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indthreds; this alfo upon the firft fpringing thereof from the feede hath but three leaves upon divers ftalkes, 
ind thofe after gaine more. 
5. Oenanthe angujlifolia Lobe lij. Labels narrow leafed Enanthe orDropwort. 
This Enanthe of Lobel is layd to be like the firft,but with much narrower and finer cut leaves, and not to differ 
. .ready in any other particular. 
6. Oenanthe Cicnte facie Lobelij. Lobcls Hemlocke like Enanthe or Dropwort. 
The lefives hereof are more like the medow Rue then Smallage having many Email ones fet together of a 
fowle darke greene colour,and lomewhat like Hemlocke in colour asalfo in the flowers but more intffeeff, trou. 
blinu and overturning the braine and fenfes being eaten as Lobel faith, the rootesare white and glandulous, or 
Afphodill like (oft and tender but (harpe and unpleafant in tafte, yeelding a whirifh milke at the firft.and turning 
yellow after, which is poifonous,virulent and exnlcerating. 
7. Oenantbe palujlris five aquatica, Marfh Dropwort. 
1 The lower leaves hereof are much divided into many (mailer parts then the former forts,but thofe that grow 
upon the hollow ftalkes are much finer and fmaller: the fpikie umbells of flowers are white as the other,and the 
feede like Hemlocke : the rootes are many fmall tubers faftned by firings and other fibres among them. 
8, Oenanthe JWonJpe/iaca major fir minor. French Dropwort a greater and a fmaller. 
The greater ol thefe two French plants olDalcchampins as Lugdunenfts remembrerh them,hath a thicke crefted 
iftalke about a foote high and leaves thereon like unto Carrots, the umbells of flowers are white, and fome- 
I what long (eede fucceeding: the rootes have many lomewhat long and blackifh tubers with other fibres among: 
The lelTer fort hath a thicke handhigh ftalke,and the like Carrot-like leaves: but the feede thereof is flat like Ar. 
\rache, u herein hee faith, asalfoin that it groweth inftony places, it commeth nearer then the other unto the 
(right Oenanthe ob Diofcorides although the other in all other things is neared thereunto c the rootes hereof alfo are 
(fmall and tuberous like the other. 
p. Oenanthe Ismcoides minima. Small Rulhlike Enanthe or Dropwort. 
A'though I here give you the lefler figure of Labels Oenanthe aqmtica in want ol the right, whereunto this 
• doth come very neare,yet thedefeription (hall amende that defeft: For it hathfundry very fine and fmall divided 
I greene leaves lying on theground all the Winter and fome as fmall andfine as Means Spioncll: but thofeupon 
the hollow greene Kufh like ftalkes which are about halfe a yard high aie finer by much, yet very lew, and at the 
; upper joynt with theleafe and not at the top oftheflalke come forth a lew very fmall white flowers which turns 
into very fmall feede; the heads or tubers that bee diiperfed among the fmall hairclike fibres,are as fmall as rea- 
1 (finable big Pins heads, which abide and perilh not encreafing yearely, but belt in a moift and fhadowie 
} place, 
10. Oenanthe tentsifolia altera African?.. Fine fmall Dropwort of Africa. 
I have yet one other of thefe Oenanthes to (hew you which r Boel gathered on the Turbary coafts and brought to 
i 11s, havinga ftnalllknderbroadftalke with very fine cut leaves thereon as fineas either Dill or Spignell, fetac 
diftances with divers branches of umbel-lifte white flowers at the toppes,changing into very fine white feede: the 
i roote being fmall and tuberous like the laft. 
The Place and Time. 
AM fave the fecond two forts,and thofe particularly entituled grow in our owne Land,which lecond and laft 
; have not beene remembred by any other before.flowring and feeding in the end of Summer. 
The Names. 
Diofcorides hath by Mattbiolus judgement recorded three forts of ctve'.Z'e Oenanthe, derived ecd-riche 
a vino cir fore cjuaf fos vinofus, quod forum decore, adore et qttadantenus colore non ftnt viti dijfimilcs : vel etiara 
Lettcsnthon appellari a flornm candore fcribit,yctTheophraJhu in the laft Chapter of his fist Booke maketh mention 
1 but of one fort not to be excluded from the number of flowers yet fowen of l'eede, which all doe interpret to be 
the bloomings of the wild Vine, and as Matthiolus faith Diofcorides implyeth that wild Vine thatbeareth Grapes 
as well as that which is barren. Divers authors have diverfly judged ol Diofcorides his Oenanthe, miatthiolus 
contradicting Fuchfitts, who firft and Lobel after him that drove to maintain? his opinion, that the common Fi- 
1 lupeninU was it; yetnotwithftanding Lobelhis opinion ,Matthiolus his reafonsftand for good arguments therea- 
gainft. And although as I fayd in the beginning of this Chapter, I here (hew you many diverfities of Oenanthe as 
they are fo accounted, yet we cannot be affured that any one is the genuine and right plant: and howifiever as 
you hcare Fteclfw and Lobel would maintaine F ilipendula^Lngdunenfs his fmaller Mpmpelier Oenanthe , Alpinus. 
alfo as much inlilleth that his is the right, yet Hill there is fomewhat defedlive in each of all thefe, namely eyther 
in the rootes or ftalkes.or feedes :butbecaufc I cannot abfplutely determine this controverfie, I muft leave eve¬ 
ry one to bis owne judgement,toufe them that are found moll vertuous.For the names the firft doe moft truly de- 
ferve the name of Apt] folio, which our countrey women herbe gatherers,and fellers moft falfly call white Peony 
rootes, becaufethe rootes are white and cloggy, fomewhat like unto the female Peony rootes: the reft have 
names according to the titles their authors give them, yet except the firft.the third and the fixt they have all roots 
more like unto Filipcr.dula : Bauhims in my opinion hath much miftaken himfelfe in quoting Columna his Cjmi- 
r.e.m bnlbofum Plwij to bee Oenanthe Api] folio which may plainely bee feenc to bee the Nucula terrejhis or 5 «/- 
bocafianum which is CMatthiolns his firft Oenanthe after Filiptndnla.tsv.d not Oenantbe Api] folio which is his 
fecond. 
The Vert ties. 
Lobelont\y brandeth his Oenanthe Cleats facie to be virulent and venemous, from the rdationsof the North 
country people, whereas he faith it chiefely groweth, and contefteth againft Matthiolus that approved it bene- 
ficiall in Hiftericall, Epilcpticall, Analepticalland Cephalicall difeafes, as alio the Strangury or hard making of 
water; yet holdeth the other to be by fome Gngular prerogative available in the fame cafes. Alpinus alfo com¬ 
mended! his Candy Oenanthe Slellata to be good for them that have the ftrangurie. 
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