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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    Glands, there by its attenating Parts, it alfo caufes a plentiful evacuation of Waters in the Dropjy. Tournefort tells us, the Leaves are acrid and bitter, though they do hot render the blew Paper lb red as the Berries. An Infufion of the Leaves in Wine, may be drank in Hydropical Cafes, and by Perfbns fubjeCt to the Gravel, an Emulflon may be made of the Seeds, or the green Juice may be drank in the forenam’d Cafes ; but the Syrup is the more advifable, becaufe of the Acrimony of the crude Juice : In a Word, it feems to partake of the Virtues of nioft of the Nightjhades, to which by its Characters its near of Kin, as may be ieen when we come to treat of them. The Shop Preparations are Iro- chifc. Aikckengi, it enters the Syr. ds dehor, cum Rheo. III. Alii aria. Alii aria C. B. P. no. J. B. 2. 2f. 883. Raij Hift. 792. Hefperis Allium redolens Moris Hift. 2.252. Tournef. Inftit, 212. Boer. Ind. 2.17. Sauce alone, or Jack by the Hedge. The TRIBE. Jack by the Hedge being the firft that introduces the Tetrapetalous Clal5, I fhall infift a little upon its cdnftituent Characters. The Tetrapetalous Plants are of two kinds, each having Siliculous and Siliquous Fruits; the one with plain and fimilar Petals, the other Dillimilar, of different Shapes and Figures. The one called Cruciformes or Crofs-like by Tourne- fort, becaufe the Petals are plac’d two and two oppofite to each other in form of a Crofs ; the other called Papilionaceous by Cordus a German, about two hundred Years ago, becaufe of their refemblance to a Butterfly, of which hereafter. • . Thele Crofs-like Flowers of which we now treat, are varioufly to be confidered. I. They are for the moft part Annuals in their Duration, force Biennials, but few Perennials, except fome of the Waterkind. II. Their Texture is for the mefe part loft and tender, the Stalks herbaceous, feldom or never Wcody, frequently hollow, fometimes grofs and thick, very pithy and marrowy. III. The Leaves frequently much larger in pro¬ portion to the bulk of the Plant, or bignefs of the Flower, always Alter¬ nate, or quite furrounding the Stalk, feldom or never arifing by Pairs from jointed Stalks. IV. The Flowers fmall in proportion to the Plant, chiefly in¬ determinately and irregularly plac’d in a long Spike upon the upper part of the Stalk and Branches, and but feldom in irregular Umbel is or Tufts; the four Petals chiefly of a white, more rarely of a blewifh or red, but frequently of a yellow Colour, failing off when the Fruit begins to en- P create