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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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another, and as it were alittle Bearded.
Wood-Graft Grmttf.
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tum Capillzzteum Panicula‘alba, White Trifle Wood
Graft. It has a tufted of bulb fibrous Root, as
hall ‘as Hairs, Earn the head 9 which bulb of F1
btes 1‘ ring fmall Grqf: Leaves, which grow thlck
and cafe together in a Tuft in a great number, and
filing to be about 21 Foot long; the Stalks come up
from among the Leaves , about a foot and half or
more high, fmooth, and bare, almofl without Joint
or Leaf on them, the to s of which end-ina white
Panicle , two or three ches long , compelled of
fmall Husks With Beards. . ,
CCLXV. 3. Gramen Syloatimm , ml Nemomle
minut, '1723 lcjm’r IWod-er. This diliers not
from the full or gre‘arer, but that it is in all its
arts lell‘er and lov‘ver , the fmall, chafl'ie, bearded
5 being fmaller, and nothing f0 foft, but rather
hard, and a little more fparfed.
CCLXVI. 4. Gramm Nemrofum, ml Sylvati-
tum ’txile (11mm; , Small bard fVoad-Grqfr. The
Roots are fmall and fibrous, being in album, from
Whence rife up many fmall hard Leaves, about a
span long, or a Span and half; the Stalks are (leu-
(let, with very few Joints and Leaves on them, at
Which Joints, and at the tops all‘o, come forth fmall,
long, chaiiie Spiked Heads.
CLXVII. The Plate: and Timer. Thefe, all
STOWx'ln Woods , almoli every where throughout
Efls’llf’ld; land they hourilh when other argue: do,
”12. in the Summer Months; they are never ufed in
l’hyfick , nor are'they good Fodder for Cattel, but
Goats will grow fat therewith.
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mm La'namm ,, val Bambycimtm, Woolly-Grafs,
two Kinds. -
CCLXVIII. I. Gram”! Lariatum, jive Bambyci-
r9”, Gram”! funcoide: Lanatum vulgarls, Comma):
:00” 0r Cotton-Graft. It has 5. Root very bulhy,
”’11, and fibrous, thrufiing its Fibres fomewhat
will
from whence rife up many long, flender, and Gratlie
Leaves, almol’t'like unto Rufber, whence the Name
fumble: Landlim, br femur Bombycim'u; from
among thefe Leaves rife up a fmall, flender, hard
Rufhy Stalk, about :1 Foot high, fometimes with a
few Grallie Leaves thereon, and fometimes without
either Leaf or Joint, beating at their tops a Bufli oi
Tuft, fom’etimes one, fometimestwo', three, four,
or more, of' molt pleaf'ant, line, fol": white Down,
Wooll, or Cotton, as line and loft and white as fine
White Silk, lb that they feem to' be rather fine fort
White Silk like Heads, finer than the fineli whiteli
Wooll that is, and ufually about the bignefs of at
Walnut, with its outward green Husk, Which are
to eminent in ones Eye a far off, that they give
much Delight and Admiration to the Beholdersg
thefe being full ripe pafs away with the Wind.
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minur, Gram): furrow”: Laziamm ”rim”, Smal
Woolly or Cotton-Graft. The Roof is fomewhat
black, and not much unlike the former, hut this has
many more Rufhy Leaves than that, but the Stalks‘
rife not much higher, they bear at their Heads Tufts
of Woolly or Cottony Heads , not fo large as the
former, bu't are fmall, and fomeWhat long, which
being ri e fly away with the Wind, leavinga fmall
Head 0 Seed, like a Crawfo'ar Had, behind it.
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tnoili, wet, Boggy, and Moorilh places, the firlt
on the Bog on Hampjlmd Heath , near London, as
alf'o in Highgat: Park, not far from the fame, the'
fecond has been found about Montpelier in Erma;
they Flower in filly. ,
The Vtrtuer‘;
CCLXXI. Cordur- hays, that the DecoE‘tibn ofth'e'
firli in Wine, being taken warm, gives all: in the
griping pains of the Belly. ..The Woolly Heads are
gathered by fome to fluff Pillows, Bolfiers, and
Culhions with, far excelling in fofmefs and good-
nefs anyTbijllt Down. Thus have we given you
is? mm the Moorifh Ground in‘ which it grows,
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