OF the Hitlory of Plants. 
Lib. 2. 
1067 
i Cuminum fylueflre. 
Wilde Cumin. 
3 Cuminum filiquofum: 
Codded wilde Cumin. 
3 Cuminum Coruiculat urn, five HypiCOiunChtfij. 
Horned wild Cumin. 
round and bairie buttons or knops,like Ar- 
ction , as D.ofibridcs hath right well obfer- 
ued : within which knoppes is contained a 
tender downie fubftance, among which is 
the feed, like the feed of Dens Lewis, but 
much leffer. 
2 The fecondkinde ofCuminisverie 
likevntothe forefiud wilde Cumin, faue 
that it bearcth a number ofhorned or croo- 
ked cods, after the mannerof Scorpioides, but 
thicker, and leffe crooked, and the feedes 
within the cods are feuerally diftinft and 
feparatedone from another by equall par- 
titions, in fraall croffes, yellow of colour, & 
fomewhat long : theftalkes are little and 
tender,befet with leaues much like vnto the 
fmall leaues of Civu- , or Pcclen V encris: and 
at the top of the (lalks there do grow pret- 
ty yellow floures, like thofeof great Ce- 
landine or Rocket, failing that theybe fom- 
what Idler. 
f 3 The third kinde of Cumin is ve- 
ry like vnto the laft before mentioned, but 
the leaues are much greater, more {lender, 
& more finely cut or iagged,like the leaues 
of Sefelt of Mufiilia : among which rifethvp 
a ftatke actibit high or fomewhat more, ve- 
ry fmoothand whitifh; at the top whereof 
fpring forth fine yellow floures, not like the 
former,butcoijfiftingoffix leaues apiece,^ 
whereof 
