Lib. 2 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants 



1031 



5 T hap fia vulgaris 



Deadly Carrots. 







/ 



it Tar- 



H The Time. 



They fioure in Auguft or fomcwhata r tcr. 



m The Names. 



The French Phyfit ians haue accepted the root of Thapfia for a kinde of Turbith, a 

 pttum Ctntritinm ; notwithftanding vpon better confiderarion they haue left the vfe thereof, efpeci- 

 ally in purging, for it mightily hurrerh the principall parts,and doth often caufecrucllgripings ia 

 the guts and belly^with convulhons and cramps : nenertheleffe the venomous quality may be taken 

 **ay with thofeconettiues which are ved in mitigating the extreme heate and virulent quality 

 oiSarcocolIa, H.immomacum^wdi Turpttum : but where there be fo man) wholcfome Simples, and 

 likewife compounds they are not to be vied. 



Of forae it is called Turpetum Grtfeum : it is called Thapfia.as fome tbinke,of the Ifland Thapfus, 

 *W it was firft found. « 







ut the people of Sicilia and Apulia it is called FcruUcolwhctk it doth grow in great aboun 



aaflcc. 



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inc temperature and faculties in working haue beene touched 

 ^ the names. 



C h a p. 4 1 1. Of Fennel/, 







^ The Description 





l I *We firft kinde of Fennell, called in Latine, Feniculum : in Grceke, m^«v> is fo well 

 J^ knowne amongft vs^that it were but loft labour to defcribe the fame. 



. 2 The fecond kinde of Fennell is 1 ike w i fe well knowne by the name of Sweet Fen- 



e| I,fo called becaufethe feeds therof are ia tafte (weet like vnto Annile feeds, re fembling the corn- 



Q n Fennell,fauing that the leaues are larger and fatter, or more oleous ,• the feed greater and wrli*- 



w^andthewholeplantineachrcfpea greater. .-.-....-.. 



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