Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
IOil 
may feeinmany giimmie or Ferulous plants)afterirhath fceded, neither will it floure before the 
iccond or third yearc after it is fowne. f 1 am ignorant what our Author means by this defcrip - 
There is likewife akinde of S'fiU called Stfdi hich hath leaues very much do i 
4 a fiLl V iacro-ed verv much like vnto the leaues of fweet Fennell, greater and thicker 
uenor cut, and h y at. The ftalkesroweth to the height of three cubits, hauing knotty ioints, 
than thecommor .Fennell. likevntqWnd feed fomcwhaflong indcor- 
mereAofa^harpe and biung tafte. The root is long and thicke like vnto great Saxifrage, of a plea- 
^ tS! i^iS/^ofMaffilia, which hath lafge and great leaues like vnto Ferula, and not 
There is anotn J . am whic h rife vp ftalkes foure cubits high , bearing at the tops 
fooSSuke vnto the laft before rehearfed,of a good fauour.The root is like vnto the former in 
l^aptf, fub Hance, and fa«our,but that it is 
, Thefe plants are ftrangers in England,nowi Aftanding I haue themin my garden. 
They floure and flourilh in September. ^ 
Their names haue been touched in their feuerafl defect ions. 
11 KThe.Tempcrattirc and Vert ms. 
It nrouoketh vrine.and helpeth the ftrangurie,bringeth downe the (icknelle and dead birth : it A 
hclpetljThc cough and (hortneffe of breath, the futfocation of the mother, and helpeth the falling 
^Thefeed drunke with wine concofteth raw humours, taketh away the griping and, torments of B 
^ThchS Sid other cattell to drinke , that they, may the fooner C 
be deliuered of their young ones, as the fame Author reporterh.- 
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