The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Honorious Bellus ( - )
References in Documents:i. e. The Egg or Cod of the
Ossar, a
kind of
Syriac Dogs-Baneso called;
Beid
Ara
bickword (
bick
d)
d)
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Bellus
Bellus
in his Description, which he borrows of
Author) mistakes, in giving the Name to the Plant, which
belongs only to this Egg or Cod. 'Tis soft or skinny, with
some asperity. About four inches long, at the upper end
sharp, and (now) hooked backward. Filled with a com
pany of small flat Seeds, enclosed in a fine and white
Down.
d)
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Bellus
f)
Bellus
Arachoides Honorij Belli, s.
Cretica. Described, in a)
a)
c. 19
whom the Name.
The Seed it self, like a little Lentil.
Seldom more than one in a Cod. The Cod is short and
broad, about the
bigness of a Silver Half-peny; On the
outside cancellated or favous, almost as in the seed of
Poppy.
What b) b) sc.
That it bears Cods not only on the Stalk, but also on the
Roots under ground.