Culpeper's complete herbal, and English physician wherein several hundred herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties ... To which are added, rules ... receipts, selected from the author's Last legacies ... To which is annexed, The British florist. Or Flower garden displayed .... / [Nicholas Culpeper].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal, and English physician wherein several hundred herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties ... To which are added, rules ... receipts, selected from the author's Last legacies ... To which is annexed, The British florist. Or Flower garden displayed .... / [Nicholas Culpeper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Adonis Vernalis. Spring, or Perennial Adonis. Class and Order. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA Generic Character. Cal. 5-phyllus. Pet ala quinis plura absque nectario. Sem. nuda. Specific Character and Synonyms. ADONIS vernalis flore dodecapetalo, fructu ovato. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed- Murr. p. 514. Ait. Hort. Kew. vol. 2. p. 264. HELLEBORUS niger tenuifolius, Buphthalmi flore. Bauh. Pin. 186. BUPHTHALMUM Bodon. Pempt. 261. HELLEBORUS niger ferulaceus sive Buphthalmum. The great Ox-eye, or the great yellow Anemone, Parkins. Parad.p. 291. f. 6. Of this plant Linnaeus makes two species, viz. the vernalis and appenina, differing in their specific character merely in the number of their petals, which are found to vary from situation and culture ; as the first name, taken from its time of flowering, is the most expressive, we have followed Mr. Miller and Mr. Aiton in adopting it. It is an old inhabitant of the English gardens, and a most desirable one, as it flowers in the spring; produces fine showy blossoms, which expand wide when exposed to the sun, is hardy, and readily cultivated. Grows wild on the mountainous pastures of some parts of Germany. It may be increased by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring, or by seed. Miller recommends the latter mode.