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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    with Peafe, Wheat, Rye, which proves very {Lengthening to tobuft Labourers, as is obferv’d. II. Ficus. Ficus communis, C.B. 471. ]Ficus, J. B. 1. 1. 173. Raij Hift. 1431. Tournef. Inltit. 662. Boer. Ind. 2. 258. * Pontederse Antholog. 227. T. xi. Malpig. Anat. Plant. 67. T. 47. Fbe Fig-Free. The Tribe. Proper Obfervation, and where that is wanting good Authority, with fuitable Remarks, being what I propofed upon my firft enterpri- fing this Treatife, do all naturally meet upon difcourfing on this noted Vegetable. A modern Alphabetical Defcriber of the Difpenfatory Plants, who pretends “ he has not only confulted the Botanick Authors <c ofgreateft Note but had recourfe to moil of the Simples themfelves <c in their natural Production; 55 has fo fuperficially fkimm’d the De- fcription of this fo ufeful a Plant, that he fays, “ it has no vifible Flowers, they are fuppofed to be in the Fruit: ” Whereas moft Bo¬ tanick Authors fince Cordus’s Days could have allured him this is no bare Suppofition but a real Truth. Being therefore unwilling fo noted a Fruit fhould pafs without a more exact Examination ; I have chofen to exceed the ordinary Bounds, and inform the Engjifh Readers what La¬ tin Authors have deliver’d on this Subject; adding my own Obferva- tions, that they may have Recourfe to the Gardens of the Curious, and fatisfy themfelves of the Truth of what has been deliver’d ; and make what farther Improvements upon ftricter Examination they lhall think fit. I need fay nothing of its Fribe, fince unanimo omnium Autho- rmn confenfu, eft Plantafui Generis. The ‘Defmption. By its ufual Stature, Grolfnefs of its Pith and Marrow, tho’ not by the Texture of the Wood, it much refembles Sambucus, or the Elder- Free ; and by the knotty Joints of the Branches it is not unlike the Mo¬ ms, or Mulberry. As to the l imber, that of Ficus is loofe and fpongy, and