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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    in the proper Magnitude, thus* ’tis plac’d on the Top of a propor¬ tionally grofs Fooijtalk, extended into a protuberant, or oval, cavous letal, every where furrounding and guarding the Fruttus Rudimentum• within a little it becomes more contracted, and in its Afcent is ex* panded into a concave oblong, eredt Petal, like a Sheep or Rabbit's har. liie 1 edicle is lengthned into an Axis medius in the Center guarded by this Petal, whofe Bafe isfurrounded by feveral fmall fub- rotund Embryons, each having a fmall Filament for the Stylus ; above in is is a Row of thick fet Stamina, with their proper ^indepen¬ dent, and loaded with the farina fcecundans, or fill’d with a limpid . Above thefe is a tlnrd Row ot Filaments, without Apices alfo diftil ing this limpid Juice. This Axis in the Afcent, forms the proper- twjially^ grofs Pitt]llumy fmaller and folid at the Beginning, but after- wards diftended into a cavous 7ube, cylindrical, and blunt in Arum more conical and pointed in Dracuntium. When this upper Attire as Dr. Grew phrafes it, is decay’d, the fubjacent Embryons two 11 into fo many thick, round, red Berries, each containing one or two rough Seeds. The Defcription. Dragons, from a proportionally large knobby Root, fends forth a ftreight, grofs, tumcated, or coated Stalk, compos’d of fo manv La¬ mina, as there are to be Footftalks to fupport the Leaves, and rolPd un ^ u-n‘ 7 a ‘ °f °/ Parchment, of a grey Colour, fpotted with reddilh and purple Streaks, like the Skin of a Serpent or Drawn from w ence the Name, about two or three Foot high, divided into two or t.iree grofs, green Foot/talks, each fupportinga digitated Leaf, whole at the Center, and deep-, divided into feveraf fmooth, light, green 0b- long, pointed Segments ; the Flower in the middle, upon a proper Foot- fta&, Js large about a Span, or near half a Foot long ; the large expan- ded Petal is green without, and dark Purple within, as is alfo the C cavous Piftillum, about three or four Inches long, broad, or roundilh at the Bafe, tapering, fomewhat bended and pointed. The Embryons be- come a large Clujier, near to the Bignefs of one’s Fiji of thick fet red Bernes about the Bignefs of a round, or oval Pea, each containing one or two rough Seeds. It continues green in the Gardens all the Summer, the Berries ripen in the Autumn ; the Root fends forth new Kn°s. ev^l Y,car’ and, ever7 Knob has a proper unbranch’d Stalk. jJ)akf Kf\ln has the knobby Roots not fo large, about the Bignefs of a Tv - i , ?fe each uP°n 3 ProPer Edicle, ftreight from th>kRi°i°t’i ar-ge’ b/0ad’ /“°°th» dark Green; in fome Species, fpotted with black, m others white Spots, and others plain, Spear pointed. The