Volume 1

Botanicum officinale; or a compendious herbal: giving an account of all such plants as are now used in the practice of physick / [Joseph Miller].

  • Miller, Joseph, -1748.
Date:
1722
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Credit: Botanicum officinale; or a compendious herbal: giving an account of all such plants as are now used in the practice of physick / [Joseph Miller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pet ala. This Word is generally applied to the beautiful ornamental Leaves of Flowers ; and accord¬ ing to the Number of thefe, the Flowers are called monopetalous, tetrapetalous, pentapetalous, &c. Pinnated Leaves are thole which arecompofed of feveral Pinnae, or fmaller Leaves for the moll Part,. Handing one oppofite to another on the fame Foot- ftalky asthe'Afh, the Walnut, t$c. among Trees; Burnet, Vetches, &c. among Herbs, have pinnated Leaves. Stamina are the fmall {lender Threads in the Mid¬ dle of the Flowers which fupport the Apices. Staminousplowers are fuch as want the beautiful Petala, being made up of only the Calyces, enclo- Hng the Stamina and Apices in the Middle. Ferticillate Plants have their Flowers which grow at their Joints,fet in a roundPofition about the Stalks. They are monopetalous, and have ulually a Galea and Labella. To this Ti ibe belong Sage, Clary, More- hound, Lavender, &c. they are call’d whirled Plants. Umbelliferous Plants are a Genus which have their Flowers growing feveral together on Stalks much fpread our, and divided into many Parts, frequently of the fame Height, and hat on the T op like an Umbrel¬ la ; each Flower is compofed of five fmall Leaves, and is fucceded by two naked Seeds. Fcnnil, Dili, Ange¬ lica, Carrol'S, {Ac. are umbelliferous Plants. \ 'ERRATA. jpAG. i. Lin. 18. for which, read they. p. 4.1.4. r. a Lixivium, p. 8.1. 9. r. Foot~ flail’s, p. 9.1.20. r. Calyces, p. 15. ]. ult. r. they want. p. 14,1.1. r. they have. P* 2-i* t *4’ c]c'e Uae. p. 2.7.1.12. r.Alcephanginx. p. 3 57 after underneath > dele the Comma and/a. p.36.1. 32. r. Alexipkarmic. p. 47.1. 1 f. for a Nut r. this Nut f F* 6o«1 3°- r- Afphodelns. p. 6f. 1. 34. after Arrach r. C. ‘IS. p. 67.1. zy aft. Colour r. when ripe. p. 72. J. 18.for violent p. Violet, p. 79.1.22. r. white ’Rehen. p. 80. l.i. 1. upon tong Foot-Stalks, p. 81.1. i.for isx.arc. p. 93.1.6. T.OxymyrJine. p. lop.i, 34. x. from Japan. pin.I.12. r. thefirfi or. Ibid. 1.18. dele that. p. 134. 1. 13. of a dark fivning reddifh C olonr, as big as Peas, to come i n after Inf eels, 1. 8. p. 139. 3°. r.01 Thorn, p. I_6o. 1. 32. dele one. Ibid. 1. 33. x. Flowers. p. 184. r. Fnchfii. **12.. in Head of now in, r.Jbmc. p. 195*. 1.5, r. or the Powder, p. 217.I.20. r. Gmfeng. p..Zy9. 1.1 3. after Rhubarb, r. Park. p. 321.1.24. x.Crtticnm. p.331. l.aa.r, arc full of. p.385.1.17. after fir eng timing, r.good. p. 398.1. 28. for is, r. are. p.419.1 20. for u has,r. they have, p.428.1. 33.aft. Oak, add having its Leaves. p.4 ac.l.i. dele tiietwow s,'and after Leaves add being. £.441. 1. i.for is, r. are,