Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.

Thomas Browne

Date:: 1669

Credit: Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1s Es. which jee allo Nes overs mAb Joh 13s whet mois Fact snot head mi te I) of the to) Til of Cyrus's Garden, or, The Quiticinx Naturally confideredk or Lime-Tree; and the remarkable difpofure of thofe yellow Fringes about the purple Peftill of Aron, and elegant clutters of Dragons, fo pecu- liarly fecured by Nature with an 4mbrella ot skreening Leaf about them, The fpongy Leaves of fome Sea-wrecks, Fucus, Oaks in thet feveral] kindes found about the Shoar with eyetments of: the Sea , are over\vrought with Net-tvork elegantly containing this Orders which plainly declareth the naturality of this Texture, and how the Needle of Nature delightéth to work even in low and donbtfall Vegetations. 3 The Arbuftecum or Lhicket on the head of the Teazil may be obferved inthis Order « And he that confidereth that Fabrick fo regularly palifado’d and ttemm’d with Floivers of the royal colour, in the hoate of the folitary Maggot may find the Seraglio Of So/omon 5 and contemplating the calicu- Jar Shafts and uncous difpofure of their extremities, fo accommodable unto the office of Abttexfion, notcoadema as wholly improbable the conceit of with much ingairy never difcover any transfiguration in this abitemious Infeé&, although we have kept them long in their proper Houfes and Box- es; Where fome., Wwrapt up in their Webs, have lived upon their own Bowels from Seprember unto Tuly. | In-fuch a‘Grove do walk. the little Creepers about the. head of the Barre.” And fuch anorder is obferved in the aculeous prickly Plantation upon thé heads of feverall common Thiftles, remarkably in the notable Pa- lifadoes about the flower of the Milk-thiftle : -And he that inquireth into the lirtle botrom of the-Globe-thiftle, may find that gallait Buth arife from aScalpof like difpofure+ ; The white Zmbrelia or medicalk buth of Elder isan Epitome of this Or- det, arifing from fivemun Stemms Quincuncially difpofed, and, tolera- bly maincainedsin ther {abduviGons. To omit the lower cbfervations 1a.the feminal Spike of Mercurie wild and Plantane. | Thas hach Nature ranged the Flowers. of Santfoya and French Hony- fickle», -and fomervhat- after this manner hath ordered the buth in Fapi- reese Baard,.owHoate-leek, which old. Superttition fet on the.tops . of houfesias a detenfative againt Lightning: and Thunder. Tbeilike in, Fenay Seagreen, or the Water-(b) Souldier ; which, though a mibtary name from Greece; makes ot the Roman Order. ‘A like ordination there is in the-favaginous Sockets and Lozenge-feecs of the noble Flower of th2Sun, wherei in Lozenge-fizured. Boxes Nae ture fhats up the Seedsand Balfame which is,about chem...) | Bat the Bitre and Pinestree from. their Fruits do. natuxally datate -thig pofition the Rhomboidal protiberances an Pine-apples mamtaining this QuintcunnciabOrder unto each other, and each Rhombus air iefelf > This are alfo difpofed the ttiangular Foliations i the conical Frait of, the. Firre= tree) orderly fhadowingiand profesting thelwirnged Seeds below thys, Phe like fo ofreim ocamreth, ito the apriohgy of, Obferyers,) efpeqa | 33 {pica Uv. 45 Athol. Gree, BLT. Ept- grammata yervddy, “Ere Joy $20 Ax~ prav pnleet ty walion. Efpecially the Porus cti= vinks Impera= ti, Spovofa, Als Bauhini. o Statin ss$

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