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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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-" Chirp; 257.7. Eng]; "2 He,“ ,
is Emollient, and walles away hard Swellings. If
it ismade with VinegatandNitrc, it cools all man-
ner of InHammations, foftcns hard Tumors, and
mules them to walle aWay, it mfes the Pain, and
fofrens the Hardnel's of the Spleen. Applied to the
running Sores of the Herd, called 'Axdfyl, Adm-n,
it clemfes, dries and heals them : and if it is alfo
applied to weak and feeble Parts, whether ulcera-
ted or not ulcerated, it llrengthens them; and ii
ulcerated, cleanfes, dries and heals them. Made
with Lini'eed and 1114er Mallow Roots, it is an ex-
cellent Emollient, and alfo a Maturative, where the
Tumor will be brought to Suppuration. The Mml
beaten up with GooIe-Grmfe made into a Peli'ary,
and put up the Womb, foftens the Hardnefs there-
of, opens its Obliruilions, and mollities all the Parts
adjacent to it. Made into a Cataplafm, by boiling
it up with the bell White Wine Vinegar, and appli-
ed‘to the Teliicles, it is an excellent thing to foiten
and abate any hard Tumor or SWelling there, and to
$113: the Pains thereof. A plied alfo to the Joints,
it'mfts the Pains of the out. -
XVI. 171: liquid juice of the Leaver. Phylicians
(Eldom ule any thing of this Plant belides the Pull‘e
or Seed s et Experience has informed us, that ii
the Juice althe leaves is taken with Honey, that
it purges the Body by Stool from all corrupt and
ob mitive Rumors, cleanfes the Stomach and Bow-
els, and by reafon of its mucila inous Subllance, a1-
leviates the Sharpnefs of the Eric and‘eafes the
Tortions of the Guts l and by tea on of its clean-
iing and I‘cottring Faculty, it expet‘lorates tough and
fharp Humors' out of the Brefi and Lungs : this it
more effeaually Performs, if it is made into a L
hoch, with Pulp of fat pater. .
. c H A P., CCLVlI. ,
”of' FENUKGREE'G Wild.’
I. HE Natttet. It is called in Greek, Trim
“ in... : in Latin, Fenian Gmmntf’vlvdire;
and in Englitb, Wild Fwnugreek.
III The Kind:. It is twofold, viz. 1. Ferrari
Gra'mm fylvejlre mail”, The greater Wild Foetiu-
greekz 2. Ftrnmn Grmcntnfylvqjire minus, The lelZ
ier Wild Foenugreek.- . . , ’
3111. The Defcri tions. The. firfl, o'r Greater
Wild kind, bit: a but which is thick, tough ampli-
anr, having hm: Fibre: adjoining thereto, from
whicbfpring farIb fevrml Sralkr, which are round,
and [pread thtmfelver fiJI‘Ib intanm‘ny Bran: er,
whit arefnll ofKnre: or faintt, no! 77:1le unlike
to the Garden kind,
From each Joint,proceeds a
fmall tender Eoot-llalk, upon which do grow three '
caves, .and no more, fomewhat fnipt about the - .
Edges, like as the former, or fomewhat like to thofe ,
Of‘Saml. Fqin: or Burgundy Haj : and from the fame
Jornts alfo come forth fmrll yellow Flowers, like
unto rthe Manured, Which lland more together at
the end, bringing forth fmall long Cods, like thoi'e
of the Gerden,-.and which Comain within them
haller and darker Seed. . .
IV: ’17): ferond, or Leller Wild kind, but a rough
ireeptng Roof, tortbhnne Pibrer'rbereat, from the
lead of which Root rife: up but one [lender Stalk,
4’51 bu! fella”: branched, of about (1' hm! high, and
“y, at it were, at the bottom 5 upon which doe:
3’010 fuel; like Leave: a: 21):.fbl'lm‘r ; and at the
3 5 I
Joints Flowers like to thofe of the Garden [an I,
but which were lelTer, and alfo Handing tingle;
which being pafs’d away, Code or Horns fucceed,
which are broader and more Hat, and ending in a
fmall Thmd, in which is contained the Seed, which
is alfo lefs
V. 172: Place. They both grow Wild in Spain
<21nd Italy, but with us are only nurs‘d up in Gar-
ens.
VI. Tlte Timer. They flower with us in fill),
and the Seed is ripe in Ange]? or September.
.VII. '17): Qualities-,Sperijiratian, Preparation: and
Virtue: of tltele, are not declared by any Author,
but if one ma make a Judgment by the Form,
Smell, Talle, ubftance and mucilaginous Proper-
ties ofthe Herbsand their Seed, they differ not from
thofe of the Garden kind in Chap. 2'56.- af'oregoi
mg.
a. ..,,..,,
C H A P. CCLVIII.
of F E R N “Male;
I 'HE JVRIIIIL' This i’lant is mlled in Am-
’ bitk, Samar: ,in Gfttk, l'l-n'm 1Q 1115p", be‘
mlri'e the leaves are like to the Wings of Birds: in
Latin, Film; and in Englifb, Fern:
“I , ”’7 “5%
1,1“, I] ‘
A ‘ I‘WWH?
‘u‘ “3. ‘
lb
II. The Kinda There are many kinds of PM,
as, I. Filix Mat, called by Nianer in Tlrtrirtir,
wam g, minor, Male Fern, (and yet this very
Species Anguilard, Cti’frzllfinxf and Gyner‘call hz'i
ntin‘a) of which we [ha treat in tl‘llS’Chaptcra 2‘.-
Filix Fenind, reimre Fern,- ofwhich in Chap. 259.
3.- E'ilix Qnema', Oak Fern, of which in Chap. 26:.-
4351i): Saxa'tilii, Rock or Stone Fertb‘ 0f Whig“?