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Show 946 Cuar.4t. Theatrum Botanicum, ment, and yet in this have failed much, as you may underftand by this that hath beéne faid: now whether the manured or wilde Parfneppe fhould be Die/orides his Elaphobofcum, I incline to thinke rather the wilde thay the tame, although he faith, it is fweete and fit tobe eaten; for asI {aid before, eventhe wilde might be good with them, as we have fhewedit to grow wilde with us, Another controverfie there is among many learned men, whether this be the true Sifaruns of Diofcorides ot no, in regard that neither he nor any other of the ancients, have given almoft any conch of forme or leafe orrooteit had, becaufe it was fo familiar and well knownein TheTheater of Plants. Trix 8. 1,, Pimpinella Saxifraga Hircina major, Great Germane Burnet Saxifrages Cuap.4i. 4 Pimapinella Saxifraga Hitcina minor. The (maller Burner Saxstrage of Germanies MUA? tly ¥, Dg? i SS f ty EN. fe their time, and fo it falleth out in many other things that were fo common withthem, that they thought it need. lefle to defcribe them, that they are now moft unknowneto the {ucceeding times, and tous yet in out time: the greatelt propability that we have, isthat, as Dio/coridesfaith, Sifarum is pleafant to the pallate, profitable to the ftomacke, provoking urine, and procuring an appetite ifitbe boyled (for he doth not fay earen rawas divers other rootesare ) all which agree to the Skirret ; but Pliny in fetting forth his Sifer, which affuredly is all one with Diofcorides his Sifarem (hewethplainely that it hatha nerve or{tring in theroote, which is to be taken away after the boyling,that the reft may be eaten with the morepleafure, and fuch hath this Skirrer and no other roote, thar either then was or nowisedible bat it: and therefore there isno doubt but that it isthe true Sifarnm or Sifer of the ancients : the other Ranwolfius faith iscalled in Egypt by the Arabians there Secaculas Scerapio did, and therefore this mayceafeall controverfies concerning it, that our Parfneppe roote isnot Si/er, as it formerly was taken, nor our ordinarySifer neither tobe Secacsl : the Arabians call it Fifarnm aud Seifaron: the Italians Sifare: WN the Spaniards Chiribas : the French Cheruy, the Germans Gierlin: the Ditch Swycker wortelen, that is Sugar roote; and we in Exglifs Skirtet. The Vertues; Skirret rootes (for no other partis in ufe as I know) being dreffed according to every ones liking doe nourifh well, but not fo muchas the Parfneppe, it being of a ftronger tafte, and this more delicate and pleafant, and is al- fo very wholefome, yetengendreth a little winde, and provoketh to venery : it doth fomewhat refpect the Kidnies and bladder by moving to urine, anda little to confume the ftone and gravell in them : and this is all that we have learned it to be availeable:for thofe herbes and roots that are temperate and maft ufed to be eaten,are the lefle phyficallyapplied for anydifeafe ; the other as Ramolfimfaith, is ufed to be eatenalfo bythe Egyptians, as other rootes areand is common with them. Cus XLT Saxifraga Pimpinella, Burnet Saxifrage. JE have fouré or five forts of this burnetSaxifrage, to fhew you here,fome being ofour owne countrey, kf} and fomeof others, and fomegreater or leffer than others, 1, Pimpinella Saxifraga hircina major, Great Germane BurnetSaxifrage, % This great Burnet Saxifrage of Germany hathdivers large and long ftalkes of winged leaves, one fet directly oppofite to another on both fides, each being fomewhatbroad, alittle pointed.and dented about the edges fomewhat deepely, of a frefh greene colour almoft fhining, from among whichrife up one or more roundhollowftalkes, three foote high or more,fet at the joynts, with the like, ‘but lefler leaves, and bearing atthe toppes {mall umbells of {mall white flowers, after which come fmall blackifh round feede like unto Parfley feede,but muchhotter in tafte, and. {harper upon the tongue, the roore is {mall long and white,verylike unto a Parfley roote, but muchhotterin tafte, and perifheth not after feede time, but endutethlong. 2. Pimpinella Saxifraga majorflorerubente, Great Burnet Saxiftage of Germany with’areddifhflower. This fort differeth lictle from the former, either in forme or greatneffe of leaves or tallneffe of the ftalkes, the chiefeft difference confifteth in the fowers which are reddifh or of a bluth colour, 3. Pimpinella Saxifragamajor noftras, The greater Engh/> Burnet Saxifrage, The greater fort of our Exglifh Burnet Saxifrage groweth up in the. fame manner that the former doe, thé forme of whofe leaves isall one likewife, but that they are uftallynot more than halfe fo biggeor large, andnot fo deepely dented about the edges, but of a fadder greene colour; the ftalkes likewife are fmaller and fhorter than the other, the umbells of flowers are white alfo and the feede finall and blackifh, but fharper than the former : the roote is long and whitifh enduring long. 4. Pimpinella Saxifraga hircinaminor. The {maller Burnet Saxiftage of Germany. Thisleffer Burnet Saxifrage of Germany hath likewile fundry fhorter ftalkes of finer cut leaves by muchthan the former, every onefet againtt other,being very narrow and much cutin or deepely'dented about the edges, which maketh the leafe feeme as if it were made of manyfine cutand jagged leaves fer on bothfides ofa foote ftalke, which fometimes groweth reddifh, andis very neere of the fame frefh greene colour that is inthe