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Show 846 HISTORIE OF PLANTS, THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE Of eAngelica. Chap.371. % The Aclription, se The kindes. water anda thirdefor Here be diners kinds of Angelicaes; the garden Angelica ; that ofthe T wilde growing vpon the land, Mithiolus and Gefaerus haue made mention of another kinde ofAngelica, butweare veryflenderlyinftcucted by their infufficient defcriptions : notwith{tanding for our better knowledge, and morecertaine affurance, I muft needs record that which my fricride mafter Bredvvelfrelared vnto meconeetning his fight heereof; who founde this plant growing bythe mote which compaffeth tiehouleof mafter Azuzke ofthe parith of luer, two miles from Colbrook e,and fince that I haue feenethe famein lowe fennie and marfhie places of Effex , about Harwich: this plant hathleaues lke vito the garden Angelica,but{maller, and fewer in number, fet vpononeribbe, a great ftalke, gtofleandthicke’, whofe ioints, and that {mall rib whereon the leafe groweth, is ofa reddith colouthauing many long branches comming forth ofan huske or ca fe,fuchas is in the common gardeuparfnep :the Aowers gtowatthe topofthe branches,ofa white colour and tuft fafhion which being paft there ftcceede broad, long,andthicke feeds, longer andthic ker then garden Angélica: thetoote is great,thicke, and white,oflittle fauour, with fome {trings appendant thereto, %& Theplace. 2 Angelica fylneftria Wilde Angelica, 1 Angelica fatins. Garden Angelica, 2 Thewilde Angelica which feldome groweth in gardens, butis founde to growe plentifully in water Oken grounds, and cold moift medowes, islike to thatofth e garden, faue that his leaues are notlodeepely cutoriageed, theybe alfo blacker and narrower :the ftalkes are much flenderer and fhotter;andthe flowers whiter;the roore much {maller, and hath more threddie firings appendant thereunto,and is not foftrong offauour bya grear deale. ' The fitltis very common in ourEnglifh gardens: in otherplaces it groweth wilde without plantingsasin Notwaie, and in an Iland ofthe northcalled Ifland,where it groweth veryhigh, it is ea~ ttnofthe inhabitants,the barke being pilled off,as we vnderftande by fome that haue trauelled into Hand,ho werefomtimes compelled to ate heereoffor want ofother foods and they report that hatha good and pleafant tafte to chemthat are hungrie :it gtoweth likewife in diuers mountaines oGetmany.and elpecially ofBohemia, % Thetime. They fowerin uly and Auguft, whofe rootes for the moft part doperith aftertheir feed is ripe: yethatel with often cutting the plant keprit from feeding, by which meanes the roote and plane ath continued fundcie yeeres togither. %& The names. liscalled ofthe larer age -dngehes :itthigh Dutch Qnpetick, Bautlwurts, or des reatbittelhatis,sperstfanéti radix,or the roote of the holie Gholt, as witnefie Heilighen th Leonharfits: i) lowe Dutch Angelika: in French in Englith alfo Angelica. teenieth to be akinde of LaferpitiumforifitbAngelic: e compared withthofe things which Theophrafast large hathwritten concerning Silphium, or Laferpit ium , in his fixt booke of the hiftorie of The defeription. fe mecontenttion anccor e ; there hath beene seamaelte Oncerning this plant Angelica, ar: butto.9 wee Cordus calling ing Swyrai n ytirers “her Costus doth niger: trouerfie, itit Smyrnium , fomelater we aflured! richae indent uilling, the controuerfie is foone decided, fith it,and oe ae iuid againe ine into into Footlowertenderer other ues, wh greenever,fie ath gre l iuided m44 off name Angelica.a Ithath great broad leaues,d ae {niptabout,muchlike to the vppermoft leaues of Spondrllinm;p1 oe rickeand hollow, ee ftronger fauour : among which leaues {pring vp the sealicsvmer srmnesor Fal ches aS, ich , iointed ioited or kneed; kneed; from from which which joint ioints Petts proceede sore is thicke, Senna feauenfoote high ret top whereof grow t chiff whitith flowers, like Fennell or Dill: ea ras wellleat itit be cut or broken)anoilie liquorsthe who) P le pleafant fauour,not much vnlike Petroseum. sIhaue (which ; gardens Te adein ouruw Englith AaBeNES founde fie Angelica e of true Englifh gare feerantando mto ner, fauing that the rootesof this kinde are misae andthe ¥ é 5 -olith red red colour, colour, -fanour: , and the leauesnext the groundeof a purplifh Teaprabe to be anfwerable thereunto. But whether wilde siki be ba sae sca a Magndivias, mae isWe pices ted aden fai anotherarki ea of An pitinm awe ¢ leaue leaucitto be exa< a idered of by the learned Phificions of our London Colledge . Mielica e efrec; ant pei cially thar of7 the garden,i ce hé thirde s hor and thirde degree,thetefore driein the etefore it it op: openeth 9 degree,th tet or makerh thinne,digefterh and procureth fweate. %& The vertues. et garden Angelica isa fingular remedie againft poifon,a againft the plague,and A ; ihe by euill and corrupt aire, ifyou dobut ae a peece of eh ee e “tall aire aad = ait betweeneyour eet, Se Pete compe aire hane poflefes edthe hart, yerat9 ok pe ate by drueth ourag Anvelie, ; e325 Rue and Treacle doth,andfuchlike Antipharmaca. sald patuitedvaiiok ohe B Ofte binder he crime topoifons: it cureth peftilene difeafesifirbe vled Ce ae "Cay, aieacne.. oe oe Meee irae me Pelee cont t ver byieele alfo 9 Vittide4 1%; 01 OF Tormentell,andwitha little vineger, and by it felfe alfo, or with Treacle aettthetinerand fpleene :drawveth downe the tearmes, driueth our or expelleththe fe The AD |