Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.

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Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.
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Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690.
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Oxford :: Printed by William Hall, for Ric. Davis,
An. 1659.
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Hyacinth. Hyacinthus.
  • P. In gardens, being planted: some neer rivers.
  • T. The 3 first fl: in the midst of Jan: and the rest in spring.
  • N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Vacinium, Lilium purpureum. D. G.

Hyacinth. Ger: J: K. as the starry, sc. the common, white floured, two leaved, lilly lea∣ved, that of Constantinople, Somers, greater star∣ry summer and lesser, and that of Peru. T. V.

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are unknown. Clus. The lilly leafed eaten by cattle c. their heads to swell and then kill them, being of a maligne and poysonsom quality. Autumne Jacinth K. as the small and great. T. V. are not written of. English Jacinth. K. as the hare-bells, white, blew orientall, & many flowred 1. and second, reddish purple, and white orientall, winter, orientall with leaves on the stalke, double flowred orientall, the greater dusky flowred Spanish, and lesser, with the tuberous rooted Indian Jacinth. T. doe lightly clense and bind. The seeds are dry 3°. the roots 1°, and cold 2°. V. the root boiled in wine, and d. stoppeth the belly, provoketh urine, and h. the venemous biting of the field spider; so the seed, and more effectually stoppeth the laske, and bloudy flix. d. in wine it h. the falling sicknesse. Diosc. The roots stamped and ap. with white wine, hinder the growth of haires. The seed d. with southernwood in wine h. the jaundise. Faire haired jacinth. K. as the common, and white, that of Constantinople, faire curled haired branched, blew, and great grape-flower. T. V. Vhe faire haired operates as the English. Musked Grape flower K. as the yellow, & ash∣coloured. T. V. They may be referred to the Jacinths, whereof they are kinds; but as yet are not of any known use. The two feigned plants, K. as the false bumbast Jacinth, and flower of Tigris T. V. are not yet discovered, or are rather adulterine and supposititious. The woolly bulbus. T. V. is of no use. Park: K. as the Barbary, early blew starry, Turkey, and ash-coloured. T. V. The roots and leaves

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are cold and dry. Weck: The seed d. in wine h. the Kings evill. Col: The tuberous root d. h. the jaundise.

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