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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    IV. Behen ritbrum. Lhnonium mark. C.B. P. 192. Tournef. Inftit. 242. maj. vulg. Park. 1224- Lhnonium Ger. 411. Raii Kift. 299. Synopf. Stirp. Brit. 99. Mo- rif. Hift.;2- 600. maj. multis aliis Been rub. J.B. 2. App. 879. Valeriana rubra fimilk pro Limonio mij]a. Dod. Pemp. 351. Sea Lavender. * The TRIBE. Authors differ much in the Diftribution of this Plant. Hobart pla¬ ces it among the Jnoma la. Mr. Ray in his Hiftory, places it among the Umbellifera, being (I fuppofe) induced to it by Dr. Morifon, who has a Section of thole he calls Umbellifera Impropne chela, among which is Valeriana, and near to it, by Mr. Rays Method, Limonium is always placed 5 but in the Synopf. Stirp. Brit, it’s rank’d among the Flores ftmplices feminibus midis folitariis. Tournefort places it among the Flo¬ res Caryopbyllei, and not unfitly makes it a Neighbour to Statue or Ca- ryopbyllus maritimus. Boerhave with Ray makes it one of the Gymnomo- nofperma fl. ftmplici. A more ftri<3 Examination would almoft incline me to place it along with Primula veris, for Reafons to be affign’d hereafter. But it’s not my Defire to bring Method into Confufion, by an unneceffary Multiplication or Alteration of the Diftribution of Species, but rather to prevent any Diforder, by reconciling the feve* ral Methods together. The Defcription. It has a woody grofs running Root, black without and reddilh with¬ in, divided at the upper Part into feveral Portions about the Bignefs of one’s little Finger, and running deep in the Ground, which being united below, form feveral Knots, from whence proceed fome Jtolones, or new Proofs, which creeping below Ground, propagate the Species. At the upper Part of each, the Germen or Bud is cloathed with fe¬ veral loofe Membranes, amidft which break forth late in the Spring 7, 6, or 7 Leaves in a Circle, each fupported by long narrow Foot- ftalks, fmooth, ftiff, dark green, and fhining, about an Inch in the middle or broadeft Part, 2 Inches long, narrow at each End, more obtufe or pointed at the Extremity, not unlike the Leaf of the Li- mon-tree, from which Refemblance it has the Name. The fmall round ftiff upright naked Stalk arifes about half a Foot high from the Middle, branched and fpread forth at the upper Part, each Branch Q. 1 thickly