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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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leis by degrees each way, 1'90:th and llripxl all 0-
r'er the LCH'CS with white Lines and Spots. . The
V’ rites up letter] or eight inches high, hearing at
its top one Flower, and no more. This Flower
lungs down its Head, and is larger than any 0f the
lollowing kinds, and conlills of iix white, ong and
narrow Leaves, turning themfeli'es up again after it
has felt the l‘iarmth of the Sun, that they do 31-
moll touch the Stalk again, very like to the Flow-
ers oily-[anion or Samba-ad .- it has in the middle
of the Hower fix white Chives, tipt with dark pur-
ple l’entlents, and a white three-forked Stile in the
midli of them. The Flower has no‘Smell at all,
but is commendable chiefly for its Beauty and Form.
Attcr the Flower is pail, there comes in its place a
round Head, feeming three-fquare, containing there-
in finall yellow Seed. ,
,I-V. ,The feeontl, with a urple F10wer, hula
it‘ll”! lmllied Root, lilce unto I)! farmer, but I: er,
a: (rforehimed : the Leaf ’ hereof ir no! fo long at that,
but broad onqlfhorr, [honed with darker Liner’ and
Spats. The Mower is like the other, but fmaller,
and of a delayed DPple color, very pale fometimes,
and fometimes a little deefer, turning it felfas- the
other, with a Circle man about the middle: The
Chives hereof are not white, but declining- to ur-
ple : in all Other Relbeas it is like to the a ore-
gomg. t
V. The third, with a red Flower, hax’a like white
bullion; Root. The Form and Largenefr of the Leaf
lI lilce to the laji‘ deferihed, fo nljo [he Form and Big-
neft afthe Flower : but in this the chiefDifi'erencc
coniiils, that the Leaves of this are of a yellowiih,
mealy, green color, fpotted and (freaked with red-
der S ots and iiripes, and the Flower of a deeper
reddilll purple color; and the Chives alfo more pur-
ple than the kill , but in all other things they are
very like oneanother. '
l
VI. The Flam: All the forts of Dent eaninnr
grow in Foreign Countries, as in Ilaly on the Euge-
neon Hillr, on the Apenine, alfo about Gran: the
chief City ofStiria, and about Bayonne, and in fe-
veral other laces: they all?) grow in the Garden
of our thrill): in England, , ‘ .
VII. The Timer, They moll commonl Hower in
March, and many times in April, according to the
Warmth or Coldnei's of the Seafon.
V Ill. A: to the Qualifier, Specification, Prepara-
. 22m and Vimm, they are much the lame with
the Orchider or'Dogrjlone: in the former Cha ter,
to which I rei'err on: only it is litid, that the ears
more eiiicacious or Venereous AElions than any of
the Orchide: and Satyrionr. ' ,
IX, Olifervation. The Ponder of the Root being
given inwardly in Broth, Milk or Wine to one or
two drains, is faid to beeffeaual againlt Worms in
the Belly -, to eafe the Pains of the Cholick, to
Ilrengthen and nouriih the whole Body, and to cure
the Fallingdicknefs in Children. ,
C H A P. CCXXVIH.
0f Doves--FOOT,
l. HE A'anter.
71251:;ng 3;, (1‘
ranimn Lbli-oalnnznn,
lgfh, Dover-foot.
. It is called in Greek, ”54"”
mimetcsynd‘i; 1, in 1'4””, 6""
Pet Columbia”: ; and in 13”.?
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woody,
whence
out in about the edger, .
rather 4 Dover Foot, :[landing upon long, reddilh, bai-
gom amon
jointed, reddifh, hairy S
with fome fuch like Leaves thereon, but fmaller,
and more cut in u
very (mall, brigh
Si
Craner-bill: do, of
like the
which are greener,
feent of feveral
S
r 14%" Plan: than the Common Doves-foot,
xHe’rhnl." 1“" . Lil). I,
II. The Kinds. There are many kinds or [his
Plant, but the principal which grow in Englanj are
the three following, 1. Geronimo Colmnliinllm ml.
gare, Per Colmnbintx: (Olmmlllir, The common Dover
foot.
Columbinw alter, The jagged Dovesvfoot. 3. Gs.
ranium Soxatile, Per (blamhinm Saxalilir, Th5
Stone or Rock Cranes-bill, or Doves-foot.
2. Geranium ColuInt’Iinmn Larinialwn, Pr;
'DoueSRot 3
"L eliminate aw
.
r , or Common
dOt, ha: 4 Root which i: ornetbing long and
having jinn: fibre: adjoining to it -, from
arifefcveralfnall, round, pale, green Leaver,
much like unto Mallows, of
OVCS-
Stalkr, lying in a round Gunpoji- upon the Ground ;
g which are it two or three or mOta
ta ks, .ilender and walk,
p to the tops, where 'grow many
t: red Flowers of five Leaves a-
see; 3&6! Which follow fmall Heads, with fmall
on Banks pointing fOnh, as all the other forts of
which this is a kind, whetqu
they are known to be of this Family, how differing
foever the Face or Form of their Leaves may be.
IV. Thekeond, or Jagged Doves-foot, . ha: 4 R0“
former, from whence ‘fprin: u U47)“:
not full ant-h) round, andjonzt-
u: at more wt in an the edger, making the Leaf ,1”
oft: more than the 0th r, or like
the Vetvain Ma ow, but Joinething lain. The
talks are weak and leaning, like the former, as al-
fo are the Flowers and Seed with its long Balk,
V. The tbird,‘ ar Rock or Stone Doves-foot, “' ‘
and m“
a Root which i: frnall andygllmw,’ ye! abide: nan
Tear: and peri er'nol, and 4% aircrew: 171er111 )l
of the Seed it letrfall. From thir Roolf ring 1‘27””
may [mall Larva, very like to tho e 41‘0be COm‘
mon Doves-foot, which are jivnezv at our in 0791:?
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