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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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.. XVI. An Ohfervution.’ ',The notableul‘e of this
Plant in curing fome inveterate, malign, and almoll
fuppoled. incurable :Difafes, as is belbre hinted;
makes me believ that not only this Herb, but mats
nylother limple erbs have been ufed by the Arm'-
eutr, in .curing many deplorable inhrmities, of
which we have at this‘day no particular account ,
by which it appears that they preferred Simple:
before Gmpoundrz And were we now, but as in-
duiirious in the invelligation of the Virtue: and
Power: of Herbs, as thofeof Ancient times were,
and made .but as many tryals of them as they did -,
I doubt. not but we might be as happy in our :pur-
fuit of the fame as they were, and do greater things
with: even lim le Medicaments, thau'even the
Lemmed’profefsp to do with their molt pmpou:
Compaunlnf But of this enough.
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C H..A,P., CCXCVL'
Of‘I'FJL‘ IL'E‘ SET 'O'N'E S,
FLIE ORCHIS, orBeeFloxver.
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I. ,.H E NKUIIEI.‘ ‘th is Called in‘GreeiE 'Omr‘
,73:uv7ar.6'0rxwv1ix3.' gimme; in tin,
Orchir :nufeorio : and in Englm; Fly Stoner, Fly 0r-
thu, .and Be: Flower. 1
- II.‘ The Kindr. There are four kinds hereof; viz.
I. Orchis lHtrnzophroditim Candida, The White
Butterliy Orchis. 2. .Orchis llIelirriar, jive opi era,
Bee Orchis, or. Bee‘Flower. 3. Orehis Sphegoder,
Gnat Orchis, or Gnnt. Satyrion. 4. Orehz‘: lilyoda,
Fly Qrchis, or Fly Stones. 1 ' ' ,
III. The Defcriptions. . The frjf, or White But-
terliy, ha; 41 Root taking part of both Orchis and
Palmu Chrijli, being not altogether round, norfidly
bonded, from whence it took the Name Hermaphro-
51mm, to . fignifekhotb Kindr. The Leaves are two
In number, feldom more, being fair and broad, like
unto the Leaves of Lillis, without any Spot at all
in them. .At‘the To of the Stalk lhnds many
White Flowers, not 0 thick fet as the Palmm,
and every one of them bein lhaped like unto a
White Butterfly, with the lElings 1' read abroad,
with of ur behind it full ofahony Liquor.
IV. The feeond, ox Bee-Orchis or Stones, he:
Root: which are two together, round and white, hu-
0mg immm Jllueiloginity. or Clommiueji- within
them, without any tujle olmojl at all, a: all or mo]?
gm of theft Kind: have. This is a fmdll and low
ant .for the moli part, with three or four fmall
tElves at the bottom. The Stalk is lieldom above
. 51! Inches high, with four or live Flowers thereon,
one above another, having round Bodies, and .fome-
M13“ Hat, of a kind of yellowilh color, with purple
. “155 above them, fo like unto an Hony‘Bee, that v 7
It might foon deceive-one who had never feen fuch ..
a Flower before. ,
V.- .The' third, 'or Gnat Orchis or Stones, I)!”
at: which are two round Bulb: or Tuhirr, like a:
1 e when-ore. The Leaves of this Plant are fome-
f ,t larger than ofxthe Beeliower. ‘The Stalk al-'
015 romewhat higher. : The Flowers are fewer on
0 g- 0p, but fomewhat larger than of the former,
G‘ 3:: Orchis, and limped to the refemblance of a
Wrior great long Fly. .. z- . , ‘
Chap 296 E72gi2 J Hwhr H
. ill. The fourth, or Fly Orchis or Fly Stones, is
In it: RuotanJVLeof like to the [a]? dcfcribed, the
(ligature zs chiefly in it: Howe)“, which is neither
f0 long as the Gm: Orehir, nor fo rent as the
Bee Orrhi'r; but the lower part of the lgly is black,
With a lili of Alhcolor crolling the Back, with a
lhew of Legs hanging at it. The natural Fly feems
to be To in love with it, that you (hall l‘eldom come
in the heat of the day, but you [hall find one lit-
mg thereon.
:VII. The Plurer. All thefe grow in many places
of England, fome in W oods, as the Butterfly, others
on dry Banks and barren Places in Kent, and le-
veral other Shires.
Vlll. The Timer. They Flower for the molt
ran in the beginning or middle of may, feldom
ater.
IX. 'The Quolitier, Speeijcotion, Preparation,
and :Vlfl'ller, ate the lime with thofe of the Cyno-
forchrs or Dog-liones in Guy. 226. aforegoing, fo
that we (hall fay no more thereof in this place.
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C H A P. CCLXXXXVII.
0f FOOLS‘TO N E S.
I. HE .N'mner.l .It is called in few: Flo-j. : in
'- Latm Orehzr morio,.0reh1'si morionir, Te-
[lreulur mononir : in Englifh Fool-jloner.
II. The KinJr. There are many Kinds hereof,
as, I. Orehie Mario marfoliir moeulnlir, The great&
Male Fool-limes. 2. Orchir maria oltero moillldlo,
Other Fool-liones with fpotted Leaves. 2. Orrin:
maria 7M: folii: non maeulojr, Male Fool‘liones not
fpotted. 4. Orchir maria firming, Female Fool-liones.
5. Orcbir Moria minor folii Inoeulotir, fmall Fool
-liones with fpotted Leaves. 6. Orthi: Amhropop.m-
nz arcade: mar, The Male Neapolitan Fool- ones.
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