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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    II. Alkekengi. Alkehngi Off.c, Touraef. In ft it. 151. Solanum Veficarhm Dod. pempfc. 454. C. B. F. 166. Solanum Halleacahum vulgare, J. B. 3. 34. 609, Raij Hift. 68 j. Solanum Heflcarium vulgatius repens fruttu & vefica rubro, Mo- rifi Hi id. 3. 526. Boer. Ind. 2. 66. Winter Cherry. The TRIBE. This is the firfl Bacciferous or Berrybearing Plant in this Catalogue, fb clafs’d by all Authors, whether they more efpecially have a regard to the Flower or Fruit, its near of kin to the Nlgbtjhades, with a mono- petalous quinquifid Flower, and monophyllous quinquifid Empale- ment. The cDefcriptio?u It has a jointed very creeping Root^ lending forth final 1 Fibers •, round, reddifh, jointed, marrowy, upright Stalks, one or two Foot high \ Leaves by Fairs, upon long Foot-fialks, from the joints larger and darker, but of the fame Figure with thole of the common Nightshade, with even, not notch’d, Edges. The Flowers upon long, fomewhat hairy, Footfialks, white, large, monopetalous, and open, divided into five pointed Seg¬ ments, with a fmall, long Pointal, and a round Button} clofely furroun- ded by five Chives with oblong yellow Summits. The Ioofe Empalement is divided into five Segments. As the Flower decays, it is extended and puff’d up like a Bladder ftretch’d beyond, and enclofmg the Fruit, which being firfi; Green, becomes afterwards a round, pulpy, pale-red Berry, hanging downward, about the bignefs of a final! Cherry, with many fiat Seeds *, it flowers in July and jiugufl, and ripens the Fruit in September. its only cultivated in the British Gardens, but is a Native of France, - The Virtues and Ufes* The Berries are chiefly us’d, and ate kept dry in the Shops, they are efteem’d potent Diureticks, and recommended for allaying the Acrimo- ry of Urine, and making a plentiful Evacuation of it. They open the Pores, and referate ObfiruHions, and therefore are good for the Jaun¬ dice^ and other Difeafes of the Liver and Gall-Bladder, proceeding from the want of a due Percolation of grofs and vilcid Humours in the minute Gians