Chap. 51. 
Tbeatrum Botanicum. 
Tribe?; 
Chap. X, 11. 
Afarum, Afarabacca. 
> Have in my former Booke given you the knowledge of this Afarabacca, but becaufe I have not 
r there txprelfed it (o fufficiently, as it ought to be, I have here amplified my felfe in fonae particulars. 
I Now although there was but one fort of Afarun S with all Writers now ada ] e 5 ’ 7 ”^“. haVe 
' ceivedannotherlort out ofKiV^mafomewhatdiffering from theother; and although the name 
hath beene formerly mifapplied to many other hetbes, as is in part (hewed in the 38. Chapter of 
ur 'L. H A ill hr further declared in this ■ yet now I hope that it is fo fufficiently knowne, there is no 
caufe'oferrourfbutt^ii^W^dothad^e another herbe fomewhat like unto it in leaves, whereof I meane to 
fpeake alfo he . Afarum vufoare. Common Afarabacca* _ 
„ , , . u ' mores from whence come many fmooch leaves, every one upon 
. Afawm vu'gare. 
Common Afarabacca. 
a. Afarum Amcricanum. Virginia Afarabacca 
edges: from among which rife (mall round hollow browne 
erf cne hashes upon Ihort llalkes about an inch long, divided at 
fhe brimmes into five divifions, very like unto the cuppa 
or heads of the Henbane feede, but that they ate fmaller and 
thefe be all cite flowers it carrieth : which are lomewhat fweete 
being fuelled unto, and wherein when they are ripe is contai¬ 
ned final 1 cornere I rough (eede, very like unto the fernells or 
flor.es ofGrapesor Raifins: the rootes arefmalland whitifli, 
fpreading diverfewayes in theground, andlncrcafinginto dt- 
verfe heads, but not running, or creeping under ground, asdl- 
verfe other creeping berbes doe,which are fomewhat fweete in 
frnell, refembling Nardm hut more being drie, than when they 
are greene, and of a flrarpe but not unpleafant tafte. Cameranm 
faith that Gefner found a greater kinde hereof, and more lweetc, 
upon the Alpes in Switzerland, which Haubinw as it fhould 
feeme never faw, and therefore donbted of the truth. 
7. Afarum Americanum, Virginia Afarabacca. 
1 The Afarum of Virginia groweth very like the former, 
but the leaves ate a good deale larger, ftiffe alfo a ™ 
thicke, fomewhat crumpled about the edges, of a darke 
gretne colour, but not fo much Aiming as it, and not lo 
5. Afarha Mattbioli. 
Baftard Afarum of Mattbiolus, 
