¶ The Description.
1 THe common Ameos, especially with vs here in England, hath round greene stalks, with diuers boughes and branches, and large long leaues, diuided into diuers other narrow long and small leaues, dented or snipt about the edges, hauing at the top of the stalke white floures in great spoky tufts, which bring forth a little sharpe and bitter seed: the root thereof is white and threddie.
2 This excellent and aromaticall Ameos of Candy hath tufts and leaues like Daucus Creticus, and a root like vnto the garden Carrot, of a yellow colour, and hot seed like Origanum, of an excel∣lent spicie sauour or smell, growing in spoky tufts or roundles like Carum: it hath beene brought from Candy and Syria into Venice, and from Venice into France, Flanders, and England, where we haue often sowne it; but without doubt we haue beene beguiled therein by the deceitful drug∣masters, who haue first boyled it, or vsed some other false and deceitfull deuice, to bring greater admiration vnto the Venice treacle, for the confection whereof this seed is a chiefe and most prin∣cipall ingredient.
3 There is another kinde of Ameos, which is an herbe very small and tender, hauing stalkes a foot and a halfe high, very small and tender, beset with leaues like vnto Dill, finely iagged, and somewhat slender; and at the top of the stalkes grow little tufts or spokie white rundles, which afterwards do turne into small gray seed, hot and sharpe in taste. The root is small and slender.