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Show Tbeatrum Botanicum. bar CHaP.2§, 1376 ; Tribe 15. Nig ay ‘ ce Nigella WRATSide a ke 2, Nigella : flowers This Nigella groweth verylikethe former, for the greeneleaves, ee ittle ae ler sie mete ie within is areblew,andlike the former, but the head with{cede is larger, anne c ae tot Ber oT cede aifo blacke ufually,but fomerimes little whitifh, or yellowifh,and without “iy ent a a I 3 nere is another of this a ceils Mycd etWe1) casoN /ylveftrinfive Damalcena inodora. and blacke feede without fent. fortias take icthatdiffereth onelyin bearing fingle whiteflowers, 3. Nigella arverfis, Field Nigella, This Feld fortis verylike the laft, bur groweth thinner of branches and leaves,and they fhorter alfo, the heads are fmaller and longer,as the flowersare alfo bur of a pale blew colour, the feede is blacke and wathout any tent. g little fromthe < ther,butin the flowersthat being fingle and blew likeir, Thereis of thisfortanother, d _ hath erent leavesunder them,and the feede being blacke isfomewhat{weere, . dorofemine. Nigella of (andy without {entin the feede, 4. NigellaCreti iS This Candy Nizella.grov eth with fine cut leaves like the other,but of a darker greene colour: the flowers are {mall, and ftand finglyas others doe, at the roppes of theftalkes ard branches, greenifhat the firft, bur bhewith afterwards, the ends of the leaves keeping a little greeneneffe ftill in them;with manygreenifh threds in the middle,tipt with blew: the (vedeis blacke like orbers and without fent, that followethin {uch like horned heads as : ye) others: the roote is fibrous yellowifh and annuall, ta, Candy Nigella with broad leaves,and {weete fmelling feede, . Nigella (reticalatifoli from the yellowith,threddy and annual roote,with one flender weake ftalk, eth Thisbroad Jesfed N forme of the other Nidivided into fome branches, having long and divided leaves fet thereon, but not of thedivifions, fomewhatlike parted into gella, which‘are Fennell like,or Lakes fpurre like, but much broader and into lefler and finer parts, at the toppes of eachof the branches ftandeth a fingle igellas,and heads fomewhat like them {ucceeding, containing blacke feede e of Groundfel unt j tatenuifolia, Another{weete Candy Nigella. €faidto be harder thenthereft, yetannuall like them, the ftalkes that rife ny,upright and flender, parted into feverall branches, with but few leaves fet thereon, thofe ng not fo finely minced as the former, that are upwards, having {maller yellowith white flowers, atthe sof themjand corn acke {eede, fharpe and fomewhat {weete, contained in {mall biformed {eede vef- is,like twofi This wond fielkesjand few thofeof Ela er,fomewhat br 1 {e of ; biformibus. A {weete Nigella of Candy with double formed feedes: Nigella (for fo itis called) groweth froma {mall fibrousroote, with many flender ¢ fromthem, nor much above halfea footehigh, fet with long winged leaveslike : ch to other,on a middle riobe.atthe toppes of each whereofftandeth a large blew flowlikeuntothe ower of a Poppy,, after which come five cornered heads, containing {mall blacke @ t2Byifolia 0 dorata. 1 fweer fm ling feed, 7-Nigella Cretica odorata folijs Lini [eminibus bifoymibus , Sweete Nigella of Candy,with double formed{cedes. Trine 15; {weete {melling feede The TFheaterof ¥lants. Cra £:26, 13979 5 but befides thefe at the joynting’ ofthe’ branches, come forth other forts of feede: clu- ftring together like a bunch ofgrapes, which are whicifh, ratare thus providing it witha doubléiffue; leatit ; fhould faile, 8. Nigella Citrina flore albo fimplict. Single white Nigella with yellowith feede, Weehavealfein our Gardens, another fingle fort of Nigella, that bath come among other feedes thae hath beenefent from fome of our friends beyond Sea, that differeth fo little from the other n{uall forts, that ic can hardly be difcerned,exceptitbe in the frether greeneneffe ofthe leaves before it come to flower, which 'thenis {mall like the third wild fort here fer downe,but white’: the headsalfoare {mall but formed alike,having {mallet {cede within them,not blacke as others are, bur yellowifh and without fent; ancherein icis fomewhar like ‘unto the double white kinde,deferibed in my former Bookes _ The Place and Time, : Thefirtis nfually fowen in Gardens even in Italy or elfe where,the other forts grow. wildeand-in the fieldsof Cornsin Iealy,Candy,Germanyec, they. arcall annuall’to’be towne inthe Spring,’ if they doe not fow them* felves,and flowerin Jane and July, giving ripe feede in eAuguf; : rest tex The Names. Ic is called in Grécke ueretiSvoy aud uevvarcouoy, Afelanthim alfoin’ Latine, and Nigella.a nigro feminycolore ut fertarand anciently called Gich, divers other baltarde mames have beene given