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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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dilerthhy gr'ow‘, the more eat and fagged they are.
The Stalk and Homer: are very like the Stalk with
Flower: of “the Garden Valerian ( or a: Gerard fay:
lilte thtfe of the Wild Valerian, in jhape and eolor,
growing in an Urnhel,or Tuft :) ’I’f)’: are of a dark
or deep'fetl color, and a greater jio're of then: thrufl
together; the Seed alk not being unlike to that of
the Valerian.- ,
VI.” The fourth, or ' Bahard‘ French Spiknard.
Thi: Planfgrow: inform, (in all it: part: almajl),
like to the trite Indian Spihnard. It be: a few
fatal] hard Fibrer, which throjt th'etnjelve: into the
Ground, front whieh fpring ' htrth ‘ everal hairy
round [pithy-head: or heardr, o the ignefr of ones.
hnger, and ofan hand hredth igh', of 'a pale brown
eolor, which are not pointed at the Tape, hat flat,
or blunt, through each of thefe‘ heath, even front
the lame]! part next the‘Root; whiehjhoot forth xii:
om" ‘long, rough, green anhe:, feareely a foot
’ '-f15rmij‘isiz]nra new. a
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high, many of them growing elofe one to antoher,‘
.h) that'tbey make the form or fhego at it were Iran 1
'of-Mt Plant, whieh are likewtfefatd to he altogether
withhut mell exee I my? hairy fpiky .headt, or,
Beardgiohicli being larger than the. Indian kind,
‘1‘" fmll hmethingllike to the qul' growing upon .
021k. Tree:, or that other whirl) grow: upon thef
Ground. ’I'hefeihead: being half :way III. the
Ground, (10‘,th forth each of ' them in the Middle
‘90 ilk]: RtgidRujher, a tall jlender and [math-
Stalh, graying about a Cubit higher than the Rufher;
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1113?; wine forth many fmall,GreenvCod:, aimed”
4‘ (ht'rendt, ‘ [landing in Cape, tithe -to t afe (If
C"I'Irtt’rBill. The whole form hereof Joe: [0 nearly N-
' ernble theitr‘ae. Indian Spikttard; a: Pena, and o->
then have ohferyed, that among a another of handle:
middle whereof, upta their Toys, on each,
of Indian Spiknard, they have found hone which
had the part: of Fihrer, Headr, Rajher, and Le. s A
dylint‘lly to‘hefeen, a: thir it here deferihed ,‘ which
Make: it out of doubt, that‘thi: French kind, it
Ballard Species of the Indian.
VII. The Placer. The three firi‘t are found 1113:.
on the Celtiek Mountaini' and Alpr, as ull'o in Li-
garia, as Pena and others fay. The fourth is found
in Moffy and moil’t places facing the South and
[Mediterranean Sea, and not far from a Imall'Vil-
lage in France, call’d Gange. GerarJ fays that
the Hrft and fecond grow in a Field in the North
‘ of England L called Crag-clam and at the foot hi"
the Mountain Inglehorow‘Felr, which is the higheit
Mountain in England. But that the third is N urit
. up in Garden: with us. ‘
.VIII. The Timer. They all lloth’ifh and flower
in the Summer Months, viz. in fune, filly, ant!
Jillglljl, fome earlier, and Ibme later than others.
The Leaves begin to Wither in Septernher, atwhich
' time they fmell more‘pleaihntly, than when they
houtiihed and were green. .
. IX. The Qualitiex. European Spiknard is hot
and drynin the fecond degree, Difcuihve, Diure.
”tick, Stomatick, Neurotick, Cardiack, Nepbritick,
‘ and Alexipharmick.’
7 ,X."I.he Speetjieation. Iris good againi’t Wind,
,Gripings in the Bowels, Colick, Fainting, Swoon-
ing, Conviiliions, Strangury, Ohilruaions of the
Spleen, Reinsiand Bladder, Bitings of Venomous
Beails, Peililential Difeafes and expels poifon.’
.V XL The‘Preparationt. ' cu may make there-
from, t.‘4n‘lnfufian or Deeallion in Wine. 22
11. Folder; ‘ 3. An Infolatel or Deealletl Oil. to;
A Spiritaont‘ Tinllnre. 5. An Arid Tiannre. '6;
21a Oily Iinllnr'e. ‘7; A Diflillezl Oil. 8. A Di: ‘
jlilled Water; - , ‘ ,
‘ The V irtitltf;
‘9
,XII. The Ifnfu tan or Detailion in Wine. It
.ilops huxes o the Bowels, ‘but provokes Urine,
is Stomatick, and‘good againil loathing of Food,
or NauiEOufnefs, gnawings in the Stomach, licks
'nefs at heart, and Wind opprefling the Bowds;
'The DecoEtion in Water ufed as a Bath, is good
againil Fits of the’Mother and weakneilhs of the
”Womb, drying u .humors in thofe parts. 'The“
. Infufion or Dec ion in inewitha quarter part
of, Wormwood, is a molt excellent Stomatick,
profitable againit the Colick, Want of Appetite,
tll' Digellion, Vomiting, Uc. Dofe a quarter of
a' Pint at a time, morning, noon, and night.
XIII. The Polldt’fi ltirnay’ be giVen from a
Scruple to aDram, thixt with Hony, Or any 0-
ther convenient Vehicle, and has all the Virtues
of the Infuiion or DecoElion. It is a Iingular in-
gredient in Mithtidate, that chiehy’ made of the
hill: Species; for tho’ the Indian Spiknard' is al‘
, ways intended there,‘ yet when that cannot be had,
this htlt kind always fupplys its place. It‘ is faid
to be good for fuch as‘ are Liver-grown or have
the‘Rickets, and alfo for the yellow Jaundice,
S Bloody Flux, and the flinging or biting of . any
Venomous Creatures, as alfo to ex :1 oifon, be-
"ing‘ inwardly taken. , Snuft up the o tils, it eit-
cellently purges the Head and Brain. V
XIV. The Idolated or Derailed Oil. It is
warming, Anodyn, and comfortable to the Net-
vous parts: It thins thick and congealed humors, ‘
,digeilsthofe which are crude and moderately
alttinges and Iltcngthens the parts which are loofe,
' . - 6 2., a