The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

CHAP. 430. Of wilde and water Hemlockes.

¶ The Description.

† 1.1 1 THis wilde kinde of Hemlocke hath a small tough white root, from which arise vp diuets stiffe stalkes, hollow, somewhat reddish toward the Sun, ioynted or kneed at certaine distances: from which ioynts spring forth long leaues very greene, and finely minced or iagged like the common. Cheruill or Parsley: the floures stand at the tops of the stalks in small spokie vmbels, with little longish greene leaues about them: the seed solloweth, like those of Hemlocke, or as they grow together on the tops of the stalks they resemble Coriander seeds, but lesser: the whole plant is of a naughty smell.

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† 1.2 1 Cicutaria tenuifolia. Thin leafed wilde Hemlocke.

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2 Cicutaria 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Wilde water Hemlocke.

2 Water Hemlock, which Lobel calleth Cieutariapalustris: Clusius and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Phellandrium, riseth vp with a thicke fat and empty hollow stalke, full of knees or ioynts, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, chamfered, or

furrowed, of a yellowish greene colour: the leaues shoot forth of the ioynts and branches, like vn∣to wilde Hemlocke, but much thicker, fatter, and oileous, very finely cut or iagged, almost like those of the smallest Visnaga, or Spanish Tooth-pickes: the floures stand at the top of the stalkes in small whitish tusts: the seed followeth, blackish, of the bignesse of Anise seed, and of a sweet sauour: the root is thicke and long, within the water, very soft and tender, with very many strings fastned thereto.

¶ The Place.

1 This growes among stones and rubbish, by the walls of cities and towns almost euery where. The other groweth in the midst of water ditches and standing pooles and ponds, in most places of England: it groweth very plentifully in the ditches by a causey, as you goe from Redriffe to Detford neere London, and in many other places.

¶ The Time.

They floure and flourish in Iuly and August.

¶ The Names.

‡ 1 This is Petroselini vitium of Tragus; and Dauci inutilis genus of Gesner: Thalius calls it A∣pium cicutarium: Lobel, Cicutaria fatua: Tabernamontanus, Petroselinum caninum; which name we may fitly make English, and call it Dogs-parsley.

2 This is Ligusticum syl. & Foeniculum syl. of Tragus: Cicutaria palustris of Lobel and others: Do∣donaeus thinkes it Plinies Phellandrion; and Caesalpinus iudges it his Silaus. ‡

¶ The Temperature and Vertues.

Their temperature and faculties are answerable to the common Hemlocke, which haue no vse in physicke, as we haue said.

Notes

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  The figure formerly in the first place was of 〈◊〉〈◊〉; the description I thinke was intended, yet not throughly agreeing with this I here giue you, wherefore I haue a little altered it.
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  The figure formerly in the first place was of 〈◊〉〈◊〉; the description I thinke was intended, yet not throughly agreeing with this I here giue you, wherefore I haue a little altered it.