Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliæ, Melitæ, Galliæ, & Italiæ quarum unaquæque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis ejusdem classis facile distinguitur / auctore Paulo Boccone ...

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Title: Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliæ, Melitæ, Galliæ, & Italiæ quarum unaquæque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis ejusdem classis facile distinguitur / auctore Paulo Boccone ...
Author: Boccone, Paolo, 1633-1704.
Publication: [Oxonii] :: E Theatro Sheldoniano,; 1674.
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Subject terms: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.; Botany -- Italy.; Botany -- France.; Botany -- Malta.
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Panax Siculum, semine hirsuto, foliis Pastinacae latifoliae, sativae.

RADIX pro plantae ratione parva: maximus Caulis, humanam altitudinem seu proceritatem non raro su∣perans, uncialis crassitiei, in plures ramos distri∣butus, ruber, laevis, rectus, intus fungosus: Folia quam Pasti∣nacae sativae latifoliae ampliora, tenuibus nervis obsessa, lobis quasi rotundis, figura penè cruciformi, latè expansa, atque lucida: Vmbellae amplae: Flos albus: Semen longum, crassi∣usculum, striatum seu sulcatum, exterius candidâ lanugine hirsutum; quâ exutâ, Semen grano Secalis aut Tritici figurâ & colore par est. Caule vulnerato interdum sponte lacryma e∣xit, concrescitque colore flavescente. Hujus meminit Cae∣salpinus, aliique sine Icone, quam studiosorum Botanicorum oculis subjicere voluimus. Non solum Panormi, ubi pro Da∣biso

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notum, sed & in tota Mararae valle, locis incultis & aspe∣ris

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copiose nascitur, & appellatur ibidem à colonis Ferla, seu Ferra Saracinisca. Variat foliis quandoque glabris, quan∣doque hirsutis.

Explicatio I. Tabulae.

In Tabulâ I. A. radicem & folia sub exortum ex eadem radice indicat. B. Petalum integrum, cum lobis subrotundis nervo medio seu petiolo adhaerentibus. C. Caulem crassum in ramos distributum, & floribus oneratum. a. a. a. Pericarpium crassum, striatum, lanuginosum, bina semina intus latentia continens. b. seminis inde exemti partem convexam, sulcis seu striis praeditam. c. partem ejus concavam. D & E foliola tenella ex radiculis teneris sub exortum è terra.