66 culpxpsa's complktb hbrbal. 



root i» whit«, hard, and •ndureth long. This hath little 

 or no Kent. 



Pl<»e4. — The first la sown in gardens for a salad herb ; 

 the second groweth wild in many of the meadows of this 

 land, and by the hedge-sides and on heaths. 



Tims. — They flower and seed early, and thereupon are 

 ■own again in the end of summer. 



Government and Virtuet. — The garden chervil being 

 eaten, doth moderately warm the stomach, and is a 

 certain remedy (saith Tragus) to dissolve congealed or 

 clotted blood in the body, or that which is clotted by 

 bruises, falls, &c : the juice or distilled water thereof 

 being drunk, and the bruised leaves laid to the ^ace, 

 being taken either in meat or drink, it is good to help to 

 provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send 

 down women's courses^ and to help the pleurisy and 

 pricking of the sides. 



The wild chervil bruised and applied dissolveth swell- 

 ings in any part, or the marks of congealed blood by 

 bruises or blows in a little space. 



CHEEVTL (SWEET.)— <5canrfir OdorcUa,) 



Descrip, — This groweth very like the great hemlock, 

 having large spresul leaves cut into divers parts, but of a 

 fresher green colour than the hemlock, tasting as sweet 

 as the aniseed. The stalks rise up a yard high, or 

 better, being crossed or hollow, having leaves at the 

 joints, but lesser ; and at the tops of the branched stalks, 

 umbels or tufts of white flowers ; after which come large 

 and long crested black shining seed, pointed at both ends, 

 tasting quick, yet sweet and pleasant The root is great 

 and white, growing deep in the ground, and spreading 

 sundry long branches therein, in taste and smell stronger 

 than the leaves or seeds, and continuing many years. 



Place. — This groweth in gardens. 



OovemmerU and Virtues. — These are all three of them 

 of the nature of Jupiter, and under his dominion. This 

 whole plant, besides its pleasantness in salads, hath its 

 physical virtue. The roots boiled and eaten with oil and 

 vinegar, or without oil, does much please and warm old 

 and cold stomachs oppressed with wind and phlegm, or 

 those that have the phthisis or consumption of the lungs ; 

 the same drank with wine is a preservation from the 

 plague : it provoketh women's courses and ezpelleth the 



