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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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Ill. The Deteriptions. The hilt kind, or, Oculus
Chrilii, has a Root which 1'5 long, tough, and black,
attended with many jibt'er,- by,whieh it taker fajl
hold of the Earth, front whenee rile up Inanyfquare
Stalk: two or three feet high, on whieh gram broad
darlz green Leaver, dented > about. the, edger, and
fwnewhat rugged and hard in handling 5 the 'l‘lower:
grow along toward: the top: of the Stalkr, ltlce unto
the gaping or hooded Flower: of the Garden Clary,
but jinaller, and of [2171]]? orvn'lritilh blew color,
iohieh being [to]? auto ', there mote: in final] hmlrr,
round hlael‘ijh or brownifh Seed; the whole Plant
ha: a fireng Smell, but iti: nothingpr guiek m that
of our contnton Garden lary. . There are two other
kind: heretf: One, the top: of whole Stolhriare‘pur-
plijh, with flower: of a deeper purplefcolor; and
jltlltt‘wbdl larger Leaver. Another, dmfering on! in
thit, that the taprof the Stalk: are green,; on not
purple -, the flower: of a palejblew color,1and'the
Leave: a little torn on the edger. , J v- ;
, T V A. ‘ . . . .
. IV. "'I’he‘iecond ,kind, :1";- Hoary Wild, Clary,
with tohit'e‘hlowire‘, har'a‘long, tough blaeh.‘ Root, not
'ntneh dijering front the form; ,‘fthe‘ "Leave: in’ this
heing altnoliflite thife, hut tnore‘ hoary, (and o'little
deeper dente‘rl in on the edges-,the Stalk: areYouare,
hand‘almojlkiiyard highfzt on rchieh groin the Horo-
er: III-tb't fmn‘e manner, (wing that :sz are whol-
ly white, whirl; being paji diva], there fallout-72111311
found brownifh‘sekd. ‘ 3 i 2 ' . m j
V. The, third,” Lavender Howre'd Wild Clary,
ha: a Rootnot‘rnueh digeringfjotn either of thefor-
, titer-“lll’d Clones, from ’whence.‘ e'o'rne' forth gum
hairy Slalht, two or three Eieet high, fet- 'm‘th her-
3!”, ’1‘” f 07?” ,. 11713 fmoot r- Lea-oer tno'redeeply
indented about rtheedger, and rounded'pointedi the
fluffftfdn’ttlllfb [left than the former - 'dnil‘tzeither
jn igne r,’ nor eoor, are the ' rm] j, y . '
.the' l’lozeerr if Spike or; Lageiidef, iheygrhli‘lfilgoi):
[pacer and randle: a: the r’ejlfdo , the Seed is‘alitz
-..r in . J
to the otherr, nor doe: the Smell of the whole Plant
(lifer much front thorn. ‘ ' '
.‘ VI. The fourth, or Sage Lctv’d Wild Clary, ha;
a long Root, tough and blank without, btit yellow
within, which abide: without perifhing for many
bore, a: the Root: of mo]? of-the Wild kind: do :
front whence rye up low fquare Stalk, nttteh about
half. a yard high, ulJN‘EOII grow hard roe ed Leaver,
fet two at a joint, oer like unto Sage ates, but
not booty at all, if a dirk green color, and dented
about the Man“: the Flower: grow at fer Spore:
round about theStalkr, a: inlrundler, in jam Plant:
of a jizir purple, violet color, in other: more pale;
and In other: yet, ofolntoji an [Uh-color -, ichieh be-
ing pa]? away; there. eotner forth'( when it i: ripe )
black ftnoll Seed. The Sinell of thi: Plant is more
pleajing and 1% heady than too]? of the hunter kind:
e. ,There Air another Specie: of this jizurth kind,
which differ: chief] from hit: this, that it row:
touch-higher,'har ttielter Stalkr, larger and t inter
Mayer, fpotted with diver: white jpot: and ”at;
therein -, eye in form and eolorlf Leaver and loan-re,
no difference appearing. ,
VILfI‘he flares. The fir hgrows Wild in Eng-
land,‘ almoli: every where y the W1 lid and To
doa'the other withthe purple Sta ks: ut that
with the green Stalks is not common with us, but
- gtows.in many places' of Germany and Hungary:
Gerard fays, that the Oeulu: Chrijii grows in Bar.
rcn laces, ulmolt in every Counttey, efpecially in
Ho! orn-heldr, near unto Grayr-Inn, in the High-
way by the and oh Briek-ll’all (there it might
poihbl grow formerly, but none can be had there
now :i alfo at the hither end of Chem towards
London, and in the llighwaysilmding tom Rich-
, ntond‘PaIare to the Water-jide, and in divers other
places. The ferond grows not Wild here, but only
in the Gardens of the Curious; The. third grew
With glufittr, of the Seed which he had out of Spain,
but he firith he found it likewil'e hat the Riding-
plan if Gft't’llwltl); fo that it is manileii, that it
iS a natural-inhabitant ofour Courtney. The third
grows thd in Hungary almolt every where, in
their Vin ante, and by the Way Iides, .but with us
it is cl [e y ,nourifhed up in Gardenr. ? V .
VII . The Tir'ner. They 2111 Flower in fune'and
filly, a; dothe Garden Kinds ;' and their Seeds are
ripe in the end of Augujt, or not long after.
IX. Their Qualitier, Speeilimtion, Preparationr,
i ‘ and Virtziei,‘are the fame with'thofe of the Gor-
' . den Clary, fo that little more, need be thid thereof
here. , t .
X. Olglervation I. Diofcorider Elith, That the
Seed of Oculur Chrijii,or Wild (lazy, drunk with
Wine from one dram to'two drim's) excites Luft;
and being mixed with Honey, and applied, cleanfes
tthyes from Films, and orher impeti'cElious lodg-
' in, them: and being put whole into the Eyes,
it not onlylfimply clmnies, but alfo purges them
very much from Waterilh Humors, and fo ftc‘CS
them from RedneEs, Inflammations, and divers 0‘
thet’Dii'eafes‘ which happen,to them, taking away
their Pain and Smarting, one Seed, and ho more,
being Pit-time) the Eye at. a time. . This, (it 5 Gt"
rent, is, algeneral Medicine in (hethire, and other
untriesithererbout, knownlofall, and ufed with
good fuccefe‘ ' ', '
go; Qbferv. 2. m Ligm'd 7m, or ‘Ejftw of
theJTeap-er,‘ given frotr'itwo ounces to four 01' f1",
mtxedr‘w'lth a Glafs or Generous Wine, and drank
warm, diffolves congealed Blood in 'the‘StoImChr
WW5; and, comforts it, and is very good to help
agatnlidtmnefs, and‘to r'eftote the Eyes. to the“
Prillme State! -’ ' i“ . - L '
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