bearing white flowers in fpoked tufts which turtle into long and round feede pointed at die ends, and blackifli 
when they areripe,ofaiweeteta[fe.but of no fmell whenastheherbe it felfe f'mclleth reafonab.e weil: the root 
is (mall and long and perifhcth every yeare being to be fowen a new in the Spring for feede, and after Ulj for 
Autumefallets: 
2. Cerefoiiumfylvejtre. Wdde Chervill. 
The wilde Chervill groweth two or three foote high, with yellow ftalkesand Joyntsfet with broader and more 
hairy leaves devided into fundry parts, nicked about the edges, and of a darker grcetie colour, which likewifo 
growreddifh with the (hikes, at the toppes whereof hand fmall white tufts of flowers, and aftervyards fmaller 
and longer feede: the roote is white and hard and as I luppole enduring long : this hath little or no font. 
3 T e Place and Time 
The firfl is fowen in Gardens to ferve as a fillet herbe the other groweth wilde in their Vineyards and Or¬ 
chards beyond Sea, and in many of the medowes of our owncLand, and by the hedge Tides,as alfo on heathes s 
they flower and leede early and thereupon are fowen againe in the end of Sommer. 
7 he Names. 
CekmeUa calletli the firft CharsphjP/sm and is likely to be the CterephyVum of Pliny which he faith the Greekes 
called Padcrout, but becaule he is lb briefe nothing certaine can be affirmed, fome alfo tal e it to be the wShot-w 
ofTheapbraftwilih.y.c.j. which Gaza tranflateth Enthttpcnm, all authors doe call it Cerefolium or Cbaifolmn , 
Ghc onely Aneuilarami. Cafalpinm thinke it may bee Oreofel'mum which it cannot bee. Trams, Mattkiolus 
Gefiier and others alfo leaning to that opinion, Fuchjiut and label rake it to be a kind of G'myidium ; the Italians 
call it Cerefoglioi the Frenchdu Cerfaeil, the German s Korffol and Korbclkraut, the Dutch Kerve/l, and wee 
Chervill. ^ The Vermes. 
The Carden Chervill by reafon of the good rellifh it hath, is willingly put' among Sallee herhes to make them 
tafte the better as alfo into Loblollies of hewed hetbes which the French & 'Hatch doe much delight in, for it doth 
moderately warine the ftomacke : it is a certaine remedy faith Traym to diflolve congealed or clotted blood in 
the body, and (o doth it likewif the blood by bruifes, falls,fir. the Juice or drilled water of it di unite, and the 
bruifcd leaves laid totheplacesic is taken alfo by divers to be good to provoke urine.and toexpell the (lone in the 
Kidneyesand womens courfes,taken eyther inmeate ordrinke,and moreover to helpe the Plurifie and prickings 
ofthefides: wilde Chervill will helpe to diflolve any tumors of fwelling in any part of the body, as alfo to take 
awaythefpotsandmarkesintheflefhand ekinne of congealed bloodbybxuifosorblowesin a fliort fpacc, by 
applying it to the place. 