firft : the flalkes rife as high.almoft, and the umbells of fowers whitelike the former; the feede alfo is blackifh but {maller iy the former : the roote is long and white but {maller, but more hot, quicke and fharpe as the feede hereof is alfo, 5- Pimpinella Saxifraga minor noftrat. The leffer Englifp Burnet Saxifrage. Onr lefler Eacli Burnet Saxifrage hath muchfiner cut leavesthan thelaft, fo chat thereis not halfe that breadth tobe feene in them thacthereisin the leaves of the former, but yer divided’after the fame manner, andofas darke a greene colonr as the greater Englifh fort : the umbellsof flowers are white, and the feede that followeth {maller thanof thelaft, the roote likewife is {maller, but as hot and quicke in tafteasit. The Place and Time. The Germane kitides grow as well in their fields, as on the mountaines, and in rockie grounds, and as itis affirrmed unto meby divers in our owne land likewif€; the other of our owne Jand, are ufually crowing in moft medowesof this land tobe eafily found of them that know them,andwill looke for them, for theylie hid among the graffe oftentimes {carfely tobe difcerned : they doe all flower about I#ly, and their feede is ripe about the cnd of Anguftp The Names, 4 The ancient Writers neither Greckes nor Latines had any knowledge of any of thefe plants, but are ag a; the a the moderne Herbarifts Pimpinella fimply by many,as Cordus,7ragus,Fuchfius,Ge/ner,and Lobel. & Pimpinella Sazi- fragaby Matthiolus and Camerarius, or Saxifraga hircina,as Ge/ner & Clufins do {ome alfo Bipinella Saxifraga,as Lobel, or Bipenula as Lacuna, or Trago[elinum majus as Tabermontanus. the fecondis remembred by Gefner in hortis, in de[criptione montisfracti s the third is thefecond Pimpinella of T ragus,yet is greater thanthat kinde thac growethin our owneland ; and foisthe fift, and is, molt likely tobe Baushinus his Pimpinella Saxifraga tenwifolia ; the fourth is the third Pimpinella of Tragus,and is called Psmpinella minor by divers, and Saxifraga bircina minor by others,taken by Cordus to be Daucus Selinsides, and by Lagdunenfis Danci tertinm genus, and by (olamnato be Tragium Diofcoridis, There is growing at the rootesof thefe Saxifrages in fomecountries certaine graines that will give afearlet dic,as Lacunaand Anguilara have fet it downe, and by themcalled (occns radicum, but Amatus Luftanus faith that the like grainesare found at the rootes of manyother herbes. Fragofus {eemethin reciting thefe graines growing at the rootes of thefe Saxitrages, tothinke that thefe graines arethe Cochenill that the Diers ufe to die their filke and cloth in graine colours ; for he faith, lib, 3.0.15. that the'Cochenill thatcommeth from Peru be the graines that growat the rootes ofcertaine plants like unto our common Burnet Sa ifrage, wherein he was much miltaken, for as Oviedw faith, they are gathered from the leaves of great trees in the 7/2 Indies, called there T#nal, and withus Ficus Indica, andasitis fetdowne in the eight part of the Weft Indian Hiftory, the fourth Booke and thirteenth Chapter (and in the Claffis of the trees in this W orke ) from whence it feemeth John de Laet of Anwerpe inhisfifc Booke and third Chapter, pag.229. of the Weft Indian Hiftory tooke his relation thereof, whichis fomewhattoo large toinfert in this place, I will therefore but briefely touch what he there faith,that there are divers forts of Fics Indica, {omethat beare no fruit growing wilde,or fo thornythat ferveth to no ufe : others that are manured and bearefruit, which are eaten, and are either white, which ase the better, or ofa reddifh purple colour dying their hands that gather them, like as Mulberies doe : andthereis ano- ther manured fort that beareth no frizit, butis of greateft worth, and moft carefully kept, becaufe that cerraine Flies doe breede thereon ( whichare that graine called by the Spaniards Cochenill, derived from tbe Coccvs of the ancients, and thisas.a diminutive thereof)which they gather twife or thrice in a yeare, and all themby cafting cold water on them, and afterwards drie themin the (hadow: butof this he faith there are foure forts, fome bet ter or worfethan others,the worfer being gathered from the wildeplants, the beft fromthole are planted in order like an orchard, and tended carefully. Tragws calleththis Saxifrage Piper Germanicum, andfaith chat no orher plant can be morefitly referred to the Petrefolinum Macedonicum of Diafcorides than it, who compared the {cede thereof ontothe feede of Ames, yet to be {weeter in fmell like nto {pice, and fharpe and hote in alte, and ro growin rockieplaces, and hereon complaineth that men more willingly {pendtheir coft on ftrange things fetcht from farre, than upon their owne hombred and country plants : and affuredly the feed: hereofis foaromaticall, and fharpepiercing withall. that I thinke he had reafon foto thinke ashe did, whenasit farre furpaffeth either the ald Petrofelinum Maecedonicum of our modernes, I meaneour Allifander feede or the new Petrofélinum Wacedanicumthat commeth from Vesice,and is now a dayes in {o great account,as thoughit werethe true Petro(elinnm Macedoninm not tobe doubted of, or none to goe beyond it: but Iamin doubt I thall finde among my brethren fome Critickes that will taxe meforinferring this noveltie: ifitpleafe not chem, let the judicious cenfure it ag theyfhall finde caufe and reafon, Tragws alfo faiththat fome others referred this to the Orea/elinnm ox Apion moxtantys of Diofcorides, Th: |