\ConopftcagL nd Macrocaulosftotti its height.] Thefe 
Flowers’ finell fweet, and are fucceeded by Seed, 
like that of the reft of the Kindred. 
IX. To thefe Gerard gives us another, which he 
calls, Palma, Cbrifii ( paluftris ) rcdice repente , 
Creeping Fenny orMarlh Palm, or Creeping Palma 
Chrifti : it has creeping Roots, without Te/lic/es , 
which are many and long , creeping far abroad in the 
Ground , contrary to all the reft of the Orchides 
which Roots are of the Bignejs of large Wheat Straws , 
in Subfiance like thofe of Soap-wort ; irom the 
which do immediately rife four or five broad fmooth 
Leaves, like unto Small Plantane Leaves : from a- 
mong which fhoot up a fmall and tender Stalk, at 
the top of which grows a pleafant fpiky Head of 
Flowers, of a whitifh color, fpotted on the infide 
with little bloody Specks, which leave Veflels con- 
taining very fmall Seed. 
X. The Places. They all of them grow in fenny 
Grounds , or in marfh or moory Grounds, alfo in 
lhadowy Woods or Groves which are watery and 
marlhy, and often over-flowed with Water. The 
fixth , or Great Pa/mi Chrifti , delights to grow in 
Grounds of an indifferent Temper, not too moift 
nor too dry. The feventh, or Creeping Palme , was 
found by Mr. Robert Abbot of Bijhops Hatfield , in 
a boggy Grove, where a Conduit-head does Hand, 
which fends Water to the then Queens-houfe in the 
fame Town. It alfo grows plentifully in Hampfhire , 
within a Mile of Petersfield , in a moift Meadow, 
called Wood-mead , near the Path leading from Pe- 
tersfield , toward Beryton. 
XI. The Times. The firft flowers more early 
than the Ordinary Orchis or Cynoforchis. The fe- 
cond flowers after the former : but they all flower 
from the latter end of April thro’ all May and June, 
fome of them flowering more early, as the firft and 
fecond kinds ; and otherfome more late. 
XII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations and 
Virtues , are the fame with thofe of the Cynoforchis 
or Dog-Jlones, which we have declared at large in 
Chap. 226. aforegoing, fo that no more need be faid 
thereof : yet this is to be noted. That thefe Fenny- 
ftones are not of fo great Power and Force as are the 
Cynoforchis , and feveral other kinds of the Orchides 
or Tefticuli , of which we fpeak in their proper 
places. 
CHAP. CCLII. 
Of FENNEL Common. 
I. Names. 
X Raienigi : in Greek , : 
It is called by the Arabians, 
w {jreek, ; in Lat in, 
fceniculum •, and in Englijh , fennel. 
II. The Kinds. There are four principal kinds 
of fennel, viz. 1. fceniculum vulgar e, of which in 
this Chapter. 2. fceniculum dulce , Sweet Fennel, 
of which in Chap. 253. 3. fceniculum fylveftre , 
Wild Fennel, of which in Chap. 254. 4. Peuceda- 
num , Hog or Sow Fennel, of which in Chap. 255. 
following. 
III. Of the Vulgar or Common Garden fennel , 
there are two forts, viz. 1. fceniculum majus vul- 
gare , The greater common Garden Fennel. But 
Cafalpinus calls it fceniculum fylveftre : Gamer ari us 
in horto fays , that fome took it to be Hippomara- 
thrum j but that was a Miftake, as we fhall Ihew in 
Chap. 254. 2. fceniculum minus, fceniculum femine 
IV. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Commcri 
Garden Fennel, has a Root which is long and white , 
running down deep into the Ground ', fpreading it felf 
out into feveral Branches : from this Root rife up 
divers round ft iff Stalks, four or five feet high, 
which fpread the mf elves out ( at tv any of their Joints) 
into divers Branches of long Stalks, of fine, fmall, 
long, fibrous Leaves, Jmelling fome what firong, but 
not unpleafant : and at the tops, on feveral Branches, 
there are Tufts or llmbles of fmall yellow Flowers, 
which turn into fmall, long, roundilh-cornered, 
bitterifh , greenifh Seed , two always together, 
as in the other Umbelliferous Plants ^ which being 
ripe, and once dryed, become of a fad grey color. 
Of this Plant there are truely two forts, (tho’ one 
Defcription does ferve them both •, ) the one wholly 
with green Leaves 5 the other with reddilh Leaves, 
or with reddilh green Leaves, they not differing one 
from another in any thing elfe. 
V. The fecond , or Small Fennel with (mallet 
round Seed, in its Roots, Stalks and Leaves differs 
not from the former, but only that they are every 
way lefs, being much lower than it ■ and that the 
Llmbles at the Heads of the Stalks are white, and 
the Seed which follows is lefs than the ordinary 
fort, being more like to Car urn or Caraway Seed"; 
the whole Plant, both in Smell and Tafte, and in 
its Form and Manner of Growing, is the lame with 
the other Common Garden kind. 
VI. The Places. Thefe Plants grow in all hot 
Countries, in Afa, Africa and America, and in lome 
of the Weft India Illands, Yis laid, they feed their 
Cows with it : but with us in England it grows on- 
ly in Gardens. 
VII. The Times. They flower in June, July and 
Auguft, and the Seed is ripe not very long alter. 
VIII. The Qualities. According to Galen, it is 
hot in the third Degree, and dry in the firlf : it is 
admirably Aperitive, Incifive, Anodyne, Carroma 
