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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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I 18 Salmons
and has lain forgetten for above eight hundred Years;
till this Our Author difcovered it:ancw. : .
IV. TIJe‘nam of tl)iJ‘,Plom, Britannica, came not,
Eiys lilinllillg,l1’0m the “land of that Name‘tbut
its Etymology (-fays he) is taken from the Erwin!
LanguageLBrit iignifyitig. Carjalidare, ”.1 brinare,
Tan, Donr, rilnd Jon, looje’, or a thing gomg’fonh,
which isas much as to fay, to fajien looje forth,
the loolhefsyof. the Teeth and .Gums being one ot
the Grand Symptoms of the Scur . But by that
great‘Man’skthvour, we can give, litt e credit to that
rat fetch’d Etymology, it being always a thing known,
that the pride of the Ancient Roman: was too great
to invent, or inveliigate any thing whatfoa'er With
a Latin Nam, wholeEtjrnology lhould arife from
the unpolifboil Partirlor‘or Word: of Barbaronr'A a-
trons: Without doubt the Roman: iirli finding it in
England or Rriiannia .in' great plenty ( tho after-
wards they might tindit in‘Friefland, .and other
H
1‘
grong anJ. bard, not
,7 but tbar tbtje' are
The, Stalk ( It'llltll gin-Jory likatbar of
7ioncrt,in ofrtnnng ni on): manner." A tor the
owns-art ojl away, IbeStrd corner, rob): .1: con-
places of the Low Countries.) gave it the Denomif'mim"! in a" 'bajfv Hark like tbejt‘rjl,‘on.1 211]?” not
nation from“'tl.ve Name of tbrtConn-trey they fall
found him," and fo called it Btlldllllltd,'qlltljl‘ Herba
Britannica, and this is that which 1 adhere to, and
really believe. - 't
V."'Alli the Botanifls of the lall fix or [even hun-
dred Years,-l’rnew nothing at all of it: indeed they
- have named Britannica, but they never. durllyen‘
ture’to‘ Ex it, to as to defcribe it, or figure it in
Sculpture. And according to the feveral Ages, fe-
veral kinds of Herbs or Plants, were taken to be this
Plants of .ours, as, Bylorta, Betantm, "Betoabnnga
narration, Engla, Cooblooria, Heptapbyllon, .fflantago
a nation, Prirnula writ, Tormentilla, Veronica, and
feqveml others; all which were falily, in their‘feie
ral Ages, laid to be the Britannica of the Ancients:
s. and the two famous Baubinr, who fpent their whole
lives in the Botanick Study, made foy’gteat a mi.
flake, as to take Gilnbrina, or a fort of Snakejweed
forit: And Cambrian makes our EnglifbHerborilts
to Ifiy, that Sfllwy-gl‘qfl‘ was the true Britannica
Plinij ; than which nothing is more remote .1 with-
out .doubt this our Hydrolapaibnm (llglfllih'dS the
genuine or true Britannia: of the Ancients, its de-
1cription agreeing exaElly in every particular With
their del'ctiptions, and performing every thing, and
more than they afctibed to it, ' , .
VI:‘The‘Defcription. Tbojrji zy‘ tbgfr, which is
our European or Lnglilh kinl,bar a Tabtrour Root,
large and roundifbffendingforlb front It abnoji
round about, fovoral Ann: or Branches of o conj-
derable tbickntfr, all wbitbhhmn brobbed or gouty,
and ill jlmflod : From tbi: Root rife: up fowral
Leaver fret! largo, not ntnol] unlike to tboft qftbe
largtjl ball?] but every...way broader and longer,
growing'nprigltt,'and‘fbarp (tinted, Jbllltllim’: of a :
blacnilb‘groon,'fonteiirnr.r o a purplifb green, and
fornttimtr of a ye'llowilb grim color, hammer] ot-
tor], and jbniotirnernot. Front the raid]? of to r
Lt'ove’r rijer n11, oneg'rettyIlargt Stalk, jolnetuntr
tbrt‘t’ or your rim big ', of‘tbejbape and ?”[?’i"’[ an
ordinory Dork, “(3'11”an jbInt’tm'Ior 1t IJ'WIIIC‘IIIIIIIg
to a rcddijlj green; iron; akind of joints, whence
fpring forth um: like theiforr'nrr, bntyrnncb (w,
and from then,” plaza; a fond: fmb 71747014
Bramber, no! 17111ch iinlikt'jo 1b: L'arnnzon ,
Darla; 'IW wornamiaar;'Ia‘rger and bigbor. Tb:
F701?" grow all oiiEr‘“'tlt'tft Brancbtr, olrnqll. rant
(bar on; bg’ginning,ttf‘1;i;v?n to their-[corral Poor,
1” a [mu “J Gift 71" ‘Hnrlt, “mob fer agony-[tool],
(575,”43’3 15.0”, Motjiolk,‘ and ,ofa‘ brown color, tobicb
15“”.4 vdmfbi’d, lb)! 56‘“! is.‘c'ortla‘int.l in (3)017. butler,
not much ,nnlilze to oIbEr Dark S:tll,i.igxfprtiallyiibot
ofibr qutrriDorrt. L. , .Y ,9: ‘
VII. The Americana" Virginian Brit'ii’ni‘iyylbar ‘15
Root canfjling (fa Heat! ibidhanfl gong, balmy
much
and Penny Grounilr, banks :of
Spring, or. in Aurora, viz.
