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dcr • at the tonpes where of grow great broad umbells of white flowers, a little purplifh in the middle, which 
■r umbells before they flower hang downe their heads, and after the flowers are part, theumbells doe contraft of 
. draw themlelves rounder, the outer part being higher than the middle, which then is fo hollow, that it reprefen- 
j tet h a birds ncaft,fomewhat like to the umbell of feede in the wilde Carrot,and beareth plenty of very fmall feed, 
a the roote is not great, but long, white, and woolly, perifhing every yeare that it beareth feede, which it ufually 
■J the fame yeare it is fowen.or elle fpringing late and not {hooting up in (hikes for feede, it will abide a Winter; 
a the whole plant hath a little refinous tarte and fmell to my fenfes, 
2, Gingidinm HiSfanicum. SpAnijb Toothpicke Chervill. . 
The Spanijh Toothpicke Chervill groweth rather greater than the former, but with fmaller and (lendercf 
ii flalkes and tenderer leaves at the joynts, thicker and more finely cut at the toppes, whereat ftand large umbells 
' of white flowers, divided into many parts, and handing upon long (hikes, which when the feepc groweth ripe 
; waxe hard, being long and [lender, and ferve well for todth pickcs: the roote is long and white ; the whole plant 
aisofabitier tafte. • 
3. C/ingidinm Charefolij folijs. Another {[range Chervill. 
' This other ftrange Chervill hath divers flalkes of winged leaves, very like unto the ordinary Chervill, but not 
divided into fo many parts, the (hike is round, ftraked, andblackifh, lialfeayardhigh, with joynts and leaves 
sflike rhe others: the umbells of white flowers are compafled about with fmaller and finer cut leave s,which when 
lithe flowers are part are contrafl ed together {omewhat like the firft, and are fomewhat clammy, wherein lie fmall 
a'fiedc .-the roote is long, white, and bitterifh. 
4. Gingidinm latifolium Syriacrtm. Broad leafed Chervill of Syria. 
This Syrian Chervill hath bnt few flalkes of winged leaves, fomewhat like to Parfneps, but that every divided 
tleafeis broad and round butleffer, the ftalke is fomewhat hairy, crerted, fmall, low and naked of leaves to the 
[1 toppe, where grow divers long flalkes wiih fmall umbells of white flowers, and two or three fmall long leaves 
I with them: the fmell andtafte is like unto the firft. 
The Place and Time. 
. All thefe here expreft, are faid to be brought out of Syria, but the fecoftd groweth alfo plentifully in Spaine } 
1 from whench it hath becne brought and fent to friends: they all flower late, and therefdre the feede is muchla- 
r ter, fo that if the yeare be not hot and kindly, the feede will hardly ripen with ns. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke jiJxJW, and Gingidinm in Latine ; Dicfcarides faith it wa3 alfo called in his rime Lepidi- 
i um, but that name doth more fitly fute to another plant, as is (hewed before : .he old Romanes were wont to call 
it Bifacma, and the Syrians Vifnaga. The firft, as 1 laid, Rauwolfiw in tlufe later times firft made knowne to the 
{ Chriftian w’orld, having gathered it in Syria, giving it the name ol Gingidinm Diofcoridis, which it doth moil 
1 truly reprefent,for Ow/cori^r,c6pareth GingidiU to Pajlinacafylveftrisp/ihich as it is finer in IsafcTo is it moft like 
i in thehcad of feede, and f^ameraritts in hortjs thereupon calluthit Synacnm: the fecond is th eVifnaga of Mat- 
i th:slus , Lobel, and others; yet Alatthiolus would faine have itto be Pajlinaca fylvejiris major, bccaufe it groweth 
i lb great, Tragus caileth it Sefeli., and Fnchjim Sefeli 'Mafjilienfc, Cefa/pimii Cumin 's fativi alteramgenus : the third 
is the Gingidinm of Matthiolw , Lttgdstnenfis , zvATabermontanw: the laft is called by Lobel Gingidiumfoho 71 an- 
» cia Syriacitm, and is the firft Gingidinm by Dodonetts- yet as he fheweeh in the Chapter of F aSiinaca latifoliaflaco- 
i bus Manlius taketh Lancia to be the Tafiinaca tenuifelia of Diofcorides. 
The Vertnes. 
' Thcie herbes are more ufed as nutriment than medicine.both in former times and now alfo where they grow, 
; for Diofcorides and Gd/cwlpeake more of the edible propertie, that they are by their bitterneffe welcome and a- 
i greable to the ftomacke, being eaten raworboyled, or divers other wayes ordered, as thoie times and mens 
l wills led them to take them : but in that Galen faith in one place, that they are rather medicinablc thannourifh- 
: ing,:tis becaufe he flheweth that they have a temperate qualitiebettveene beat and cold,but have a manifeft bit- 
: ter and binding pi operty.by both which they are fo commodious to the ftomacke, that they are of the nature of a 
i medicine, to elenfeanddry upthemoift humours that by their abounding doe much offend the ltomacke a 
and by it the liver and other parts: the other medicinable qualities alfo therein riling from thence, are to be pro-, 
: Stable for the difeal'es of the bladder, and to provoke urine being boiled in wine and drunite. 
Chap. X. 
Pyrethrnm stmbellferum. The true Pelletory of Spaine. 
SpjSgJHere are in mine opinion two forts of this Pyrethrnm , the forroeof their leaves being different, indu- 
T c ' n 8 m£ t0 finite, although there be nothing elle as {hall be (hewed. 
X. Pyrethrum ttmbellifciuinprimitm. The firft Pelletory of Spaine. 
This Pyrethrnm hath divers flalkes of fine cut leaves, the forme and diviiions whereof doc fome- 
^ what reiemble the forme of May weede, being ihort,and net long like Fennell, or like wilde Carrots, 
as Diofcorides compared! them, from among which riftth up fome flalkes, with few or no leaves on them, bran¬ 
ched into two or three parts, bearing a round umbell of white flowers, after which follow fomewhat round 
darke coloured feed bigger than Annifeede : the roote groweth iometimes as great as two thnmmes together, 
but often of athumbesbigneffe,anda fooceormore decpe,of abrowniih yellow colour on the out fide,and whi- 
tiih within, ofa very (harpe and heating tafte, drawing forth water into the mouth,more plentifully and quickly 
than the common Pelletory of Spaine , which hath a Daifie-like flower (as my tafte ifit deceive mee not, hath 
enformed me) howfoever fome authors have fet downe the contrary, and endured after feede time, if it be fome. 
What carefully defended in the Winder time. . 
Gggg* a, PymhrU/% 
