Tribe 'The Theater of "Plants* Chap^, 583 
j edges, fet on each fide of a middle ribbe- among^trhich rife up crefted browne (hikes, two foots high or better 
with fome fmaller leaves, fet in (ome places thereon, divided into fundry branches, and at the toppes fmaU 
round loofe heads, or knaps upon long {oote (hikes, of a brownifh colour; from whence Hart forth fmall pur- 
plifh flowers, and after them cornered feede: the roote is fmall, long, and blackifli browne on the outfide,grow¬ 
ing do wnc deepe into the ground, with fome fibres thereat: the herbe hath a fine quicke fent and tafte, giving a 
delicate rclifh unto wine. 
2, PimpinelU minor inodor a. Vnfavory Burnet. 
This unfavory Burnet is in all things like the former, but that the leaves of this are not fo round.but fomethine 
longer, and have neither fent or tafte in them to commend it like the other. 
5. Pimpinellamajorfivefylveflris. Great or wilde Burnet. 
The great wilde Burnet hath fuch like winged leaves rifing from the rootes, but nothing fo many, and each of 
thefc leaves on the wings, are twife as large at the lead, as the other; and nicked in the fame manner about the 
edges, of a grayifh colour on the underfide : the ftalkes arc 
greater and rife higher, with many fuch like leaves fet thereon, 
& greater knaps or heads at the tops,of a brownifh greene co¬ 
lour, and out of them come fmall darke purple flowers.like the 
former, but greater: the roote alio is blacke and long like the 
: other, but greater; this hath in a manner neither fent or tafle 
1 therein, like the common fmall, or garden kinde. 
Pimpinella maxim* Americana. Great Burnet 
of America. 
This great Burnet is in all the parts thereof like the lad, but 
much greater, having oftentimes all the leaves, which are of a 
| blewiih greene on the upperfidc, and folded halfe way toge¬ 
ther inward, the underfide of the leaves, which are grayifh, 
J {hewing themfelves upward,nicked fomewhat deepely about 
j the edges, with greater dents, which make them fhew the 
\ more comely,and gracefully : the toppes of the ftalkes carry 
fmallei, and much longer, whitifh greene fpiked heads, fet 
I thicke with knaps, each whereof when it flowreth (beginning 
below and fo rifing higher) (he weth to be foure whitifh greene 
leaves, having many {mail white long threds in the middle : 
after which come the feede in the fame places, being cornered 
j like the other : the roote is much greater and wooddy, longer 
| alfo and blacker than the laft: this hath little fent, but in tafte 
is fome what like the firft, yet nothing fo aromaticall. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth wilde in divers places of this Land, in dry 
fandy places, but is ufually prelerved in gardens, to be ready at 
hand, when it (hall neede to be ufed: the fecond was found in 
Spain?, as Bauhinut faiththe third is found in divers Coun¬ 
tries of this Land, cfpccially in Huntington and Northampton 
{hires, in the Meddowes there, as alfo neere London both by 
PancrM Church, intwoor three fields nigh unto Boobies barne, 
as alio by a caufie fide in the middle of a field by ’Paddington i 
the laft was brought out of the North parts of Virginia , where 
it is naturall. 
The T me. ' 
All thefe flower about the end of lme, and beginning of July, 
and their feede is ripe in Angufi. 
The Names. 
The Greeke word mumtte or as gtfner hath it ■mpemviKt Pimpinella, is onely found in Hjcolaus Mjprepfus , and 
is thought by divers to beunderftoodcof thishearbe, (for it isnotknowne to be mentioned bythat name,in 
any of the old writers : but divers by good judgement doereferre it to the Sideritis feertnda of Dio[corides, 
whercunto it anfwereth fully, both in forme and qualities, fo that we neede not any further to doubt thereof,and 
the rather, becaule as it is fayd at this day, this herbe is called Sideritit by the Greekes, in the Ifland Chio t or Sio, 
divers alfo teferre his Sideritis unto the other kmdes of Pimpine/la t that arc umbelliferous, for there is fuch 
a confufion among many of the later writers, that it is hard to underftand,which of thefe two kindes they meane 
whereof they write -.Hefner inhortis German: mention of Pimpinella minor fativa Lvis, to be of the lame 
kind with the other fylvefiris, or wilde fort,& as he faith,not differing from it,but in the manuring,which his Pim¬ 
pinella minor fylvefiris, is the Saxifrage kind as may be plainly perceived,by his own words followingifor he faith 
that that herbe which the Germanes call ufually Pimpinella is by other people called Saxifraga, and by the Italians 
Hircina, or Pimpinella hircina,znd yet Tauhintts maketh thisPimpine/la fativa lavis of Gefiner, to be Sanguiforba mi¬ 
nor Uvisp which isquite contrary to his mind as 1 tbink;and although by faying it is ufed in falters,he might feeme 
to underli and this Burnet kinde, which was wont often to be fo ufed, yet his words of Saxifraga Hircina, cannot 
he underftood of this Burnet ,but of the other Saxifraga umbellifiera:the like doubt and difference there is concer¬ 
ning thofe fcarletberrics.that grow upon the rootes of Pimpinella vulgarises Fragofus maketh mention, (.3. <1.15. 
which he taketh to be the Cocchenilla , for he there faith, that Cochenille is acertaine berry brought from Peru, 
which groweth upon certeine fmall plants, like unto P impinella vulgaris, untowhofe rootes it doth fticke, of 
the likeneffe of wilde Grapes, which fome take to be the true Coccognidmm, and others to be the Chermes of the 
Arabians, whichdiffereth from theCcccw , 5 «yWrn of the GVx riw; thus faith Fragofus- all which is utterly 
untrue. 
4. PmtmcJa wasitna ate ericana. 
Great Burnet of America* 