Seed, in' the latter end "or:
the scurvy, and all forts of I-
foevet (and Mann
Poifons andVConvullions. ., . . .
from, [VA ligniil 731.66.” ,
Decolliort,r 4., >11 SpiritttonnTinlfnre, . 5. A Spirit
by Permrntotion. 6. :11 Bum”), or Ointricnt. ’7. Tb:
rixed 5:411; '8.‘ 172 Ponder oftbe‘Roo't,‘ ’ ' ' ‘ L ' ' ,'
fpoonfuls,‘ or more, either
Red Port Wine, it litrengtheiis and confirms the,
Stomach and Bowels, and powerfully-refills the
Scurvy in all ' i "
Symptoms, as ,
lobfenefs of the Tee'th,”wafideting' pains, wmknefs
and fitknel‘s at Stomach,f5't.y It is good alfo zigainll‘
all manner'oM‘luite's whatfoever,
I at” (eateries, Lieiiteries, Hepatick h
‘ or the Terms in Women,Ur. It is .to;be taken
Morning and Evening for fome time.
rant it,nritbrr injbapr, nor color; nor magnitude.
VI 1. .5172: Plan. lt‘commonly grows in lllatjby
Ditches; and. moilt
Places,.and in lides of Ditches, .and'imtry Plalhes
which are between .-thc,-.I.zind Ground. and Pen
Grounds in 1?:va parts of this Kingdom :..I found.
fome of it in the Borders of the Fm: in' Cambridge-
jbiro‘and Huntingdonjbirr, and in other nioill and.
Wat laces It ows lentifull alfo in the and
magi-,1, Gellerlagbd, arid Hollanyl, and pomiliy iii
many other laces in the Low Conntriu. ,
X1172: iinrr. It lhoots forth its Leaves in
April; its Flowers in the latter end of May, or
beghming'offnne'; and its Seed isJIri e in Aognjl.
The Rootis to be gathered in the beginning of the
in [liar-ob or, woman,
fun: and j’nlyyand the
Anguji, .‘or' beginningof
the Leaves Eind Flowers in
thenextMonth.’ ., m. , . .
X; The Quentin. It‘is,temperate.in'telpe& of
heat or cold, but dry in the latter end of'the fecond
Degree“ ,1! is Afhingent, Aperitive, Digeltive, and
Traumatick; Stomatick,,Hepatick, Hyiletick, Ar-
thritick and Alterative.’ .‘ [i ',
XI. Tb: Sprinting”. It is eculiarfor the 'curing
uxes .OF What kind,
'ng fays, ,it is, aSpecitjtli againlt
. Xllg The, Preparation. .You may have there-
”2.11171 [Motion 3. A
The l’jrtim. . ',
mama: liquid flak. Given "to needing
by it felr;.or mixt with
its appearances, viz: with all its
Ulcers and ,Cankers in theMouth,
as Dianh'aa’s, Dy-
luxes, overtlowing
XIV. Ibo Ejenm It has all the former Virtues,
behdesyvhich, it is faid to cure Pleuriiies, ,Quiniia,
the Hemonhoids, and all torts
or'.Inllammarions ;-
and is very Bowertul and futcelsful in thelcure 01"
Hydropical,
‘pregnatedwitli the fixed Salt
1: is hallo an
illempets, more elpecially if.t't is im-
. of theei‘ame Plant,
extraordinary Traumatick, for the. cue.
ring oi'lxounds‘and oldlllcerstbeing taken Mom- ‘
mg,
- r ' . .V , Q . , ‘
'- MU , -l’
2:137.de. . 1 “x ; L'll). iI.’
. a 3 ‘u 1
a round - tuberonr botly. .lirirnbt ,ntrmtmfrortt whirl:
Hood grow: downward inlo tl'e'Eartlt,‘fevtral drrnr .
or Broncbor, wbitl) are thrive, brown? uitltoot, and
'ellowi within : from In'rRoar ri ESIIIP on: n
light gall: of jovtriil fut thigh, u‘bltl) hi: (1%
faint: upon it like knee:,'from til)!!!” .ootntzfortb
wry longt and large Loner,
Innob unlike to Monk: Rbnbur
”mob longer.
other Dork: ) rife: up tgfttntirnrr .Ioea‘conjlrrabl:
bulgbt, about 11': middle gofatbicb it frnJr fort]; a.
great number of Bronrbrr not much millionth? Eu.
topean, wbicb lmvofonirfow braver, like”): other:
Igoonftbm, bat marl) [r r...‘ 17): Plotctnigrow in
W]? nnnibrrr upon all tbr :Brancbtr fngle, and, Mob
[(1707le final! fbortfootj all; cvmfrom tbtt'ri'brgin-
ning up to’lbrir wry ‘to ryfrt infpoot: lotfotrtairt