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¶ The Description.
1 THe naturall plants of Seseli, being now better knowne than in times past, especially a∣mong our Apothecaries, is called by them Siler montanum, and Sescleos: this plant they haue retained to very good purpose and consideration; but the errour of the name hath caused di∣uers of our late writers to erre, and to suppose that Siler 〈◊〉〈◊〉, called in shops, Seselcos, was no other than 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Dioscorides. But this plant containeth in his substance much more acrimony, sharpenesse, and efficacy in working, than any of the plants called Seselios. It hath stalkes like Ferula, two cubits high. The root smelleth like Liguslicum: the leaues are very much cut or diuided, like the leaues of Fennell or Seseli 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and broader than the leaues of Peucedanum. At the top of the stalkes grow spoky tufts like Angelica, which bring forth a long and lcafie seed like Cumine, of a pale colour; in taste seeming as though it were condited with sugar, but withall somewhat sharpe, and sharper than Seseli pratense.
2 There is a second kinde of Siler which Pena and Lobel set forth vnder the title of Seseli praten∣se Monspeliensiam, which Dodonaeus in his last edition calleth Siler pratense alterum, that is in shew very like the sormer. the stalkes thereof grow to the height of two cubits, but his leaues are some∣what broader and blacker: there are not so many leaues growing vpon the stalke, and they are lesse diuided than the former, and are of little sauour. The seed is smaller than the former, and sauou∣ring very little or nothing. The root is blacke without, and white within, diuiding it selfe into sun∣dry diuisions.