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Of the Hiftorie of Pl a 



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Smynium Creticum 



Candy Alexander 



A 



B 



C 



D 



t 



Tpoky tufts of a yellow color£ IS 



comes round and blacke feed r*? 1 

 ^orts,of a fharp & bitter taft 1 evS" 

 the root s white and thicke/ct ^ 

 the opinion of Dodcn^s, whoE? * 



haue feen and proued . cb ' 



% The Place. 



Smynium groweth naturally vpon rk 

 Mi ; and mountaines of Candyjod in 1 

 garden alfoin great plentyralibvpoo the 

 mountain Araanus in Cilicia. 



U The Time. 



f MjffWMM floureth in Iune^d thefced 

 is ripe in A uguft. 



^ TheNmts. 



This plant is called in Latine, tent 

 um : in Greek, **>'»•• in Cilicia, frtr»/ f i,. 

 »»,and as Galen teftifieUbme hauccalW 



it,Hippefclinum agrejl e %, fcoglift.Caxlj 



Alexanders/* Thorow bored Parfley. 



«{[ The Temperature. 

 Smyrnium is hot and dry in the thinl 



degree. 



^f They ernes. 



The leaues of 5«r^///)»diiToIue«rcni 

 and hard fwellings, dry vp vlcers and ex- 

 coriations,and glew wounds together 



The feed s are good again ft the (lop- 

 pings of the fpleene,kidnies,and bladder. 



Candy Alexander hath force to digeft and waft away hard fwellings,in other things it is like to 



garden Parflcy,and ftone Parfley,and therefore we vfe the feed hereof to prouoke the defired fie 



nefle,and vrine, and to help thofe that are fluffed in the lungs,as Galen writeth, 



^u .•.!.„ r. z. .t__t_ _ L _ . /. . ... i s good to be drunke againftthebitingoffer 



they do fit or ftand vpright : it helpeth 



profitabl 



gainft the infirmities ofthefpleen or milt, t 

 for thofe that haue thedropfie,as Dhfcmdcs 



water : the feed is good 

 likewifeagood/Dedicu 



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Chap. 4.05. Of Tar/hep. 



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final!!** 



THe leaues of the tame or Garden Parfneps are broad, confifting of many ®, • bf f 

 faftned toone middle rib like thofe of the arti treerthe ftalk is vpr 'g£f>°^' ft the 



beriK : 



root 



* j -? °f F 1 w Parlhe P is lik e to that of the Garden,in leaues'ftalke, tuft, y c [ l0 " ^ 

 round feed,but altogether IelTer : the root is fmall,hard,wooddy,and not fit to bee«« • 



and 



n Parfnep requireth a fat and loofe earth,and that th 

 Parfnep groweth in vntoiled places, efpecially in tl 

 f the famc:the feed whereofbeing gathered and bro 



«r The Place. f . - n . 



feeartb,and that that is diggedyp deep^ ^^kes 





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