L I B. Z. 
1038 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
floures, which do turncinto long brownecrefted and fhining feed, one feed being as big as foure 
Fennell feeds, which being greene do tafte like Anife feed. "The root is great, thicke,and' long, as 
bigas EnulaCampana, exceeding fweet infmcll,and tailing like vnto A,nife feeds. 
t 4 There is found in fome parts of the Alps, as about Gerieua and in other places, another 
My this, .which in the leaucs and vihbefs is like that of thelaft defcribed,butrhe whole plant is 
leffej the feed is long, fmall, fmooth,and fhaped like an Oat, and in tafte fomewhat like that of 
the Datictis Crcticus. Label hath this by the lame name as we here giueit you. 
5 About mud walls, higli-vvayes, and filch places, here about London, and in diuers other pla- 
ces, is found growing a fmall plant, which in al 1 things but the fmell and height agrees with that 
referred to this kinde by Fabiut Column*, and called Myrhis vEqtticolorum non* ■ The root hereof is 
fmall and white, perifhing euery yeare when it hath perfefted his feed ; the ftalks are flender,bol- 
low, fmooth, and not hairy, feldome exceeding the height of a cubit, or cubit and halfe ; it is diui- 
ded into fundry branches, vpon the {ides whereof againft the fetting on of the leaues,orout ofthc-ir 
bofomes, grow forth the ftalks, which carry vmbels of fmall white floures : after which follow the 
feeds, growing two together, and thefe longifh, rough, round, and hairy, abour the b'rgtiefle of A- 
nife feeds. The leaues are fmall, and finely cut or diuided like thofe of Hemlock, but of a whirilh 
colour, and hairy : it comes vp in March,floures in May, and ripens his feed in Iune. In Italy they 
eate the yong leaues in fallads,and call it wilde Cheruile : we may in Englifh for diftinftions fake 
call it fmall Hemlocke Cheruill. 
6 To thefe we may fitly adde that plant which in the Inft.Lugd. is called Chut aria alba, and by 
Camerarius,CicutariapaluJtrh ; for it flouresat the fame time with the laft mentioned, and is found 
in floureand feed in May and Iune very frequently almoft in all places but afterwards his (hikes 
die downc, yet his roots liue,and the leaues are greeneall the yeare. The root of this is very large, 
and .diuided into fundry parts, white alfo and fpungie, of a pleafing ftrong fmell, with a hot and 
biting tafte : the ftalks grow vp in good ground to be fome three cubits high, and they are hollow, 
ioynted, pretty thicke, greene, and much crefted, fending forth of the bofomes of the leaues many 
branches, which vpon their tops carry vmbels compofed of many white floures, each flotire con fi- 
lling of fine little leaues, whereofthe lowed is twice as big as the rcft.thetwQ fide- ones lefle, and 
the vppermoft the leaf! of all.The leaucs are large like thofe of Myrhis , but ofa dark green colour, 
and 
