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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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many places; the lecond grows allo inwuotly, bar-
ren, and untilled places, the third was lent, by 3'0-
frpha: ‘de (mom, Herbarii’t to the Great Duke of
'I'itftaay, to Cameraria: out of Ilaly. ,
VII., The dimer. The firIi Flowers almol’t every
Month, as the Chroma]! Kind does, the two lalt
Flower in May, forte, fol), and Algal). H ,
VIII. The Qualities, Speerfcaiion, Preparation:
and Virtue: ofthefe are the Lame with thol‘e of the
common Kind, delivered in the former Chapter from
Seth. to Sea. 18.'and therefore we fhall fay no
more thereof in this place.
C H ‘A P. Jcccxxxv.
of H Al; E‘s--3 E L 1.. s Englilh,
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Englilli I-l Y AC IN T H.
H E Nair-10., It has noknovvn Greek blame,
I.
T but in Latirte it is called Hyatirtthm Artglicur,
Hyacinth”: Belgian, a'nd Hyacinth”: Hifpartieur, in
Englifli Harm-Belle, 01' Eaglifh Hyacinth,
The Kinda. .1 Of: this Plant; there are four
Kinds, viz. lgeHyaeinthar 'Aaglim: Curlew, Hya-
cinth”: mafmfrur Dodortxi; (beanie none wrote of
it before him) Blew Engliih Hares-Bell,'; and Blew
Englifh Hyacinth -,". but it is as well called Belgian,
and Hiffartiwr. ‘2. H arimha: Anglimr Allim, Hy-
acinthu: Belgicu: Cart idm, ' White Englifh or Dutch
Hares-Bells, or White Englifh or Dutch Hyacinth.
g . Hyaeimhar Anglieur, out Belgian- Flore Iamrnato,
Carnation Englilh or Dutch Hares-Bells, otHyacinth.
4. Hyaeinthar Hifgariiemlmajor, Flore’Cam Male in-
anr, The greater paniih Hares-Bells, or ell-Flow-
ered Hyacinth. I. ‘ ’5 V ’ . .
Blew Eighth my $511)
' 473.
III. The Dclszptions. '1 hcfmji, or Blew Lnglilh
Hares-Bells. The Rant: of all [bargain]?! agree, art.
are alilce, beirti,r white, and very-[loan jiwe (f which
will be great and round, other: longer and jlrlrder,
and theft which lye near the top tflhe Earth bare, will
be of .1 green (0101‘. From this hoot rites up feveral
long and narrow green Leaves. no: liantling upright,
nor yet fully lying upon the Ground, among which
fptings up the Stalk, hearing at the top many lon'!
and ‘hollow Flowers, hanging down their Heads, all
forwards for the moli part, and divided at the brim
into fix Leaves or Divilions, turning up their points
a little again, of a fweetiih but heady fcenr, fome-
what likeuntonthe Gralhe Flower; the lieudler
Seed are long and fquare, in which are contained
much blatk Seed; the color of the Flowers are in
fome a deepEr Blew, tending to 21 Purple, in others
of a paler. Blew, or of; bleak Blew, tending to an
Aih Color; and fome are Party Colored.
IV. The ferorid, or White Englilh Hares-Bells, ha
Roolr, Leaver, Stalk: and Flower: very like the for-
mer, favlng, that the Leaves in this are fomewhat
white color, yet fomctimes they are White and
Blew mixt together. ‘
V. The third,” Carnation Engliih Hares-Bells.
Tbtje in their bulbous Rootr, Leaver, Stalkt, Haw-
er:, and Seed, or am; irt their magnitude and form
of growing, are very like to the fir]! arid fetend
Kindr',‘ favingithat the Flowers in this are of a line
Carnation Color for the'm'oll part, or of a hne delay-
ed purpliih Red, or blulh Color, which time call u
Peach Colot.- ‘ V ‘
‘ VI. The fourth, or Greater Spanilh Hares- ells.
It ha: a bulbou: Root, from wheneefpriag up feve-
ral long and narrow green Leaver, which have mil
firength enough in rhemfelve: to jihad upright , In):
a little incline“ or bend downwards. This Plant is
very like to the hrli: aforegoing, but that it is greater
in all its parts, as well of Leaves as Flowers, many
growing together‘atthe top of the Stalk, with ma-
ny fhort green Leaves among them , hanging down
their Heads, "it"tthilar‘ger.a greater, and wider open
- Mouths, like unto Bells, or a dark Blew Color, and
of no plealing fmell. .
VII. .17)? Placer: The firll Parkirijbri IEin is I?)
common every where, that it fcarcely needed any
Defcription, and that it is more frequent in England
than in the Low Countries, or in Spain, it grows
in Woods, Copies, ‘and in the borders of Fields, eve-
ry where throughout'Eaglartd; the fecond and third
are not fo common, but they grow in the Woods by
Colehejier, in Ejeiq’, in the Fields and Woods by
Southlieet, nearunto Gravtfead, in Kent, as alfo in
a piece of Groundby Canterbury called the‘ClJpper,
alfo in the Fields byBath, and m the Woods by
Warriagtort, in Laaeafhire, and in other places.
VIII. The Times. cThey'Flower from the begin-
ning of May to the end of fare, and. the‘Seed ripens
inthe mean Safon, and in fome little time after.
IX. A: to their Qualities, Speajicatian, Prepara-
tion: and Virtue: Authors have laid nothing, nor do
we know any thingy)" Experience concerning the
lime, Ewing, that an intme‘nt being made of the
Roots hereof, is of lingular ufe to lirengthen weak
omts.
I X. Note. The Root ofHarer-Bellr, as it is gene-
rally bulbous, fo‘it is Hill ofa‘ thick, ilimy, Empla-
liick Juice, which is of fo Iirong a body, that it will
ferve to fat Feathers upon Arrows, inltead of Glew,
or to palle Books with 5 and. hereof was totmerl y
made the bell Starch, next to that of Aron, or [Vade-
Roht'rt Roots.
., Ppp CHAP.
broader, and the Flowers more open, and of a very -