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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 ...
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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ahal3 482 V 575ng Hera:
are'great and large, hollow and yellow, like unto
aBell Cup, divided in the brim into five parts or
points [landing out like Teeth. At the bottom of
wrich, (as is in all the ell) grows up the Fruit,
w ich is very great, thic ', round, and long, or of
an Oval iorm,‘(.fometimes of the hignefs of an
ordinary Mans Body, fer round with bunched Ribs
in fotne, and more plain and flat in others. The
Rinde is either of a green, or grey, or yellow
colo , or whitifh, or party c010r'ed, as Nature is
v plea ed to .vary it, and of a mean hardnefs. The
harder pulp of the Fruit is yellowilh, or of a
whitilh yellow, and of a liaruent talle: but the
thinner pulp within that lying in the middle, is of
a Slimy. Fibrous, ,and watery Subl’mnde, in which
the Seed is’ contained, which is white, large, broad,
liar, thin, and altnoll: Oval, but fomewhatnatrower
pointed at one end, and of a fweel: or Milky,
Nut-liketalle. - ,, , ' ' ' .
' ’V; .Ti)?rji’50111, or Great round Melon or
Pom ion..;Tl:i: i: likevuma the farmer, in it: Root,
Sta] , Bra‘r‘t'chr, Leaver, and Clafping Tendrelr;
but the, gajbq 1']; 1b: Lea-1.7;: are not [a deep, and
rlJa‘Stalkriirg Iezrdarcr. TheFlowers are in like
a):
1) SJ '
.rryaia‘oa a... gain.
x: “
anner ellow a .ing,’ cornered or pointed at the
:2 i as iltofe oligthg former -,- but the Fruit is frame-
thing founder fometimes greater, and fometrmes
leller , , ando ten times ofa green color, xwrth an
harder Barkgmand ‘fometimes now and .Ihen
fofter and ,whiter. The. harder pulp within ‘is
like. the Other, and the Seeds have alfo the
famelorm, with very
magnitude. , a
VI. T71: third, or
't a tdclj’drziled Leaver. The'Flowerzisalfd
lgieai fabnd yellow, liketthofe. of the others: but
the Fruit (which is of a gm: bignefs).,rs,com;
little dill'erence in their .
Great liar bottomed Melon or .
RDmPion. This, differs note much from the other:
tenant it: Roar,,raugb Stalk, or. Branrbe:,.and 1n fu
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prelled or list bottom’d, and its Rinde is full of
little hilly Whelks, not much unlike to thofe of
the Citron Rinde or Peel, which when it is ripe, is
in like manner, yellow. . ,
VII. The fourth, or Great Buckler-like Melon,
or Pompion. This very mm!) rIi m from the.
ollwr in farm.- the Room, Sralkr, Leaves", and
Noreen, are wmb II]CL' Ike when; but the Fruit is
not long nor globular, but altogether broad, and in
a manner flat, like unto :1 Shield or Buckler,'thick-
er in the middle, but thinner in the circumference,
and curled, hilled, or bumped, up and downabou:
the edges,.like the rugged or uneven Peel of the
Cirraa -. and this Rinde is very foft, thin and white.
The folider ulp within, is hard and durable,‘and‘
the Seed in cm, color, and talle, like the former
Kinds, but fomewhat lefs. - .
VIII. The fftb, or Smaller or Virginian Melon
or Pompion, It: Roar mafilir of may whitijb
Brancber, [reaping far abroad in the Earth, whicb’
parifb ar 1):: f1er approach of Winter. From'
whence fpring up rough cornered or Rraked
Branches, trailing upon the Ground), 8 or 9 feet-
long or longer, which fpread themlElves and run.
upon the furEtce of the Earth, and are again di-
‘ vrded into other Branches of a blackilh green color,
covering and taking up a great deal of room-fend?
ing forthbroad, cornered rough Leaves, on great,
grol‘s, long, :rdugh, hai footStalks, like and full
as large as the: Leaves olythe jirll Or common Malan
or. Pompion;. with .clafping rendrels, and great,
broad, lhriveled, yellow Flowers, like to thofd of
the common Pampiaa. After then: comes therFruit,
, upon‘the Stalks, not commonly I‘o near the Root,
but towardsthe tops or ends of the Branches; fome-
’ thing rou d, and not'extending in length, butllat'
" like a Bowle, and not fo big as an ordinarye'Bowle,
being feldorn above 3 Inches in thicknefs or length,
- ' . and 4 Inches in breadth, of a blackilh green color.
when it is ripe. . The eatable pulp is of a whitilh’
" yellow color, containing within that, a great deal
of a thinner, foft, Ilimy,‘ fibrous Subliance, in"
, ij which. the Seed lyesi in certain rows, like that
1‘ of the hrll or common 'Pampian, butf‘much
fmaller. j 7 ' . . . .I p .
IX.‘Tbe Placer. Theli: are all planted in Car-
dznr in England, and other Countries, and delight
in a rich and fruitful Soil, and even in our Country,
‘ ‘ they come to great perfeElion.
'X. Ingram. They are planted in thelat-
I re: end of Jllarcb, or the beginning'pf‘Aprilz‘
Flower in the latter end- of. filly, and Augujl,
and their Fruit is ripe in Stpmrtlier‘ and. OEa-r:
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XI. The Qaalirirr. The Fruit (which is that
which is chiefly made ufe of) is .cold and moiR in
the fecond Degree -,, Ablterfivg-Anodyn, Diuretic
Lenitive, Nephritick, (and Lithonttiptrck. -.
XII. Thoma-partition“ You may have here-‘
from. r. Aliyah! fair: af. the Fruit. 2. The
Pulp of jbe Fruit. 2. An Emulfian of the Seed.
4; A Cataplafm a] 1]): Pulp. 5. A Drlhlltd Wamvf
of the Fruit.
The Virtual.
XIII. The Liquid faint. Given Rent 3 Spoon-
1 to two, in the Dijlillcd lVaIer, and fweetned
withSyruqu Clove-Gilliflamrs, it ‘
abates the violent heat of Burning CVCIS, allays
the heat and inflamation of the Stomach and other
U u u u a Bowels,
uenches Thirll', ,