it,as Salufandra and Papaverni> gram trom the Grecke word all/late Authouts call them either Melanthium or Nigellaonely Fuchfimsand Cor- ‘dus tooke it to be the Cuminum[ylveftre alteram ofDio(corides. The Arabians callit Xanim Sunis or Sunizi, The ralians Nigellethe Spaniardes Azennx,and Niguillia,the French Poynrérte and Nielle, che Germanes one fort St! Katarymen blamen, thatis, St,Katherines flower, the wilde forcs Schwartz Kumel, and Schwartz Remmich; the Dutch Nardus (aer, becaufe they. and others hada perfwafion that the oyle made out of the feede was Olenm Nardinum, We call it in Engh either Nigella after the Latine, or Fennell flower,as I doe. .For the underftanding of the feverall Authours ofthefé : the firft,fecond, and third; are mentioned by oiir later Writers, by thofe titles they have,orvery neere thems The fourthis called by Bawhinws Nigella Cretica fimply,and by ¢ Lefius Me3 lanthinm Cresicum’s.The fifth is mentioned by Ponain his /talias Baldys; the feventh by Alpinin his booke of Exoticke plants, The fixtby Poa in bis Italian eva The laft as I thinke is not mentioned by any Authour: The Vertaes. itt The fweetefmelling feedes ate effeCtuall to manydifeafes, but the firlt kinde is onely ufed in medicines, the oS ther that doe‘not fmell well, areinaorannertefufed, Gulen faithit is hot anddry in che third degrce, and of thin parts,and thereby it he'peth to dry up rheumes anddeftillations from the head,being tyed in 4c toath,and {melled unto,but being put into a cappe among other things for that purpofe,it doth much good: being taken inwardly icexpelleth winde, the wormes, and womens courfes ; it helpeth alfo the fhortneffe of breath, and cleanfeth the kidneyes of gravell,and the ftone,and provoketh urine,being raken with honey, and isaremedy againft poyfons and thebiting ofthe Spider Phalenginm,and the Scorpion,and asitis faid encreafeth milke in womens brefts, be= ing boyledin Vinegar, ithelpeth the toothache to be held inthe mouth : thefameufed outwardly helpeth the feurfe, freckles,{pots,&c. in the skinne, and hard {wellingsalfo,and cleanfeth the eyes : being burned, it drivechi awayflies,gnats,and the like, the feede was familiarly eaten in formertimes, being ftrawed on theirs bread, of put therein as Poppy feede was. Alpinus faith, that the ufe of che fifth fore is very effectuall, both in tertian, and quartane agues,to open obftructionsefpecially, if the feede thereof be boyled with Vinegar and fo taken, andkilleth the wormesalfo. CHE Xn a The bladder hecrtli'ce {potted Peafe. j Lthough divéts have c rt of this plavt,fomercferring ic to the kinde of Halicacabysor i, Winter C 30 » other plants, yer (eeing it agreeth with none of themall, bug ¢ thing orother, 4in others, tvanting {ome onething or other. And becaufe I could not findea family whereioro Lmight thrult ic, Thave keprit for chis place, untill fome fellow maybe found to martchit witb, Take therefore thedefcription thereof thus, Ic rifethup and {preadeth much;if ithave good ground to grow in, having fundryflender weakeftalkes, w hich will lie down onthe ground, and entangle it felfe with theclafpérsic harh, unleffe ic be faltained with fome ftakes, fending forth large lony,thinne, and very greene leaves on ail fides upon long footeltalkes, being divided either into three orfive parts, each whereofis much rent or cutinon theedges: atthe joynts wich the leaves fromthe middle of theftalkes almoft, aipwards, andéac the toppes of themlikewife, come forth divers {mall whitith flowers fer together uponafooteltalke,¢ach conififting of five fmall leaves apeece, whichpaffe into {mall fruite, contained in round ercene bladders, growing more whitifh asitripeneth, having fixe ridges, whereof three are the more e¢- minent, and openintothree parts,ineach whereoflyeth oneroundhard,blackifh feede, ofthe bigneffe of a great Peafe, {potted on the fide with a marke,ofthe forme of a white Hart,asit is ufually fet on the cards, or as fome compare it to the {haven towne of Monckes and Fryers, the roote is bufhy orftringyswith manyfibres thereat, yet perifhing everyyearé,at the firft approach of a Winters day,whetherit be ripe or no,and indeedeI did never {ee it beare ripe fruite witH us,no nor in che horteft yeare that I have fowneit. The Place and Time, Te hath comefromItaly, and other parts beyond Sea, but furely even theyhave received it from other places alfo,nor doe I thinke it groweth naturally in anypart of Ewrope, itflowrethasisfaid very late, and the feederi« peneth thereafter. 5 The Names, Some asl faid have referréd it to the Solanum veficarium, or Halicacabum of Diofeorides, and thereupon havé called it,Veficaria peregrinayor Halicacabum perggrinum,or repensas Tragws ,Fuchfim,Ge[aer, Matthiolus,Dodoneus Bbbbbb and |