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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    tills to be it: We have Fuchftus and al] the Germans making Ufe of the Sphondylium for it by the iName of Acanthus G ermanorum, calling it alfb Brancha Vafina : We find Aheftus Synapius, a Polift Phyfieian, fpeaking of the Brancha V fin a, as common in Poland, and recommending its frequent Ufe in the Plicapolonica : And we have Englift Writers upon the Officinal Plants, recommending it as one of the Emollient Herbs, ft to be prefcri- bed in Decoctions for Clyfters *, from all which it’s evident the Virtues of this Acanthus mu ft have been confounded with thofe of the Sphondylium, tho’ they do not feem to be the fame *, for I am of Dodoneus his Mind, it rarher relembles the Confdida major than any and its Efficacy in Bumiws and Diflocations would imply as much. Liofcorides, according to Weeks- rus, fays, that it provokes Urine, and yet binds the Belly, by which it is not fit fox Clyfters. Ifs being good in Cafe of Ruptures, and for Con- fumptive Perfons, would fhew it to be fuch an Ajbingcnt, as the Comfrcy \ however it has but little Ufe in Phyfick, tho’ it be an elegant Plant'in Gardens. XIII. Acetofa. 1. Acetofa nrvenfts Lanceolata. C. B. P. 114. Tournef 503. Raij. HifR I So. Lapathum acetofum Lanceolatum Repens Synops. Stirp. Brit. 5 6. Oxalis prtsva Auriculata repens. J. B. 3. 23. 992. Oxalis Ovina Tab. Icon. 440. Sheep Sorrel. 2. Acetofa Pratens C. B. p.114. Tournef Jnfr. Mor. Hifh 2. 582. Oxalis vulg. fol. oblong. J. B. 2. 23. 989. Raij Hifr. 178. Lappathum Acetofum vulg. Raij. Synops. Oxalis Dock pempt. 648 Common Sorrel. 3. Acetofa Rotundifolia hortenfis C. B. P. Tournef. Ilift. Oxon. 2. 583. Raij Riit. i8g. Oxalis fol. rotund, repens. J. B. 2. 23. 992. Satina Franca five Romana Rotundif. Rack. 712 Romana Rotundif. Munting. Herb. Brit. 224. French Sorrel. 4. Acetofa Brittanica. Blair Mifcelan. obferv. p. 97. Rctundifol. Eboracenfis fol. in medio dcliquium patiente. Riff Oxon. Raij. Synops Stirp. Brit. 57. Candor 0 brit arnica Park, an Acetofa Scut at a repens. Raij. Hifh 180 ? Britifh Torkjhire or Weljh Sorrel. 5. Acetofa Mexiocana Munting. Herb. Brit. 227. Bladder Sorrel. The TR IB E. This is the firft Genus of Plants with an Apetalous Flower, which, as Bo- erhave juftly obferves, is deprived of Flower-Leaves or Petals, but rich in Stamina or Chives the Flowers then of this Clafs are thick fet upon the upper Part of the Stalk and Branches \ for the mofl part in a long Spike, H 2 each