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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    XXV. Efula five Tithymalus major y & minor, five Pithyuja j & Efula Cataputia diEla. 1. Efula major offic. Boerh.IncL 256.Tithymalus magnus multicauhs] five EJula major, J. B. 3. 34. 671. Raii Hift. 864. tithymalus fa- luftris fruticofus, C. B. 292. Tournef Inftit. 87. Efula maj. Dod pempt. 274. Hift. Oxon, 3* 34- Shrub-Spurge. 2. Efula minor offic. tithymalus foliis Pini forte Diofcoridis Pithyufi; C. B. 292. Tournef. Inftit. 86. Cypariffe fimilis Pithyufa multis, J. B. 3. 34. 665 Morif. Hift. 3. 887. Raii Hift. 867. Small Spurge. 3. Efula Caiaputia diftus offic. tithymalus Latif. Cataputia diftusy Tournef. Lathyris maj. C. B. five, Cataputia minor, J. B. 3. App. 880. Raii Hift. 86. ura/or apar Glaucophyllus, Morif. Hift. 3. 337J Garden Spurge. The TRIBE. Plants of this Clafs, palling under feveral Denominations in the Difpenfatory, as Cataputia, Efula, tithymalus, &c. I choofe to treat of them in this Place, for Ricinus being Cataputia major offic. has not the fame Notes, fo that I muft have disjoyn’d it from what is more frequently called Cataputia : And though all the EfuU are tithymah, yet Efula being a more frequent Name ill the Shops, I choofe to treat of thefe at Efula, and not at tithymalus. Morifon joins them together into one Sect called Plant# tricoccce purgatrices, and firft diftributes into Lattefcentes & non Lattefcentes. The LafteJ- centes come in here, and the non Laftefcentes, viz. Ricinus, fhall be treated of in its proper Place. The firft, according to that Author, is plac’d among the perennes Capfula verrucofa. The fecond, is one of the perennes foliis deciduis, Capjula feminali Uvu Mr. Ray places them among the FL tetrapetalo anomalo. Boerhave calls them, tri¬ angle tricocce. Their general Character is, that they have a fibrous Root, whether Annual or Perennial, undivided, fimple, pointed Leaves, fome broader, others more narrow^ plentifully endow’d with a milky Juice. When they break forth into the Flower, they have four or five fmall Leaves of a Perianthium, which foon fall back and decay *, thefe fupport two pointed Leaves for the Calixy and a tetrapetaloid Flower, or deeply divided Monopetalous one, ac¬ cording to tournefort, into four green, or herby Segments. From the Middle arife feveral Stamina, with their Apices9 which furround a long.