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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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Hohhot; A . a. lel.
ndttrider, vt'l Sangttirteuw, Geranium Grttinale hemo-
m'elex' Labellij, Bloody Cranes-bill, or Red' Rofe
Cnnes-bill- . x '
IV. The Defcriptions. The hr or Tuberou:
Craneg-bill her a Root Tnberotn an round, like al-
tntyi unto the Root of Cyclamen, or common Sow-
bteJd, butfmaller, and iy‘ a dark ”(Jet color on the
ottthde, but white within, which enereafe: under
Ground by feverol firing: running front the Mother
Root, fwelling ottt into final! roundeTubercle: or
Knobx, like unto the Root: of Ground Nun, which
will guicklyfhoot out Leave:, and in a fhort time
bear Flowery; but will not endure to be kept long
out of the ground, without donger to be quitejpoiled.
From this Root fpring forth three or four large
Leaverfpread upon the ground, of a greyijh, or ra-
ther dujiy green color, every one of them being at it
were of a round form, but divided or cut into fix
or feven'long: part: or divifionr; even unto the mid-
dle, which make: it feem 'to Abe ifo many Leaver,
each of, the cut: or divihon: being deeply notched or
indented on both fidet: Among thefe Leaver ri e:
u a Stalk a foot or more high, bearing thereon at
t e Top:- and faintr, feveral pale, but bright pur-
ple Howe”, made ofhve Leave: apiece; after which
cornefnzall Headr, with long pointed Beakr, referri-
bling the long Bill of a Stork or Cmne,‘ or forneljuch
like Bird -, which after it i; ripe, part: a fun er at
the bottom, where, it i: biggefi, into hour or Jive
Seede, everyone of which ha: a piece of the Beak-
hgad fajined unto it, and fall: away ifit be not ga-
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. any frnall yellow thread: or firin r- fro
whichrieupman bad'l ' g, ”1
divided tntohve oryjixIZarty lowtjh green bay“,
(idle, or the former is ,
' lackifh fpot at the bottom corner ' h ‘ ’ -
the whole Leaf, a: well in form, saffchla: iced]???
I: very like unto the Leaf of the Geranium Fufgmn:
I, but not unto the tnid- '
each of thefe Leave: ha: a ’ ‘
that the Leave: (2f this are not fo’ large a: the Lewe:
of that: Front among. the-the Leave: fpring up feve-
ral Stalk: ohm or more high jointed and ‘knobbed
here and there, hearing at 11317105 two or three
white Flowerk, con [fling ofjive 'Leave: afieee, lb
thickly, and vitria ly liriped with jfne frna lreddzjh
V einr, that no green Leaf, which i: if that bignejl’,
can fhew 0 many Vein: in it, nor h) thick running,
no every of if the Flower of this beautiful Cmnes-
bil.l doth. . In the middle of the Flower jiand: afznall
pointel which whenthe Flower is paji, doe: grow
to be the Seed-VeJel, on which i: In feveral final]
gelidr, [the unto the final! Seed: of the other Cranes-
x s. , .
VL The third, which is the, Brown, or Spotted
Cranes-bill, ha: a Root conjijiing of diver: great
Strings, joined to aTuberou: or Knobby Head -, front
which head arife: Leave: in all refpe‘llr like thofe
of the [aft defcribed,” well in the font; and divi-
jionf, a: in the. color efthe Lea-oer, being of aye!-
lowijh green, and having a blackilh fpot at the bot-
tom of every divifion in every leaf, whence can: the
name, but. larger and jironger by much. 'Ihe Stalk:
of thu‘rJe much higher ayo, and are jointed or
hnobbed with reddijh Knee: or fointsg‘on the To :
whereof and,inot many, but, large Flo-were, conjtfl-
mg of ve ‘Leauef apiece, each whereof is round at
the end, and alitile fnip: round about, and do bend
or turn them elve: back, toward: the Stalk, making
‘theimiddle o the Flower ‘ to be the higheji, “or mojf
eminentpart'r The color (ff the Flower: i: of a dark,
ondeep b'laehilh purple, the bottoirt (fever): Leaf
being whiter than the’rejl .- it ha: alfo a‘ middle
Pointelgro'wing orth, which afterward: turnx'into
Seedjke unto: e other kind: of Canes-bill.
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9
VIIII‘IJeiI‘ncrthL Kind,- or Bloody Chase-bin, b“
4 Root whie 1: hard, long, and thigh, wiibfeverdl
or Spotted CmneS-bill, next to be deferibed; but
Branche: jpreadingfrm it, (fa 7:111:17! 3311” “I”
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