Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair.

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
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1723[-28]
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Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    low Portion, not unfitly compared to a Concave Tongue. It has no Empalement without, and within is lodged an Hexagonal Gvarhmi, with a button: cf the like Figure, furrounded by twelve very fhort Chives. The Fruit becomes oval, fx cornered, membranous, like unto the Melo- pepo, about the Bignefs of a JValmit •, in which are lodged feveral final], unequal, cornered, fomewhat compreffed Seeds. This Texture of the Fruit makes it be number'd amo»g the Multifiliqua, or rather Multicap* fulares by Morifon, and Polyangia-Polyfperby Herman and Boerbavc. The Description. 1. The firft has a long, grofs, thick, perennial Root, about the Big¬ nefs of ones Wrift, and near one Foot long, if it has been any Time in the Ground $ fending forth feveral fmall Fibres from the lower Part. The numerous Stalks not much branch'd, are weak, infirm, and quad¬ rangular. The alternate Leaves without Pedicles, are heart-like, fome- times blunt, at other Times pointed, with two fubrotund Lobes at the Bafe$ by which they alinoft furround the Stalk, fomewhat concave a- bove, and convex below, of a thin Texture and pale green Colour, about one Inch broad at the Bafe, and one and a half Inch long. The Flowers (upon Pedicles one Inch long, from the Bofom of the Leaves) are greenilh white. To which fuccecds the Hexagonal, or roundifh Pear-lalhion’d Fruit, about the Bignefs of a Walnut. 2. The Second has a round, hard, large, Knobby Root h the Leaves and Flowers are lefs than the former : The Flowers of a pale yellow, with a blackiji) red Border. Both thefe are planted in Gardens, and flower in May and June. 9. Arijiolcchia Clematitis, is the largeft of the Three : Its Stalks arife much higher, is pale green, having large Leaves upon long Pedicles •, the Fruit is larger, about the Bignefs of a fmall Apple * its Root is long, fmall, very runnings it is not fo rare as the two former. I have feen it grow wild in Flanders, near Ghent * and near Vilvorde in Brabant. Virtues and Ufes. XV. The long, but efpecially the round Roots, are chiefly ufed in the Shops. They feem to confift of tenuious andfubtile Particles, mixt with drying and earthy ones. They are frequently preferib'd among Ingre¬ dients for Infufions in Wine or Ale, for Hijlerical Cafes h aifo in the Ob- JtrnBio menjium, and Locbionim : The Powder of Arijlolocbia Rotunda is either apply’d alone to fordid, or Cacoetbes Ulcers for the curbing of proud Flefh, or it may be mixt with the Pulv. Myrrh&& Aloes: Some G g alfo