VMBELLIFER^. 
VMBELLIFER.OVS PLANTS. 
CLASSIS OCTAVA, 
THE EiqHT T%1BE. 
CHAP. I. 
Ferula. Pennell giant.' 
N this Claffis I am to intreate of all the kindes and forts of umbelliferous herbes, fuch 
I meant as are generally fo called, for there are many other herbes that beare their 
flowers and feede or berries on the toppes of their (hikes in manner of an umbell 
asthofedoe. as you may obferve through the whole paffage of the Booke,whith 
cannot properly belong hereunto. Now becaufe there be many forts of thefe 
herbes, Ithinki it fit to diftribute them into three Rankes or Orders: thefirft 
(hall be of thole which beare fine leaves l.ke Ferula, the next fball be of fuch as 
have fine and thinne cut leaves like Carrots or Patflcy : and the laft (hall be of luch 
have broad leaves like Panax or AageUica, that fo under thefe three ranker, I may 
nurehendthe whole Family orTribe, ofthefeumbelhfers; yet I mult entreate 
K r _ l :lc _ i inferr (nmerimes into one rorme,iucnas 
,7 - — comprehend tne wnoie ramuy ui j , 
you to beare with the paffages offomeof thefe, if for names fake 1 mfert fomenmes into one forme, luchas 
miohrhr nlaced in an other, the vicinitie of the names conltraining that ettett. 
tES two or three forts plainely to be d.fccrned to be differing one from another as foil 
I Ferula tenuiore folio, Fine leafed Fennell giant. .... , , n ,, c , 
This fine leafed Fennell giant bringeth forth fundry large hollow lungous thicke branched ftalkes.of very light 
fine thinne (forfobftance but thicke It) leaves togethei.and bulbing more 
fhorter than it alfo placed out of order, fomettmes two or three or foure leaves together, ti e bo tome of the 
ftaSeTng L Se as ones finger, but compaffing one another wnh broad 
bottome, from among which rifeth up a ftrong upright ftalke eight or ten bofomt om of 
cudgell fet with divers fuch fine leaves thereon, one above anothei, compaffing the Italke at the bottome. ontot 
the bofome whereof come forth feverall fmall branches towards the toppes the toppe alfo being divided into 
fundry parts, forming a large umbell of fmall yellow flowers, which turne into. blac,. ifh fiat (cedes, but yellowifli, 
as they have becne obferved in the gumme, two alwayes joyned together by the litri foote ftaIke wh "=?" 
(land, as is ufuall in all thefe umbelliferous plants; the two innet (ides being n h “ 
fides round with the longneffe : the roote groweeh very great and never decaieth branching forth many wayes 
of a blackifli'browne on foe outfide, and fomewhat white within, yeeld.ng a th.cke juyee being broken in any 
part which doth quickly condenfate and grow intoa yellowifb gummte fubftance.not fmellmg any thing ftrong m 
ourrountry, as I have often proved, and nothing fo much as the Gum Sagapemm, which is fuppoted to be gathe- 
red from the roote of this plant. , , , ... . ■ 
3 Ferula latiorefolio. The broader leafed Fennell giant. 
This other Fennell "iant groweth in the like manner in all things, and as high, or rather higher whofe bran¬ 
ched (hikes of leaves a“re more lparled or thinner fet than the former ; and the leaves themfelves of a dai ker greene 
cofourbfouer alfo and longer the flowers are yellow, and the feede fomewhat larger: the gummie juyee that iflu- 
eth forthfom he roote of this fmelleth a little more, even with us,than the former .although nothing lo ftrong as 
the gallJum, which wehave in our (bops, land faid to be taken from this plant in the hot countnes and cl,mates 
of Africa, &c. , _ . . 
2. Ferulaoo feu Ferula minor. Small Fennell giant. _ 
' This fmall fort groweth nothing fo high as the former, but abideth much lower than the ordinary Fennell ha¬ 
ving leaves nothing fo great or branched, yer larger than thoie of F ennell, as the tufts at the toppes, which B 
fmaller feede than either of the two former, but fomewhat like them and blackifh : the roote is much fmalxr an 
whiter than either of them, with but few fibres thereat. 
The place and Time, . . 
They are all found growing M Well in N*j*i in France among the rockes that aretorrefie dwtth the Sunne 
