Connubia florum Latino carmine demonstrata / auctore D. de La Croix, M.D. ; notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, baronettus.
- La Croix, Demetrius de
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Connubia florum Latino carmine demonstrata / auctore D. de La Croix, M.D. ; notas et observationes adjecit Richardus Clayton, baronettus. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ io8 ] Multæ enîmvero de hac Planta Fabulæ narrantur. Tres adjecimus ejufdem Figuras, quarum prima extat in A6t. Ph. Reg. Lond, fecunda in Editione Silvæ et Terræ Js. Evelyn, quam cl. A. Hunter nuper dedit, et tertia ex delineatione D. de la Croix. The Figure reprefents what is commonly, but falfely called, the Tartarian Lamb, fent down from thence by Mr. Buck- ley. This was more than a Foot long, as big as one’s Wrift, having feveral Protuberances, and towards the End fome Foot Stalks, about three or four Inches long, exaftly like Foot Stalks ot Ferns both without and within. Moil part of this was covered with a Down of a Dark yellowiih Snuff Colour, ihining like Silk, fome of it a quarter of an Inch long.—This Down is commonly ufed for fpitting of Blood, about fix Grains going to a Dofe, and three Dofes pre- tended to cure fucha Haemorrhage. In Jamaica are many fcandent and tree Ferns, which grow on to the bignefs of Trees, and have fuch a Kind of Lanugo on them, and fome of the Capillaries have fomething like it.<—It feemed to be fhaped by Art to imitate a Lamb, the Roots or climb- ing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28760086_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
