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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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in fome Leaves atherc the red'or’yellow is, there
will be green, and fo t’iryirig, that it becOmes plea-
fant to behold, the Seed hcrcof'is black and lhlning,
and not to be dillinguilhEZl erm the former.
Vl. Grrarl faid that it far exceeded his Skill
to defcrihc the Beauty and Excellency of this
Plant, and that a Painter would be at a llay to de-
piE‘t it in its lively Colors, in few Words (1in he)
every me rcfembles in color the mol‘t fair and beau-
tiful Feathers ol‘a Parrot, having a lltipc of lied,
a line of Yellow, :1 dalh ofWhite, and a Rib of
green color, nolvcalily in Words to be fer forth, the
let'eral mixtures of the Colors, which Nature has
bellowed hereon, being fo excellent and admirable.
170hnjbn fays the Leaves are commonly ofthrce co
ors, the lower part next ,the Stalk is green, the
middle red, and the end yellow; or elfe, the bot-
tom being green, the middle part is yellow, and the
end ted. .
VII. The fourth, or Carnation Flower Gentle,
(which i: more rare than all the ref?) ha: 11 Root can-
jijling if a grea! many‘Fihrer or Stringr, from which
rye u veryrhitk flat Stalkr, mjicd and firmhed,
are: ing’fmaarh, and‘of .a fhining red color, which
'begin at the Ground to djyrde Ihtngfi’lver into Branch-
‘tr; upon which do grow many gm: large Leaves,
of a dark green color, tending to ’rednefsh in fhew
like to thol'e of the Red Deer, Ilrgked'and'dalh:
here and there with red, mixed with green, the
Flowers grow along the Stalks, from the midll there- .
of, even to the to ,imform like Pannirrm, that is,
a great number 0, ,Chaflie confufed'Ears rhrufl hard
together, of a deep purple, or rather of a deed; blufh,
. tending to a Carnation color: the form or
Cthe Velvet Head-of a Stag,‘ compaft of fuch like
foft feeling fuhllanee, in which is contained the Seed,
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VIII.’ The Plaza; ‘All thefe Plants are Natives
. ’ofthe Fallern Countries, as Perjia, Arabia, Syria,
Turk], Ur. from whence they havetbeen brought to
,us, and here are only nurll up in Gardens.
. 7 IX. The. Timer. They Flower, orhear their gal-
lant Tufts or Spiks in Auguji, and continue Flow-
, ering until September, keeping in fome meafure their
. , Vigor, till Frolt overtakes them, at what time they
petilh. ' 7 As for the third, or Variable Flower gentle,
rt.ought,to be Sown in a hot Bed of,H0rle Dung,
wrth fome Earth lirewod thereon , 'in‘ the end of
March , and f0 ordered "its you dojllmlr Illrlam,
andthelike'.‘ . ‘ ,' I" ,
X. The Qualititr, Specification, Prhfamrianr m1
Vimm, are the time with thofe in the 'ormer Chap-
ter, to which you are referred. '
CH A ‘P. ' CCLX’XX.3
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‘1, . lHE. Nam. I: is called in Greek Ami: Bu-
' " (email, )9 7,35 Karimmcuniueg, :9 Atom; an-
1mm: in Latin . Lychnjrf chalcedam'ca , Lyrhni: 'By-
-anrma , v'el Conjlannno olimira, in Englifb Flatter
"f anflanrnople, or Brillol Flower.
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min, or Canlfinnr, anti istworold, viz. r. L)'Lll’lllf
Chalccdonim Hart fimpliti mam, Single Nonefuch,
or Flower of Cunllunlinapk, or Brijr'ol Flower. 2.
113de Chalmlnnim Hm flew minirlo, Double
onefuclt, or Double Flower of Coyiumimfle,
or Brijlol Flower.
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III. The Defcriptions. Tlejirflwr Single None-
fuch, ha! a Rob! whith ir very .l‘i'hrmu or SIriIg-y,
fzjlning itfrlfvnyjlrmg’ ' in Ihe Growl, wht‘lchv
itimuch intn’qfer Ilfc'lf, r0271 whence [ping up Ill!-
ny broad and long gnu-n Lower , wrong which m
up fcverltl IUD“, 70.71151, l‘a’ry,jninled Smll’cr, I’ve;-
Pim high, withrrw Lower .11 may Jainr; the How
ersjland at the to s of them, ‘very many together,
in-a large Tuft or llmhlc, conhlling or live linall
long Leaves, broad pointed, and norchetl in the mid-
dle, of a bright red Orange color, which being pail,
there come in their places fmall hard Wlllrllll
Heads, or Seed Vell‘els, containing black Seed, like
to the.Seed ofSwm Il’illiunu, and having but a
fmall fmell.
IV.’ of Ihi: Single Species rhEv-r are that? 017w
' for”, which tlszir chiefly in the Colorrrf 1h: lilac:
err, viz. r. Lyt’blll: Chult‘etlonlm Elleunplici 41hr,
Single Brijlal Flower with aWhiteElower.‘ 2. Lydi-
nir Clllllffllolllt'a Hare fimplrci Car-neg, Single None-
fuch With a Blulh'or Flelh Color, w1thout yariabili-
‘ ;. Lyrhni: Chulmdonim ,l‘lon’ fnlylict Verna).
lor, Single Nonefuch Variable. (This at hrfi is ofa
pale Red, afrer awhile it grows paler , . and at lalt
it becomes wholly white; and all thefe .diverlities
olflowers it will have to be feen at one and the
fame time upon the Stalks. -
V. The friend, or Double Nonelitch, ho: a R”!
Fihronr, like rhtformr, and incrmji’r III like wan;
ntr, the Leaver and Stalk: being hairy and high, unit
the Flawz’rr growing in Tuflr, alrogtther like lhEhcfl
Single Kind , but in this conlills the chief dillerence,
that'this bears a larger Umhle or Tuft of Flowers at
top of the Stalk, each Flower ,conlilting of three or
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