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Thapfia vulgaris Carote effigies Carrot leafed Thapfia, Siler montaivm than Ferula or Thapfia, but much gteater than it, and lefle than Fer#laor Thapfia, the roote is of the thickneffe of Fea onesthumbe, brownith onthe outfide, and much whiter than rela within, witha thicke barke, and a flender toughpith, yeelding forth a yellowith milkie juyce, being broken, which being condenfate is fomewhat gummie.but hard and drie: at the toppe giant, greene, bat covered over with a little woolly hairineffe, ipreadround about on the ground, ofan unpleafant tafte:the ftalke that tifeth up among them, growethtobea cubite, and fometimes to be'two cubitshigh,ofa fingers thicknes, with a few joynts and leaves atthemlike the lower butleffe, atthe top whereof ftand fomewhat bread umbels of yellow flowers, which while thefeed th the forme to be round as a ball:the feede is is inripenin broad & winged asit were.the middle part wherof whichfprout- is leaves eth y < Wy \F SisN Ww q S REA\) oN AVY es long and narrow:the roote is fomewhat like in tafte, provoking vomiting and white within. 2 pfiamaxima Hilpanica, The greater Spanifb Thapfia- This Thapfia fhootethforthftalkes three or fonre fingérs thické, like toa Ferula, and exceeding any mans height, having branched winged leaves likerhe laft, but larger, and {pread on the ground like ic : the flowers and feedes are like it alfo: the roote is greater, i" | 4. Thapfia Carote folio, Carrot Leafed: Thapfia. This was the moft ufuall Thapfia that the thoppes of thofe 5. genera cum folio @ radice latifolte. edes,with a leafe and a roote of the broader leafed onc. the ground, morélikeunto the wilde mach differing, having large wingedleaves lying uponthe umbell of flowers is yellow, but {maller, asfis both than unto Fers/a, whereunta the true is compared: {eedand roote than the Fersla : Marthiolws fer this forth firltfor Tapfe, but is difproved by all: it{fmelleth fomewhatftrong: fetidiffima, 'Stinking Thapfia. e of faradice, which whetherit were a {peciall kinde, or but the youngneff Thapfie carota folio fummitates? The ¢ ‘Oppes of the Charrot keafed Thapiia, the rootes I cannottell, never againe. the like opportunity to getof the feede The Place and Time, - of the Sphorades, and in the counti¢ about 4The firlt, as Dioftorides faith, groweth in 77hapfia oné oftheIles the way to Fromtignacke ; all the reft grow thens,as T heophraftus faith, and as Lobel faith about (Mompelier, and fomewhat late. flowerthere, plentifully in fundry parts of Spaine, and doeThe Names. NY thicke barkefull of amilkie juyce whichis moft bitter and fharpe Pee 879 better, found it to be partsof Europe knew, and tooke tobe right, untill learned and judicions men {canningit and tame Carrot, Weehave had the feedes ofa abiding ofthem in my garden, by the early froftes comming there- berofa res butthe late fpringing, and {mall timeof the it Thapfia tubero~ Mitte upon tooke them away fo quickly, thatI can give youno furtherrelation of them ; but hecalled having aN thicke, long,and broader at the toppe, with a blackifh the f Cuap.2. The Theater of Plants. 5. Thapfia certaine Ferulows plant with leavés like Zaba= In the country of Salamanca in Spaine, faith (lufiv’, growetha alwayes with a clammie moifture, of a deepé woris herbe Francumfence {pread upon the ground, bedewed bearing an umbell of flower almoft as greene colour and fhining: the ftalke is faid to be {mall and ftraight, roundas ball. 7hytfia brought usout of Spaine by Boel, whofe rootes were {hort andtuberous, ‘rhaphfia ofthe raote there groweth a {mallbuthof fhort haires, whereby this plant is knowue fiom Fer#la, which elfe would fearce be difcerned : the talte ofthe herbe is fomewhatfharpe and unpleafant, but the roote muchhotter and offenfive to the tafte and {tomacke,moving vomite, and in the greene more.than dry. 2. Thapfea latifolia Hifpanica. Spanifo broad leafed Thapfia, The leaves of this Thapfia are fomewhatlike unto Fennell Tribe 8, as hefaith ' that name,as Diofcorides faith ; but'as r Tris calledin Grécke Sef, and Thapfiaalfo in Latine, from the Iand of parts heate wherewith it {corcheth or burneth the bare thefierie from called fo be well as may ,it {ay Lobel &\Pena of it that gather it ; and therefore Dia/corides breath windeor the in ftand they off,if farre a even of the body, feare of exulcerafrom winde,and to be on the leefide thereoffor advifeth not to gatherit, but ina quiet dayfree and Pena,and Lugdunenfis {o entituleth itsand the ting the face.and hands,&c. The firftis the true Tbap/ia of Lobel Clufivs which Lobel and othersfetting forth for Se/e/z fecond Thapfia of Glufius : the fecondis the firlt Thapfia of their fo eafie fliding to errour, arifeth from their that faying, fodoing, for Peloponenfe majus istaxed by