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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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z The wilde Angelica , which feldome 
grovves in gardens,but is found to grow plen- 
tifully in water foken grounds and cold moift 
medowes , is like to that of the garden , fane 
that his leaues are notfodeepely cutoriag- 
ged ; they be alfo blacker and narrower The 
ftalkes are much flenderer and fhorter , and 
the floures whiter : the root much fmaller, 
•and hath more threddy firings appendant 
thereunto, and is not fo ftrong of fauour by a 
great deale. 
j Matthioltu and Gcf/ier haue made men- 
tion ofanother kinde of Angelica, but we ate 
very flenderly inftrtnfted by their infufficient 
deferiptions : notwithftanding for our better 
knowledge and more certain aflurance I mull 
needs record that which my friend ML Bred- 
well related to me concerning his fight there- 
of, who found this plant growing by themote 
which compalfeth the houfe of M'. Munke of 
the parifh of Iuer, two miles from Colbrook; 
and fince that I haue feene the fame in lotv 
fenny and marfhy places of Effex,about Har- 
wich. This plant hath leaues like vnto the 
garden Angelica, but fmaller, and fewer in 
number, fet vpon one rib a great ftalke, grofle 
andthicke,whofe ioynts and thatfmall rib 
whereon the leafe growes are of a reddifh co- 
lour, hauing many long branches comming 
forth of an husk or cafe, fuch as is in the com- 
mon garden Parfnep : the floures doe grow 
at the top of the branches , and are "of a 
white colour, and tuft fafihion : which being paft, there fucceed broad long and thicke feeds, lon- 
ger and thicker than garden Angelica : the root is great, thicke, white, of little fauour, with fome 
firings appendant thereto. 
t This of our Authors defeription feemes to agree with the. Arch angelic a of Laid, Dodonaus 
and clafius , wherefore I haue put their figure to it. + 
The Place. 
, The firft is very common in our Englilh gardens : in other places it growes wilde withoutplan- 
ting • as in Norway, and in an Illand of the North called Ifland, where it groweth very high. It is 
eaten of the inhabitants, the barke being pilled off, as we vnderftand by fome that haue trauelled 
into Ifland, who were fonretimes compelled to eate hereof for want of other food ; and they report 
that it hath a good and pleafant talle to them that are hungry.lt groweth likewife indiuers moun- 
taines of Germanie, and efpecially of Bohemia. 
«[ The Time. 
They floure in Iuly and Auguft, whofe roots for the mod part do perilh after the feed is ripe : 
yet haue I with often cutting the plant kept it from feeding, by which mcanes the root and plant 
haue continued fundry yeares together. 
The Names. 
it is called of the later age Angelica .- inhigh-Dutch,31ngellCfe,2331UfltoUrtj,or bCgf 
CBEPlt lOUttJCl, that is, Sfirittts (anch radix, the rootoftheholy Ghoft, as witnefleth Leonhartus 
Fuchfius : m low-Dutch, SltgelUlta : in French, Angelic : in Englilh alfo Angelica. 
It feemeth to be a kind of Laferpitirm ; for if it be compared with thofe things which Thecphra- 
Jt“ s ac I ar gc hath written concerning Silphittm or Lafcrpitmm, in his fixthbookeof the hiftorie of 
plants, it fhall appeare to be anfwerable thereunto. But whether wild Angelica be that which Theo- 
fhrajtus calleth Magydans, that is to fay, another kinde of Lafcrpitmm, we Ieaue tobe examined and 
conlidered ofby the learned Phyfitians of our London Colledge. 
The T emperature. 
Angelica, efpecially that of the garden, is hot and dry in the third degree ; therefore it opened), 
attenuated! or maketh thin, digefteth,and procureth fiveat. 
:£ 3 Archangelica. 
Great wilde Angelica. 
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