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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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Chap 3 I 2-. Englo Jig-onion” a , . 413
the Spring. . 3’. Gentiontllo minor Verna; .T he fmal-L
let Spring Gentian. 0fthe Sumner Kind we have
thefe, via. a. Gentiana minor O-x:iat.z,:alfo Cru-
rioto, r Crol‘sworr, alfo the lelI'er CrofsworrGeuttan.
5. Genliono minor, fm Gentiontllir “ruin partition
Ptnnxi, Pennys blew fpottal Gentian. ,6. Gannon:
Anglia: pollida partllir dljiinlll,xAn E :1;th Gannon,
which we here place anion : the x‘frmller thtinnr,
tho' Clujio: has enumerat‘ it among the Greater
Gentianr, but accordin ro'its magnitude, it cmnot
be laid to be either a rc'ot ot a Slitdll‘thlllal! but
a medium between them both, as isthar alfo of1 P:-
m, but being bedroom” G:ntinn:,'f'we thought
good to put thetn both in' this cums, ; Of the Au-
tanGnJ: we haveg'thei‘e, viii-J. Bnmmomnthr,
(Pentium Antumnolig‘VCalathiait iolct, orAutumn
Gentian. 8. Gentionello Glutgmnolirfeimurtt mi-
norir’hlijr, Gention'ello fugoqr Minaf,’9tZardi, Au-
tumn Gentian ivlth Small] entoryLeavec, Ballard
or Dwarf Autumn Gentia of Gerard.’ ’ 9. Catriona
fttgax Clof', animator: Clufj, Smjll Autumn
Gentian, mply fo called-l1" y ' Q4 1 g ,. , (a: n
IV. The Defcriptiqhst g "Their ,' or Broad Lmv’d
Gentian of the Spring, ‘lm djm [yellowilh weeping
Filmy: Root, front which grin; up'Ltavtr [fully
large andgrctn, hrohdq“ t on theft of the Thir Kino
following , being aboutitwc: Inchesvlong ,' and one
Inch broad, and fom'ewhat round pointetl,’ with three
Veins or Ribs running through therr'i,i as the others
have; the Stalk tiling from the middle of there Leaves
grows about four Inches high 3-) or fomething better,
with a fmall Leaf or two thereon, bearinga't the head
or top thereof a la e Husk,“fuitained by two [mall
and long Leaves, frtgom; the ,middleof which fhoots
forth a very large and ’gfelzt ‘ltollow blew Flower,
ending in live Iinall hits; )a‘t
V. 'Ihfi’tond, of arrow Lav’d Spring Gentian,
horn Root whichit long 11hr! yonder, fprtoding it hlf
mail) under the Ground and o ayrllowifh tolor, from
whithjhring nun Hedi: of wtrolfmnll, long, and
narrow Leaver-h?! together, fomewhol longer than the
next whirbfollowr; from fome ofthel'e Heads, which
Flower not in one and the lame Year, thofe Flower.
ing the Year following which Flowered not the Year
before, and thole which Flowered the Year before
not Flowering again the next Year after) rifes u a
fmall (lender talk, fomewhat higher than the or-
meg-hearing thereon two. fuch like fmall Leaves at
a Joint and. at the top one Flower, afor' the molt
part, ( eldom more unlefs the Stalk is branched)
much l‘mallerthnn the lath-narrow, [on ', and hol-
low, lrke a Hofe or Husk, of one entire' eaf at the
lower part , but ending above in Me Corners , or
fmall pointed Leaves, laid open like a Star, having
pieces of Leaves, like, as it were, Ears, Rat at
the bottom of the divilions of them, both of them
of; perfetl blew color, but norfo deep 'as the for-
mer,‘having a white Line in the middle of each of
6311', and the Ground or bottom of the Flower,
Whitilh alfo, witlta flew threads ltanding about a
1 head, not to be feen until the Flower be almolt
0! fully pail, unlefs one open it, which, after it is
ripe, .or hill blown, is Iinall and long, containing
VB fmall brownifh Seed. , ’ -
I. The third 'or Smaller Spring Gentian,'hor 4
Roof confijling o mall, long, go]: , yellow Stringr,
”bx” 150“ If”! here and t ere diver: head: of
river, on thereby increqjh rtqunably well, if it
from ”i “h’ P41“, or i: norji up in good Ground,
Dali‘m'f’ , 1’ "Z’IlfM’u’bgrow with all the Ctr: and
' Wm momma) From, this Root fpring feveral
it “5‘1 green 145%, lm upon the Ground, as
were 1“ Heads 01' TUftS, omewhat broad below,
!
therein . as confpiouous as in the tormer Gentiom;
among which rifes up a fmall (hart Stalk, with fome
fmalleriLeavec‘ thereon at the t0p whereof (lands
one'fair, large, hollow Flower, made Bell fafhion,
with wide ,open Brims, and endirg in live Corners
or‘Divilions, of the molt excellentdee blew color
that can be ' feen iii-any Flower , wit fome white
(pots in the bottom on, the infide, after the Flower
is pail, long and round Pods .or Cods do appear, in
‘whichore contained (mall blackiih Seed, the whole
Plant is bitter, but not to Ilrong ‘bytnuch as the for-
“181’.
tCr
VII. The fburth, or Crofswort Gentian, ht: Rom
whirl) m fnmll and whitijh, difitrjng ’ thmftlver
mlnyway: in the Ground, of a: 1m; otojie aim]?
or the reji. .From this Root rifes up many Branches,
which lye ugon the Earth, fcarcely lifting themFelves
upright; air are full ofrjoints, at which grow ufu-
:1 1y mic Leaves, one oppolite unto another, in man-
nethof-a'Crofs, from whence'it took its Name, in
fhapevery like unto'Soponaria, or Sonpwm , but
fhorte‘r," and ofa darker green color; at-the tops of ,
the Stalks Iiand, many Flowers thick thrulted toge-
ther, almoi’t like Swot! IVillimr, and likewile at
the next Ibint underneath, every one of them liand-
ing in a "dark green Husk, and conlilling ofiive fmall
Lewes, the oints or ends ofwhrch only appear a-
bove the Hus in which they (land, and are hardly
to be feen, but that they are of a line ale blew
color, (and that many grow together, t e Seed is
fmall and brown, hard, and forrrewhat like unto
the Seed of the Marion Violet, or Coomtr Bellr.
VIII. “Tbejifih, or Pennys blew fpott Gentian,
ho: a Root'which irfznnll ondytllow, with many Fibre:
adjoining to it, from whirhjhringw o hinted Stall:
about holfayard high, jointwhot rt Ji toward: the
bottom next to the Root, with two Leaver, like to the
Great Gentian, fer at ml; faint, but much fxdll'tr,
and with more Vein: or Rihr therein than it, jlallrlmg
(orb upon a reddilh Footjiolk, greater brim than
rhof: above, where they do in a manner memory:
the Stalk. From the middle of the Stalk u vwdS
and Pointed at the end, with five Veins or Ribs
come forth the Flowers at the Joints,with the areas,
on