Chap. 17 - Tbeatrum Botanicum. Tribe8. 
thev ufed the feede for Sefeli : and antiently they ufed to call Sefeli by the name of Silt and Seli: Pliny faith that 
Cratevas ufed to call it Cmila bubal*, and fome Peaces-, the laft is remembed oncly by Bauhinus in his Pinax , an d 
fet downe in his Proiromus, 1 have called it in Englifh Libifticke, or Set mountame,as the fitted to exprefle it. 
The Virtues. 
This Libifticke or Sermountaine is of a warming and digefting qualitieboth roote and feede, and hclpeth in- 
ward gripings and paines,fwellings and winde, cfpecially in the ftomack, it provoketh urine alfo and womens 
courfes being drunke or the roote outwardly applyed.and is ufed againft the bitings of venemous beads and Ser¬ 
pents,and therefore is put both into Mithridate and Treakle, and for the propertie to br cake winde is ufed among 
other things tending to the fame purpofc: the Ligurians among whom it groweth ufe the leede familiarly in 
their meats, to fealon and rellifti them as others doe with pepper. 
Chat- XVII. 
forum, Caraway. 
Lthough with moft writers there hath beene but one kind of Caraway formerly remembred, yet bei 
becaule there are two other herbes that nearely refemble it,I will put them together, 
gfeprtf i. Carum vulgare. Ordinary Carawayes. 
sfcaSs. The ordinary Caraway is well knowne to beare divers ftalkes of fine cut leaves lying on the grounds 
fomewhat like to the leaves of Carrots, but not bufhing fo thicke, of a little quicke tafte in them, from among 
which rifeth up a fquare ftalke, not fo high as the Carrot,at whofe j'oynts are let the like leaves but fmaller and fi¬ 
ner,and at the toppe ftnall open tufts or umbells of white 
flowers which turnc into fmall blackifh feed lefler that the: J - Cantmvulgdry. Ordinary Carawayes. 
Annefeede, and of a quicker and hotter tafte, the roote 
is whitifh fmall and long, fomewhat like unto a Parfnep, 
but with a more wrinkled barke and muchleffe, of a little 
hot tafte and quicke,and ftronger then a Parfnep, and abi- 
deth after feedetime. 
2. Carum crflpinum. Mountaine Caraway. 
This mountaine Caraway is a fmall plant andlmooth, 
fliooting forth from along blackifh aromaticall roote fun- 
dry iong ftalkes with leaves on them like unto the former 
Caraway, but the devided leaves are fomewhat broader 
and of a pale greene colour, from among which rifeth one 
or two (lender ftalkes halfe afootehigh, from the middle 
upwards bare or without leaves and thence fpreading five 
or fix fmall fprigges to forme an umbell, each of them Dea¬ 
ling at the toppe a few fmall flowers in a tuft as it were to- 
gethcr,ofa reddifh yellow colour. 
2. Carum pratenfe. MedoW Caraway. 
The Medow Caraway groweth gieater and higher then 
the ordinary kinde, with leaves fomewhat like alfo unco it 
but larger, the fpokie umbells of white flowers are like- 
wife larger, and the feede like unto Cumin feede but much 
larger : the roote is fmall and flcnderof a fent fomewhac 
ftrangc or like unto Dauke, of an hot and (harpe tafte yet 
not fo much as the feede. 
The Place and Time. 
The firft groweth as Tragus faith in Cjermany in many 
places in the fields, and by the way (ides,it is ufually fowen 
with us in Gardens: the fecor.d was found on the Pyrenian 
hills, and the laft in the fields and medowes of Cjermany, 
as Tragus faith alfo: they flower in latte os luly and feede 
quickly after. 
The Names. 
Kip©- in Greeke isCaros, and Carum in Latine or fonti, 
as it is in the Apothecaries fhoppes, Simeon Sethi calleth 
it CamubadiottfinA tooke the name as Diofcoridcs faith from 
the Conntrey of Curia, from whence it was firft brought. All Authors doe generally call the firft Caros or Carum 
and fome Careum and fome Carvum as it is in fhoppes, Bauhinus calleth it according to his owne country name 
Carum pratenfe : the fecond Bauhinus hath onely expreffed in his Pinax and deferibed in his Prednmus : the laft 
Tragus calleth Cymmumeejuiunm after the high Dutch name as they call it there Rofikimmel ; Bauhinus referreth it 
to the Fcemculum erraticum alteram Ltmiceri and Hippemarathrum of others, as if it were a Fennell when he hitn- 
felfe calleth it onely foruifolia. The Arabians call ic Karuia, Karavia or Carvi, the Italians Carro, the Sparti- 
Alcaravea, the French Carni, the German's Wifenkummell that is, pratenfe Cttminum, and of fome 
mtotthkummefi,thz ‘Dutch Carve, oft Snicker feen ,and we in En^lijh Caraway. 
The Uertues. 
■ C «away feedcs are hot and dry as Galen faith,almoft in the third degree, and have withall a moderate fhirpe 
qualitie,whereby it breaketh winde and provoketh urine, and that not the feede onely but the herbe alfo and the 
roote thereof is better foods then of the Parfnep, and is pleafant and comfortable to theftomacke helping dige- 
ftion: 
