growecftlikewife,as Macthioltu faith, from Anguilara on 
mount Garganus in Italy : the laft was brought from Alex¬ 
andria in Egypt .but groweth in Arabia,and do all flower & 
feed reafonable well with us, ifthe yeare prove kindely, or 
elle not. The Names. 
It is called in Greeke ■■ ; : n and df-tsm, e/fmmi and eAm- 
m'mm in Latine alfo, Ammi and Ameos in fhoppes, and is 
ufed in (lead of the true in mod fhoppes .■ the firll is called 
Ammi cpr vulgare or vulgatiw by all authors, yet Tabermon- 
tarns calleth it AmmiofcLitmm, and fome tooke it to be 
Beupleitron Tliniy, as Lugdtmen(ts faith, and fome to be Tn- 
bonittm tlyppocratis, as Lobel doubteth: but as I faid in the 
beginning, the true Ammi of Diofcorides is not knownej 
and although ’Diofcorides doth not deferibe it, as in many 
other herbes that were commonly well knowne in his time 
he doth the like, yet from fome notes thereof from him, 
from Pliny, and from Galen, it is plainely deciphered 
efpecially the feede, to be much fmaller and whiter than 
Cummin feede fmelling like Origanum, and therefore was 
called Cuminum ^ Ethiopicum, and Hippocrates called it Re. 
gmm from the excellencie; yet as both Diofcorid, s and 
Pliny fay, fome oppofeditintheir times,taking the Ammi 
to be of a different nature wholly, becaufe it is fmaller and 
whiter than Cumin: but yet faith Pliny the ufe of this feede 
in Egypt,both in their bread and meatc, is like unto that of 
Cuminumregiu , or cAbthiopicum .Now none ofthelc feeds, 
nor of any other that have bcene fhewtd for Ammi ,or ufed 
by the Apothecaries, have the fmell of Origanum, or can be 
compared with Cumin : I have onely once feene a feede 
that wasbrought out of the draff Indies, and obtruded for 
the true Ammi, whofe fmell was flrong,fomewhat neare to 
Origanum,but the other notes and markes agreed not with 
it, tor it was larger and browner alio than Cumin feede, 
which I fowed in my Garden, but fprang not, and there¬ 
fore can fay no more thereof: the fecondisthe Ammi of 
Anguliara fent to fome, Matthiolut, Caflor,Lugdunenfis & 
Camerarius,who all call it Ammi Adatthioli,and Carnetarius 
Crcticum alfo,as both one ; Lobel calleth it Ammi Creticum aromaticum : the lad is called Ammi aletrumparvum 
by Dodonatts,and as he faith divers fuppofe it may rather be taken for Sifan than Ammi. Ammiverum by Gefner, 
and Ammiperpufillum by Lobel ,and Ammiumprimum Alexandrinum by Tabermontanw, The Arabians call Ammi 
Netnochach Nanachue and Nanaaoue ; the Italians and all other Nations Ammi,at neare tbereupon.hut we Bifhops 
weede, I meane thefe forts here expreft : peradventure the true Ammi may be the Cumimmfylveflrc before let 
downe,and would be better confidered. 
The Verities, 
The true Ammi is commended by Diofcorides and Galen, being ofan heating and drying propet ty in the third 
degree, arid ofthinne parts, a little bitter in taffe, and fbarpe withall, whereby it digefleth humours, provoketh 
urine and womens courfes, diflblvech winde, eafeth paines and torments in thebowells being taken in wine j 
and is good againfl the biting of Serpents i it is ufed to goodeffeft in.thofc medicines that are given, to hinder 
the poyfonfull operation of Cantharides upon the vritory parts which they chiefely affeff.obeing mixed with hony 
and applied to blacke and blew markes or fpots by b'owes and bruifes, it doth take them away, and being drunke 
■ or outwardly applied, it abateth an high colour, and maket'n it pale, and the fumes thereof taken with Roflin or 
with Raifinsclenfeth the mother. Dodonewt doth much commend the common lortherefirftfct downe, that ic 
hath all the faculties exprefTed of)the true Ammi: The Egyptian or Arabian feede is faid to be very powerful to 
provoke venery, for which purpofe the Egyptians doe much ufe if. 
^ Chap. XX, 
Sifon vulgare five Antomum Germanic urn. Small wilde Parfley of Germany. 
Or fome relcmblance of this herbe, with the firft in the lafl Chapter, I think'e good to Joyne it nexc 
thereunto : this rifeth up with a tall (lender flalke fcarfe able to (land upright without helps, rhinuely 
fet wirh winged leaves on the branches, the lower leaves being largeft, and divers being let on a 
fialke on both Tides, each whereof is as fmall almoff as the former Ammi leafe, fome whereof will be 
tut in on the edges more or Leffe, and fome not cut in at all, but all of them dented about the edges, at the coppes 
whereof loofe fmall umbells of white flowers, which turne into fmall blackifb feede, lelfer chan P arflev, but of a 
flrongfenr, and quicker hotter tafte: the roote gro weth downe much, and fpreadeth every way, whereby ic 
holdeth fall in the ground, and abideth long. 
3 , Sifumodoratum. Sweete wilde Parfley. , . .. 
This plant I have entitulcd odorasum to diftinguifh it from the former fort called Sifum, although peradven- 
ture it is not the right .Ww* of Diofcorides t it bearech a Tingle ftalke about two cubits high, with long fknneil- 
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