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Show $84 Cuar.s. T rized, Theatrum Botanicum. TRIBE7. TheT heater of Plants. Cuar.5; 385 es : the famealfo mixed withfharpe vine. withthe meale of darnell, and mixed with vinegar; andlaid tothe:plac that feede that is burning called gar, cleanfeth the lepry, morphew, and the like deformities in the skinne; roote is a great Fennell, but of a ftrong fent almoft ftinking ; Whofeflowers are ofapurplifh violet colour ‘andlarge feedes like Hippomarathrum Creticum and Cachryferuns called latt the not is this : long g crs long and white endurin Cachrys is ofa heating healer of all wounds being bruifed and laidthereto, but faith Diofcorides, the {eede called as clenfe the skin, and mightie drying qualities and therefore is good to be put into wafhing balls, or fuchthings be rubbed off the muft it but eyes, the and being anndinted onthe head helpeth the defluxions and rheumesof flowers and {eede an helping third day.. E/cslapins Panax or Allheale,as the faid Dio/torides faith, hathin the or the like breaking outin the pufhes, power to heale ulcers, fretting or running cankers, and likewife wheales, is profitably both drunke in wine againft ve= skinne; being brnifed with hony and applied to them ; the famealfo mixed together, nemous Serpents, as alfo to have the places annointed withit, and oyle for that hath ye the throat : the greene Cachrys, isnot to be ufed inwardly, forit is too fharpe, and will exafperare Curae. V. Feniculum, Fennell. § Lthongh I have irrmyformer booke given you the knowledge of twoor three forts of Fen= to fhew you nell, yet becaufe there are {ome others notthere {poken of, Ithinke it not amifle on the themall in this place together, and the rather, becanfe therein I cid not {o amply infift vertues,as they did require. ° t. Foniculum vulgare, Common Fennell. of five CommonFennell is well knowneto rife up with fandry round ftiffe ftalkes, fotre A leaves, {melling fomea foore high, bearing at feverall joynts long ftalkes, of fine {malllong tufts, or umbells, of yellow Howers, what Grong, but not nnpleafant, and at the toppes on feverall branches, as in the othér umbellifers, and be. which turne into {mall round bitterifh greenifh feede, two alwayes together, running downe deepeinto the ing ripe and drie become fomewhat fad coloured ; the roote islong and white, one with greene leaves wholly, an other with ground withdivers branches thereat : fome doe make two forts, reddifh greeneleaves not differing in ought elfe. 2. Feniculum dulce. Sweete Fennell. rootés, leaves, ftalkes, and flowers; Sweete Fennell groweth no o:herwife than the formerdoth, having both doth rife fo high, and hardly encountry our in nor beyondfea, neither this, ngthat after the fame manner,favi neare unto Annifeede dareth the fharpeneffe ofour Winters ; the feedeis larger,yellower; and {weeterin tafte, either colour, largeneffe, or fweetthen the former, which fo continucth in the hot countries, but will not hold the third yeares fowing, yeeldeth asbitter neffe, long ini our countrie, bur each of them decay yearely, fo that fo that you may hereby certainely mall, andfad coloired feede asany in any other gardeior country of thisland, ; knowthat itis the climate onely that changeth it to be ei1, Fenichlumvulgdre. Crmmon Fennell ther larger or fmaller; longer or thorter, yellower or palet bitterer, or {weetet be to thetalte giveth alfo & others, than aiy YS Sah which divers have thoughtto be differing forts: fome alfo WD = thinke that thé Cardus Fennell, as the Italians call ir, is adiay tH Wy vers fort of Ferinell from the other fweetfort, wheh asit is % QikGyno yh only the art'in orderingit, by traf{planting and whitening Z \\ A it that maketh the leaves grow {9 thicke bufhing together 5 {weeter a it giveth whiting andthe ordinary, the mire than réllith, anda fhorter crifpe talte in eating. NI 35 Fenitulam femine rotunda minore. Small round Fennell. There isa fall kinde of Fennell which’differeth notfrom the commonfort,eitherirftafte or fmell, but in being lower and {maller thanic, afid thar the timbells at the heads ofthe Qalkes are-white, and the feede that followeth is leffe than the ordinary fort, beirig fomewhat morelike untoCarum Carawayfede: 4. Fonicalam fylvefire. Wild Fennell. The wild Fennell groweth up with great, but fewer ftalkes than the common ofthe garden, havingalfo bur few leaves, and thofe very thinly fertlicreon; but fomewhat ftif- fer or harder in handling, and fhorter allo; the feedeis {mall and fomewhar round; which followeth after the fmall” umbells of yellow flowers. ~ 5. Hippomarathrum Crevicnm, Great Fennell ofCandy, This great Fenfell hath’fine, bat fhorter leaves thanthe the ordinary fort, the ftalke is crefted and round; two or three cubits high,of the bigneffe of ones finger, divided ihto fundry branches, bearing yellow flowers at the toppes, and great large, almoft round feede afterwards, the rooteis greatand whitifh. 