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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The Place, 
The Onion required! a fat ground well digged and dunged, as Palladium faith. It is chcrifhed 
cilery where in kitchen gardens : it is now and then in beds fowne alone, and. many times mixed 
with other herbes, as with Lettuce, Parfeneps, and Carrets. Palladius liketh well that it fhouldbe 
fovvnewith Sauory, bccaufe, faith Pliny, it profpereth the better, and is morewholefome. 
J 4 Afcalottitidcs . 
Scallions. 
The Time. 
It is fowne in March or Aprill,and fomtinies 
in September. 
The Names. 
The Onionis called in Greeke,Kew"“' : in La- 
tine, Cepa, and many times Cepe in the neuter 
gender .‘the fhops keepe that name. The old 
Writers hauegiuen vnto this many fyr-names 
of the places where they grow, for fome are na- 
med Ciprix, Sardix^ Creticx, Samothracia , Afcalo- 
nia, of a towne in Iudea,otherwife called Pom- 
pciana : in Englifh, Onions. Moreouer, there is 
one named sMarijca^ which the Countrey-men 
call fnio , faith Colume/U ; and thereupon it com- 
meth that the French men call it Otgnon , as Ru- 
ellius thinketh : and peraduenture the Low- 
Dutch men name it idtlcinm, of the French 
word corrupted : they are called Setania which 
are very little and fweet ; and thefe are thought 
tobe thofewhich Palladius nameth Cepulla, as 
though he called them par-vx Cepa, or little O- 
mons. 
There is an Onion which is without an head 
orbulbe, and hath as it were a long necke , and 
fpends it felfe wholly in the leaues, and it is of- 
ten cropped or cut for the pot like the Leekes. 
This Thcophrajfiis names r„3», ; of this Pliny alfo 
writeth, in his nineteenth booke, and Cxt chap- 
ter. There is with vs two principall forts of O- 
nions, the one feruing for a fauce, or to feafon 
meate with, which fome call Gethytm , and other* 
Falhcana , and the other is the headed or common Onion ' which the Germanes call £DHion?tot= 
bel *. the Italians, Cipotla ; the Spaniards, Ceholla, ceha, and CeboU, 
•t The Temperature. 
All Onionsare fharpe,and moue teares by the fmell. They be hot and dry, as fa j 
fourth degree, but not foextreme hot as Garlick.The myce is ofa thin water.e and airy fubftance. 
the reft is of thicke parts. ^ The Venues. 
a The Onions do bite, attenuate, or make thinne, and caufe drineffe : being boylcd ^'“V ^e IofL 
A their fharpeneffe, efpecially if the water be twice or thrice changed, and yet for all they doc 
C fo. r«„ - - 
° flegmaticke humors ; and for women that hatie their termes flayed vpon a cold caufe, by realon 
j, th %to e .vifcct^T'fatYhey C prk^^ vnto them , cither 
F ^Stampldtv ith fat, tew, and boney,andfoapplicd, they are good agamfl tlic biting o. a mad 
- ^Mintheembers.andapplied, they ripen andbreake cold Apoftames, Biles, and Mi 
like. The 
