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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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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Boccone, Paolo, 1633-1704.
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[Oxonii] :: E Theatro Sheldoniano,
1674.
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Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
Botany -- Italy.
Botany -- France.
Botany -- Malta.
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Fungus Typhoides coccineus Melitensis.

FUngus noster raritate, & usu nulli secundus. Palmaris est altitudinis, interdum major, Fungum nondum ex∣plicato capituli disco plane referens. Pediculus est uncialis crassitudinis, tres aut quatuor uncias longus, scaber, fungo∣sus,

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Capitulum etiam ipsum fungosum, pediculo paulo cras∣sius, minoris Typhae palustris clavam aliquatenus reprae∣sentans,

[illustration]
quod dum viret si digitis premas, veluti sanguine∣um succum fundit. Per maturitatem granis minimis innu∣meris, Panico non absimilibus, exasperatur, undique cocci

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colore splendentibus. Aestatis munus est; aliis tempestati∣bus temere & frustra quaesieris. Astringit maxime, unde ei praecipua laus in cohibendo sanguinis profluvio; cujus gra∣tia Melitenses ex Gaulo insula, illius in pulverem soluti scrupu∣lum aut amplius vino vel jusculo dilutum hauriunt, ducta à majoribus hac nunquam fallente medicina. Oritur in sco∣pulo Melitae insulae adjacente, dicto Scoglio del Generale, hinc ipse Fungus Heritz tal General vernacula lingua dicitur. Ele∣gantem hunc fungum acceptum debeo Johanni Francisco Bona∣mico, viro literarum amantissimo, qui addidit folia tenuissima addesse primo nascenti, atque maritimis fluctibus continuo irrigari.

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