John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants (1640)
Date
1640
Author
John
Parkinson
Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of plantes. Or, An Universall and Compleate Herball
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Cotes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Hyssopus. Hysope. CHAP. I. THere are sundry sorts of Hyslops, whereof the most are unknown to many: whose descriptions, names, and properties shall follow. 1 Hyssopus Vulgaris. Common garden Hysope. The common garden Hysope is so well knowne to all that have a garden, or that haue been in a garden, that I shall but seeme actum agere, to bestow my time in describing it to be a smal bushy plant, that riseth up more than a foot high; with many wooddy branches, but tender; at the tops whereof are set at certaine distances, sundry small long and narrow greene leaves: at the tops of the stalkes stand blewish purple gaping flowers, in spiked heads one rowe above another: after which follow the seed, which is small and blackish: the roote is somewhat wooddy with many threddy strings: the whole plant is of a strong sweete sent.
sample: Hyssopus. Hysope. CHAP. I. THere are sundry sorts of Hyslops, whereof the most are unknown to many: whose descriptions, names, and properties shall follow. 1 Hyssopus Vulgaris. Common garden Hysope. The common garden Hysope is so well knowne to all that have a garden, or that haue been in a garden, that I shall but seeme actum agere, to bestow my time in describing it to be a smal bushy plant, that riseth up more than a foot high; with many wooddy branches, but tender; at the tops whereof are set at certaine distances, sundry small long and narrow greene leaves: at the tops of the stalkes stand blewish purple gaping flowers, in spiked heads one rowe above another: after which follow the seed, which is small and blackish: the roote is somewhat wooddy with many threddy strings: the whole plant is of a strong sweete sent.
Alston
XVII.I.144
STC
19302
Criticisms
Arber, Agnes. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. 1912. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938.
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