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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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ivhiter at the bottoms of them, which fo (land in the
Flower near a Month before they fade, in the mean
fcafon the Seed ripens in the Heads, which is final],
not much bigger than the Qanue, but not f0 great
as the Ordinary 1014;;me -
‘ lV. .Thefeeond,’ or Clulius his fecond Silver Knap-
weed. I! ha: 4 Root which is white and long, not
enduring after Seed time; it has many divided hai-
and fomewhat hoary Leaves, lying on the Ground,
divided into feveral parts on both (ides, but more
feparate one from another than the former; the
Stalks are fomewhat hairy or hoary alfo, but [land
‘. not ('0 uptight as the former, rather leaning down-
wards, by reafon ofrheir weaknefs; thefe Stalks are
divided into man Branches, hearing at their tops
I‘czily Heads, 3 ittle larger, from whence ‘th‘oot
forth larger Flowers alfo than the former, whofe
outward Leaves are made like thofe of the (junior,
or Cornflower, of a fiiit purplilh red Color, with
fuch like colored Threads or T hnims in their mid.
dles as are in that jolt afotegoing, with whitilh and
yellowilh bottoms; ‘the Seed ripens in the time-of
Flowering, and is like the former; - ‘
:. V. The third, or Lobel’s Silver Headed Knapweed,
whieh i: the third Kind of Clufius. The Root ”joine-
rhing thick and long, and abider'hmetirne: after Seed
time, it hru Mary Leave: riling from the Root, but
they are much more divider], anti into frnaller‘ part: . g
m either of the tyroregoing,‘ being more, hoary, or ‘
of a whiter green Color than they, the Stalks are in
the lime manner hoary, and rifes up as high as the
iirll, with thin,‘cut, or divided Leaves 1! on them, .
tharp at the points, but fmaller and 1‘ er up to
the tops, where theyiare much divided into Branch-
es, and heating at their ends fcaly green Heads, but
more white edged Leaves, ‘feeming as if they were
Silvered, out of which come forth linall purple
Flowers, like the tell, but fmaller, the Seed hereof
lying in the Downy Heads, as the others do, but are
fomething blacker than they, each having an hairy
top on them. . '
VI. The fourth, or Greater Silver Kmpweed of
Aulltia. Thi: doe: not much dijarfrom the In]? nei-
ther in it: manner qurowing, nor in it: form of the
leaver, nor in it: height, nor in it: Stalk, but only
in it: jZ‘aly Headr, whieh are not quiteh a fhining
white Silver like Color, and in thi: eonffi‘: the whole
dihi’renee. >
VII. The fifth-or Silver Knapweed of Aullrizi
the leilier. There it likewi e but very' little di er-
enee in any particular: between thi: and the Jo , it:
' thief variation i: in the rlowntf: of: it: growing and
'erntIerntf: of the Stalk, by which it i: made a dimi-
nutive Plant (J the kind. ‘
' VIII. The fxth,.or Lelfer Silver Kn‘a’pweed with
a white Flower. Nor i: there rnueh i erenee or
variety between thi: and the la , but only in the
Flower, which eonnji: 'wholly of white Thread: or
Thrunir, without having org) other Color [tuned or
mixed with it. ' ; ,
IX. vThejitventh, or Narrow Lmv’d Silver Knap-
weed of Candy. It ho: a white Root, and of a Fin-
ger: thichntft in magnitude, i! i: but afntall Plant,
and bar diver: long, fift, fill,1md narrow Leaver,
lying next the Ground, 4 little dented on the edger,
but thjole which grow up upon fiender Stolhr, of about
,a hon ful long, are not dented at all, but referable
‘Ribwort Plantane Leave:, and are of a yellowijh
green Color, the top: of the Stalk: are raglenifhed
with fatal! long 'Hnrhr or Headr, out of ‘LC irh grow
yellow Flower:, and after them [no]! long Seed, like
unto that of Scabious. . .: v ,
a little Head, and" they ufually make’Brooms or
Befoms thereof to fweep their Houfes, and that the
Learned Phyliciaiis there do ufe the third Kind in-
[lead of‘Smbion: for all the Purpofes thereof
. XI. The Plarei. The flfll: three Kinds do grow
in. feveral places of Spain, .e'ljaecially about Salmon-
ea, as Clnfu: fays, the,f.our,tlr‘,".tifth and lixth grow
in Anjirio,‘:and the 'feventh, (as its Title .teit‘ihes)
in Canobtgbut by tranfplantation they . areunutfed up
in lbveral'Gardens of the Curious here ini‘EnglanJ.
