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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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306,
. “Salmon? Hei'lnilt ,
Lib, I.
IV. The Placer. It grows in Salt Marlbes, by
the tides of Rivers and Brooks which daily How
ivirh‘Salr Water, and in (landing Waters which are
fometimes'ovetl'lowed with Salt Floods, or where
the Saltwater flows ('0 high as to reach the Roots
thereoll 1 found it growing in and near the Illarjligx
by King-Lynn in Norfolk, and near the Sea-jlior: In
many other laces. , -
V. '1 lit '1 itntr. It flowers in fun: and filth, and
the Seed is ripe not long after. V
' VI. A: to it: Qualitie: and Virttm, Authors have
been filent thereon, and l knowing nothing by E'X-
perience cencerning it, fhall forban' any farther Dif-
courfe about it. p
, c‘ H A P, , ccxi'clv.
of DO‘DPER.-. ‘
If HE Names. It is called in Aralick, C714-
‘ full), and Cnfrtttb .- in Greek, RENEE. guf-
. “a,“ z in Latin, Cufmta, Cajfttta, CaIytn, Podngra
lini, Angina lint .- in Englifb, Daddcr. ‘ i
7 :Doo’del - x
‘ ' “Assiijf
9‘- ‘49, 5
, i,
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ll. "Die KinJr. It is a lingular Plantof the kind,
and yet is various; for being a Climer, it is faid by
Authors to he as manifold as are the Plants upon
wlilCll rt climbs, and accordingly has gotten as ma-
ny Surnames , as, 'Ezi?u(‘gp:'Eplll7'm1tm, Dodder of
’1 une: humiliating-Q, ligmtlymlnr, odder of Spurge:
iy‘vjermn, liflllrllt‘d, odder oFNettles: imfvyytcr,
g; nynrwwn, Dodder of Eryngo: 3min”, Epin-
jnncr, Dod‘der of Tarts; away", Epibm'mnidm:
i'na‘gzz, n' r, Eptgt’mflon, Doddet ofBroem: manna,
li'pnlllliunnnr, Doddct of Dittany: ‘i'aylf‘ga, Eri-
tlymbr.1,"l)odder of Savory: Hemp, hpilvaton
DOr‘llel' of Brambles 1 isriAtvcy, Efllilmm, Doddex' oi.
ry, or Herb Frankincenfc: Hilary, Efimnrmn, Dod-
der ofHetb Maliicha: inta’yrz‘li, E rinmnabir, Dod-
dcr of Hemp: 12;: m, Eptbo'ong odder of Hops:
imn'my,Epi olitan,l)oddcr ol Polimountnin; Heater,
Epijlebe, odder of Knapweed: tantra", Eye-
Innnmm, Doddet 0f Marjoram: 1541751"; E unfin-
tln'an, Dodder of Wormwood : igyxx'yuffvr, fiche.
inzdryr, Dodder of Germander: inxpaixxn,‘5fltlm-
”tulle, Doddet of Dwarf Elder : im‘mae, Epi-
fyw‘mt, .Dodder onyll‘op, 8:. And yet, notwith-
an ' g all this Variety of Names, it is but one
Plant or Herb, a'nd has but one Defcription.
Ill. The Dcl'ctiption.‘ Tlti: lltrb Idling Root in
[be Ground frwn .Smi, , jlvmtr fart]; Thread: or
String: gquer or finer, a! the Property I] ll? Cli-
mate, 211421in qftl': Eartb, and Nature I"! the Plant
on which it gram ccill atlInIt, creeping anJ [prml-
ing on that Plant on (child! fit III”), or upon which
it climbr, 1‘: i! bigb or low 6 tljjiing about ll): very
Gmfs, if it ”It!!! with nolliing' cl 3. Theft: Strings
are tnany, but have no Leaves at all, and winde and
interlace theml’elves ('0 thick inan times upon a
fmall Plant, 3111: it d fives it (asnwere) of the
Heat of tho'Sun, an feemingly choaks' it: after
theEStrings are rifen up to that height and lirength,
that they may draw Nourifhment from the Plant
upon which they climb, you lhall fcarcely fee any
Appearance of the Rite of thofe Strings from the
Earth, they being broken off by fome Accident, or
withred by the Heat of the Sun, or otherwife de-
cayed ; (from which Appearance I believe it was,
that lllattbiolttr and fome others did think it to
grow without Root, and not firil to fpring out of
the Earth, as it certainly does, and as they who
may heipleafed to few the Seed in a For by it felf,
may ob erve,,and fee its fpringing up, but if they
meet with no Herb or Plant, upon winch they may
twine themfeh'es and clamber, theyjfoon perilh and
die away:) and from this Reafon I fuppofe it is,
that fevetal have thought them. to grow as lilo]:
upon Trees, or like mama,- but altct they have
loll their Ground-roots, I am apt to think, that the
whole Plant draws its Nodfrlhment (like as Ivy )
from thofe Plants on which it grows. . Upon thefe
Strings or (Threads, which are iometimrs white and
fometimes red, according to the Herb-or ‘l’lant on
which they grow,‘ are found Clullets or fmall Heads
of Husks, out of which proceed whitifh Flowers;
' which being palt away, do afterwards give fmall
pale-colored Seed, fomewhat liar, and twice as large
as Poppy Seed. , , "
IV. Olfcrwtion 1. 1’1in lib. 26., mp.’8. makes
two forts of CFfitbynuzn, making the" one to be the
Flowers of me, as Diqfwrider before him did,
both green and white: the other to be red Threads
‘or Strings growing without Root. ‘ This Duplicity
of kmds Mattbizzlur has confuted, and now moi! of
our modern Authors acknowledge but one kind, tho’
it may. have fometimes white and fomctimes red t
Strmgs,‘ aslTrngu: fitft obferved, growing on have:
ral Herbs,‘ according to which, othey are found to he' i
of thofe two-differing Colors. ' ' ‘ j
V. Overvat. 2. < By this alfo it may ap ear, that, ‘
neither Time nor Savor ,‘ not any ‘ other Il-lerb, do:
naturally, of their particular Seed, ,bring forth thefe'
Strings, but that they 1' ring from their own Seed, ,
either fhedor fattere ,ot'v themfdvcs upon I 3
Ground, or coming among the Seeds of other Her5
which arefown. As alfo they creep Upon various
Plants, fo in the hotter Countries they clofe UFO“
hot Herbs, as on nj'vlf, Savory, Hymn), ' Mmj'cralli
qut'vnaly, Ste. but in England they, for the mOll
l‘lax: tartan-m, Efilibzznclir, Dodder of Rofema-
)
Muy“v’--wwm
part, climb upon colder, Plants, as onffivm, H”!
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