IT R IB E 8. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
Chap. 12. 88$ 
4. ffrieum spufium Uilicum • 
itulisH Baftard Spignell 
5* ^IpmumCeraiqtiuurni^u MottelinadifluV), 
Mourftaine Spignell of Germ*}. 
fweete feelling fee* follow them . the roote isflendet long and white of a fingersfhitknelfefmellingwell 
aXf Xpetafle: Oar author Alpi™ faith hee had another fort from the but this hee holdeth 
forthetrueft. , . n , r - .* 
4. c Jbteum fpHriumJtaUcum. Italian baltard Spign.U. . . 4. 
Ballard Spiguell is fomewhat like unto the true, yet more like umo Dili with lopger wd *k s i tk 
ftalkes rife as high as the firft with white umbells of flowers,and larger (cede on 
part whcreofis of mor e ftrong and unpleafant lent and tafte then the former, but the roote elpecially Which 
fpreadeth branches hke the true Spignell,but (mailer fomewhat like Sow or Hogge- tenneU 
ipreauct or MeUm Alpmam( f er %,„ icum lH U Mmt'lhad,th,m Mountaine Spignell of Gn mar.y. 
Thi. Spignell hath but few (talke. of winged leaves riling from the roote, fomewhat rilul" flender'flraTed 
of the ordinary Spignell and (hotter, and are betweene C-r«w and Xll U mbells of i r . 
ftalke a foote high bare of leaves for the mod part to the toppe, where are fet two or tlwee fmaU umbel Is of pur 
plifh flowers each confining of five fmaU leave* a pcece, bearing leede a, ‘' r > that IS io “ l ' w f ‘ lat 
reafonable great, the roote is of a fingers length covered with a rugged blackifh barke, and but few fibres ad 
Joyning thereunto,and a bufh of haire at the toppe, of a fmcll fomewhat (harpe like the ordinary Sprgne 1 b t 
muchweaker - , .. .... 
The firft groweth in many places wilde in the North countries ofthis Ian , as in mca ire an 
yet it is planted alfo in Gardes, the fecond in Save,, the third in C^dj, the fourth in /« / lall in 
andatthebotiomeofSaint Rocke by Brijtoiv i right tgainft.the hot wa Veticcdani facie pufilla 
at a low water as it hath beene affirmed to rtie by fome : bull doubt it will prove LM his Y ettcedant facie pufilla 
plant *: when it is better growne up with me I ftiall the better judge or it. 
The Names. , . , 
It is called in Greeke and in tatlne alfo Mam, and by fomc of the ancient authors 
the, from Atham ma the fon of Aeolm who is thought firft to have found it, or from 
Which is in ThfdU where the beft grew •• Ptifij ranreth it MtcedonOm and "° c as 
were feverall forts but as was lifuali with them in many other plants,they name t p - 
gathered in their time : tor the fame Pliny faith that in his time Ma, r»was onely fowen in Italy by fome few 
Phyfinons, when as it is now knownc to grow wilde in many places oiltah. The firttjr takc " f ” 
true Mam of the ancients, & focal led by moft of the modern? authors, yet -.Jragw and f n,,^R Ke r 
c u , Creticu, and Cordm in Dwfaridtm and hiftori* to be Tordylicn ,fome alfo called it JtfhmfjtvtJh'Jt as R»el- 
Um faith the French Anethm Mr,«»/**, and faith fome tooke it to be L,ba,tout*gem, and others F*m. 
»lm porcMM,P»chGM calleth it Scfcl,Cr'tic»m,tnd B«Mnw calleth it jteKmfoty Amtln, becaufe he calleth the 
Gggg " ~ . S atl °W 
