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which, by means of the Gutter, you may receive in 
aVeffel, which keep for Ufe. This has all the Vir- 
tues of the former, and full as beneficial for lore, 
blood-fhot, dim, cloudy and blemilhed Eyes as the 
orher, being dropt into them three, four, five or lnt 
times a day, as you fee need requires. ., 
XXXII. T he Gum of fennel, or its Infpfiate 
Juice. It has all the Virtues of the liquid 1 utce, 
and may be given from one dram to two, dfftolved 
in any fpecifick Liquor or Wine. IF 
Juice is diffolved in fome of the diftilled Water, 
and fweetned a little with white Sugar-Candy, and 
it is given to Nurfes to drink, it breeds much Milk 
in their Breafts i and if it is dropt into the Eyes it 
very much clears the Eyes from Clouds, Milts 
Films Blood-lhot , and other like Matters which 
obfiifcate the Sight. In Southern Climes and very 
hot Countries, if Fra«/-Stalks are wounded whillt 
they are green and growing, the JuiGe will exludate 
and become this natural Gum : but in our cold 
Countries, it yields not to this Operation ; ttae- 
fore we are obliged to make the Juice by Exprem- 
on ; and then to infpiflate it by a gentle Evaporati- 
on on a Sand Heat, till it is petfeflly dry. 
CHAP. CCLIII. 
Of FENNEL Sweet. 
It is called in Greek , thiakes’ 
” ’ ' iulce Matthi- 
and in Eng- 
I.TT'ffE Names. - - ~ 
1 yMurfv : in Latin , fttmculum iulce Jhattht 
------ 
oil , Ft eniculum vulgare Lugdunenjts 
lijh , Sweet fennel. 
II, T he Kinds. It is the fecond general Species 
of the fennels -, but differs in Sweetnefs according 
to the Country in which it grows. 
III. The Defcriptions. This in its Roots , Stalks, 
Leaves , flowers and Manner of Growing , is per- 
fectly like our Common Fennel , excepting that it 
neither in foreign Climates, where it grows natural- 
ly, nor yet here with us in England, does grow fo 
large, or rife to Jo great a height as the Common 
large Garden kind does : and with m it with J'otne 
difficulty endures the Hardnefs of our Winters : but 
the Seed of this is much larger and longer than that 
of the Common kind, yellower, and very much 
Tweeter in Tafte, coming near to the Sweetnefs of 
Anifeed , which fo continues in hot Countries, but 
holds not out any long time to that Perfe&ion ; nei- 
ther as to its Magnitude, Color or Sweetnefs ; but 
decaying yearly , does at the third Years Sowing 
yield as ordinary Seed as the Common kind. 
IV. Kota.t. From this you may obferve, that 
it is the Clime and change of Soil which caufes this 
Alteration, making it either larger or fmaller, long- 
er or (horter, yellower or paler colored, and makes 
it to be either fweeter or bitterer in Tafte ; which 
Change of Accidents has made fome think, that 
there were divers forts of this Sweet kind, whereas 
indeed there is no more than one. 
V. Nota. 2 . There is a kind of fennel, which 
the Italians call Carduus fennel, and which they 
would make different from this Sweet kind -, but it 
is no fuch thing, for it is only the Art of ordering 
it, which feemingly makes the Difference from this 
Sweet, which is done by Tranfplanting and Whi- 
tening it, by which means the Leaves are made to 
grow much more thick and bulhing together than 
the Ordinary ■, the Whitning of it alfo giving it a 
fweeter Rellilh, a pleafanter Tafte, and a (hotter 
Crifpnefs in eating. 
VI. T he V laces. It grows univerfally in almoft 
all hot Countries ; and ftourifhes well enough in 
our Gardens, being fown with Foreign Seed every 
Year, where the Seed it felf comes to Perfeaion ; 
but you ought to low every Year new Foreign Seed, 
not the Seed of the Englifh Produ&ion, becaufe that 
is very apt to degenerate. 
VII. The Times. It flowers and feeds with us in 
July and Augufl, and if it is an early and warm 
Spring, towards the latter end of June and the 
Seed is ripe in Augufl or September. 
VIII. The Qualities, Specification, P reparations 
and Virtues of this, are the fame with the Common 
fennel in the former Chapter, faving that this is ac- 
counted the more excellent and efficacious of the 
two ; and therefore to the Difcourfe and Sections of 
the former Chapter I fhall wholly referr you. 
CHAP. CCLIV. 
Of FENNEL Wild, 
o R, 
HORS E-F E N NE L. 
I. r T" v H E Names. It is called in Greek, M .gfei 
1 Spur, % ■hrm,ud & rtc‘>r ■ in Latin, Marathrum 
agrefiis, fxmculum fylveftre, hippomarathron ; and 
in Englifh , Wild fennel, and horfe fennel. 
11. T be Kinds. It is the third Species of fennel, 
and is threefold, viz. t. fceniculum fylveftre com- 
munis, fteniculum erraticttm Matthio/i, The vulgar 
or 
