Tribe 8. 
The Theater of Plants. 
Chap. 4. 881 
. I i ^»oi«prrrpw!hafe leaves are like it. ^pa/ciH* calleth it TinaStellum z the firft is the Tea. 
carryeth,and others 0 „ and ot ^ g and peucedanum majui Italiciim by Label and Lugduuenfis : the fe- 
C'damm of A at h ^f h ] wl f PeHCedtimm Ccrmankum and Pencedanum Amply without any other addition by Tra. 
cond is ca'ied by . ; j u d lfo Fcemculumporcmim but by Tabermmanw Cauda porcirn : the 
fa H ftSb 
ble as C » Bauhmm fay to be the fecond Saxifrage of Mat,holm-. the Arabians call it Harbatum, the *- ■ 
Tan Feuccdano and vulgarly Fimccbio porcino ,and by feme alfoPi»W*,by the Spaniards Fen.cho delporco , by the 
FrncbFemuilde Fcufafby the Germans of feme Harftrang. but commonly M»«or Schebelwurts, of 
iCvmbVerkeas Venekcll and we in Englijb Sow-Fennell, Hog-Fennell,S U lphurwortand Horftrange. 
TheVertues. 
The in ire of Sow Fennell fay r Diofcorlies and Galen ufed with V inegar and Rofewater,or the juice with a lie- 
tleEupCblput tothenofcjhclpeth thofe that are troubled withthe Lethargic the Phrenfie .theturning of 
the brie or difTineffe in the head, the Falling fickneffe, long and inveterate Headach, the Palfie, the Sciatica 
=nd rhe CramDe and generally all the difeafes of the Nerves and Smewes tiled withoyle and Vinegar: the juice 
rftffnlveH in wine or out into an Egge is good for the Cough or fhortnefle of breath, and for thole that are trou¬ 
bled with Winde and tormenting paines in the body : it pmgeth the belly gently and diffolveth the winde and 
hardnefle of the Spleene, it givetheafe to thofe women that have fore travade in child birth, and eafeth the 
P’ines both of the bladder ana reines, and wombealfo: alittle of the ju.ee diflolved in wme and dropped into 
the eares eafeth much of the paines in them, and put into an hollow tooth cealeth the parties thereof The r oote 
worketh to the like effeft, butmoreflowlyandlefle, and is to be boyled.n water and the decoftion thereof 
drunke: the dryed powder of the roote being put into foule Vlcers of hard curation ctenfeth them throughily.re- 
mooveth any fplinters of broken bones or other things in the flefh, & healech them up perfe<ftly,& likew.le bring- 
eth on old and inveterate lores to cicatrif.ng: it is alfo put into fuch lakes as ferve to heate and warme any place, 
therooteishotinthefeconddegreeanddryinthethird, but the juice is ftronger. Ptoyrecordeth.the venues 
heteof in divers places: the roote being drunke in wine with the leede of the Cypreffe tree in powder ealeth ihe 
llrangling of the mother, but fome ufe to burne it and by the fmell thereof give eafe thereunto : the juice helpeth 
the burftings of children and their Navells when they fticke forththe roote is oflo great force in greene wounds 
and fores,that it draweth out the qnitture from the very bones. 
Chap. 111X. 
Libamis, Herbe Francumfence. 
?Herc be divers lorts oSLibanotid.es as both the old and new Authors have recorded, fome whereof 
] heare broad leaves, others fine and like Fennell, ofwhich I meane to entreat in this Chapter, and 
referre the other to the laft order of thefe Vmbelliferous plants, which containe thofe with broad 
leaves. 
I. Lib ana! is Ferula folio five Cachryferafive Cachrjs vera, 
Fennell leafed herbe Francumfence. _ 
This herbe F rancumfence is a worthy, goodly, and rare plant, (hooting forth divers bufhy great reddifli (hikes 
of leaves of a frefli greene colour, being l'omewhat thicker and longer then thofe of the Ferula but fhorter then 
of Pencedanum Sow Fennell, \ et often and in many places fet three together, of a quicke aromatick fent and 
taflecomming fomewhatnearea Lemmon: from among thefe leaves riftth up fometimes but not every yeare 
with me a good bigge (hike, but neither fo great nOr halfe fo high as the Ferula, and not much above a yard high, 
nor much higher then the (hikes with leaves,branched into very many fundry parts, bearing yellow flowers 
which are fucceedcd by pretty good big whitifh yellow leede, round and a little long withail, lomewhat ere- 
fted on the outfide two joyned together as is uluall in mod ferulous plants, which maketh one n e flatj the Iniall 
footeftalke tunning bctweene.and is fayd to be caullicke orburning; which caufed the name Cacbrjs to be gi¬ 
ven to it:the toot groweth deepe and fpreadeth much and with many branches in the ground, bigger then a great 
Paifnep at thetoppe, and white on the outfide as well as infide, with apithm the middle, but fo brittle that 
one mull handle it very tenderly if he doe not breake it,and yeeldeth fof til a clammy pale juice,of fo fine a fiiarpe 
lent that i compare it to the Lemmon,and endureth many yeares. 
2. Libanotis ferula folio & femme, five Par ay Afclepium Ferula, facie Lobelij , 
Label his Efculapius, Woundwort or Allheale, 
Divers learned men have fet forth each almoft a fundry herbe, for the Panax Afclepium of Diofcorides and 
Tbeopbraftm .and every one fuppofing his to be the right, and becaufe they all feemetobe worthy plants fit to be 
knowne,! thinke it rr.eete to (hew you them all with their differences, and wherein they came, neared or are fur¬ 
ther off from the true,and firft to beginne with that of Lobel, which groweth nothing fo high or great as the 
Ferula with line leaves like unto it and yellow flowers alfo: but the leede that followeth is broad not fo fmall 
as Fennell but more like unto Ferula of a little quicke taftc or fent-.the roote is fmall and not growing deepe, 
nor abiderh after it hath given feede, the fertt and tafte being not much refinous or fharpe, 
3. P anax Afclepium MatthioVi. Mattbiolm his Efculapius Allheale. 
Although Perm being very fpleneticke againft CManhiolw in many things doth thinke and fo doth Column 
alfo that this Pinax Afclepium is no other herbe then a Ferula, yet furely I thinke they are much miftaken 
therein both for that Mattbiolm had fet forth the Ferula before and deferibed it at large, and although he had 
notdeferibed his Panax as he did the Ferula, I prefumc the chiefc caufe was that hee had oncly the dryed 
plant fent him without a defeription and therefore fo letitpaffe, not intending to coyne a defeription of that 
which hee never faw growing, as alfo becaufe Hatshinm doth number it among the 'other forts as a differing 
ffecies, and liugdtmenfis giveth his Figure alfo which is divers from the Ferula in my opinion having finer, fmal^. 
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