The Theater of‘Plants. 
Chap. 4. 883 
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c, panax Afclepium Dalcchampij. The French Efculapius Allheale, 
I The French kind ( T>alcchampiu* found about Mompelier having a white roote like Parfly, flender, rnarpe and 
Lellfmdling, and leaves alfolike Parfly, or rather like Coriander then Fennell and iomewhat hairy with urn- 
ibells of yellow flowers of an.abfolute roundneffe. . • ... 
6. Panax Afclepinm Anguilara &Camerarij. Efculapius Alheale of Candy. 
’ This Pana’x which An&uilara an dCamerariw have remembred, faying that in Candy it is ufually called SefcL 
and hf Sicilia Pencedanrm though both falfely, rifeth up with a round Fennell-like (hike foure or five cubits high, 
With divers joynts thereon divided into branches of leaves, larger then Fennell and fmalkr then 
tofadarke greene colour on the upperfide and of a blewilh greene underneath, with large umbells of yellow 
-Bowers at the toppes turning into broad flat winged feede of a rdinousfent andtafte, the leaves being much 
more mildc, and yeelding a whitifh milke nothing fo hot or ftrong in fmell as Ferula. 
rj* Libanotis minor umbella Candida. Small herbe l rancumlence. 
This final! herbe Franciimlence hath fundry leaves lying upon the ground, much rut and divided into longer 
j parts than PeucedsnHm, and narrower than the greene Englijh Saxifrage, the ftalke hath but few Jaynes and 
: leaves on them, bearing fmall umbells of white flowers like Meum, and (mall feede after them almolt like the 
1 feede of Ammi, Bifliops weede: the roote is great and white, divided into lundry branches, and with a buCh of 
i haires above. ubcwotitferuUcen Germanica. Gerw-wr herbe Francumfence. .. 
The herbe Francumfence of G«w*yrhatb a blackifti long roote, as thicke as ones finger, full of arefinous 
Juyee, fharpe and well finelling.fet with a bulh of haires at the toppe,from whence fpring ftalke» of fine Fennell- 
like leaves, but (hotter than they : the ftalke rifeth to halfe a yard height, on the toppes whereof Hand bowing 
umbells of white flowers fmelling iwcete. There is of this ktnde a lefler lort alfo, not differing from the former 
in any thing, but in the fmallnefle. 
The *Place nmTime, 
All thefe kindes of Libanotides have beene found growing in fundry places of Italy and except the fixt, 
Which as is faid hath beene found in Sicily and Candy, and the laft in Germany, and doe all flower and feede, if the 
ycare be kindelyj in the end of Summer, 
The Names . , , , 
A«Wir in Greeke is derived from *l/ 3 *>©,which is Thus or Ohbamm Francumfence becaufe the fmell ot the 
herbes is compared to the fmell thereof, and Libami, likewife in Latine: but becaufe this later age hath found 
out divers herbes which may be referred for the forme, or for the fmell, unto fome of cne ancients .Theophrajtm, 
T)iofeoridcs, and Galen ( who yet in their writings, ackn 9 wledgcd that there are many more forts than they have 
fet downe) I have here onely fhewed yon thofe kindes that have fine leaves whereof the A »*»"*•<* 
velvtvLts ct 7 K?f)miov may well be accounted as one ofthem, both For forme and fmelftakmg the name from e^x./ 
lapin, who ended his life by a fall from of a ladder, as it is fet downe by Pliny. The firft is called Ltbano,» 
fen Rofm&rinum by Afatthiolus and others ( and indeede many Writers have interpreted the Libations to be 
Tfmlrimm, and thereby confound the two names together, for the L,ba.netcs Stepbanoma- 
tke, id ell Coromria onely is the fourth fort of Libanotja with the ancients, which is properly the Rofmarmam of 
the Latines.znd was, and is ufually put into Garlandsj&c.and therefore fo called Coronanum when as none of trie 
other Libanotides .being ferulous plants can fitly be called Rofmartnum in that Fence,or ferve for that ufe)and is the 
firfl Libanotis of Diofcorides, Tbeophraflm^ and Galen , whofe feede is called Cachrys ovCanchrys , as it is in lome 
cooDies, becaufe it is fiery in ta te.Camerariut calleth it Libanotis cachryfera , Lobel Cachrys verier Libanottt Cjakno, 
andCafalpinw Libanotis Candida. This word Canchrys or Cachrys, is of divers fignificarions, and it mhe pillor 
or ball wherewith they ufe toburnethc skin to make an efcarre,from whence alfo the feed had the name,having 
the like qualitie: and foehns is underflood to be a fcaly tufc ( which fome alio take to be the catk ins of lundry 
trees) of leaves growing in Winter, and falling away,fay lome, in the Spring; but others thmke that it is but the 
sermen or bud, which fpreadeth into branches with leaves after Winter,when the Spring is come on; the fecond 
hath his name in his title, as Lobel and 'Banbinus call it, and is the Peaces Afclepium of and others s 
the third is called Panaces Afclepiumby Mattbiohts, Lugdunenfis and others, and by Bauhintu Libanotidi fecund^ 
limilis Tanax esffrfepinm primum • the fourth is fo called by Column *, as it is in the title, and by Batthinw I’anax 
femine folio fo : the fife is the Tanax Afclepium alterum of Dalecbampius in Lugdunenfis , which Banbinus ^calleth Pa- 
nax Afclepium umbella lute* : thefixt is the Rofmartnum alterum ferulacenm Diofcoridis by Lobel, and by Angut^ 
Lira and Camerarius Panax A(elepium ,for foit was entitulcd unto them by , and TabermoniMM Luo.- 
notis fecunda and by Cafalpinus Libanotis nigra'.xht feventh is the Libanotis Septentrional tit berbarioru or Lobel, and 
the Libanotis minima by Lugdunmfis: the laft is called by Tbalius in his Harcyntafylva\ Libanotis es 
whereof he maketh a major and a minor , and I have thereupon called it Libanotis ferulacea Germanica. Tne 
bians call the Libanotis Xater Almarian^Aif inalfacb, an dCalcbaU, or Cacbola : other Nations doc loilow the 
erronious name of Rofmarimm , and theteaf ter call this as well as the Latinos Rofmannum, which |s our ordinary 
Rofmary by one and the fame name : but wee have more fitly diftinguifhed them, by calling this kinde, her. e 
Francumfence from the Greeke appellation. 
The Vertttes. 
<Diofcaridcs faith that the leaves of all the forts of herbe Francumfence doe ufually flay the bleedings of the he- 
morrhodiatl veines, and eafeth cheheate, inflammations, and (welling of the fundament, if they be bruit d and ap¬ 
plied unto them, and doe digefl the kernells and empoflumations of the body, whereloever they are hard to be 
cured: the dried rootes mixed with honey clenfe foule ulcers, and eafe the paines and torments^of the body or 
bowells, and being taken in wine helpeth the biting of venemous Serpents, and provokech both urine and wo¬ 
mens courfes: the fame alfo helpeth to difeufle ancient tumonrs or fwellings being laid on them: the juyee ot 
the herbe as well as the roote mixed with hony and annointed on the eyes quickneth the fight, the teede being 
drunke doth the like, and helpeth thofe that have the falling ficknefle, or have old paines in their breads or ito- 
mackes: it helpeth alfo the Kings evill, if it be taken with pepper in wine; it provoketh fweat being put into 
oyle and annointed,, it helpeth thole that are burden, that have cywnpgs or conyulfipns or the gout, if it be beaten 
