Lib. i. 
Of theHiftory of Plants. 
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The fourth, wbofe leaues are like to Homlocks, is as feme thinke called of Co,d M filfemchmm ,• 
i Fnslifh Hornloekc Filipendula. 
The Nature. 
Thefe kindes of Filipendula are hot and dry in the third degree, opening and clenfing, and yet 
■ith a little attrition or binding. All the kindes of Oenanthes haue the flame facultie, except the 
anrth whofe pernitious facultie we haue formerly touched. 
The Vert ties . 
The root of common Filipendula boiled in wine and drunken is good againft all paines of 
be bladder, caufcth one to make water, and breaketh the done The like Dtofconde, hath written 
>f Oenanthe • the root, faith he, is good fot them that pine by drops. 
The powder of the roots of Filipendula often vfed in mcate, will preferue a roan from the fal- 
ing fickenelfe. 
+ The figures that were formerly 
pu r c which Lobel and others haue giucn . 
Kind vmbclls very hrgc,ai>d kkc choli ot Hc.nl.ckc, but ru.hcr b. SS ct. 
, r u ircL.,..., Cn.t, Dlant'dcfcribcd io tbc fitch place- I haue g-'uen you in the fourth piece the 
for°he* " .“. Lfckbcd, LLnoiwcUacpcclVor the leaner arc largclikcckoTc of Soilage, chc IWkc, bcao- 
I Ci cut a. 
Hemlocks. 
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C H A P. 429. Of Homlocks, or berbe Hemet . 
TheVefcription. 
I T'He fir ft kinde of Hemlockehatha long ftalke,fine or fix foot high, great and hollow, 
1 full of joints like the ftalkes of Fennell, of an herby colour 5 pondered with fmall red 
pots almoft like the (terns ofDragons. The leaues are great, thicke and fmall cut or jagged like 
L leaues of Cheruill.but much greater, and of a very ftrong and vnpleafant fauor. rhe floures arc 
vhite,growingby tufts or fpokie tops, which do change and turne into a white flat feed : the root 
isfhort, and fomewhat hollow within. , , ... „ 
II 5 ' 2 The Apothecaries in times paft not 
knowing the right Sefeli Peloponnenfe , haue erro- 
nioufly taken this Cicutalati folia for the fame. 
The leaues whereof are broad, thicke, and like 
vnto Cicutaria, yet not the fame they called it 
Sefeli Peloponnenfe cum folio Cicutx , the faculties 
whereof deny and refute that affertion and opi- 
nion, yea and the plant it felfe, which being 
touched, yeeldeth or breathetli out a mod vi- 
rulent ot lothfome fmell : thefe things fuffici- 
ciently argue, that it is not a kinde of Sefeli, be- 
fides the reafons following : Sefeli hath a rea- 
fonable good fauour in the whole plant, the 
root is bare and (ingle, without fibres, like a 
Carrot ; but Cicuta hath not onely a lothfome 
fmell, but his roots are great, thicke, and knob- 
bydike the roots of CMyrrbis : the whole plant 
doth in a manner refemble the leaues, ftalkes 
and floures of c ‘MyrrhU odorata, whole fmall 
white floures doe turne into long and crooked 
feeds, growing at the top of the branches three 
cubits high. 
\ 3 This in leaues, ftalkes, and roots is 
larger than the laft defcribed , the ftalkes e- 
qualling or exceeding the height of a man ; tbe 
fmell is {(range and greiuous,and ki all the 
parts thereof it is like to the other plants of 
this kinde. Lobel figures it by the name of Ci- 
cutarU maxima Hranciortis, and queftions whi- 
ther it be not T hapfia tirtia SaUntanticenftum of 
Clufus i but Chtfius denies it fo to be. X 
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