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Ot the Hiftorie of Plants* 



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uch that diuers Italians haue fent for fome plants ofour Artichokes, deeming them to be of 

 mother kinJt 3 ncucrthelefie in Italy they are (mail and dry as they were before. Euen fo it ha-jnerh 

 co this /"«■« .J, as we haue fatd. This torefaid ftalkediuidethitfelfe toward the top into diuers 

 other (mail branches, whereon are fet the like leaues that grow next the ground, but much letter 

 At the top of the branches at the firft budding of the floures appeare certaine bundles inclofed to 

 than skins'ike the yolkc of an egge,which diuers call Corcukm FeruU } or the little heart of FcruU 

 which being brought to maturitie, open themfelues into a tuft or vmbell like that of Dill of a yd* 

 lowifli colour s after wh ich come the feed, in colour and fafhion like thofe of the Par fnep* but Ion" 

 get and greater, alwaies growing two together, Co clofcly joyned, that it cannot be difcerned to be 

 morethan one feedvntill they be diuided : the root isvery thickeand great,fullofa certaine o am 

 roic fa cc.that flowcth fotth,thc root being bruifed,broken, orcut $ which being dried or hardned 

 is that gum which is called Sagaf>cmm i an& in fome fhops Serafimm . ' 



i There is likewifc another (mailer ftr*. 



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dfc Upturn FerttU {& 



la liketnto the former in each refpetf, fauing 

 that it is altogether lefle: rhc root likewiic be- 

 ing wounded yeeldeth forth a fap or juyce 

 which when it is hardened is called GalLwum : 

 of the A flyrians, tJMeteptum. 



I haue likewife another fort fent mce from 

 Paris, with this title Ferula nigra. ; which pro- 

 fpereth exceeding well in my Garden, but dif- 

 ference I cannot findc any from the former, la- 

 uing that the leaues are of a more blacke or 

 fwart colour. 



t 5 I know not where more fitly than in 

 this place to giueyou the Hirtory of chat Fe- 

 rula or Ferulaceous plant that Dodo»xut,Lobel t 

 and others haue fet downe vnder the name of 

 Panax i^ffclepium. The ftalke hereof is (len- 

 der^ cubit high, ere fted and joynted,and from 

 thefe joynts proceed leaues bigger than thofe 

 of Fennelljand alfo rougher, and of a ftrong 

 fmelhat the tops of the branches grow vmbels 

 of yellow floures : the feed is flattifli, like thac 

 of the other Ferula : the root long, white, and 



of a ftrong fmcll 

 Iftria. ' 



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This growes naturally in 



II The Place. 



Thefe plants are not growing vvilde in Eng- 

 land • I haue them all in my garden. 



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They floure in Iuneand Iuly • they perfect 

 their feed in September h not long after, the 



root 



Winter 





Ttafi a T 7 he Names 



•j-l f . ^f 'Tie temperature, 



«e plants with their Gums are hot in the third degree.and dry in the fecond . 



Tfae ' h ^ 7 ^ e Vertttei ' 



litie aXl ° r i narrow ^alIed Ctremlum FeruUjs Galen teachetb,is of an aftrineenr or b ind ; r.« « ,, 



**££ SSSSSSB^ int ° ChC n0fthriI$ " ftai " h "^ and is 8^ « Wine to 



^ « reported to be eaten in A nulia ^ I. the embers firft wrapped in leaues or in old clours, 



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wect food,that ftirreth vp luft.as they report! 

 :it is a remedy aeainft cold firs of an Ague, 



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Stgqemtm, purgeth by fiege 



