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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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Plinij, Viola hmrzida, Viola Paltcjirir : Bauhin calls
it, Sanicttla- montana flore calcare donata : with-us
it is called, Sanictclo Eboraccnji: ( becaufe it grows
f0 plentifully in lork-jhire. ) ln Englifh it is called
Boner-wort, and Butter-root, becaufe of the Uri;
anoiity‘ of the Leaves, or die from Fattening, as
. Gerard f3 5, who alfo faith, they call it White Rat,
and not lilhite Root, becaufe the Countrey people
think, that'iftheil' Sheep ihould eat it, that' it would
give them the Rot, and they give it the Epithite
White, from the color ofthe Leaf : as they have
another which they call. Red-Rot, which is Pedica‘
ldrlJ‘, Red-Rattle. i
II. The Kindr. It is :1 iinguiar Species of the So-
nicletg being Genus to none eli's.
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veryioailh in Wellmorland ; upon lrtglcborozo Felt,
twelve Miles from Lancajler ; and in llarrctod in
the fame County, near to Blackburn, ten Miles
from Przjlon in Annderntjfr upon the Bogs, and
Malih Grounds: and in the Boggy Meadows about
Bijhpfreldoljeld : alio in the Foam in the way from
Lon on to lb’hitlcfea Mere in Huntington-flare: It
grows alfo in Horapjhire, and in great abundance in
many places in lValer. ,
V. ”be Timer. It Flowers towards the latter end
of May, and all the Month Offllllt, even to fml)‘,
(according as the Weather proves) and the Seed is
ripe not long after.
. VI. The Qaalitier. it is Temperate in Iefcht to
heat or cold, and Drying in the Second Degree. It
is Ailringent, and Cuthattick, like Rhubarb ; Con:
folidative, and Traumatick, or Vulnerary. ‘
VII. The Specification. It is dedicated to the eu-
ring of Green Wounds, and healing of Recent Rap-
tuIES‘ in Children. '
VllI.,'17Je Preparatiom. You may make there-
lrom‘, t. A liquid foice of the Plant. 2. A Syrup
3. An Ointment. 4. A 1311mm.
17): Virtues
IX. The liquid juice. Conntry People, who live
' where it grows do ufe towaih their Hands with
rots
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it, when they are Chap: by the Wind or Weather:
and in Torkfhire they anoint the Dugs of their 1" inc,
with the Fat and Oily, Juice, when they are bitten
with any Poifonous Worm or Fly, or are Chupt or
Rift by Weather, 'ornny other means. ,
X. The Syrup. “The.:Poorer fort of People in
Waler, make aSyru thereof, as of Rofes, and there;
with Purge themfe ves, and their Children: they
mix it with Broth for the fame purpoie, and fo it
urges Flegm effeEtually. Dofe from two to four
poonfuls.
XI. The Ointment. They alfo with the Herb
make an Ointment, which is held to‘be iingularly
good (and that by the-Experience of fome Phylr'
cians) againlt the OmeEtions of the Liver.
XII. The Bdlhwl- It, is faid to cure Ruptures in
Children, being applied PlaiRer-wife: It is a iingtll
lar Vulnerary, for it digei’t‘s, cleanfes, and heals
lt'hat a Root compofed of
diver: whit: Yibrer, or atoll Stringr, which die not
in the Winter, but abide all the'tmte ‘wrth green
Leave: upon them :' From this Root-jprtng forth dr-
verrjot and long Leaver lung upon the ground
roan about it, broad arcthe ottottt,,and pointed at
the end, of a pale green color on the up erJide but
white underneath, folded together at t err frji n-
jing which then are more White. 'From among thefe
Lube: rife up two or three, or more, [lender naked
Stalk: ,about ve or fix Inches- high, hearing but
one oril flower at top of each Stem, I?! III ajnall
green nuk, in form‘htmewhat liken Violet Flower,
or Ibqft of Lark: Heel: or Sport, having afmall
Heel or Spur behind, in fame of a purple, in other:
of a more blew color, and mforrte white. When the
Flower: are paji, there come znfhezr place: [mall
pointed round headr, it! which to remand jrnall,
(on , black Seed. .
lgV. The Placer. It is chiefly found in the Com-
mon Field, and in feveral Bogs on the Hills in‘lork-
fhire: and in many places alfo 1n the We]? Countr’y,
turd. Wale: : as alfo in a Common abOUt 3 M1 e
from Oxford, nearfa Village called llmngton. Ge-
it grows in England in fquaihy wet
Grounds, and will not yield to any Tranlpantmg
' or Cultivating of it ‘, and that 1t-gtows e pecrally
in a field alled Oogfquegand at Crosby, and Ro-
m. The Defctiption.
Green Wounds in any part, being highlypliliringent,
Drying, and Confolidating, notmuch interior to any
of the Wound Herbs. .
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CABBAGE
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. HE Nomen- It is called in Greek Irma"
I T man-tit: In Latin, Brollica Czprtirta : lu
Englijh, Cabbage, or Headed Coleman.
11. The Kindr. It is twofold, I. K3945" mil";
Maxi, Brojlica Copitota Alba, White Labbage,
2. 335951;, “My," way, Erotica Capitata Rubra,
Red ab 4 e. .
Ill. TH: Defcription. The Common White Cab:
huge ho: a Root going right down, but not deep, nor
fpreading for, and ufually diet in Winter : from
which Root fpringr up one thick Stalk, having at top
met, being grown to
thereo a rear thick Head of crumpled Leaver : 1]!”
Head is ciafed hard and round, and has at hr]? great
large thick Lower, of a grayih) green color, with
thick, great, and lying open ”11le part of the .ISzmgner,
without llMIIg : hut toward: the end of ’11! 4121‘
have many Leaves, 1! then hp
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