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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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ing Scflion: Pauli: Earth or Ground Nuts. 2. A-
hragalm fy'lwlicm' lelii, Latbyrm fylvzjfris,
Wood Earth-nuts, or GrOund‘nuts. 3. Term glan-
de: American, ml l7rginianx, Americrn or Virgi-
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Pears) which arr llluclt and jnmll, [tuft-7.1;]! O'ri'txlfr
Ilmn Acorns, filjlllt’d to lung Stringr, um’ jinn!
wild) unrlt’r Ground, in 'lltllu wry lilte In .1 d2;
Cheii-nut 5 on! (f which llt‘m'tdb (ltlt'f lain-,7 mn' pr
mm: long, non!” Pilirt’r or String; , nml ml if
which doe: 11M: grow other Slrmgs, firth“ lr’ I]? ll; '
qftl): Root or felting on 4f the SLIM -, 1mm :
are-tying ajlape under the Surf“? r] 1hr him“, it
kernclled ar glundnlom Rani: (lg grow, lIy ruin-Jr 7 y
tbi: Plant dot: wry mat-b multiply it jklj. Front
this Root fpring feveral werk, llender, torture, triil
ing Stalks, running upon the Ground four or tin:
feet in length. The Leaves are thin and fnnll, n-
fually fet two and two together u on flendcr Stalks.
each havinga Clafper at its endp, taking hold of
what Rands next to it. The Flowers come forth 'JI
the Joints towards the tops of the Stalks, and at the
tops of the-lime, llanding upon long l-‘oorllulks,
in Shape like thoie ofPezyE, but lel‘s, many grow-
ing together, being narrow, and 0H deep reddini
purple-color, and bright, in Smell not unplealimr.
They being pafs’d awn , there fucceed, in their
, in which are contrined
three or, four fmall round Seeds.
IV. Thefetaml, or Wood Earth-nut, 1m 7m! anly
' greater, but longer and harder Ram, canjijling of
‘- nzany black Pmirler, bore and there fcnrling fart].-
Fibres, 111ij woody, or more bard than the former, .
:17: Stalk: alfa are barrier, andjiraked or cornered,
and rife up to b: about a fool bigb, fmall below, and
flvnewbat larger above .- the Leaves grow forth at
the Joints of the Stalks, confiiting fometirnes of two,
and fometimes of four,which are longifh arid narrow,
and fometimes live on a Branch, falined 'to one Foot,
which rat-the fetting on has two little Leaves otEars,
’ and One Clafper o'r Tendrel at the end. Out of the
Bofoms of thele Ears grow Stalks about two inches
long,each of which ufually carry a couple off-Punk
ioned FIOWer's of a crimfon or purple color,
' which‘fadin ,‘ ulIually become blew: alter which
‘ Gods fucce ,- which are long, narrow, (traighr,
round and black when they grow old, within which
' are contained in'elch Cod nine or ten White, round
Seeds fome'thing' lefs than a Tate.
V. The Virginian. Birth-nut ha: a‘ Run whit-b
[breads iqklf under' Ground my wn at, ea'r‘ir Sh'ing
of Tuber: or Gland: confijling ’of a mall Slr'ing an!
a Gland, a‘fnzall String and a Gland m 111: end of
the-fame, ml) Gland being aim]? of an port] fnflzi-
on, thick in the middle, and narrmpointtd at [nab
will; when: this held by 1b: String; mnllmrung
many film” Fibre: proceeding from ”513224 mjr‘t'f-
ralplam- :‘from this Root rifes up 3 Sta k, which
fpruds it fell" forth into many large Arms‘;or Branch-
‘ es; and. everyonefofthernagain are diYided into fee
Veral others; Whichla're. manifold. The Leaves are
- long.nnd greenirwhich are many, an ,' . et on borh
fides’of a midd e Stalk, the main Stalk itfelfwind-
in it felf upon any thing (landing next'nntq it, and
ti mg from a tuberous brown RoOt, ns’quorefaid.
At the Joints of the Stalks with the Lewes, and in
other laces of the Stalls, come forth the Flowers,
many nding together Spike falhion, ofa dull blulh
color, made almoit like Hoods : after which, in
Virginia, come'Cods‘of Seed, but not bearing any
with us: the Leaves 'and Stalks petifh before Win-
‘ter, and lptout from the old Root again in the
Spring. ' V,
VI. The Placer. The Full grows in many places
of Germany in Corn-fields, both Wiri'l'the (.0133 it
Elfand alfo about the Borders of Fields nmong .m-
ers and Brambles. The fecond, Garrard lays, grows
in Hanpjlead and Com Parkr, near Landon -, as 31 o
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