelow, than theft 41’0”!-
The Flower: are Blew, an infinite White, not ht
great or large. a: the former, but near if thefamt
ftyhion, growing thicker, and more plenttfttll)‘ fig" ‘
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