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and to purge the body which it doth.with that violence both upward and dow reward that they are ofte: 
brought into great danger that take it. 
Chap. III. 
Pettcedanum, SoW-FcnnclI. 
gEe have three forts of Sow-Fennell to offer to your confideration in this Chapter 
I, Pettcedanum majtts Italic urn. Great Sow-Fennell of Italy, 
The great Sow-Fennell hath divers long branched fiallies of thicke and lomewhat long leaves, three i 
’ for the moll part j'oyned together at a place, among which rileth a crefied flraight flalke, neare as bigge \ 
as Fennell with fomejoynts thereon,and leaves growing thereat, and towards the toppefome branches ifluing i 
fromthence.likewifeonthetoppes of the llalke and branches (land divers tufts of yellow flowers where aftei 
grow fomewhat flat thinne and yellowilh (cede twife as bigge as Fennell feede: the roote groweth great and 
deepe with many other parts and fibres about them, of a llrong fent like hot brimftone, and ycelding forth a ycl-t i 
lowilh milkeor clammy juycealmofl like a Gum, 
2. Pencedammvnlgarc. Common Sow-Fennell. 
The common Sow-Fennell groweth in the fame manner that the former and hath no other difference but that! 
this is lower and fmaller by a fourth part, and the fmell thereof as llrong as the former. 
3. Pettcedanum minus. Small Sow-Fennell. 
As the firfl Sow-Fennell was larger then the fecond, fo this is lefle then it, having fmaller and fhorter leaves 
of ablewifhgreene colour, of a little bitter talle but almollno fmell, the flalke is (lender ar.d round, about halfe 
a yard high, parted into divers branches, whereon (land fmall tufts of white flowers in an umbell, which are 
fucceeded by thicke (hort feede almofl like to Parfley, but of an alh colour, and bitter fharpetafle: the roote isi 
of the bigneifeof ones thumbe, fometimes greater or lefler, with a bufli of haires at the toppe, blackilh or 
brownifti on the outfide,with a thicke barke of a pleafant fweet tafte at the full and afterward fharpe. 
The Place and Time, 
The firftgroweth naturally in Italy in divers places :the fecond in good plentie in the fait low Marfhes a little byj 
Feverfham in Kent : the laft was found on Saint Vincents Rocke by Briflow, by Label as hce fetteth it downe in 1 
his Adverfaria ftag.^^i .and in HttngarieznA Attjlriaby Clttfiut. They all flower and feede in the end of Sommer 
that is in My and Augufi. 
The Names, 
It is called in GreekevsussJisr©-and in Latine feucedanus ipiTeucedamtm, fome take it of the pitchy lent it 
z. Veuccdanum vulgare. 
Comfnon Sow-Penudl. 