XIIlsil‘heJitnet; -j'1'he,titlt',liitido all Flower in
the summer‘Months of j’un’e‘and fulyfjthat of Can-
a’y Flowers gomemingalater‘, viz. in Align ,. if an
early Frofl: kes them1thcy.im’mediatelytwither, a -
tho’ in their ownna‘turalplaoes, which are the warm‘
Countries, and whetgtheykcontin'u'e many, ears.
III. The Quoliljea", ‘Sjie'e'Ziention, ‘Prejiarationr‘
and Virtue: are the fame With thofe of the Vulgar
or Common Knapweed: in the former Chapter, and
to that I refer you; Authors fay that all the forts
of Knopweed come fomewhat nigh unto the Quali-
ties of Seabionr, to which for their full Virtues you
ought to'be ‘direEted, and know that what Remedies
may be had from and what Difeafes Seohion: may
be applied to, the fame the Knapweed: are produ-
Elive of and equally eflicacious in.
. 'c H A ,P. TCCCCXVI.
0fKNA.WEL,H
ou,‘ ‘
’German KNOTGRASS.
I. H E Napier. It has neither Greek not limit
ent Latine Names that I know of; our Mo:
derns call it Polygonunt Ger’monicmn, 'and we in Eng
11]]; Knawel, or German Knotgrafr.
II. The Kindr. We have two Kinds hereof, via.
1. Polygonum Germanium, Knotvel Gertnonorittn,
Pobtgoni S eeier Tragi, Polymrpon, (from the abun-
dance of eed) and Polyenernon, (from its many Vite
rues) Polyeorpon Lugdtlnenfr, Polygonmn extgnunz
Dodonai, in his Pemptade:, Polygonmn Selinaide: Go-
rardi, but this is an improper Name, for it has no
Leaves like Selinunz, or Parfly, Common Know], or
German Knotgrtw, Iknow fome would have this
Plant to he Soxifrngo Anglicano Loheltj, but I think
it may be :1 Species thereof, the form and [hang
fweet fmell which Trogu: fays it has inducing me
to think (‘0, (this being the Know! Tragi) but the
fmall'green Flowers and Seed .in them aremuch dif-
fering from the Pink-like white Flowers in that. 2.
Polygonunt Gerinonieunt alumni, Polygonuin Liter:-
tmt Minn: Ploftulir'jjiadieeo olbteantibur, The fe.
cond Knawel, or other German Knotgrafs, Bouhi-
nui- fays that there is feveral Varieties of this Geru
nun Knowel, of which. this fecond Kind is one of
them, and’the two following are alfo thought to be
nunz Niveunz Labelij, Polygonum lllontannm mini-
mum Niveunz 8' Serieemn, Polygoni HWnniei’genni-I
Clujij, Paronyehia Hifpanien Clog, Pofgoniml Alon.
tonunt Tabernontontoni U Gerar i, Po gonuin Minn:
eonditonr Bouhini, White Mountain notgra s, or
Knawel. 4. . Pobtgonum Valentinwn, ' Polygonnm
Montanum, Anthyllidi: Sprain, dolly-ll]: Valentina
X. Note. Clujiur fgys that the‘SpaniarrI: call
the (it'll by the Nameo Cabefuelo, id ejl Copitulum,‘
I
Species of the fame Plant, we. 3. Polygonunt Monto- . ,
Cluhj, Spanilh Mountain Knotgmfs, or Knowil,
l ) ‘