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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The feed is flat like the other, ioyned two together in one, as you may fee in the feed of Ferula or 
Angelica, in fhape like a round target, intafte like Mjrrhis. Matthiolus did greatly miftake this; 
plant. 
2 There is akinde of Sefeli Creticum,cMed alfo Tordylion : and is very like vnto the former fa i 
iiing that his Ieaues are more like vnto common Parfneps than Cherui!,and the whole plant is bi>- 
gerthan the former. 1 
3 There is likewife akinde of Sefeli that hath a root asbigasamansarme,efpecially ifthe 
plant be old, but the new and young plants beare roots an inch thicke, with fome knobs and tube- 
rous fprouts, about the lower part, the root is thicke, rough, and couered oner with a thicke barke, 
the fubftance whereof is firft gummie, afterward fharpe,andasitwerefulIoffpattIe ; from thevp- 
per part of the root proceed many knobs or thicke fwelling roots, out of which there iffueth great 
and large wings or branches of Ieaues, fome whereof are notched and dented round about,growing 
vnto one fide or rib of the lcafe, (landing alfo one oppofite vnto another, of a darke and delaid green 
colour,and fomewhat Chining aboue.but vnderncath of a grayifhor afhe colour : fromamongft 
thefe Ieaues there arifeth a ftraked or guttered (hike, a cubit and ahalfe high, fometimes an inch 
thicke, hauing many ioints or knees, and many branches growing about them, and vpon each ioint 
leffcr branches of Ieaues. At the top of the ftalkes, and vpper ends of the branches grow little cups 
or vmbels of white floures - which being vaded, there commeth in place a feed, which is very like 
Siler montanum.%\ take this here deferibed to be the Sefeli montanum i.of Cltiftue, oiLigufticnm al- 
teram Belgarirm ofLoici : and therefore I hauc giuen you Clufuu his figure in this place/d 
. There is alfo a kinde ofSf/e/;,which Pena fetteth forth for the firft kinde of /><r«£«*,wherof I take 
it to be a kinde, growing euery where in the paftures about London, that hath large Ieaues, growing 
for a time . ten with the earth, and fpred thereupon, and diuided into many parts, in manner almoft 
like to the former for the moll part in all things, in the round fpokie tufts or vmbels, bearing ftiffe 
and faire white floures in fliape like them of Cinkefoile i in fmell like Sambucus or Elder. 
VV hen the floureis y.ided,there commeth in place a yellow guttered feed, of a fpicie and very hot 
tafte. The root is thicke f _agdblac^ without, which rotteth and periflieth in the ground fas wee 
I ScJiUCrclicum minrn: 
Small ScfeleosofCandie. 
t 2 Sefeli Creticum mains. 
, Great Selelios of Candiej 
may 
