Tkeatrum c Botamcum, 
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954 Ch a p«44> 
2. g. Sphondyliammajiu & tliudLac'miatufoliju 
The greater Cow Parfneppe o {Germany; 
and another with jagged leaves. 
S . sphmdylium Alpinum glabrum . 
Smooth Bjeunsamc Cow Parfneppe. 
an J others pointed, hairy likewife, and dented about the edges, the flowers on the umbells are white, and the 
feeds thinne and broad. 
5 . Sphondylium Alpimmglabrum. Smooth mountaine Ccw Paifneppc. 
Theroote hereof is white and great, the ftalke joynted, and two foote high, the leaves are likeunro Figge- 
leaves and lhiooth, being a hand breadth long and two broad, befidesthe foote ffalkes' which are a lirtlc rough, 
ufually divided into three parts, but not to the middle and dented about the edges •. thetoppesof the branches 
have umbells oflmallcr white flowers [fanding on them than in the other: the (cede is flat and round, but having 
a fmall pricke or point at the end. 
The Place and Time. 
"The fiiff groweth in moift medowes, and the borders or corners of fieldes, and neere ditches generally through 
the land : the fecond i proper onely to Germaaj^s I thinke: the third was found by Mr. George Bowles a worthy 
and indudrious Gentleman in Shropfbire, as I take it: the fourth on thcyd//>ef of Aufiria-.ihe lafl on the Alpes of 
IjujJii .-they doc all flower in Inly audl'eede in c siuguft. 
The TTjmes, 
It is called in Greeke ozwSlhr.v and earovb Vaior Sphondylium and Spondylion, for both are extant in good authours, 
derived as it is thought from 1 pondy !e, a flie ftinkiug like this; Matthiolus, Gefner, Label , Dodinew, and others 
doe call it Sphondylium ; but Tragus, Cerdus, and fome others call it Branca urfma, and Fuchjim Acanthus vulga¬ 
ris five gcmm.ca, and lb is mod uitully the lecond fort called by diversjand this is the plant.as I thinke, that ®»- 
don/cns in his Chapter of Pan x, did rather take to be 'Spovdplium <i/rci-Bw,becau(e ir bore white flowers, aud as I 
faid, is very likelv', for that which Lobe1 laith,he law with yellow flowers was a SPannXytind not this:the third as 
it is a plant lately found out tog r ow in our owne land.fb I have given ira name.correlpondcnt, as I thinke to the 
forme, yet 1 thinke verily it is the fame that Bauhimu hath deicribed in his Pr, drowns by the name of Spheudyhen 
hirfutumfolij r angujli or thus, and is, as I alfo verily thinke the fame that Matthwlns let forth for his fourth C rl,h ' 
mum and Label in his Obfervations (finding fault with Matthiolus for fo calling it ) F.rrjngium montmnm re. 
centiorum alter urn, which why rhey fh .,uld let ir, the one with the S/yngia bearing an umbelliferous toppe,filch as 
none of them dne, or that it fhould be called an Erpngium, the other with the Crithma 1 fomewhat mervaile : the 
two lad are fpecidcd by B-uhiru, in his Podromus,by the fame titles that I give themtthe Italians call it Sfottdilie, 
the Frence Branceurfne ■ the Germanes‘Bcrnclarr, AzEDutch Bcerenclaw , and we in Er.ohfh Cow Parfneppe and 
Medotv Parineppe by fome. 
The Vertuet. 
1 he fc zde of Cow Parfheppe,as (jAlen faith, is ofa £harpe and cutting qualitie,and therefore is a medicine fie to 
be 
