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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    The Tribe. Thefe may be called Capillares majores in Contra-diitin&ion to the j!Santa Decad I. They are faid to be jiore fruttuque carentes, by Tournefort, tho’ none delineated their Fruit more accurately than him- felf. They are juFly faid to be Seminibus minutijfmis by Mr. Ray, the firft two are called Epiphyllofpennce, tho’ the third be faid to be florid, yet the other Species too are fo as much as it. Tournefort has examined the Fruit or Capfuks of all of them with great Accuracy, but I fufpedt it has been when the double Rows of them on the Back of the Leaf, began to turn blackifh, or when the Capfules were ripe; for who will atten¬ tively behold the Back of a polypod Leaf early in the Summer, they may obferve even with the naked Eye, the yellow Apices of the Flowers, preceeding the Fruit, which are faded when thefe parts begin to turn dujkijh or black]; fo that I have no boubt but thefe Capillares are en¬ dow’d with regular Flowers tho’ by their Minutenefs have not yet been fully difcovered. All of them have a Freight round tough fmooth Co Fa Media, or Midrib, arifing from the Root, and mounting to the Extremity naked forfome Length, and then fending forth other fmal- ier pinnated Leaves on each Side, thefe below larger and longer, lef- ning and fhorteningby degrees as they afcend. They are alfo divided into Ramofce and not Ramofce, the Ramofae have other lateral CoFre, which proceed on each Fde from the perpendicular one. The non Ra- •mofce are without any of thefe Branchings olF, the Filices and Filiculce or Adianta are alfo ,diFinguifhed according to the Thicknefs of their Pinna:, and manner of their Dentations. *. The FrF is unbranched with long dented Pinnules r the Root hard black intricate with few Fibres: It is one of the Efiphillofperma\ 2. The fecond has large pinnated Leaves fending Branchings forth on every Side but not much indented ; the hard black tough Root is not fo indicated as the former, but leaching Freight and deep in the Ground, is feldom to be trac’d to its other extremity, but breaks by ftrong pulling, without any radical Fibers (a thing not ufual) when it ^as penetrated very deep it runs far below Ground, and all round ne¬ ver