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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    within the Common Perianthium, or Cover Flower falls off, without the Seed Vejfels being feparated from each other *, and therefore, Mr. Kay excules himfelf, for having once^called thefe naked Seeds, becaufe, he thought, fuch were fo, which, when ripe,. feparately fell off from the Common Mo¬ ther. Indeed, theie Seeds do flick very dole and firm to each other, but when leparated, they plainly have a diflinO: Seed Keffel covering each Seed, and not as other Capfular Plants, are divided into fumany Pouches within one Common Membrane. XXVII. Kervain Mallow has a Perennial hard Rooty lending forth feveral deep divided round Leaves, upon Foot-flalks-, thick, hairy, round, fhort, flowering Stems, furnifhed with ffIll more divided Leavesy the Flowers in Cluflers, appear in the Boflome of the Leaves and Branches, towards the Top, large, open, of a pale Red, and in fome Species of a pure White, with the Tube and Pointal always inclining to one Side, (as is juffly ob- ferv’d by that accurate Botanlfl, Dr. Dillenius) the Fruit round, and final], in Proportion to the Flower, within a Bladder-like Common Cover, which was before the Jingle Calix, or Empalement of the Flower. XXVIII. Marjh Mallow, has a flefhy, mucilaginous, round, yellowifh Root, fubdivided into leffer Fibres, finking deep in the Ground j large Leaves upon Foot-flalks, round, foft, undivided, and pointed in the fore Part, of a fbft Surface, like Satin, or V'elvet, a round, ffreight, woody, marrowy Flowering-flalk, arifing two, three, or four Foot high, cloathed with Leaves more angled and pointed, from the Bofome of which, pro¬ ceed at the upper Part, Flowers in Cluflers, from a double Calix, divided into three outer pointed Segments, and five inner, fubrotund, much left than the former, the Fruit much larger and flatter, clofely furrounded and wholly cover’d by the Common double Husk which was the Calix or Empale- merit \ the Seed Kejfels, and the Seeds within, are of the Shape of a Kidney. XXIX. Common Mallows have a Root more hard, and woody than the former \ round Leaves, upon long Foot-flalks; the flowering Stem weak and flexible, fpread forth upon the Ground, endow’d with Leaves, and very- branchy } from their boldines proceed Angle Flowers, not in Cluflers, up¬ on Foot-flalks left than the Alcsa, and larger than the Althaa-, more red, with dark purplifh Bottomsa double Empalement divided into three outer narrow pointed Segments, and five inner broaded pointed ones, which after, becomes the Common Husk, which but hall Way covers a thick, little, round Fruit, whofe Husks contain final], thick Kidney Seeds. XXX. Since the Difpenfatory is filent as to the Particular Species of the Malva Arborea, I have here inferted two. i. The Malva Roflea, or the Holy Oak is a large high Plant, it has*two Seed Leaves of an Heart Shape, Aiming dark green Surface, peculiar to all the Mdvaceous Kind ? as the Plant eacreales, the bottom Leaves are M up0I1