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The Theater ofTUnts. Chap.22. 
she firft,but more fparfed and thinne, comming fomewhat neere to Camomill, but finer and a little hairy, of a 
pleafant both fent and tafle, among which rife (lender fhort ftalkes, fomewhat hairy or hoary, with but few 
joynts or leaves on them, at the toppes whereof (land five or fix Imall white flowers clofe fet together confining 
of five leaves a peece, in the middle whereof is a darke purplifh flile or leafe longer then the reft fpreading 
forth like a blazing ftarre, after which follow long leedes like the firft but fmaller, bigger below and endinga- 
bove in two fmall points, whofe edges are more rough and feeme more dented, andbee a little purplifh as the 
young ones are before they beripe.which are the feedes themfelves: the roote is fmall long and whiteiThis bath 
beene obferved to have a better fent that growcth in untilled voyde and gt avelly grounds then that w hich grow- 
eth in the fields. 
4, ScandixCretica major . The greater Shepheds Needle of Candy. 
The greater kinde hath a crefled fmall ftalke a cubit high, patted into divers branches^ a little hairy at the dtry 
joynts having the lower leaves broade and fomewhat round,divided like unto the lefl'er Burnet Saxifrage one fet 
oppofite to another,flanding upon long (lalks,which together with the leaves are a little hairy :but tbofe that ftand 
at the joynts are much more finely cut in, and like unto the leaves of the firft, the umbells are a little fpread and 
fmall,yet greater then the firft,which are fucceeded by more (lore of long rough dented leedc then the laft.having 
each of them tw 0 fmall prickes at the end ■■ the roote is fmall and fibrous. ‘ 5 
The “Place and Time. 
The firft groweth plentifully in our owne Land among Come: the fecond in France, the third both in Candy and 
Naples alfo, and the lalt in Candj : they flower early and feede accordingly. 
The Names. 
The Greekes call it cwJlf and the Latines Scandix alfo,and Peilen Veneris, Acm Veneris, and Acus patlori, or 
Acnla and Come call it S Canaria. There is much doubt and contioverfic among our later wrirers.firft what herbe 
the Scandix oCDiofcorides,Galen and P/my fhould be,that was fo common a Sailer herbe for the people to feede 
on and growing wilde with them, fo that Ariftephanes merrily taunted Euripides the Poet,thar his mother loid 
not a true wort but Scandix, which was accounted the meaneft or vileft of all others, for our PeRcn Vena h i s not 
taken to be the true Scandix in Candy, as Honorim Teilus fheweth in his firft Epiftle to Clufim ; for he there faith 
the Ca.ndiots eate it nor, calling it dytiorJrXnf, and hath no fmell, but another which they call crjs>J)Kl Sandies, and 
fmelleth well, but moveth nothing to Venery ; divers therefore doe thi.nke that the Ginpdiu'm of 
cMatthhlttt fhould be 'Scandix as Lngdanenfs fetteth it downe, Cohimna taketh the fiiHcalis ethinato nodsfo fmi¬ 
ne Bauhini to be Scandix, which how farre they are from veritie or aimed any fhew of reafon this one thing doth 
declare, that neither Matthiolm his Gingidin mnor Banhimu his Cauca/isviere ever nfed to bee eaten as Scandix 
was, nor is likely to grow fo familiarly in Greece as Scandix fo wilde a wort; but if I might fpend my opinion 
in the matter,1 fhould fooner belecve ‘Sellsts his judgement hereof that lived long among the Grecians,(for I ac¬ 
count the Candiots infpeakingGrcekeand ufing theGreekifhrites,tofceas it were the off-fpringofthe Greeks) 
and from both their denominations of herbes.and the ufe of them befides his owne both reading and obfervatiom 
holding the ancient Greeke words although fomewhat corrupted, who fheweth that Scandiki as they ufually 
call ail herbe that they eate fhould be the true Scandix, then eyther OWattbiolm or Columna, whofe opinionative 
conceits that he had found out the genuine plants of the ancients.made him mime faireawry in many things, as 
may be (eene in his Hy (Top e,Polium and divers others the like fo that my opinion is that our Pctlen Venery is not 
the true Scandix of the ancients, hut a kinde of wilde Chetvill, and not uled to b.e eaten with them or 11s, as the 
properties alfo do declareibut that Scandici which they in Candy (and as it is likely throughout all Greece alfo)doe 
take andule for their foode is the true Scandix which we have feldome fecneor [jnownemext what Aiithri/cui of 
Pliny fhould bee, whether this of Honoritts “Belluifent to Cltefius, or that of Cohimna in his Chapter of Scandix, 
which I take to be our PiFlen Veneris ; andwhether Bellm his corrcftion of Pliny his defeription be not true which 
explaneth the matter throughly. eAnthrifcus faith Pliny were the fame that Scandix is, if it had thinner and 
fweeter leaves, which reading being admitted, Anthrifcw is an herbe that hath broader leaves and not fo fweete 
in fmell as SMvdix-,which Cohimna as it fliould feeme would have to be the Scandix of ‘Podcnati r.and is our Peilen 
VemthjVjbkbCchimna commendeib him fo much for his true defeription thereof, and (0 would make our 
PcfflcnVeneris to be the true Scandix of tlic ancients, which is neither fwette nor uled to be eaten, and all this is 
I fuppofe becaufe he would have his Anifomarathrum to be a new plant of his cwre finding, and not the nmhrif- 
cus of Pliny, as others before him had judged ictobie. when as his defeription of Anifomarathrum fheweth it 
mud be a frecics of the Scandixby the manner of growing and the forme of the feed.-fcut admitting SWl'jw his cor¬ 
rection of “Pliny that Anthrifcui were thefame.but that it hath finer and (weeter leaves.it endetluhe whole con- 
troverfie, putting all things without doubt. Iam fomewhat more ample and tedious in the explanati nofthels 
things then I thought tobe, becaufe they are intricate and various; the firft here is called Scandixby divers au¬ 
thors, and FeSen Veneritby ochers without doubting or queftioning whether they were true or no : the (econcf 
Lugduuenfis remembreth, and the laft Banhimu otlely hath made mention of: the other 1 have i hope (ufticiently 
exprefledittobe called and taken to be the Anthri(cus o( P liny which “B asthmas calleth Scandix cretica minor. 
T he Vert net. 
Both Diofcorides and Galen fay that Scandix is fomewhat (harpe and bitter, being hot and dry in the third cfe- 
gree.and thereby is good both for the ftomacke and belly being eyther eaten raw or boyled : being made into 
drinke and taken it is good for the Liver, backe and bladder, provoketh Vrine mightily and freeth the inward 
parts from obftruiftions tit alfo bindeth a loofe body, the feede being taken with vinegar prefently ftayeth che 
hickock.andufed in anoyntmentit helpeth the parts that are burnt with fire : “Pliny faith that the roote of “PcElcn 
Veneris beaten with Mallowesdraweth forth (plinters or any other thing flicking in the flefh. Honorim Bellm 
that the Anthrifctu is ufed in Candy by the people with great delight, not onely becaufe it is pleafant to the tafte 
but becaufe it mightily provoketh to Venery and helpeth thofe perfons that are weake or fpent therein, and hell 
peth women to conceive in that it clenfeth the femimary parts. 
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