I B. Z. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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iOng, blacke fomething bitter, and ofan aromaticall or fpicy finell: the root is thicke blacke 
without, white within, like to a little Radifh,and is good to be earen.ouc of which being broken or 
Cut, there ilfueth forth a juice that quickely waxeth thicke, hairing in it a fharpebitternefle like 
Intaftevnto Myrrhe ; which thing alfo Theephrafiu-s hath noted, there iifueth out ofit faithhe a 
juice like Myrrhe. 
f Hippafelinum, 
Alexanders. ^ 
q/t '\yv\_k. L*~AA.\ ^ 
\ The Place . 
Alexanders or great Parlley groweth in 
mall places of England, 
The Time. 
The feed waxeth ripe the fecond yeere, in 
the Moneth of Auguft. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke, of the greatnefle 
wherein, it excelleth the other Parlleyes ,w. 
V'"' or Horfe Parlley ; of G^Equapium .■ it 
is alfo named 01k; atrum , or the blacke pot- 
herbe ; and of diuers Sytucftre Apium i or vvikle 
Parlley ; of Galen and certaine others, by 
reafonof the juice that ilfireth forth thereof 
that is, as we haue laid, like vnto Myrrhe’ 
which is called in Greeke cfMpUoi • there is alfo 
another Smprnium of mount Aman,ef which 
we do write in ^404. chapter: theApothe- 
caries cal it Petrofelinam Macedonicum : others 
Petrofelinum Alexandrinum : the Germaines 
©joffflEpfftcfc: the Low-Country-men, 
tccfelic ban #aceOonion : in Spaniih,^*. 
il Macedonuo : the French, and Englilhmen, 
Alexandre, Alexanders. 
% The Temperature. 
The feed & root of Alexanders, are no lefle 
Slot and dry than are thofe of the Garden Par- 
fley, they clenfe and make thinne, being hoc 
and dry in the third degree. 
, U TheVertues. 
T)iofcondes^\i\\ that the leaues and ftalkes are boiled and eaten, and drefied alone by them- 4 
fs fiTrh fi rt heS : t t at t n ey are P refcrucd ravv ln P ick,e : that the root eaten both raw Ind fod A 
he*e df heft ° maCke:the t00£here0f lsaIfoln °urageferued to the table raw for a fallade 
Theleedsbringdowne thefloures, expell the fecond ine, breake and confume winde, prouoke 
If it be made withwmc^ ** ftrangufy ! tfle deco<ftion alfo of thc r00t doth the fame, efpecially B 
i Thefigareformerlj here «sso£ Sfiadjtin,, *nJ rtutbtltfnsing M thii pile* *u?u. In the foregoing chjpftr. 
Chap. 402,. Of Vollde farjley. 
T The Description, 
*JL'r^ 1S t0 tBe kindes °( Parlleyes in the fundry cuts of the leaues, and alfo in the bignefle 
for they be broad and cut into diuers parcels : the ftalkes are round, chamfered, fet with cer- 
tame joints, hollow within, a cubit higher higher, two or three camming forth together out of 
) one root, and in the nether part many times of a darke reddifh colour. The floures be white, and 
Igroiv vpon fpokie tufts .-the feed is round, flat, like that of Dill: the root is white within’ and 
; diuided into many branches and ft r tags. Thisplant in what part foeucr it be cut or brokeii.yeel- 
ideth forth a milky juice, " 
f The. 
