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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. 2.’ 
5 Filipendula aquatica. 
Water Drop-wort. 
LCXAaJ A/t\A , l L'i tCldL-O S 0 \ — . 
high, diuiding it felf toward the top into fun 
dry armes or branches : from the hollow plac. 
or bofome of euery ioynt (out of which do' 
grow thole branches) the leaues doe alio pr 0 | 
ceed,very much cut or iagged like Fennell a 
the top of thofe branches come forth fpokii 
rundles of white floures fafhionedlike ftars. 
t 4 The fourth kinde of Filipendula is a 
ftrange a plant as the former, efpecially with 
vs here in England, except in the waterie pla. 
cesand rillesin the North, where PductavuA 
or water Smallage groweth 5 whereunto it 
leaues it is not vnlike, but more like Ruta pra< 
tenfis it hath many large branches, a naughty 
iauor, and in colour and Shape like CiciUa , tha ) 
is, Hfemlocke. The ftalkes are more than twej 
cubits high, camming from a rootwhich ex 
ceedingly multiplies it felfe into bulbes, likd! 
Afyhoddus Mas. The fmell of this plant v 
flrong and grieuous ; the tafte hot and biting' 
it being full ofa iuyce,at firft milky, but after 
wards turning yellow. The fpoky tufts or run- 
dies growing at the top are like Cicuta , yea i, 
much refembleth ITemlockein propertie and 
qualities , and fo doe they affirme that haue 
proued and feene the experience of it : for be- 
ing eaten in fallads it did well nigh poyfor. 
thofe which ate of it, making them giddie in 
their heads, waxing very pale, Staggering and 
reeling like drunken men. Beware and take 
good heed of this and fuch like Simples • for 
there be many other excellent good Simples which God hath Sowed v^on vs^fromthe preuem 
ting and curing of difeafes. 4 Pernicious and not excufable is the io-noi anre nf f, m P 
thathaueboughtand^as one may probably conieciure) vfed the rows of th/Lnt inTeTol 
thofe of Peionie • and I know they arc dayly by the ignorant women in Cheape-fidefold to oe^ 
pie more ignorant than themfelues, by the name of water Louage . Caueat ZraL The danger h«, 
5 The fifth and laft kinde of Filipendula, which is the fourth according to Matthiolus hi • ac- 
count, liath leaues like water Smallage, which Pliny ealleth^the leauesmy muSSemblincr' 
thofe of Lauer Crate,,* ; among which nfeth vp a fmall ftalke deepely furrowed orcrefled bea n^ 
at the top thereof fpokie or buHiy rundles of white floures thicke thruft rogethe Theraots a | 
compaa of very many filaments or threds, 5 among which come forth a few tube ous or knobb e 
roots like vnto the fecond. The ° vUu andTime _ U1Der ° us or knoobie 
The firft groweth plentifully vpon ftonie rockes or mountaines, and tough places and in frrril. 
paftures. 1 found great plenty thereof growing m a field adioyning to sffiSSJS wSi 
nene,neere London, on the fide ofa medow called Sion Medowf ‘““me a XNun- 
l L lc feC T d h;uhbecn fnfncientlyfpoken ofinthe defeription. Thethird growethneere vnto 
fhop of Londons houfeat Fulham, and fuch like places. " ‘ ‘ S 6 d 5 d b ° Ut the Bl " 
i hey floure from May to the end of lime. f'- 
TheNames. 
Oenanlhed^atica, and^/at p//" d 10p "' V ^ f ' Wateffi ‘fipendula is called FilipindaU a\Jic* 
The 1 
