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Show THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF PLANTS. Spondylium, CowParfnep. ee wath 357 % The defeription, %& Theplace, 2 pea eee hath alfo a ftraight ftalke, full ofknots andioints sthe leaves are like vatoSmallage: the flowers growe intaffels like ynto the former, and bringe foorth great This plant growethinfertill moiftmedowes, and feeding pattures,very commonly in all partes of England,or elfe where, in fuchplaces as Thaue longjand vneuenfeed ofa fharpetafte: the rooteis like the former, and fois the whole plant ver likebutleffer, y trauciled. % The time, Spondylivm flowrethin Iuneand Iuly. % The names. Itis calledin Greek =xr2xov: in Latinelikewile Spondylinm, in the fhops ofhigh and low Germany 1 Libanotis Theophrafti maior. Great herbe Frankincenfe, 2 Libanotis Theophrafti minor, Small herbe Frankincenfe, ae Branca vrfina, who ynaduifedly in timespatt hae vieditin clyfters, in fteede of Branck Vefine, and therupon have named it Bernclalw sin low Dutch ‘Séerenclauwes in Englifh Cow Parfnep, med. dowe Parfinep,and Madnepe. % The nature, CowParfnepis ofa manifeft warme complexion, %& Thevertues. ‘ The leaues ofthis plant do confime and difoluecolde fwellings if they bebrufed andapplied thereto, Thepeople ofPolonia, & Lituania,veromale drinke with the deco&ion of thisherbe ,andieven orfome otherthing made ofmeale, whichisvled infteedeof beere,and other ordinarie drinke, C Thefeede ofCowParfnep drunken fou out flegmatike matter through the gutssihealet the iaundife, the falling ficknes, the ftrangling ofthe mother, and them thatare thort “a Alfo ifa man befalleninto adeadfleepe, or a fwoyne, the fume ofthe feedew | waken nim again, E If a phrenetikeor melancholike mans head be annointed with oile wherin the leanes a ots; hauebeene fodden, it helpeth himvery mutch, andfuch as be troubled with the headach ange! thargie,orficknes called the forgecfulleuill. Ofherbe Frankincenfe. (hap.378. he de[cription. deleriptio %2. The " 3 The kindes. Thethirde 1; ee: . 2 , ; 3 greeth ae Kinde of Zibanotis: differeth {omewhat ftomthe others in forme and fhape,i yet it 3 Sar oye $) e With mi hert . Meminfinell, which infome fortis like Frankincenfe: the leaues ate whiter and tie :I the leaues of Zadtaca agve/tis:the ftalkes do growe to the height . of two cubits, bea- There be diuets forts of herbe Frankincenfe,as fhall be declared. % Thedefiription. t ichmen ba Here hath beene from the beginning diuers plants of fundry kindes, W h nd (290 termed by this glorious name zébanotw, onely in refpect ofthe txt . fe {mell which they haue yeelded vntothe fenfes 6f man,fomwhat refembling* th fo The fent and {mell Dioftorides doth afcribe to the roote ofthis firft kinde, which a cts; long ftalke with ioints like Fennell , whereon groweleaues almoft like Cheruil ot 4 es beating uing that they be greater, broader,and thicker: at the top of the ftalkes grow {pokie oa ‘let whitith flowers.which do turne into {weete {melling feede,fomewhatfat, and almo oftera ofAngelica.Therooteis blacke without,and white within ,hairie aboue,at the er and ftalkelike vnto Atcum or Peucedanum,and fanoreth like vnto Rofine,ot Frankine thicket “©an hearfed? a foppethe fpokie tufts of Dill , fomewhat yellowe: the roote is like the former’, but wantethithe hairie taffels at the toppe of the roote, which the otherhaue, before re- maisSine among all the plantscalled Zebanotides, any one more agreeable to the true he of fiueorfixe cus into finite IS, With the sh Dioftorides then this herbe,which arifeth vy anes of Bink: Aining ftalks of Ferula, dividing it felfe fror faues of Cotulafut, fer full of leaues like Fennell , but thick atenahen the ls, Ottathe: ie of a grayifh greene colour, bearing at *edliker efeed of Carrots, full of yellowe flowers: which t QeMouth m, uth wifed ofthe Ath tree, {imelling like Rofin,or Fran with the tafte ofFratkincenfe; but fharper:al * of 5 thereft of th es the wus ‘ i png o at he ed filleth |