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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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t. )‘ouh Aurhorsfay, that this Water Hemmer; as
; effeflual and admirable a Wound Herb, '21s any of
0f .‘F'L enticed-‘9
I; T ll E mm. It is milled in Aiahick Ilium
Cabana, -Bt:rr Grimm: : in Grttkz‘WM'” :
i in Lorin Pji-llirzm, Pullrtlflll, 8" Puliw'n': hi'fbe :
. in Englijh t7:.zwor!.' This Name is given to it,
not becaufc when it is brought green into the Hqufe,
that it drives away Pleat, but bemufe the ‘Seed there-
I of is very like to them. , .. a;
ll. Th: Kihdr. ' Authors make four kinds of this
Plant, but bemufe feldom more than three come to
our hands, ,we (hall only defcribe thetn. 1er hehril
of thefe’ is called ‘Wumwr3r,‘Pf'llium Vegan,
Palimria l’ulgarir, ijnap: Thcopbiajli, Common
or ordinary Fleawort. 2.. Pfyllmm m'mjimger V1-
renr; Pfyllium 'allrmm Grfntri; Pjillium perm”:
thlltri (5' Cammzrii; Pff'llium Praiamm fhrre
mp: radire. [Jerome Lobe ii; The" gran evergeen
Hemort. 3. Pfyllium Indicum fclm- Crmatu, fyl-
limit Americana)”, val floridiarmm fblii: crenarir,
The ' Indian or Amerimn Flawort with. dented
Leaves. This is Pfylhwn (tritium Anguilla), and
, the Pfylliurn very”: Diqfcarrdir as Bakhinw thinks.
III. The Defcriptions. .'The.jir , or Common
‘Pleawort, ha: 1: Root which i: no! long, hut white,
hard 12ng Wood), ptnjhing every'l’hor, and raij’ng it
‘fplf again of It: own Seed for marry Tm", If it is
jhin’red to [heal i!.' From rhis'Root come: orth a
., Stalk uhozxt more?! high or more, fall 0 joints,
.1sz [pending It [elf out on all hie: into ”any
hnz'mher, ‘ elm]? from the hollow to the top; m1 at
every faint final two final],- long, and narrow whi-
tijhgrem Louver, jbmelhing hairy. At the to s of
the Stalks and anchw, lia'nd fevetal final], on,
fcaly or'cluil‘y- Heads, out of ivhichcome forth,
fmall whirifh, yellow Threads, fuch - as Planrane
Heads do give, which are the blocmings or Hewett.
, The Seed is enclofed in tholl': Heads, and is fmall,
and ihining whilll it is frclh, “cry like time Fleas,
both for its color and bignefs, ( from whence tame
the Name) but turning black When it is old. The
whole Plant is fomewhat whitifh, and hairy; fmel-
lino a little like Rofin. " ‘
TV. The frcoml, or Grcdt et' 'r'een quwort,
by a long, hard and Wool] Rool,tc.'icb porifhu 1m,
g1)” In)“ in Wily”, keeping it: Ltrm‘ Grrm all
I at 5:42:12, whom: cm: ier ithilt of femper vi-
rens, or 7mm dying. Fromt is Root 1' ringforth
feveral long and tough Branches, of a l oody fub-
liance like the former, but that they, as alfo their
Branches are fomewhat cater, longer, and harder,
and do a little more w down to the Ground.
The Lures which grows forth at the joints, refem-
hle the former, but are much longer and much nar-
rower. At the tops of the Stalks'and Branches, and at
the Joints come forthpchafiy‘Tufts, handing u on
long foot-lialksmhich are very like to ‘the Ear o the
All?” Phalark, or 01me [Seedg-sin which Heads or
Tu ts is contained the Seod,which is like the former.
V. The third .ar American Fleawort, ha: a long
Woody Root wit join: fibrit’iadjoining, which fond:
)7:th a Woody, rejdyh,‘ 'fortgb‘SIalk, hex: to the
Grand, growing to be abour‘sa Poor high, 0711f read-
ing it- [12‘ out into divtr: Branches.‘ The res
[land at ejoints thereof, and are fomewhatlong,
narrow pointed at ‘the‘ end, and a little dented in,
or rather tom on the edges, and hairy alfo like the
former. The tops of- the Branches are more tiered
with Heads than the former, but of the fame big-
nel's and faihion, with Rowers growing in the
fame manner, containing within them fhining Seed
like to the others. . . . > . '
v VI. The Placer. The fr)?! grows in ’ Italy and
Spain, in 'Fields, and unti led places, but With 135
onl in Garden. -'1'hefemirl grows plentifully 1"
Pic ds, near the Sea-(hour or Coali, 'as alfo inmany
of our Garth-m. ' The third is a native of the 1;!-
die:, and has been found growing in Florida, and in
I. the Southern parts of Carolina .- From fome‘ parts
of whiCh Continent it was brought into’the Euro-
pear: Iparts of the World. - ' >
VI.- Tbo Timer. They‘all flower with us in
x from and filly, but in their native places all the
Summer long.’ i - . .
. VIII. The Qualititr. The Seed of thefe Plants
15 that which is chiefly ufed in Medicine, and thit
both Gain: and .504pr hay, is cold in‘the fecond
' . Degree, 'but tern state. in refchl: to moillure Of
‘ drynefs. It is mollienr, Lubrificative,AnQdyncr
PeEtoral, and a little Cathartick'. Some Authors
have written thdt the frequent inward uiia of'thIS
Seed is very dangerous, but it is no otherwiiZ: true,
than as it falls out in other great cooling Herbs, :15
Houfltek, Hmham’, Letritr, Nightfhodt, and the
like, which are all rfafe enough, if Wifelyiifl‘1
fittily applied: but Ignorance, RalhneE,’ and In-
difcretion, in the applimtionot'Mediuments,h15
ofientimes done harm, and brought dircredit to [hole
Medicaments which (having beeu‘free from any
dangerous eH‘etCisywcre in all appearance tol IF
Phyficians of the grated life in the Art of Medi-
cine: The IZtme is to be laid in the ufeS of this
Plant, as to its Virtues and Elleas. ‘It is an excel
lent'thing; and without an evil'Qualidesy ‘
applred- and ufedhy a lVi e and skilful Phlf‘
Clll'l‘.‘ i. .1. IX. Th: