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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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tilh Seed, very like unto the Head of Adam's Flower,
but much greater. P ‘
VI. The Placer. The hrll and fec'ond grow upon
Hills in German, and Mountains in Italy, on the
Alpr, and Pyranean Hills, the third grows, as Clu<
has lilys, near Vienna in Aujlrhz, and in both the
Upper and Lower Hungary, ; but they all three grow
with us here in England only in Gardens, where
the flourilh very well. ‘
H. The Timer. The two Erll llower not in
Winter, but in Summer Months, as in allay and
.7101: , and they abide green all the Year through; . ‘
the third Flowers in April, if the Weather is warm,
and its Seed ripens in the Month following.
VIII. The Qualitier, Speeijlcation, Preparation:
, and Virtue: agree exaEtly with thofe of the True
Black Hellehor in Chap. 348. aforegoing, and there-
' fore need not be repeated again'in this place.
V 1X. OlJervat. 1. . Ajlrantia nigra, the hill of the
aforegoin? is doubtlefs no Majierwort, as the ur-
gin' facu ty does fhew, and it is certain, and eve-
ral Taxfperienced Phylicians can tellify, that the Roots
hereo do purge Melancholy, and other Humors, and
that they have perfeEtly cured Melancholy. Mad
People therewith; [andthat it has this Purging Fa-
culty, Gefnec does likewife tellify in a certain Epi-
l’tle written to. Adolphus 0m: , in which he lhews
that Aflrantia nigra, or Greater Will Black Helle-,
hor with Saniele Leaver, is alrnoll as llrong as White
.Hellehar, and that he himl'elf had made Experiment
of lthe Purging ' Faculty thereof by Stool, which
thing befpeaks it to be a Black Hellehor, if not the
True of Diqfwrider.
X. Ohfer-uat. 2. 'Dohoneu: fuppofes this Greater
Saniele Leav’d Black Hellehor tobc Hellehornr verm-
Diqfeoridir, (in which I am of Opinion he was de-
ceived) and therefore-afcribes all the Virtues of the
True Black Hellehar which grows in Antieyra to it,
but in a word, this may be faid of it, that it has
been found by often and good Experience to open
and Purge the Body of Melancholy flutnors, and
that L’ifely , without fuch erturbation and trouble
[as is raid to be in the Life 0 the other Bloc]: Helle-
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C I-LA P. lecoLI.
-'.0fHELLnBoit White,
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.SNEEZEuRooT'...
I. HE Nanm'.‘ I: is called in Arabicll' Charha-
‘ v chem, in Greek 'EM'tCoy; Hindi, in Urine
Hellehorur alhur, Veratnmz album, and Sangui: Her-
culm, in Englijb While Htllehor, and Sneezeraot.
' e Kinds. It is twofold, viz. 1. Garden
0" ,T’W, called limply Hellebom’alhm, Ellehorum
album, and Veratrnnt alhanz, of which in this Cha -
m", 2- Hellebarine ,‘ val Ellehorine allm , W‘ d
White Hellebor, of which in (71417. 352. '
111- The Kind: of the Garden 01 True. Its two-
fold, 1112.. r. Hellehorur alhlu, Hellehml: allmr ve-
m‘" ”511,517” “1' 411”“ Wkdrit, Veramm album vul-
81171.4” , (felleboranamIidur , and Baubimu adds for
dilltnEhon fake, Flore fab viridi, and it is certainly
the Coaabgo Vegetij, amniponma. e' Plinii, The
egaano
- 449;?
Common White Hellebor. ,2. Hallaham: alhn: [77‘4"
cox, Ellehcrmn Flore atro ruhenu', l’eriilmna alhmlz
qn‘cox purpnra nigrimnle, The early Flowering
Vhite Hellebot,‘ or Early Sneacroo: with dark rel!
Flowers. . ‘ '
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IV. The .Delbriptions. The jfrfl, or Common
White Hellebor. It [7111” 4 Root which it great , an!
reafonahle tbielc a! the head, havingr a member afgrent
white Strings, running down deep into the Ground,
h which it ix jlrongly fajineal, this Plant tifes at
ll out ofthe Ground with a great, round, whitilh
grEen Head , which growing up opens it felf into
many goodly, fair, large, green Leaves, plaited as
it were with eminent Ribs all along the Leaves,
compalling one another at the bottom , frdm the
middle whereof rifes hp a limo; round Stalk, with
feveral fuch like Leaves, but fmallcr, to’ the middle
thereof, from "whence to the top it’is divided into
many Branches , having many fmall yellowifh or"
whitilh gr'een Star like Flowers all along upon them,-
which being pal’t away turn into final], long, three:
I uare, wlutilh Seed, (landing naked, without any
end or Husk to contain them, tho’ lbme Authors
have Wrote to the contrar i - .
V; The fceonz], of“ Eli yeFloivering White Hellea
bor.’ It ha) nofneh tuherom headed Koo! a; the for:
mer, but (I! it were a long 1721117011: fully head, from,
whence fhoot (11 many long white String: ar the other : ‘
This Hellehor is very like that jull now defctibed,.
but-that it fprings up a Moirth at leall before it, and
that the Leaves are broader, longer, thinner, and no‘ ,
leis plaited, folding themfelves backwards often;
times, and fooner perilh, falling away from the
Plant, the Stalk hereof is higher than the Other,
with fewer Leaves thereon, bearing fuch like Starry
Flowers, but of fo dark or blackilh a red color, that
they are fwcely difccrnable, but at a neat dillance,‘
after which come fmall Seed, , i'Ery like the former;
both theft: Plants lofe their Leaves wholly, item
l‘pringing up again erery Year.
5 f l' a VI. The