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Show —— $74. CH aP.29, Theatrum Botanicum. Trine 7 Cuar.1. Trine 8. the Noftrills, purgeth the Head, and helpeth the Lethargie, yet the often eating of themis.faid to procure prefervative againft infection tocate paines inthe Head = it hath beene held with divers country peoplé a‘good filling the place with good Treakle Onionsfating with bread and falt, as alfoto make a great Onion hollow, being a thereof, and after toroatt it wellunder Embers, which aftertaking away of the molt outermolt skinnes beaten together is @ foveraigne falye for eyther Plague fore, orany other putred Vicer : the juice of Onions is good for fealding or burning by fire,water or Gunpouther,and fed with Vineger taketh awayall blemifkes, fpots, and markes in the skinne, and droppedinto the eares eafeth the paints andnoyfe in them: applyed alfo R ZE. VMB VMBELLIFEROVS PLANTS. with Figges beaten together helpethto ripen and breake Impoftumesand other fores, Leckes are much about the againft a Surfet of Mofhromes fame propertie that Onions be, yet not altogetherfo effeCtuall; they area remedy and applyed warme;to avoyd tattologie being baked under the Embers and taken, and belpeth the Piles boyled other as Ireferre you to what hath benefaid before of Onions, Garlicke the gatden kinds as the beft, and theanciently meanerare hotter then Onionsior Leckes, andis more effectuall to all the purpofes aforefaid, being the pros accounted the pooré mans Treakle, for that it is a remedy for all difeafes or hurts, for befides perties whereunto Onionsare conducible, it hatha fpeciall qualitie to difenfle the inconveniences by corrupt taking off W oolfes bane, Henagues ot minerall vapours, orby drinking corrupt and ftinking waters as alfo by CLASSIS OCTAVA; Taun. bane, Hemlocke, orother poifonfull or dangerous herbes: it is held good alfo in hydropick difeafes, theto alter : but dife, Falling ficknefle, Crampes, Convulfionssthe Piles or hemorrhoides and other cold difeafes eate to fome as things, the {trong fent thereof and canfeit tobe leffe offenfive, divers have fet downe diveis Embers Rue, ot herbe Grace, fome toeare a raw Beaneafterir, othérs’to take ofa Beete roote roafted under the THE EIGHT TRIBE. and othersfay by cating. a few Parfley leaves, | CHAP. 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Fergla, Fennell giant, fuch N this Claffis Tam to intreate of all the kindes and forts of umbelliferous herbes, their I meane as are generally fo called, for there are many other herbes thar beare of an umbell flowers and feede or berries on the toppesof their ttalkes in’manner as thofe doe, as you may obferve through the whole paflage of the Booke, which cannot properly belong hereunto, Now becanfe there bé'many forts of thefe herbes, Ithinke ic fit to diftribute them into three Rankes or Orders: the firft fhall be of thofe which beare fine leaves like Ferwla: the next fhall be of fach as have fine and thinnecut leaves like Carrots or Parfley + andthe laft fhall be offuch rankes; T may as have broad leaveslike Panax or Angellica, that founder thefe three comprehend the whole Family or Tribe, of thefeumbellifers ; yet I muft entreate fuchas you to beare withthe paflages of fome.of thefe, if for namesfake lL infert {ometimes into one forme, that effect. might beplaced in an other, the vicinitie of the names conftraining Ofthele Ferulas there are two or three forts plainely to be difcerned to be differing one from another as {hall be thewed, 1. Ferula tensiore folio. Fine leafed. Fennell giant. es,of very light This fine leafed Fennell giant bringeth forth fundry large hollowfungous thicke branchedftalk thinne (for fubltance but thicke fer) leaves together, and bufhing more than the next, both greener, finer,and fine leaves together, the bottome of the fhorter than iralfo, placed out of order, fometimes twoor threeor foure mes, at the ftalkes being as thicke as ones finger, bur compaffing one another with broadthinne hollowihhskit fometimes as bigge asa great ftom among whichrifeth upaftrong uprightftalke eight or ten foote high, ourof Il, fet with divers fuch fine leaves thereon, one above another, compaffing the ftalke arche bottomes roppe allo being divided into sofome whereof come forth feverall {mall branches towards the toppes, the wrne into black ifh fiat feedes, but yellowifhs parts, forming a largeumbell of {mall yellow flowers, which falke, whereon.they have beene obferved in the gumme, two alwayes joyned togerher by thelitgle foote hollow, and the cut 4, as is ufuall in all chefe umbelliferous plants; the two inner fides beine {omewhat forth many,wayes with the longneffe : the roote groweth verygreat and never decaieth, branching being broken imany lackifh browne on theoutfide, and fomewhat white withip,, yeelding a thicke juyce r {melling anything {trong in patt, which doth quickly condenfate and grow into a yellowifh gummie fubftance,no to be gatheont country, as I have often proved, and nothing fo much as the Guin Sagapenum,iwhich 1s {appoled red from theroote of chis plant. : 3, Ferula latiore folio, The broader leafed Fennell giant. whofe branThis other Fennell giant groweth inthe like mannetin allthings, and as high, or rather higher, ofleaves are more {parfed or thinner (er than the former;and the leaves them felyes of adaiker greene alfo and longer:the flowers are yellow, andthe feede {omewhat larger: the gummie juyce that ifluough nothing fo flrong as n the roote of this fmellerh.a little more, even w ith us,chan the former,alth andclimates im, which we have in. our fhops, ‘and faid tobe caken from this plant inthe hot countries i of Africa, &c. ched ft co 3. Ferulaga fen Ferula minor. Small Fennell giant. Fennell; haThis {mall fort groweth nothing fo high as the former, but abideth much lower.than the ordinary which give toppes, ving leaves nothing fo gceat or branched, yer larger than thofe of Fennell, as the tufts ar the maller is much fmaller and feede than either of the two former, but fomewhatlike them and blackifh : the roote than either of hem, with but few fibres cherear. The Place and Time. rockes that. are torrcfied with the Sonne They are all found growing as well in.Narbene in France among the al |