Plinies Natural Hiftorie. 
A when itwas baked. There is a fecond kind of Poppie called Black: out of the heads or bols wher: 
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of,a white juice or liquor iffueth by way of incifion, like unto milke; and many receive & referve 
it carefully. The thirdkind, which the Greekes name *Rhoeas, our countreymen in Latine call 
the wandering or wild Poppie. Itcommeth up verely of the owne accord, but in corne fields a- 
mong Barley efpecially, like unto Rocket,a cubite high with ated floure chat foone will fhed and 
fall off, whereupon it tooke thar name of Rhoeasin Greeke . Touching other: kinds of Poppie 
growing of themfelves, I purpofeto fpeake in the Treatile of Phyficke and medicinable hearbes, 
Meane while this cannotbeforgotren,that Poppies have alwaies,time out of mind,been high- 
lyregarded and honouredamong the Romanes: witnefle Tarquine the Proud, the laft king of 
Rome, when his fonnes Embafladours weré come unto him for to underftand his advife, howto 
compaile the fiegnorie over the Gabians; drewthem into his garden, & there by circumftance 
of topping the heads of the higheft Poppies there growing without any anfwere parole, difpat- 
ched them away, fufficiently furnifhed by this demonftration, with a bloudie deffigne, even to 
fetch off the greateft metisheads of the citie,the readieft meanes to effect his purpofe. 
. Againe,there is another fort of hearbes, that love for companietobe fet or fowne together 
¥*Corne Rf, 
about the Aiquinox in Autumne,namely,C oriander, Dill ,Orach,Mallowes, Garden dockes or 
Patience, Chervill (which the Greekes call Pederos):and Senvie,which is of a moft biting and 
ftinging taft,ofa fierie effe@,but nathelefle very good and wholfome for mans bodie:this hearb 
will come of it felfe without the hand of man,howbeit, prove it will the better if the plantbe re- 
moved and fet elfewhere.And yet,fow a ground once withall, you fhall hardly rid the place of i¢ 
cleane:for the feed no fooner fheddeth upon the ground, butaman fhallfeeit greene above 
ground. Itferveth alfo to makea pretie difh of meatto be eaten, being boiled orflewed between 
too little difhes in fome convenient liquor, infuch fort, asa man fhall not feele itto bite at the 
tongues ¢end,nor complaine of any eagerneffe that it hath The leaves befides ule to be fodden; 
like as other pot-hearbes. Nowthere bee of this Senvie, three kinds :the firft beareth {mall and 
flender leaves, the fecond is leaved like Rapes or Turneps,the third refembleth Rocker. The beft 
Maftard feed commeth out of gypt. The Athenians were wontto call it Napy, fome Thaipi, 
and others Saurion. 
To conclude,as touching the running wild Thyme,and Sifymbrum,/.Horle-mint or Water: 
mint,moft hilsarereplenifhed and tapilledas it were therewith: and {pecially in Thracia, where 
aman fhallfeea mightie quanutie of wild Thyme brauaches, which the mountaine waters or 
Jand flouds carie away and bring it downe with their ftreame torivers fides, and then folke plant 
them.Semblably,at Sicyonethere groweth great ftore,conveighed thither from the mountains 
neare adjoining : and laftly,at Athens, brought thither out of the hill Hy:mettus, In likemanner 
alfo the forefaid Water-mintcommeth ftom the hils with a fuddain dafh of raine, and is replane 
ted accordingly. It groweth rankeft and profpereth beft in the brinkes and fides of pits or welsy 
alfo about filh-ponds and ftanding pooles. 
Cuap. 1X, F 
| 88 Of Finkle or Fenelland Hemps. 
Tremaineth now among garden hearbes to fpeake of thofe that bee ofthe Ferulekind, and _ 
namely of Fenell in particular, a hearb wherin Snakes and {uch ferpents take exceeding great 
delight, as heretofore | have declared: and which being dried, is{ingular goodtocommend ~ 
many meats out of thekitchin into the hall. : 
There isa plant refembleth it much, named Thapfia,whereof becaufe I have alreadie written 
among other forraine hearbes,] will proceed forward to Hempe,which is fo profitable and good 
for to make cordage. This plant muft bee fowed of feed atter the Wefterne wind Favonius blow- 
etl in Februarie. The thicker that it groweth,the flenderer and finer it is. When the feed thereof 
isripe, namely, after the Zquinox in Autumne, folke ufetorub itout,and then drie it either in 
the Sunne,the wind, or fmoke.But the ftalke or ftem of the Hempeit felfe,they plucke out of the 
ground after Vintage: and it is the Husbandmans night worke by candlé light to pill and cleanfe 
it. The beft Hempe commeth trom Alabanda, efpecially forto makenets and toile; where bee 
three kinds thereof. That part of the Hempe which is next tothe rind or pilling, asalfo to the 
inner pith within,is worft : the principal of it lieth in the middeft, and called itis Mefa, Nextto 
the 
