I0 66 Of the Hiftory of Plants. L 1 e. 2 : 
The rlace. 
Cumin is husbanded and fown in Italy and 
Spain, and is very common in other hot coun- 
tries, as in Ethiopia, Egypt, Cilicia, and all 
the leffer Afia, 
It delights to grow efpeciallyin putrified 
and hot foiles : I haue proued the feeds in my 
garden, where they haue brought forth ripe 
feed much fairer and greater than any that 
commeth from beyond the feas. 
«(f The Time . 
It is to be fown in the middle of the fpring. 
a fhewrc of raine prefently following doth 
much hinder the growth thereof, as Rnelliu* 
faith. 
My felfe did fow it in the midftof May, 
which fprungvp in fix days after : and the feed 
was ripe in the end of Inly. 
The Names. 
It is cajled in Greeke Stue» : that is, tame 
or garden Cumin, that it may differ from the 
wildc ones :it is named in Latine Cumimm .• 
in Chops, Cfmirum : in high-Dutch iaOOIlUfa 
(1)5 ftpitltttd : in Italian, Comtno : in Spanifh, 
Corninchos : in French , t’omm ■ in Englifh, 
Cumin. 
The T emperature. 
The feed of garden Cumin,as Galen faith, is 
hot and dry in the third degree: Diofcorides 
laith that it hath in it alio a binding qualitic. 
U The Venues. 
A The feed of Cumin fcattereth and breaketh all the windineffe of the ftomacke, belly, guts, and 
matrix : it is good againft the griping torments, gnawing or fretting of the belly, not onely r’ecei- 
ued inwardly by the mouth, but alfo in differs, and outwardly applied to the belly with wine and 
barley meale boyled together to the forme of a pultis. 
B Being handled according to art, either in a catapIafme,pultis,or pIaifter,or boyled in wine and 
fo applied, it taketh away bladings, fwcllings of the cods or gc-nitors : it confumeth windie fwel- 
lings in the ioynts,and inch like. 
C Being taken in a fupping broth it is good for the chefi and for cold lungs, and fuch as are op- 
preffedwithaboundance of raw humors. 
D * It ftancheth bleeding at the nofe, being tempered with vineger and fmeltvnto. 
E Being quilted in a little bag with fome fmall quantitie of Bay fait, and made hot vpon a bed- 
panwith fire or fuch like, and fprinkled with good wine vineger, and applied to the fide very hot, 
it taketh away the ditch and paines thereof; and eafeth tire pleurifievery much. 
Cumtnnm fativum Viofcoridis. 
Garden Cumin. 
Chap. 433. Of wild e Qtmin. 
The Kindes. 
'T'Here be diners plants differing very notably one from another in fhape, and yet all comprc- 
* hended vnder the title of wilde Cumin . 
The Defcription. 
1 r fHc wilde Cumin hath fmall white roots with fome fibres thereto appendant ;f tom the 
. A which arife fundry little iagged leaues, confiding of many lefferleaues, finely dented ! 
3 n Ut j C C §*: s ’ * n ^ a ^ uon Bke the fmalleft leaues of wilde Parfnep : among which fpringeth vp 
a llendei bending ftalkea foot high, like vnto PeClen Veneris , bearing at the top thereof white : 
round 
