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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    are fo obvious in the Polypody, that they can eafily be dilcry’d by the naked Eye ; for there’s fo great a Neceffity for the Male Dufl to impreg¬ nate the Female Eggs that though the Flowers are not fo obvious as the Seed Keffels-, there is the greateft Reafon to believe each Plant has both; and fince they are fo diicernable, in the Polypody, by Parity of Reafonj they are to be had in all the other Capillaries, tho’ not yet difcover’d^ which nothing but Tourneforts miftaking the Ufe of the Farina facundans, as in my Botanick Effays, p. 257. has kept fo long a Miftery •, and therefore Borehave only %s, hactems vijibill they Want Flowers hitherto oblerv’d 5 thele Seed F'ejfds are varioufly fituated upon the back Part of the Leaf. The 'Defcription. 1. Wall Rue is a very final! Plant, with an hard fibrous Root\ final!, hard, green Foot-ftalks; with its Leaves dark Green, and varioufly di¬ vided, after the Manner of Rue', the Seed Tefels cover the whole Surface of the Back of the Leaf 2. Black Maiden Hair has fhining, black, (lender Foot-fialks, arising from a hard, vvoedy Root, and fupporting a/mz Leaf divided into S^- ments in a peculiar Manner, by which ’tis diftinguifhed from all others, it is of a lighter Green than the former, and is only called Black from the Foot-flalk. XXL Englif Maiden Hair is a Riant with a long, narrow, pinnate Leaf confiding of leveral final!, round Leaves, joyn’d to a Midrib by Pairs. XXII. Polypody has pretty long, broad Leaves, with long, and narrow, fub-diyided Segments, fometimes joyn’d to a Midrib by Pairs, and other times joyn’d to another after they have proceeded from the Midrib, from a round, thick, bended, joynted, and knobbed Root, varioufly difperfed and branched out fuperficially in the Ground. XXIII. Spleen Wort has fhort, thick let Leaves, with fhort and round Seg¬ ments, not quite divided to the Midrib, but alternately differed; the Back of the Leaves covered with a f ining kind of flky or fatiny Subfiance, with the dilpers’d over all it’s Surface.' . XXIV. FI art* s or Hindis Longue is the only Capillary Plant, with an undi¬ vided,.Leaf, of near a Foot long, and about two Inches broad, pointed, ihinning dark Green in the fore-part, with a hrong Alidrib, and more light in the Back, with Lines of Seed TeffeIs running obliquely from each Side towards the Middle. Virtues and Ufes. All thefe are Natives of Britain, for the Adianthum verum I have omit¬ ted, fince the Trychomanes is fubftituted in its Place. They are all pre¬ ferred indifferently in the Shops, under the Name of Hcrba Capillares, except the Polypodium, whole Root is only in Ufe^ They are very L temperate.