6. Hippomarathrum (pharocephalam, Great round headed Fennell. The ftalkes of this Fennell are three cubits high, with large Fennell-like leaves, and_round globe-like umbels, Z ZeJs - WA AA Qi X es ! BX Be EE iy~ANSS\\ yy Zoe och oSYE Loe f h Cach#ys, yellow flowers and feede like The Place andTime, ons is declared, for the coldneffe of Thefe forts of Fennell growin hot countries asintheir titles and defcipti was brought mee out of. Spaine with us: the wilde fort cour climate altereth even the beft and fweetelt is owen inthe end of Autumne ifthe ycare be kindly, I meane the among otherfeeds by Boel: they all flower and feede ftrange forts. The Names, in and both from one fignification, quod quafifentim Ttis called in Greeké u4p2s-r, and Feniculumin Latine, femen reddat,& chm imariserit ad condienda multa citi.foenore magno quad reponatur,vel marcidum ci byemes arefatlum Land and both the Germanies, which they call 2aftrum plurimus fet ufus- Thefirlt is the moft commonbothin onr Camerarins 11 horto faith that {ome tooke it tobe Hippo= fylucfireand it calleth Cafalpinus we, as weil as vulgare by Lugdunen= of Matthiolys and divers others, and called vulgare omararbram + the fecondis the Femiculum dalce asin ours, but holdeth more {weere ftill fis which all Germane aiithors fay doth as well alterin their countries + of in his Pinan the third Bashinus onely hath made mention the hotter the countrey is wherein it groweth I mayfay as well Hifpanornm, Matthiolws calleth and the fourth Lobel calleth fponte virens in agris Narbonenfinm bse Hippomarathram :the fife; is very probable to bee jt Erraticam, and Anguilara doubteth whether it may not maketh mention in his firft Epiftle to Clufins which whereof he che Hippomarathram of Honorim Bellus of Candy who faith the Candiots call it Platecumino, whofe feede as is extant in the end of C/ufius his hiftory of plants, (eemethto aime at this having but a branch he there faith isas great as thofeof (achrys, Banbinws in his Prodromus plant : the at Venice, but could not demontftrate the whole thereof fent him out of Siguor Contarini his Garden Finocchio, the SpaItalians the Razenigi, ic call Arabians The laft is remembred by edlpinws libro de exotics, Fenchel, the Dutch Venkel, and we Fennell. niards Hinoioand Funcho, the French Fenonil, the Germans The Vertues. in the firft, and put to many ufes, the leaves feede Fennell as Galen faithis hot inthe third degree, and dry but doe much delight in the ufe thereof, and efpecially Italians medicine,the meate'and for both and rootes being pleafe the talte, which be= whitenit, tomake icthe more tender to itand tranfplant before fayd I as therefore helpeth to digeft the crude flegmaticke qualitie of ing {weete and fomewhat hot and comforting the ftomacke, themfelvesunto, Fifh,and other vifcous meats which they much inure We ufeit tolay upon Fifh orto boyle or other things : the phyfieall ufe thereofis jt therewith and with divers other things, asalfo the feede inbread of the Stone and helpe to breake it: the leaves or feede to breake winde to provoke Vrine and to cafe the paines to encreafe their milke, and to make icthe more wholfome boyledin Barley water and drunkis good for Nurfes but much morethe feede ftayeth the hickocke, for their Nurfe Children to rake : the leaves being boyled in water officke or feaverifh perfons, and alayeth the flomackes and takerh awaythat loathing which often happeneth to them that are bitten by Serpents or have eaten poy« the heate thereof, the {eede boyled in wineis good for much more helpeth to open the obftrudtions of the Liver, fontull herbes or mufhromes, the feede and the reotes arifing from them as the painfull and windie Spleenc and Galland thereby much conduceth to all the difeafes and Crampes, the feede is of good ufein Goute the alfo as : Taundies yellow the and fwellings of the Spleene of breath, and wheefing by obftruétions of the Lungs : fhortneffe the helpe that thofe and medicines, peorall in the partes after delivery : the rootes are of moft ufe it helpeth alfo to bring downethe courfes andtoclenfe blood, to open obftructions of the Liver, and topraPhyficke drinkes and brothes that are taken to clenfe the cothe faceafterlong fickneffe, and to cau{ea good voke Vrine and to amendthe evill colour or complexion in oftenufed whole body + Fennell both leaves and feedes or rootes are muchand lour and a good habit through the and make them more gaunt and indrinkes or brothes, for thofe that are growenfat to abate their unweldinefle commended for the fame purpofes, as alfoto bedropped likewife herbeis whole the of water diftilled the : lanke juice diffolved or as fome take into the eyes to clenfe them fromall enormities rifen therein, but the condenfate owne accordin hot countries, doth clen(e the eyes from it, the naturall juice or Gum thatiffueth out thereof of it take the greeneftalkes of Fennell, and holding milts and filmes that hinder the eye fight : fomefor this purpofe juice or liquorto drop from them,which they them to the fire in Autamne while they are greene, caufe acertainecondenfate juice or the naturall Gum, And eyther applyto the eyes,as holding it to bee more effetuall then manner + they powther fomefine white Sugar fomeyet more neately make a water to cleare the eye fightin this Fennell while it groweth a foote above Candy very finely, and put that powderinto rhe hollow greeneftalke of remained therein a day two orthree, and the the ground, fo thatit be betweene two joynts, whichafter it hath they openit atthe lowerjoynt, having hole covered and bound clofe over that no raine getin in the meane time, hole, which may ferveasa gutfirft placed a good peeceof foft wax madea little hollow gutture wife under theor ching fet of purpofe thereto to a veffell ter or quill to carrythe liquor (from falling downe by the ftalke )into theordinary, whichis better ta then weakér receive it, The {weete Fennell by reafon of the {weetneffe is mich themfelves and others,that ufe the {weet all the phyficall parpofes aforefayd, and therefore they doe but deceive much the weaker, by want ofthe bitterneffe Fennell {eede in compofitions as thinking irthe better when as it is that have wormes breeding in rhem, whichisthe moft operative : the juice of Fennell dropped into their eares power- then thetame, and is therefore molt killeth the wotmes: The wilde Fennell is ftronger and hotter faich that the, full-againtt the Stone, but not effectual to encreafe milke, for it is dryer: Honorius Bellus of Candy in Lye to dye their haire baliof of Candy ufe to boyle the great fecde of the Hippomarathram ycllowe CHaP. |