nfed by them,being firft lightly waited .- the (harpe liquour or oyle is ufcd by them againft lcabbea, and is good 
alfo for running tetters, and rmgwormes. I hare here given you the figure of the nut it felfe, and of the firft 
yeares (hooting of the tree, as Baptifia Ferrariat hath exhibited it in his Bookc defiorum csskura. Acefla furthec 
(aith.that they u(e in the Indies to pickle them as they doe Ollives, and cate them to procure an appetite, to (lav 
talungs,and to helpe the weakeneffe ofthellomacke. ' 
Chap. VII, 
Anifum exoticism Thill ip harum UfaUrum. A ftrange Aniffeede like feede of the Indies. 
E can pipe you no knowledge ofeither roote leafe ftalke.ot flowers of this ftrange plant, brought from 
King Phillips 1 (lands neere Unto China, ° r ■--- — 
and thereupon called Phillippinas) but of Anifm exotlimtbillippwarmlafalarm. 
thetoppes onely, with the huikes and A ftrange Anilfced like feed of tie Indict, 
Anifun tmlcm P billippinarum Mfalasm. 
A ftrange Aniffced l,kc feed of die Indict. 
feed in them, brought by Sir T homo) Candifh, in 
his voyage of the Globes circum-navigation, and 
given to Mailer CMorgan, Qucene Elizabeths A- 
pothecary, and to Mailer lames garret, of whom 
Clnfitu received them, and giveth this defeription 
thereof. It was a flalke with flat umbels of feed, 
as large as thofe of Archangelica, and peradventure 
larger, fuftained by tbicke footeftalkes, and fee 
round at the toppe, in a round forme one by ano¬ 
ther, confiding of fixe, eight, or mcrebuskesof 
feed, which were not parted in two like our ordi¬ 
nary Aniffeede, but each of them had divers round 
fmooth Ihining afh-colourcd feed within tbem,like 
unto Orehsu, the huskes were about an inch broad 
of a brownifb colour on the ourfide and rugged, o- 
penning at the toppe into two equal! parts, and al¬ 
though divers were empty,yet fome contained futh 
feed as aforefaid, thefmell andtafleof them was 
very like unto Aniffeed, whereupon it was called 
Anifeby them that lent it: but Mailer Garret font 
the right name,whereby it was called in the Iflands, 
one of them being brought along with them, who 
fet the name in China Charafters, which as 
:» faith he could not imitate, but was Damor■ 
every letter being written under the other do wne- 
wards. 
Chap. VIII. 
Afa dnlcis &fttida. Ajfafetida and the other A fa. 
S Ltheugh I have fpoken fomewhat of Afa dulcis fiveoderata & A jfafetida in the Chapter of Laferpitissm 
among the umbelliferous plants, yet becaufe Ifaid but little of them there, referring them for this 
place, I will here entreate of them more largely. There is none of the ancient Authours either Grceke, 
Litinc, or Arabian, that hath made any mention of Afa , eirherds/c,', oxfatida, btitwas firft depraved 
by the Druggifts and Apothecaries in lorraigne parts,that in (lead of Lafer faid Afa, from whence ever fince the 
name of Aja hath continued, and afterwardsdividedinto‘Z>B/cB®riri<>r<frir,and/«<<&, from the differing forts 
of goodneffe pureneffc and fent thereof, whenasthey arqboth of a (trongfmell, yetonc much mote then ano¬ 
ther,the being of foevill a fent,that the GertaMHAr call it TesiffcUz drech, that is ,diaboli fiercus, Devils 
dure, and is very neere the fent of S tor ax liquida, if it be not the fame,relented and brought into a liquid forme, 
the foctc or fediment declaring it plainely, and isaccounted with them to be fweet, beingofaftrong unpleafanc 
favour, rather then fweet to us, (o isrho Afadnlci, & odomta, called fweete incomparifonoftheothei, called 
fisiida, becaufe being purer, it hatha moreunpleafant fent and tafle. For as Garcias faith AJa is called Altihp 
by the Arabians, which if the Lafer of the Greckes and Latines, as the plant being called by them Anjucten, and 
Silphium by the Greckes and Latines, but fmgu and Imgara by the Indians, the one when it is clenfed and puri¬ 
fied from the droffe being clcere and yellow as Amber, the other foule and impure, and are fo familiarly eaten, 
as Cjarc'uu faith by the Indians,in their meates,brothes,and failets, and medicines, that they fcarfe eate any thing* 
that is not (eafonedthetewith, and is very plealanc to them being ufed unto it, but loathlome toothers, the 
richer fort ufing the purer, and the poore the courle : divers heretofore have rniftaken Benzoin for Afa du/cfc 
and I doubt the errour is not yet quite extinguifhed, and Matthiolw confeffeth his former errour therein, which 
upon better confideration he amended, 'Benzoin being the gumme of a tree,and being not fo hot as Lafer, which 
by Galen his appointment had for its fubftirate Euphorbium being growne old. The Afa dutch being in former 
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