Chap. 255. UngUJb Herbs. 
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or common Wild Fennel. 2. Tceniculum fylveftre 
Creticum , Hippomarathrum Creticum , Honorii Belli , 
R latcc amino Crcticorum , Great or Horfe Fennel of 
Candy. 3. Hippomarathrum fpbarocephalum , Great 
round-headed Horfe Fennel. Anguillara fuppofes 
the fivft of thefe to be Hippomarathrum verum. ' 
HorfeHenml 
HI. The Defcriptions. Tfo Jirft , at Common 
Wild Fennel, to* ^ R00/ like to the Common Gar- 
den kind, and grows up with great Stalks , but few- 
er than it , having alfo but few Leaves , and thofe 
very thinly fet thereon , but fomewhat Jtijfer or hard- 
er in handling , andfhorter alfo. At the tops of the 
Stalks grow fmall Umbles of yellow Flowers, not 
much unlike the Common , laving that they are leffer, 
which being pafs’d away, the Seed follows, being 
fmall and a little roundifh. 
IV. The fecond , 0/- Great Horfe Fennel, to a 
great whitifh Root , not much unlike the former , 
whence Springs up a round , but crefied Stalk , /to*, 
/iw five high, about the Thicknefs of ones 
middle Unger or Thumbs having very fine Leaves 
thereon , but Jhorter than the Ordinary fort. This 
Stalk is divided into feveral Branches, bearing at 
their tops Tufts or Umbles of yellow Flowers, 
which being pafs’d away, there comes in their 
places great, large, and almoft round Seed. This 
is the Plant which Bellus makes mention of in his 
hrft Epiftle to Clufius , which is extant in the end 
of his Hiftory of Plants, whofe Seed, as he there 
fays, is as large as thofe of Cachrys or Canchrys , 
Herb Frankincenfe, nearly as big as Hordea Decor- 
ticate, or Hull’d Barley. 
V. The third, or Great round-headed Horfe Fen- 
nel, has a Root which is long and white , and endures 
many Tears • from whence rife up large Stalks, four 
or five feet high , with Fennel like Leaves, and 
Spreading them] elves forth towards the tops into ma- 
ny Branches. At the tops of which Branches grow 
round, Globe like Umbles of Flowers, of a purplifh 
Violet color •, which being pafs’d away, there comes 
in their places large fennel like Seeds, but of a very 
ftrong Smell, almoft ttinking. This Plant is taken 
notice of by Alpinus libro de Exoticis. 
VI. T be P luces. They all grow naturally in hot 
places, as Turkey , Barbary , Spain, Italy , Sc. The 
firft was brought to us out of Spain by Boel ; and 
the reft grow well in our Gardens, being railed from 
the Seed brought to us out of their native Coun* 
tries. 
V II. The Times. They all flower in the end of 
Summer and beginning of Autumn, as in July , Att- 
guft and September ; and the Seed is ripe not verv 
long after. 
VIII. The Vitalities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues of aft thefe, are the fame in aft refpeSs 
with thofe of our Common hng/ijh Garden fennel in 
Chap. 2ya. aforegoing; lo that nothing more need 
be laid of them. Authors fay, that thefe Wild fen- 
nels are hotter and ftronger than the Common Garden 
or Sweet fennel, and therefore more powerful a- 
gainft the Stone ; bur not fo effectual to encreale 
Milk in Nurfes Breafts, becaule dryer in Quality. 
Bellus lays, that in Candia they uie the Seed of the 
fecond fort to Dye their Hair yellow. 
CHAP. CCLV. 
Of FENNEL Hogs, 
0 R, 
SULPHUR-WORT. 
I- E a E Names. It is called in Arabic ft, Harbi- 
X turn : in Greek , ihujAax©- : in Latin , fte- 
niculum Porcinum , Peuceianm and Peitcedanum 5 
by Apule'ws , Pinajiellns , ( I fuppofe from its Pitchy 
Smell ; ) and in Eng/ijh , Hogs fennel , Sow fennel \ 
Hoar-Jirange and Sulphur-wort. 
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