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The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.Russell, Alexander

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The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.

Name: The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent : $b Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation.
Author: Russell, Alexander

Russell, Alexander

Aleppo (Syria) -- Early works to 1800; Natural history -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800; Plague -- Syria -- Aleppo -- Early works to 1800

_G. D. Ehret delin:_ _J. S. Miller sc:_]

And towards the middle of _April_ the country is in its full bloom, the
verdure of the fields being beautifully variegated by poppies[204],
bellflower[205], gromel[206], comfrey[207], mullein[208], sage[209],
rocket[210], hedge-mustard[211], mustard[212], horned poppy[213],
great variety of campions[214], pimpernel[215], figwort[216], berry
bearing chickweed[217], flax[218], corn-flag[219], lilly daffodil[220],
larkspur[221], bugloss[222], ladies bed-straw[223], birthwort[224],
ironwort[225], skull-cap[226], trifoil[227], melilot[228], calves
snout[229], _Moldavian_ balm[230], medick[231], rest harrow[232], goats
rue[233], bastard rocket[234], kidney vetch[235], corn sallet[236],
two species of satyrion[237], knapweed[238], hatchet vetch[239],
columbine[240], scabious[241]. Nor are the stoney, uncultivated rising
grounds without their plants; as thyme[242], vipers buglos[243], ground
pine[244], cress[245], common whitlow grass[246], madwort[247],
eryngo[248], St. _Foin_ several species[249], birds foot[250], horse-shoe
vetch[251], birds foot trefoil[252], moon trefoil[253], vetch several
kinds[254], milk vetch[255], betony[256], knapweed[257].

Among the rank herbage in the gardens are found at this season,
borage[258], _German_ madwort[259], hounds tongue[260], broom
rape[261], mint[262], rush[263], balm[264], thyme[265], vervain[266],
dittander[267], hollyhock[268], cinquefoil[269], lilly[270],
burdock[271], but in small quantity; mug-wort[272]. But among the plants
that adorn the fields at this season, no one is more conspicuous or
common than the lion-leaf[273]: nor should we here omit a beautiful
species of henbane[274], with a strong musk smell; which seems to be the
_hyosciamus rubello flore_, _C. B. P. 169._ though the peculiarity of its
smell I do not find has been mentioned.

[Illustration: _Pla 5 facing Page 41._

_Tragacantha Orientalis vesicaria erectior caule ab imo ad Summum florido_

_G. D. Ehret delin:_ _I. Mynde sc:_]

As the heats come on, the few following plants being of a hardier nature,
are the only ones that are capable of resisting them. Wild or _Syrian_
rue[275], bean capers[276], capers[277], which grow in plenty on the
tops of old houses; kings spear[278] several species; a variety of
stars of _Bethlem_[279], liquorice[280], night-shade[281], fennel[282],
blessed thistle[283], wild cucumber[284]. Nothing now remains of the
spring-plants in the open fields.

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