Lib. 2 
Of the Hiftory of Plants: 
1031 
3 Th apfia vulgar is. 
Deadly Carrots. 
The Time. 
They floure in Auguft,or fomewhat after. 
^ The Names. 
The French Phyfitians haue accepted the root of Thapfu for a kinde ofTurbith, calling it Tur. 
fctum Cineritium ; notwithftanding vpon better confideration they haue left the vfe thereof, efpeci- 
ally in purging, for it mightily hurteth the principal! parts, and doth often caufe cruell a’ripings 
in the guts and belly, with convulfions and cramps : neuertheleffc the venomous qualitie may bee 
taken away with thofe corre&iues which are vfed in mitigating the extreme heate and virulent 
qualitie oiSarcecoBa, Hammemacum, and Turpetum : but where there be fomany wholefome Sim- 
ples,and likewife com pounds, they are not to be vfed. 
Of forne it is called Turpetum Grifeum : it is called Thapfaas fome thinke,oftheIfIandThap- 
I nis, where it was flrft found ; -or as we deeme, of the IikenelTe it hath with Carrots. 
Of the people 01 Sicilia and Apulia it is called Ferulacoli^ where it doth stow in oreat aboun- 
dance. 0 & 
qj The Temperature and Venues. 
. Jhe temperature and faculties in working haue been touched in the defeription, and likewife 
m the names. 
C H A P. 41 1. Of Fennell. 
The Defeription. 
He firft kinde of Fennell, called in Latine Fosniculum : in Greeke, is fo well 
knovvne avnongfk vs, that it were but loft labour to deferibe the fame. 
n . 2 The fecond kinde of Fennell is likewife well knowne by the name of Sweet 
enneb, fo called becaufe : the feeds thereof are in tafte fweet like vnto Annife feeds, refembling 
r.e common Fennell, failing that the leaues are larger and fatter, or moreoleous : the feed greater 
rand whiter, and the whole plant in each refpeft greater. 
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