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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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ot‘a lielh green color on the upper fide, and greyth
underneath, much fpread abroad, and cut into many
Slices and Notches, more than any of the Wolf:-
' Irma. The Stalk rifes up two or three Feet high,
helet to the top with the like Leaves, ,but fmaller.
The top is fometimes divided into two or three
Branches, but more ufually without, on which
lla'nd many large Flowers, one above another,. in
Form very like unto a Hood or open Helmet, being
compofed of live Leaves, the uppermoli of which,
. , and the greatclt ‘below is like unto an Helmet or
ead’piece, two other fmall Leaves are at the fides
..ol' the Helmet, cloling it like Cheekst and come
'fomewhat under, and two others, ,whtch are the
imallelt, hang down like Labels, or as if a clofe
Helmet was opened, and fome pieces hung by,‘ of a
periEEl or fair blew color, ( but grow darker, having
, 1iood long) which caufes it to be nurfed up in Gar-
dens, that their Flowers, as was ufual in former
’Times, and yet is in many Country‘ Places, may be
laid up among green Herbs in Windows, and put in
Pots to, hand in Chimneys; in the Summer time.
But tho’ they may he thus entertained for their Beau-
ty, and put to the Ufes aforefaid, yet'you mull be-
ware-that they come not near our Tongue or Lips,
Iell they dil‘cover, -to your Colt, and Peril, their vi-
rulent, poifonous and dangerous Qualities. In the
middle of the Flower, when it is open, and gapes
wide, are feen'certain fmall Threads, like Beards,
, llandiug about a middle Head 5, which, when the
Flower is‘ pail, grows into three or four or more
ihmu blackilh Pods, containing black Seed within
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[wall 215m, ‘ami mtrmfer thereby3 - giving 12le like
" Rom, ze’itbfmllcr Ebm'tbereat than at the greater
Rom. From'this Root rifes up a round green Stalk,
, two or three Feet high,‘ .whereon grow feveral dark,
green, lhining Leaves, cut into five Partitions Veiv
deeply-k each of them fom'ewhat cut in on the edges,
very ' e unto.the,I.eaves of the Crew!” otfl‘me
Helmet-flower, but that theft: are not f0 finely divi-
de'd, and‘the'Divilions are fornervhat broader. The
top of the Stalk is divided into two or three Branch-
es, each whereof bears one flower, and fornetimes
(:tho’ feldom) two or three,‘ of a- very fair deep
blewiih hyautple- color, very like in Form unto the
former (Inlet-flatter, ‘but that this is Imaller, and
the Crell of the Helmetrilks higher‘than in that,
after which come fmall Pods, ulnch like to the o-
ther," giving alfo fuch like-Seed. , ,
V. The third, or Purple Hehnet-llower. I! [my
Root: Merl) like In 1136']:le 'pr True kind : it has
larger Leaves than the other; of a litdder green co-
lor, and Ihining withal, incifed or cut in after the
fame manner: the Stalk alfo grows very high, and
often fpreads it felf out intofevcralBranches, hear’
ing large purple blew Flowers, in longer Spikes than
the firli; which being pali‘ed away, like Seed corner
inl‘their places, not much ,dih‘ering from the for
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VI. De Placer: ' The 3111 grow naturally Wild
on Mountains, ’and in llloods and Illadowy places
in Italy, Germany and other places ; and it is litid,
that they grow upon fome Hills in England : howe-
ver,‘ with us they are chiefly uurl‘ed up in Gardens, ‘
where th flourilh extraordinarily well. i
‘ VII. TM Timer-L They all Hower in the princi-
pal SummeriMonths, viz. in jam- and filly, and
their Seed is generally ripe in Allglxji”. , ,
VIII. The Sindhi". ,They are hot and dry in
the Ultimate of the feurth Degree; ,Delcterious,
and a molt mortal I’oifon hoth'to Man and Beall;
and thereforevthey are called Wow-bane, hecaul'e
they kill Wolves Dogs, Rats, ‘Mice, b“ . whether
the Juice of the Herb or Roor,'or the Herb or Root
it felf,’ being mixed with their Food or Flelh, and
fo given them to ear. ' And that this Marlin-bond as
well as Ways-11m is as dellruElive to Mankind all'o,‘
is manifelt from that accidental Tryal had thereor
at Antwerp, 'at airTreat there, where certain igno-
rant Perfons gathering ofa Sallet in-the Garden,; a‘
mong the Variety 'of Herbs, gathered alfo Nepali”:
or Luparin, which with the other things was hated
table time, died miferably.‘ .. v, . , .
‘ IX. The Spvtijfmtim. rHelmcIJIatecr (as alfo
i Wow-[121m ) is a peculiar thing to kill‘Lice and Nits ‘
in the Head, and to cure the fame of Scurfi‘, Dan-
‘he PrinCiPJI or more noble Parts :) as alfo to cure
Difeafes of the Eyes by a fpecial Application. '
X. T11! Preparatiom. ‘ You may have therefi'om,
I‘ Aliyah! .7?!in 2. A Fender of 1]); Her]; or
R00" 3- All Oil or Ointment! Ibt‘fwre,'grrm
Herb ‘5’ R091. . A;Demt7ian a‘r Lye (3f Rom,
Lam: or Smi . 5. A dipillcd Mm; ‘ . ,
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wardly any way: it is alfo as deadly to WORKS;
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Dogs or other Creatures who (hall take thereon or ,
at 1“ 'any manner of ways of. the Herh‘m', R297:
The Juice of the Roots elpecially Hunters'of Wild
Bails do ufej dipping the Heads or their Arrows
i ‘XI..,'1"be'fzticr. ' It isia‘rdeadly Poiion taken iii-
3+ - SahnontHth], Lil)?
up a: Table; where all who did eat thereof; were“
.' taken wrth molt cruel Symtoms, .and after the via ‘
, lent Tortures which they endured for fome confide-'-
drill", Scabs, ff .Jto cl'eanie old and fretting Sores, '
running Ulcers, take away dead Flelh, (provided-
thefe Sores, Ulcers, Ur. be notiin the Mouth, Nol'e, ‘ '
Eyes ,or Privy Parts, by neuron of their Vicinity to .‘
it“? the lime; by which means they quickly kiiiciii