rtireE or fourefoote high with divers leaves, (hooting from it, divided much, and into long parts, and 
branched likewife, at the toppef whereof grow umbells of fmaU white flowers, bowing downe their heads al- 
„on.Tnhle hefore thev rife to be in flower, which better expreffed in the former figure, after which come very 
Cufede^ but quttke and hot and ofagood fmell: this by the fbeddingof its 
owne feededoth eafi.y abide in a garden <«detherein. 
This oroweth, faith Chfm ,in the borders of the Vineyards, and by the paths and wayes f.de in the countrey of 
sJLalca in Spain,, and that it flowreth in My, and the feede is ripe j.h but .with us it is more late be- 
foreitri P en ' The Names. 
n u r m who found it in Spain, called it Selmampereerimm, and is the firft with him, Sauhmm calleth it Apmm 
per, Jinum foil fabronmdi*-, and is the third Saxifrage, of CefalpmHs, and the third D assess of V,ofcor.de, wit h 
Colama, which he mketh the fecond with Phny. 
The yertues. 
The qualities of heate and drineffe perceived in the tafte of both leaves and route, bu t especially of the feede 
doth argue it to be no lefle c^Suall to provoke urine, and to helpc tobreake and to expe l .lie (tone than fomeof 
the former Pa.fleyes, and befides may bealfo good for other d.feafes as they are formerly rtm.-mbred, and the 
name of Saxifraga alfo, as CefalpinM giveth it, fheweth the fame : the.e things are probable, although we have, 
had no certaine experience by triall. 
Chap. XXX. 
HippofcUnon five Smyrnium. Allilandcrs. 
*Mder this title of Allifanders,! muft comprehend two forts of hetbes/eachof them called SmWm- 
\Hm , and the laft Ocric»w, asfhallbe lliewed. 
I plinpofelinum five Smprmum valgare. Garden AUilanders. 
9 Our common garden Allifanders groweth the greateft of all the Selma mentioned by the old 
authours, having divers large fpread leaves; cut into many parts greater and rounder than Srnai - 
atTlnd ofadarkeqreene colour, and dented about the edges, of fomewhat an hot and fp.cie tafte, anda.utle 
bitter withall, the ftalke that rifeth up amongft them is th.cke and round, a yard high and better, with .undry 
leaves on them, patted into fmaller divifions, with branches alfo rilingTrom the joynts, each bearing large tufts 
or umbells of white flowers, and after them great blickifh feede not full round, but a little uiakecIon thebacke, 
hot and bitter, as the leaves and roote alfo is, which is great, thickc, long, and blackifo on the outfide, fpreading 
into many parts underground,and whiSilh within. ^ ^ k , smyraiaaf 
