Lib. z. 
Of the Hilforie of Plants, 
1039 
and thofe that grow about the tops of the ftalkes are commonly diuided into into three parts, and 
thefe fubdiuided into fundry long fharpe pointed and fniptleaues like as irn^l tyrrhti. The feeds 
grow two together,being Iongifh, round, fharpe pointed, blacke, and Alining. We may fitly terme 
this plant, wilde Cicely, for that it fo much refembles the Myrrhis or garden Cicely, tat oricly in 
fiiape, but (if I be not deceiued) in vertues alfo. $ 
y The Place . 
The common Cheruill groweth in gardens with other pot-herbes : it profpers in a ground that 
is dunged and fomewhat moift. The great fweet Cheruill groweth in my garden, and in the gar- 
dens of other men whohaue been diligent in thefe matters. 
The Time '. 
' Thefe hcrbes do ftoure in-May, arid their feed is ripe in Iuly . 
^ TheNames. 
Cheruill is commonly called in Latine Cerefolium, and as diners affirme, charofolium, with 0 in 
the fecond fyllable. Columella nameth it charephydum, and it is thought to be fo called becaufe it 
delighteth to grow with many leaues, or rather in that itcaufeth ioy and gladnes : in high- Dutch, 
ItOiffclhtaUt t in low-Dutch, liCCUCll i in Italian, Ccrefoglto : in French, Du Cerfueil . m Englifh, 
Cheruell, and Cheruill. 
Myrrhis is ?lfo called Myrrha, taken from his pleafant fauour of Myrrh : of lome,C«ri, as it is 
found noted among the baftard names. Itisalfo, byreafon of the fimilitude it hath with Hcm- 
locke, called by mod late writers, Cicutaria. Of this, Pliny maketh mention, /W. 2 4 • cap. ig. where 
he reporteth that it is called Smyrrhii{a : in EngliAi it is called Cheruill, fweet Cheruill, or lweet 
Cicely. 
The T emperaturc and Vertues . 
Cheruill is held tobeone of the pot-herbes, it is pleafant to the llomacke and tafte: it is ofa A 
temperate heate and moderate drineAe, but nothing fo much as the Parfleyes. 
It prouoketh vrine, efpecially being boyled in wine, and applied hot to the fhare or nethcrmolt b 
part of the belly, and the wine drunke in which it was boyled. 
It hath in it a certaine windineffe,'by rrieaneS whereof it procureth luft . . 
Tc is vfed very much among the Dutch people ina kindeof Loblolly or hotch-pot which tlicy 1) 
do cate, called Warmus. 
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