Pharmaco-botanologia: or, an alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair].

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
Date:
1724
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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 ... Decad. II / [Patrick Blair]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ - . i - V. Cep a. C&pavulg* C. B. P. 7i. Moris Hill. 2. 383. Tournee Inflit. 382. Cape /he Cepa rubra & alba rotunda, J. B. 2. 19. 547. Raij Hill. 1115. Dod pempt. 687. The Onion. Vi. Rorrum. Torrum Commune capitatum, C. B. 72. Tournef. Vorrum J. B. 2. 19. 551, Moris Hill. 2. 390. Dod. peropt. <588. Raij liifl. 112<5. common Leek. The T R I B E. Here is introduc’d a new Genus in ieveral P.eipefls, 1. They are Mo- nocotyledones in refpeT of their Seed-Leaf, which is fingie. 2. They are Buibolk in regard to their Roots, and that Twofold j Squamofa nucleate, and Squamofa non nucleate, that is, the Garlick Root confifis of Ieveral fmall Bulbs, each involv’d in a common Coat, and confiding of feveral proper Scales, each furrounding the other to the Center, whence the common Germen or Bud proceeds, and feveral Bulbs are incloas’d within one common Coat or Membrane. The Onion and Leek Roots are (aid to be Squamofe & Tunic at a, when one fingie Bulb confihs of feveral fphericalScales to the Center, and furrounded with one Membrane, without any other Bulbs along with it. 3. In relpefl of their Leaves they are Graminifolia Graft-leav’d, arifing broad from the Root, and flill tapering towards the Point, either broad or narrow, and flat, or hollow and Fifdulous. 4. In refpeflof their Flower, they are called by Morifon HexapctaU Tricapful a- res, in which he is followed by Herman and V'olkhammer : and by Tournefore Flores Liliacei. Thefe his Lilly-flomrs he defines thus that they are Flow¬ ers which are either Hexapetalous or Monopetalous, divided into fix Seg¬ ments, but whatever the Fafhion of the Flower be (for fome are large, dome left, fbme Monopetalous, others Hexapetalous, and fome Tripeta- lous) its all one to him if the Fruit be Tricapftilar. Thus far I thought fit to give an Account of the Bulbous, Grafs-leav’d and Lilly-floxver d Tribe, that I may refer to this Place, whatever may occur of theft Tribes here¬ after. The 'Description. IV. Garlick has a compound Root, confining of feveral fmall Bulbs, in¬ cluded within one common Tunicle or Membrane, fending forfh feveral final 1,