4. Tbapfiavulgaru Caret* ejfjgie. 
Carrot leafed Thapfia, 
(land a: the toppes in umbells, and the feede is more like unto 
Siler momauum than Ferula or Thapfia, but much gteaterthan 
it, and IefTe than Ferula ot Thapfia, the roote is of the thicknefte of 
ones thumbe, brownilh on the outfide, and much whiter than Ft* 
rula within, with a thicke barke, and a (lender tough pith, yeel- 
dingforthayellowifhmilkie juyee, being broken, which being 
condenfate is fomewhat gummie but hard and drie: at the toppe 
of the roote there groweth a fmallbufh of (hort haircs, whereby 
this plant is knowue from Ferula, vvhich elfe would fcarce be 
difeerned : the tafle of the herbe is fomewhat fharpe and unplea¬ 
sant, but the roote much hotter and offenfive to the tafte and fto- 
macke,moving vomite, and in the grecne more than dry. 
2. Thapfia latifolia Htfpamca, 
Spanifh broad leafed Thapfia, 
The leaves of this Thapfia are fomewhat like unto Fennell 
giant, greene, but covered over with a little woolly hairinefle, 
lprcad round about on the ground, of an unpleafant tafte.’the ftalke 
that rifeth up among them, groweth to be a cubite, and fometimes 
to be two cubitshigh,of a fingers thicknes.with a few joynts and 
leaves at them like the lower butleffe, at the top whereof (land 
r omewhat br«ad umbels of yellow flowers, which while the feed 
is in ripening changeth the forme to be round as a ball:the feede is 
6road & winged as it were,the middle part wherof which fprout- 
^th out the leaves is long and narrow :the roote is fomewhat like 
the former, thicke, long,and broader at the toppe, with ablackifh 
thicke barke full of amilkie juyee which is mod bitter and (harpe 
in tafte, provoking vomiting and white within. 
3. Thapfia maxima Hijpamca, 
The greater Spamjb Thapfia. 
This Thapfia (hooteth forth ftalkcs three or foure fingers thicke, 
like to a Ferula i and exceeding any mans height, having branched 
winged leaves like the laft, but larger, and fpread on the ground 
like it : the flowers and feedes arc like it alfo: the roote is 
greater. 
4 - Thapfia Carate folio. Carrot Leafed Thapfia. 
This was the mod ufuall Thapfia that the (hoppes of thofi? 
SmlnumThapfj* genera earn folio dr radlce [atlfoli*. 
"Five forts of Thapfia fcedcs,wich a Ieafc and a roote of the broader leafed one. 
ThapCorotx folio fummiiatef. 
The toppes of the Charrot leafed Thapfia^ 1 
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