Tribe 8. TbeTbeaterof T 3 lants . Chap.^i. 931 
cerone ofthc Italians, and faith he Hndeth not what herbe this Hyppofelinum fliould be, unkfleitbe LcviJHcttm 
Lovage, which yet he acknowledgeth not to zniwer Diofcorides his notes thereof, becaufeitis in forme iolike 
onto a great Selimm, and for this opinion Label yerkes him too critically, (hewing that LeviSticum is too hot and 
fharpe.and in no place ufed to be eaten as a wort or Pallet herbe, and that he did unworthily taxe Brtzfovolus for 
taking the Macerone of the Italians to be this Hyppofelinum by the falfe tranflation of Adarcedm Virgilius, in gi¬ 
ving the roote of Hyppofelinum to be blacke without and white whithin,when as Diojco-ides maketh no mention 
of any blacknefle in the roote : Lobel alfo faith that it is the true Hyppofelinum as they atiirmedby the judgement 
of the mod learned in rhefe dayes, and yet by all their leaves, the roote of Diofcorides is different from it, who 
faith it is white when as this is blacke, that it is (mall, but this is not fo, which maketh Column* in the fcanning of 
Smyrnitim, to lay that he would furthw fearch what Diofcorides his Hyppofelinum fhouldbc, as not holding this 
th «t we account of to be fo . Now concerning the other doubt whether this Hippofe/inrtm, or rhe other plant cal¬ 
led Smyrnium Creticitm (hould be the true Smyrnium of Diofcorides or no, the currant opinion of mop. Writers in 
theft times, is that this SmyrmumCreticum is the fame, and yet as (falumna hath in the laid place very worthily, 
and throughly examined the matter,it is nothing l'ojfor Diofcorides defcrxbeth his Smirr.irim^ndfbcx it was called 
Petrofelinmn in Ci/ici«,and that it hath leaves of a good ftnelffharpeor quickeon thetongue.withfoineplcaiant- 
nefl'c therein alfo-.that the feed is round like to Colewort feed, (wherein CoIkwm, thinketh iome, inifLkingof the 
Greek word tobe that is fee down in head of for as hr faith,the feed is as like to the feed Cancbrys 
as may be, except the black colour)black & ofafharpe tafte like Myrrhes fweete CherviU.fothat one may be ufed 
in (lead of the other, and that the roote is blacke without and of a whitifb greene colour on the infuse, of a I weetc 
fmell.andofa (harpeta(le,heacing the mouth.both roote.feed & leaves being ofan heating propertie-.not any one 
of all thele markes or notes except in the feed to be blacke and round, is to be found inthis SmyrmamOcncum and 
therefore it cannot be the right: whether then the Hyppofelinum of Diofcorides can be Smyrnium,Dioforides him- 
lelfedenieth it, and faith that although fonie called it Smyrtnumycx the true Smyrn.um was ai other herfcr, even 
the fame that I have out of Diofeorides his delcriptionl'etdownea few lines here before unto you : TheopbmJl Ilf 
hath fet forth an Hippofehnum, W.9.C.5. andfpokenof it in other places, which is plainely differing ficm the 
Hippofc linum of Diofcorides, and neereft unto, if not the fame with his S myrnittm : for Tberphn fttu f a th that bis 
Hippofelinum (rendredby Equaputm ) doth yeeld a juyee from the roote like unto Alynb.i or Mprrbi, as 
Diofcorides faith of his S myrnittm-. fo that by this that hath bcenefaid ( although-it be fomewhat tedious, yet I 
could not more briefely declare them ) we finde that S myrnium Creticitm is not the true S myrn mn ol Diofcorides, 
as Mattbiolits ,Camerarius,D odoneus, Lobel, Lugdunenfts fTabermmtamts ,und Gerard hath fet it dots ne,nor that the 
Hippofelimm of Diofcorides, which is called alfo Olus atrum with us is lufficiently knowlie,although lome authors 
call it Hyppofi/inS, nor is that which it is taken to be, by the defeft of force of the notes or markes that Diofcorides 
giveth ic, and laftly that the Hippofelinum of Theophraflus doth agree with the Smyrnium of Diofcorides, but not 
with his Hippofeltnttm being different plants, and fo Alatthioius,Cordus on Diofcorides,Cefner in bortie, ffamer. ri- 
ns and Cohtmna fet itdowne : Columna his Iudgement is, that the feede of this Hippofelinum, or S myrnittm may 
more fitly he ufed for Petrofelinum iJMcicedonicum (if bis other fine leafed herbe that hath the fmell of Garden 
Parfley be refjfed, or not to be had) than either the common Parfley feede, or that of Venice csWei Petrofelinum 
Adacedonicum by many, and by him Daueju fecundut Diofcoridis. The Italians call the fit ft Adacerone, the Spaniards 
Perexil Sdace dome o, the French Alexandre, the Germans (jreff F.p[fich,ihc Daub Peterfclie van Udlaceaosrieu and 
Croote £ppe and Pcterfelie van AUexandrieu, and we in Snglifh Allifanders* 
The Venues. 
Our A llifanders are much uled ro make broth with the upper part of the roote, which is the tendered part, snd 
the leaves being boiled together, and fomeeate them either ra v with fome vinegar, or ftew them, and locate 
them, and this chiefely in the time of Lent, to helpe to digeft the crudities and villous humours ire gathered in 
the ftomacke,by the much ufe offifh at that time, it doth alfo warme any other cold ftomacke, and by the bitter— 
neffchelpech to open obftrudlions ofthc liver and fpleene, to move womens courfe , to exptll the after birth, to 
breake winde, to provoke urine and helpe the ftrangury, and thefe things the feede will doe like wife if either of 
them be boy led in wine or taken in wine, and is effcfluail againft the bitings of Serpents. Wee know of no good 
paopertie the other hath, being in a manner incipide. 
Chav. XXXI. 
Selinum Segetale. Corne Parfley, 
1O finiflr thefe Ap-a Parfleyes; let me joyne this unto them, which Uhn Goodie-/ firft gave me the know- 
ledge of, with fome feede which fpringeth in mygarden I thus defenbe unto you; it is a fmail low 
mr herbe having fundry winged long leaves lying on the ground, many being fee one againft an- 
other, finely dented about the edges, with one at the end, which are each of them longer than Burnet 
leaves and pointed at the ends, among which rife fundry round ftalkeshalfe a y ard high vviththe 
like, bur Idler leaves on them, branching forth like wife from the j’oynts, and all of them bearing fmail umbells 
of white flowers, whichturne into fmallblackifh feede leffeithan Paifley.bucas hot and fnarpe in tafteas it: the 
roote is fmail, long, and white, and perifhing every yeare alter it hath leeded, and rifeth againe of its owne 
fowing. 
Tfbe Place and Time. 
This groweth in the fields among the corne,or where corne hath beene (owne in divers places of the land : it 
flowred not with me untill Augufl, and the (cede ripened a month after at the lead. 
The Tf/tmes. 
Mr. Goodier firft gave it me by the name of Siumterrejlre, and after that I found it an umbelliferous plant, 
I thought it might heft be referred to the Selina Or Apia, and called it then Apium Si/folijs from the compolure, 
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