S84 Chap.5. Theatrum Botanicum. Tribe 8. 
with the meale of darnel!, and mixed with vinegar, and laid to the places: the fame alfo mixed with fharpe vine-:i 
gar deanfeth theIepry, morphew, and the like defotmities in the sfemnethat ieede that is burning, called- 
Cadrys is not to be ufed inwardly, for it is too lharpe, and wil 1 exafperate the throat: the greene roote is a great* 
healer of all wounds being bruifed and laid thereto, but faith Thofiondes, the fecde called Cachrjs is of a heating 
and mightie drying qualitie, and therefore is good to be put into waflamg balls, or fuch things as clenfe the skin,- 
and beirw annointed on the head helpeth the defluxions and rhcumes of the eyes, but it mult be rubbed oft the ; 
third day! Sfculamm P/Max or AUbeale, as the laid Diofiorides faith, hath m the flowers and (cede an helping,: 
power to heale ulcers, fretting or running cankers, and likewife wheales, pufhes, or the like breaking out in the 
skinne, being bruifed with hony and applied to them ; the fame alfo is profitably both drunke in wine againft ve- t 
nemous Serpents, as alfo to have the places annointed with it,and oyle mixed together. 
Chap* V. 
Fixniculam, Fennell, 
Lthough I have in my former booke given you the knowledge of two or three forts of Fen- I 
nell, yet becaufe there are fome others not there fpoken of, I thinke it not amide to fhew you n 
them all in this place together, and the rather, becaufe therein I did not fo amply infill on the 
vertues, as they did require. 
i. Tcenicultim vulgare. Common Fennell. 
Common Fennell is well knowne to rife up with fundry round ftiffe (hikes, foure or five 
foote high, bearing at feverall joynts longftalkes, of fine lmall long leaves, fmellmg lomc- ■ 
whatftrong, but not nnpleafant, and at the toppes on feverall branches, tufts, or umbells,of yellow bowers, 
which turne into fmall round bitterifh greenifh feede, two alwayes together, as m the other umbellifers, and be. , 
ingripe and drie become fomewhat fad coloured; the roote is long and white, running doWnedeepe into the 
ground with divers branches thereat: tome doe make two lorts, one with greene leaves wholly, another with 
reddifti greene leaves not differing in ought elfe. 
2. To:nictiltm dulce, Sweetc Fennell. 
Sweete Fennell groweth no o: her wife than the former doth, having both rootes, leaves, ftalkes, and flowers j 
after the fame manner, faving that this, neither beyond fca, nor in our country doth rife lo high, and hardly en- 
dureth the fharpenelfe of our W inters j the feede is larger,yellower, and lvvecter in tafte, nearc unto Annileede 
then the former, which fo continucth in the hot countries, but will not hold either colour, largcneflc, or fweet- 
nelTe,longinourcountrie, buteachof them decay ycarely, fo thatthethird yeares lowing, yceldeth as bitter 
final!, and fad coloured feede as any in any other garden or country of this land, ro that you may hereby certainely 
know that it is the climate onely that changeth it to be ei- . , ^ ^ 
ther larger or fmaller, longer or fhorter, yellower or paler *• Fvniculttmvulgare. Crmmon Fcnndb 
than others,& alfo giveth the tafte to be fweeter or bitterer, 
which divers have thought to be differing forts: fome alio 
thinke that the Cardus Fennell, as the Italians call it, is a di¬ 
vers fort of Fennell from the other fweet fort, when as it is 
onely the art in ordering it, by tranfplanting and whitening 
it that maketh the leaves grow fothicke bufhing together 
more than the ordinary, and the whiting giveth it a Tweeter 
rellifli, and a fhorter crifpe tafte in eating. 
g, Fcemculumfemine rot undo minors . 
Small round Fennell. 
There is a fmall kinde of Fennell which differeth not from 
the common fort, either in tafte or ftnell, but in being lower 
and fmaller than it, and that theumbfells at the heads of the 
flalkes are white, and the feede that folioweth is lefle than 
the ordinary fort, being fomewhat more like unto Carurn 
Caraway feede. 
4. Vccniculum fylvejire. Wild Fennell. 
The wild Fennell groweth up with great, but fewer 
flalkes than the common of the garden, having alfo but few 
leaves, and thofe very thinly fet thereon, but fomewhat dif¬ 
fer or harder in handling, and fhorter alfo; the feede is 
fmall and fomewhat round, which followeth after the fmall 
umbells of yellow flowers. 
5. Hippomaratbrum Creticum. Great F ennell of Candy % 
This great Fennell hath fine, but fhorter leaves than the 
the ordinary fort, the flalke is crelled and round, two or 
three cubits high, of the bignefleof ones finger, divided in¬ 
to fundry branches, bearing yellow flowers at the toppes, 
and great large, almoft round feede alterwards, the roote is 
great and whitifh. 
6. Hippomaratbrum (pbarocepbatum, 
Great round headed Fennell. 
The ftalkes of this Fennell are three cubits high, with 
large Fcnnell-like leaves, and round globe-like umbells, 
jyhofe 
