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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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Herbal. Lib. 1.
on Rirbwh'rH-hE'aTI), and in feveral other places.
That which grows in the Woods hasa Root which
is more hard and woody 3 but if ,it-rs plantedror
fown in Gardens, in a good Soil, it 1s more pulpy
and tender. That from America grows not with us
but in Manured Grounds, and with us. they are all
phnted‘in Gardem. . . . .' , ' , > i
VII. The Times. They all flower in fun, .7111):
and Angujl, and then the Nuts are dug up andga-
thered. , , t ., 4, '1,
‘ I VIII. The Qualitier, Specification, Preparation;
(mi Virtues, are much the fame withpthe Earth or
Ground Nut: in the former Chapter; fo‘that we
[hull not need to fay any more of them in this
place. . ‘ ‘ . . ' 1:;
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: of, E D D O .of Carolina.‘--;,
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t'Egyyuium, E7 Pfeudocalomfr‘a,a (for the. true Cole:
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E1110, Edda oderolim, and Carolim‘an Edda; v I l
- ’11.. The Kindn; It is certainly of the Family of
t the Aron; or Wake Robim, and ishete only a fmgu-i
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or rather tuberous Rod, > ill [2717“? ”I”? ””711 ’52”! i”;
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‘or theft, big, round Turnep, having 4.11”)! 1”,”de
Sfcm 071 the aurjide,‘ ml while within, ‘mtzigzg any:
fll'lll crfu , rlqli'r than a heavy [loft Tume 3 him"
oftl'trt are rrddijh or: tile outfit, having 91 Jim!”
String: marry bulbous or mama: Heads, floating;
from all jidrt 'lhtrecf, wbmrynve Root mending
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from this Koo: ihoot forth fevetal very large-Limp
k;
ning green Leaves, almoll of the'Shape cr Fafhion
of Arum or Wake .Rohin, pointed at the ends, but
much rounder; etch of them a foot and half, and
fome of them near two feet long, and a foot, htieen
inches, or fOOt and half broad, not fo thick and
Er y as Aron Leaves, but thinner and harder, full
“Peeins running eve way and refuiing Moillurc,
tho’ they be laid inl atcr,‘ll1nding every one upon
a very thick‘Stalk, about three feet-or fbmething
more in height, as I have feen them in ylmrrim, el-
pecially in (hroliaa ; ‘or about live feet high, as they
grow in "Jib- ,r, fas Authorsrelate. This Stalk is
not felt to or altn‘ed to‘the Lafat the very Diviiion
of the Leaf into two parts,” as vythe Aron or Walt
Robin is, ‘but more towards ‘the middle, fomewha:
like unto'the Water Ullic:'-,;,the Diviiion‘. 'of each
Leaf at bottom, being much 'tounder thanithofe ot'
the WuhaRhMm. As this Plant is long; and the
Leaves thereofvery gtmt,‘ without any other main
m1k-(for’along time) -but,,only the Stalks of
Leaves, fo it’has been re orted to be without Flow-
er and Seed, but very ely; bemufe the Encrerie
which it ufually has, is by-the'Fibres',‘ which run
and fprud themfelves from the Root, or by‘birs of
the Root call into holes or hills in mellow Ground :
they ulirally cueone tuberous Root, , as bi ' as a large
Apple, :‘into twenty: or thirty, pieces; 1% as every
piece may haven fmall quantity of the outlide Skin
upon it; thei‘ebein lanted in thofe'made or pre-
pared holes,,in Art‘ cral Hillocksofmoili fat Earth
in the Spring time, ‘will all for the molt part of
them grow, to that a Crop ”of the Roots may be
gathered in fulv and Aug?! following -, which is
the Rafon that never any talk‘of FloW’ers, Fruit
ot Seedare' feen upon them;,"-But if there great
Roots are fuifered 'to continue for many-Keats in a
lace-([0 aszthey mfry" bei, defended and pr'efen'ed
omvthe Frolt) you will find, -"that between thefe
very tall Stalks of Lewes that there wilLtife up one
Stalk - ‘and fohietimes‘two’or‘threEf according to
the ears of the Age and Strength of the Plant;
which length of time helps to the fruitifying time-
of; for otherwil‘e it would’n'of bear any“ thew of
Hofe, or Pellel, or Flower, as I my fell; .who have
planted them,“ have manifellly feen. Each ofthefc
Stalks are'rnuch [hotter than thofe of the Lewes, at
the tops of which they:er a long open Husk; m
the midlt of which IIfeS u for the molt part three
feveral narrow Husks or lgofes, (never one alone,
h i as the Arm: or A’W’IMI dd)lwith every one thEiI
Pellel or Clapper in the middleof them, which is
fmall, whiti and about Iix or feven‘inches long;
from the middle downwards it is bigger, and let
round abouttwith fmall .whitifh Flowers, fmelling
very fweet, the Iowerthoil Erik. flowering, and 10
by degrees upwards which lafl not above three dnj’S,
and from the middle upward bare or naked, ending
in a‘fmall long. point. -' ‘ After the Flowers are?”
Eat, the lowar part abides, and bears manyBertieSa
'ke as Arum or Armrwrr do, but muchvpaler and
Iinaller. ,4 t , If?" ‘ ‘
IV. The Placer. It grows .
beingsplanted there for their on y Ufe in Meats, 3“
for Food, which they feldom‘take 'without it. t
grows naturally’in Candid, as Belloninr‘ firy‘sf; 5”?
in Portugal, ‘as. Clajiat‘teports. It grows ralfo In
Italy in many places, and‘kinthe Country. ofSrzlrfL'"
in the Kingdom of Nightfas'Chlmnm relates it
grows alfo in the Iflan s of am and 81154:, wits“?
they ufe it as familiarlyast ey'fdo inEgyff, 3,5 [he
Duttb have "declared .in,.their Navigation Kindle“.
Army 1595. It is’ alfo‘foun'd‘ in fev'eral places 0t
Africa, and In divers other places, which ll'Fll’lw‘
itr'rem'embtedqu some will hot h‘av'e’ while 1"
HI”! lib?! (.1071; becaufe our. late Travell'ei's fay, JP;
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renew amt,