Clufigs the truc plant , and onely led by weake conjefightof the and thereof, parts the all of tion want of due confidera by thofe of Murcia in Spaine: the third is Cucurillo iscalled faith, ashe and figure, ofthe fight the @turesupon maxima Lobelis,for which he blameth then Clufius his third Thapfia, which fome,ashe faith,would call Cientaria the Spaniards call Tuer: the lalt is that Thapfia thac likewi(e;the fourth is G/afius his fourth alfo, which ashe faith n Italy rooke to be the right, but is fince knowne Matthiolus Anguilara and Cefalpinus, becauile itis moft frequenti over it, maketh fome doubt whether this plant 2.in thetitle to differ much from it: Lobel in his Obfervations,p4.45 name thefe Thaplias to be kinds of Fersla,& {9 the Jtalian fhould be not the Sagapenifera Fersla,tor all do. account youin the Chapter before, that I have gathered fome fhewed I as but ; much as import whichis Fer#lacoli doth good gumme Sagapenum as any we havein eumfromthe Fer#/a in my garden, thathath bin in fhew as pure and was ever taken from this or any other Thapfia s our fhoppes, and therefore I doe not thinke any gumme Sagapes thofe of Naples Siciba, and other parts Fer#la= Thaffia, and the Arabians call it Iamtum and Dryx ; the Italians promifcuoufly with Ferula and Libanotia, making no dicoli :the Spaniards, as ( /ufivs faith, call this Canabeja and gris by others: the High and Low Dnteh little ftin@ion betweene them: the French callit Turbit blave, Latine doth: Gerard calleth themftinking and deadche as but name, any them given knowing them, have {carfe of Marnhiolus,let ottiersupon due confideration ly Carrots, which howfitly it agreeth with any of them, butthat butning and {corching Fennell, whichifany canal judge :I have called the true Thapfia according to the nature, with of the firft Spani/d kinde are accounted for T#rbith ter and give a better, I fhall be well content: the rootes called Thapfa turbith. them, but they differ much from the righ, and therefore are The Vertues. choller ftrongly both upwards & downwards;two F Thapfia,or the {corching Fennell,as Diofcorides faith purgeth juyce therof drunke twith mede or honied water, ofthe {cruple a halfe as well roote,as the of barke the {cruples of fit for thofe that are aftromatticke,or fhort winded, andif is ofpurging manner this dangerous; is it taken be more blond, burfaith Lobel this manner of purging thereby or are troubled with paines in theirfides and {pitting. of to the inwardparts, for more harme oftentimes came is quite left of, and that worthily in re(pett of the danger : Galen briefely fettcth downe the properties thereby than helpe bythe grievous tormentsit ufed to ftirreup facultie joyned with fome moifture, and there; heating {trong and fharpe a hath Thapfi« ; thereofin thefe words for draweth :bnt much timeis requiredto effect this, whatit digefteth and farre, from draweth fore it violently corrupted, Outwardly applied it hath moft ufually being full of much moifture, it is the fault thereof to be quickly beaten face withthe juyce hereof,and very equall g his betrer fucceeded, for as Pliny reporteth, Nero by annointin the next day his face to be free and cleare contrary to Francuim fence and Waxe mixed together at night, fhewed and blew {pots, bruiles, markes, and blemifhes blacke all away take to found beene expetarion: wherebyit hath fcurfes, wheales, pufhes, or thelike, yet caution fcabbes, leprye, morphew, the yea r, in the skinne whatfoeve is not much longer than two houres, and then to be mutt be ufednotto fuffer it to lie roolongon the place, that being diffolved into an ointment with goodeffec to wahed with falt or fea water warmed it isufedlikewife the feece or joynts : it ferveth alfo to gather againe the fides or brealt for the griefes therein, or forthe paines in and after mollified and fupplied with flac the prepuce in whom it isnaturall to want it, by rayfing atumour, aire to grow apace where the placca caufe to likewife ferveth it : prepuce a of part the things, fapplieth third, but of the laf¥efpecially. in former times wanted it,or were deprived thereof. The rootes of the fecond and Turbith that is pared and pithed, and fo fold were jgathered iby impoftors in Italy and Spaine, and dreffed like and refinfe the falfe,had prevented the future in ftead thereof, untill diligence add experience to know theright, tooke thefe rootes to be the true T#rbith (hewethit deceit ; and (Matrhiolus declaiming againit Fuchfim, who and Scamony, you before in the Chapters ofAlipum, the Tithmalts was fo taken in Germany ; but Lhave fhewedconcernin women Lecches of Salamanca in old he Turbithst true the g cameinto mes formerti the manyerrors that belies, Spani/> kinde of Thapfia to procurc womens or greatelt Spaine, faith Clufins, ufe the rootes of the third 2 Fiffia and |