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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    2. Solatium Offic. acinis nigric antibus., C. B. P. 166. Tournef! 148. Hi ft. dc's Plants 38. hort. f. vulg. acinis nigris, J. B. 3. 34. 60S. vulg. Park. Morifl Hift. Raij Hift. 672. Hort. Baccis nigricantibus Dod. pernpt. 453. filler vul<r. Cord. Hift. 758. common Nightfhade. ^ ** 3. Solarium fcandens feu Dulcamara, C. B. P. 167. Tournef 14.9. Dulcama¬ ra, Dod. pempt. 402. Solamum lignofum fiue Dulcamara, Park. Raij Hift. 672. Synopf Stirp. Brit. 199.T0UXU. Hift. des Plants 42. Glycypicros jive A~ mar a didcis, J. B. 2. 15. 109. Woody Nightfhade or Bitter-fweet. 4. Solarium Lethale Raij Synopf. Stirp. Brit. 150. Hift. 579. f^.\avo)d^.crQ- C. B. P. 166. maniacum multis five Bella dona, J. B. 3. 34. 6\ 1. Tournefi 77. Solano congener flore campanulas vulgatins fol. latioribus, Morif Hift. 3. 532. deadly Nightihade. The TRIBE. Dr. Morrifon,^nd all his Followers, who chiefly diftribute the Plants according to their Fruit, give thele the general Title of Baccifera, Berry- bearing Plants. Morrifon adds Polyfterma, whofe Fruit contains many Seeds. Mr. Ray lays, they are fruSlu magis fparfoy I ihouJd rather think they were fruttu aggregato (if this DiftinHion were neceflary) for the Solanum vul¬ gar c and fcandens have their Flowers difpos’d in Clufters, upon the Top o! Ihort Stalks , which are loon dilpers’d into leparate Foot-ftalks for each Flower. The leveral Species here united together (becaule they partake of the fame Virtues) are diftinguifhable both by the Flower and Fruit. The firft three have Monopetalout, Star or Wheel-flowers, according to Tournefort divided almoft to the Center, into five pointed, largely fpread forth Segments. The Flower of the flrft is twice as big as thole of the two following, which are Pendulous, or hanging downwards from the feveral Foot-ftalks, and whole Segments are bended backwards about Midday, and hang down, and are Hat towards the Evening. They are plac’d upon a fmall Empalemcnt, divided into five final], green, pointed Segments. They have a Imall round hole in the Middle, penetrated by the Embryon of the Fruit, fitted with a fmall Pointal and Button, lying hid amidft live ve¬ ry Ihort Chives, and oblong, flat, ereft, yellow Summits, full of the farina fccundans , arifing from the Center of the Flower ( which when it decays, falls off whole) around this Hole. The Embryon foon be¬ comes a round, foft, pulpous Berry, full of fiat Seeds. The fourth is di- ftinguifhed by its large, long, tubulous Flowers (fuperficially divided in¬ to live pointed Segments) and by its bicapfular Berry, lb that Tournefort is exculab e when he places it among the Bell flowers in the firft, and the reft among the Wheel-flowers in the iecond Claft.