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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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,Lpaler. The Heads or Seed-Vell'els have two' Points
41, I 2 t
V. momma, or Great Gentian with a yellow
Flower, Irena Root rabid)'isfrmgtitbitkand, long,
yellow, tutti tiery‘ bitter; Pt‘aitt'tlii! Rootrifn up at
fir]? a lprlg, round-and [minim] ‘Head'tovalcavt; Helm
hag 'art: ‘arwllvei,’ , which, offer .afeilittg.’tbwjfilver,
1y: upanlibe Ground, artrl are fa 571071;?“ ‘bmatl,
foii'iewbtit.‘ pltti'tei'l or ribbed,tlittitmto tbtj Leaver :0
White llell'e‘bor,!17at Iiatfa fairly arl eminently P1411:
a], momma”: mm rtfmblit'ig rbl’ 'Il'nrv‘t: of
a Great Plantanef: from,famongqvhichv-riIESlip a
[iii-T round Stalk, three Feet or more high, and iiill
of Joints, haying m'o‘fuch'l.eares, but narrower,
and fmalle'r' at every, Joint, 16' encompafling the
Stalk at their lower ends,: that they‘will almoll
hold Water, if it falls upon theitii-i From the mid.
dle of the Stalk tol'the top‘ it is garnilhed with ma-
ny Cor0nets orRundles ol'Flowers, with two fuch
green Leavesdikewife at ovary Joint, and wherein
the Flowers datum; which are yellow, and when
laid open like Stars, tiling out of fmall greenilh
Husks, with fome Threads in their middle, but ha-
ving no Smellat all, yet llately to behold, as well
for the Ordersa's for the Height and Proportion of
the Plant: Ttheed ‘is broWn and llat, contained
in round Headstgxfomewhat like unto the Seed of
the Pritillary or Chequered DWJ”, but browner;
f . t v ' f j.
swallow-wort Gentiati.‘
, 2"
‘ ‘ x ‘ ow X
, VI. are thin], or Great Suiallow-wort Gentian,
m”: but are" allow film]! motion a ‘11): Bigot r
Qfa allair’; dumb :, from tbi:.RoaigI’f]Jrfing forth 7716-
7yStalkr, about two Feet high 3‘ art which grow may
“37”, P416; green Leaver, fti [9v taupltr, with three
R15! m 8030' Me of them, rrfeirzdling himewlm the
Lem: af Afclepus orSwallow-wort,‘ wbitb i: bmd
at 50’ I 0'71 andfbdrp at the point; The Flowers grow
at the feveraljomts of the Stallts'from the middle
“P““Ydsa AKWO. 0! three togbther,“ which are long
and hollow, like unto a‘Bellfou‘er,‘ ending in five
Comers, or painted Leaves, and folded before they
are open, as the Flowers Of’the Biadwetd: are, of
a fair blew color, fometimes deeper, and fometimes
sum! - 4 w
on Horns at.the‘top,. and contain within'them flat
greyilh Seed, like unto the former, 'hut lellier.
VIL'Tbe fourtbgar Great Conmve Gentian, or
En lifh Gentian,‘ baa marry long tough Raot:,' dif cr-
ftfbitbtr’ami . thither tinder 'tbeatfptr Cm]? “the
Earth, witbfthr few fibre: adjoining thereto : from
j which fpring immediatelyn fat tbiM: Stalk, 'oirtled
3w: [cured by certain Dijiarm’r, fat at :11th ’rrat or
vjaintmbitb barLeaf, and jimttitim more, tie: iag
rm tartainzn'umlztr: which Leaves do at the hr en-
clofe the Stalkround about; being one whole and
entire Leaf, without any Incil'ure at all,"as it were
a hollow Trunk; which, after it is come to its full
Growth, 7hreaks on One Hde orother, where it is
thitineli,itenderell and weakelt, and becomes a liar
ribbed me, like unto the Gran yellow German or
Plume!!! aforegoing. The Flowers come forth from
the Bofoms ofthe-upper Leaves, fer u on tender
Foot-Mk5, in lhape like thole Of'the mall Bind-
weed, or rather the Flowers of Saapwort, of a whi-
tilh color, and much about the brims with a little
light Carnation -, which being pail away, the Seed
follows, contained in little Cods or Seed-le‘els.
; VIII. :'I‘be':P1am-. ' The Edi three grow on moun-
tainous places in Grnttarty -, ‘but with us, are only
nutlt up in'Gardens, of which the fecond or lillow‘
amen-d is the molt ufual Or common. The fourth
or Englifb‘kirtd, Girard fays he found in a mall
Grove of a wood, called the Spirit, near to Dul-
barmw, ta fmall Village in Nartbmptonjbirr.
11):. ’17): Tiger, All the 5rd three flower for the
mo part in ant, and 'in of fa] i, bringing
forth their Seed in Augiifi.’ . "11h: fourth )fprings Ont
of the Ground in April; flowers in the end offal]
- and beginning'ofAugujt,'andperfetls its Seed in
zhe endi'ofahatjMomh, orbeginning of Seym-
%' .X, T be Qualititr', Spaijcatim, Pr: aratiMr 11111
Variant, ”are the fame with thol'e oft eSmaIl Gm-
tmm m'the next Chapter," ‘and thither we refer
you. ‘ . ' , V
GKH’I-‘A Pf! CCCXII.
0f: (G E N T'I‘ A N .Small,
0 R, ‘
L,Srnall::‘FiE L W;O R T.
l. H E ' N42116:. 'It is called in Greek, Kmart)
‘ , moi: in Latin, Gentiana mmar, ft): Gm-
; tiartella ;. audin Englijb,‘ Small or Lej't‘f Gert-tidy,
ot‘the LthE'r Frlwart. . 7 t i, . .
ll. The-Kinds. -' There are three genencltkmds
hereof; viz. .1. Gentiana miller, .lm Gentiaiiella
otmalir, The Spring Gentian. 2. Gentlarta mirror,
fm Gmiaaella 41m, Small Summer Gentran.
Gentiaita minor, feu Gmmm’lld autumnal”, Small
AutumniGentian. 0f etch of thefe three generick
kinds, "there are feveral Speaes; all of which, it is
not our Bufinefs to declare in this Work, and there-
fore we. (hall (3an difcourfe of To many of then as
either grow Wil With us, or are to be met wrthal
in our Gardens, and that in the following order. ,
Ill. The variau: Spain. 0f the Erlt or Split!
kind, wehzne thefe, via. 1. Gmtiariella write Ia-
n‘folia, Bro'ad-leav’d Gentian of the Spring. 2. GM-
maa verna argujlifiilia, Narrow-leav’d Gentiant 1&1):