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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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II. 'Ihe Kindr. This Plant doubtlefs belongs to the
tribe of the Cowjlipr, of which it is a fpecizil Kind,
as being a leJer‘htrt. There are alfo two Species
of Birds-Eye, viz. I. Paralylt': minorjz’ore rubro, the
IgMer Cawjlip, WhiCh is alfo the lelTer Birds-Eye with
Red Flowers. 2. Para! fir minorjore alha, the lef-
fer Cawfli , which is t e greater Birth-Eye with
White Flowers.
1 . s‘g ' e -
m f : “3‘9 “h’n
hirdfiye Y? ’ .
.: Ill. The Dermiption. Red Birds-Eye, which it
the frnaller Plant, ha: Root: fatal! white and threa-
tly, front which ari or up a head ‘ .
together, that it cent: afntall whtte head : this a;
terwordr o ening it felf jpread: round upon I. e
ground 41711 ha: fntall long and narrow Leaves-Jntpt
about t e edger, of a pale green colour, on the upper
[Mg-hut very white or mealy underneath .- among
lhemeeave: ri e up one or two Stalk: frnall and
booty, half a foot big ), hearing at top a hujh or tuft
4f muebfrnaller flowerr, andt'ng upon fhort Foot-
ffalhrjomething like to owllips, hit! more [the un-
to Beats-ELIE, qfajine reddijh purple colour, tnfonte
deeper, in other: paler, with a yellowijh Circle 171
the bottom: tf the flowers; like unto many of the
Bars-Ears, y a fhint, but little feent .; after which
came: a See , maller than that of ,Cowllips. j
th; White irds-Eye, whtth i: the greater of the
two, dryer: little from the former, fave that n is a
’littleilarger both in it: Leaf and flower, and that
.Ibe Flower: hereof are wholly white, without my
great appearanee of a Circle Am the button: of them,
unlef: it it well ohferued, at leg]? 1! t; not p; [on-
glam!!! a: the former: hath t efe Kind: o Cow-
ips have fontetintes, though but fellow, r0771 the
7212;le of the Flowchart the Stalk, fent pm. another
fatal! Stalk, bearing Flower: thereon likewtjh. I,
,V, Theflaeer. ,They havebeen found growing
wild in Off“ and Failure Groundr in many places
0f Englan , from whence they have been tranfplan-
ted, into Garden: forthe plafantnefs of their
Flowers. , g , ' I . .
‘.VI.. The Turn Lfl‘he‘Red BIrJr-Eye, for. all the
care and indultry we can ufe to keep 1t, Will fcarce-
: called
af’Lemxn toyed - >-
ly endure in our Gardenr, but all the Winter long‘
till the Spring begins, its Leaves are to clofe'd to-
gether, that i t feems a white had of Leaves; They
both flower in the Spring of the Year, fome earlier,
and fome later, according to the mildnefs of the
Seafon. .
VII. The Qttalitt'er, Speetfcation, Preparation: and
Virtue: are the fame with thofe of Cowflipr, and
therefore referring yon thither, we (hall fay no more
concerning the fame in this place.
C H A ‘P. LXXIII.
BIRDS-NEST.
I. HE Nanter. It is mlled in Greek by Dodo-
nettt, 145677“: and in Latin, Neottia, Kid”;
Avirz by Gefner, it is called, Orobanche: by lobel,
Satyriutn abortivurn, and Orehir nhortjva: but we in
Englijh call it Birth-Ne , or Goofe-Ne , from the
Platting of the Roots, ike the hicks and Ilraws of
21 Crow: or Birdt-Nejl.
II. The Kind:. Authors make two forts thereof,
the one not much diflering from another, fave in
the color: the firll and longeft known is of a yel-
lowijh eolour: the other of a purplifh Violet, and is
by Clttjiur, Lilnotloron, and Pji’udolitnoda"
ran. -
IV. The Deraiption. Yellow Birds-Neil hot
great number of Fibre: or thread) Root: trojin‘g ant,
over another, and at it z'cere' platted, or tntneatea
entangled together like a Crow: Ne]? : from whteh
ri e: up a thick, foft’, graft, brown Stalk, j?! mth
fnhzllfhott Leaver, of the color of a' dry 04m leaf,
which hat laid under the Tree all lt’interg‘ Parkin-
fOH fa I, the Stalk: are upright, weak, and fa,” y; ,
and 1.1! the Leaver are any ajltt’w, litter; rater
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