Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner].

Robert Turner

Date:: 1664

Credit: Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$peters eee tt cites eee sila bt: PASSES BESTS PHVSPLS STE SSL SSeS BEES i ie: (ase age Eee he SERS ESSE SS 2 Sa Lal Aik ae So. : The Brittifh Phyfictan: or, yokes Urine, and a decottion thereof with Rofemary is good for the Dropfie and yellow Faundies, but ot is hurtful for fuch as : have Ulcers inthe Kidneys or Bladder. Cives, Vide Leeks. Cocks-Head; red Fitchling, and Medick. »| Fitch. Onobrychis. j _... “E*Wo kindes heréof I fhall defcribe. | D acrepsiave T The firft- fpringeth up with ma-]_,. ny {mall tender branches, like the Vines growing through | Dy and about buthes,’ and whatever grows near it ; the leaves | and the re(t of the pulfe or plant, are like the. wilde | done ‘Vetch: the flowers grow at the tops of the {mall naked } jgoy ftalks, like a‘peafe bloffom, of a purple colour laid over J ii with blue, which turn:into round prickly husks which are | oa the feed. ne © The fecortd hath many ftalks; efpecially whiten it ts olds | neq wiiich‘are round, hard, and leaning to the ground like | shue Sther pulfes, the leaves are like chofe of the wilde | fh, Verch, of aloathfome fcent and bitter talte , among | y, which'come forth fmalftound ftems , whereon grow the J yi, flowers which are of a fhining purple colour, growing J ji, fpike fafhion, three inches tong ; like the great Meadow | bh Trefoil, but longer, and without fmell, after which:come fmall Cods, containing hard black feed in-tafte like the | Vetch: .Theroot is greatand long, hard and wooddy; | {preading abroad and growing deep under groun d; | Names. | Theancient name both Greek and Latine for | this kinde of pulfe is Onobrychis, its called alfo Caput Gal- I) Hinaceum, and the fecond kinde Onobrychis flore, purpureo, a in Englith Cocks-head, red Fitchting, and meddick Fitch. Bi. Place and Time.| Gerhard faith thefe two kindes grow ff, “pon Barron Hill, within four'miles of Lewton in Bedford Witt : Ls (hore gin |$

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