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2 The wild Angelica,which feld0m_fgTfiW?§ in gardens , but is found to gr0W PIC“ " y -
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1: 3 L/(rt/zaflgeliczr. Great wilde Angelica.
- es 15 , water-foken grounds and cold moili med0W 2
like to that of the garden,faue that his le£i)Ul€::: not fo deeply cut or jagged : they be alfo 3 an and narrower : the fialkes are much fl€1ldFmuC (hotter, and the floures whiter :ther0°‘ 15 mdam fmaller, and hath more thredy firing‘ appen ma; thereunto,and is not fo flrong offauor by 3 3 deale. ~ Jllmbialm and Gefner haue made mcllllllgfl of another kind ofAngelica,but weare vepri ti” derl)’ inliruéted by their infufficlenr dc CI iige ons: notwithflzanding for our better know ‘icm and more certaine affurance I mufl “eds re mee that which my friend M* Bredwel relaffid _‘° concerning his fight therofiwho found ‘I growing by the more which compafT35 ‘_ C of M" Mzmlre of the parifh ofluer two mil Colbrooke sand fince that I haue feenc I in low fenny and marfhy places of _Eff‘3X 3 I-Iarwich. This plant hath leaues l1k€ _ garden Angelica, but fmaller, and fcW€1' 1 bet, fer vpon one rib a great (‘talk groffc 85 whole joints and that {mall rib wheron :11 grows are ofa reddifh colour, hauing 1113 branches comming forth of an husk 0f C C’ was as is in the common garden Parfnep = the flo - grow at the top of the branches,and arfi Of 3 Wh
colour and tuft fafhion : which being Pal)“ I and
fucceed broad long and thicke feeds, loqgerreat,
thicker than garden Angelica : the 1'00‘ 13 g thickt-,white,of little fauor,with fome firings appendam there;-o_ - and
1: This of our Authors defcription fcems to agree with the 4,c54,,ge,';m 0f‘L,,5c[,Daa'v7W”’
Clufim rwherefore I haue put their figure to it. 1;
{I T/Jt‘ P1466. .133» g The firli is very common in our Englifh gardens 3 in other places it growes wild with0u_‘ P5 65, trng,as in Norway,and in an Ifland of the North called Ifland,where it groweth very high"! ten of the inhabitants, the bark being pilled ofF,as we vnderftand by fome that haue U305 hat Iflandslvho were fometimes compelled to eat hereof for want of other food - and they ‘CPO tins it hath a good and pleafant tafle to them that are hungry.It groweth likewife in diucrs mow“ of Germanie,and efpecially of Bohemia. ’
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They fi°““‘ in MY and Augufl and the roots for the molt ' d is “'96 y . _ , _ _ part perifh after the T66 11 ac :}§IL]lteil£uW;‘t)ig1:5f::l.t kept it from feedrng,by which means the root and Plant 3
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It is called ofthe later Age Angelica .- ‘ h‘ 11.1) h at H mg hem . merit murrser, that is, Spirirmfimiii radz1':3,tli§ rootlbtfctlic Rgggéohitnefieth : rfi
low- Dutch,2(lngclii13fl: in French, Angelic : in Englifh a1 [0 Ange1i¢a_ /W/M
I t fcems to best kind 0fLafr’rpitium .- forif it be compared with thofi: thin 5 which T560)’ 3?, at large hath written concerning Silpéium or Laferpitium, lz'é.6. of the hiflorie of Plantsrit H 6,11 peare to be anfwerable thereunto. But whether wilde Angelica be that which Taco]:/Wfl’” Cad by Magya'arz3‘,thatiS to lay,another kinde of L4ferpititma,,we leaue to beexarnined and confide“ the learned Phyfitians of our London Colledge.
_ _ {I Tfic’ Temperature. r . ‘ h V A“geh°3>‘3rPe°13“Y that 0f $1163 gardcnns hot and dry in the third degrC€sWh‘3"3 fore It ope“: ’ attenu'a‘teth,or maketh thrn,digefieth,and procureth fweat. {I The
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_ T/ye Vcrtzm. V V V V The root of garden Ancreiica is a finguiar remedy againlt poyfon, and againfl the plague, and al infections taken b cubifi and comp: aim. ifyou doe but take a pieceof the root and hold it in -VPUF mouth or chew Elbe f3I1‘eh€tW'€€ne your’teeth,it doth molt certainely driue away the pe{iilen-
an “heave; ar:nm«.~r{:rae corrupt aire haue pofleiled the hart,yet it driueth it out againe by vrinc 3l1dfweat,as Rue ar1c?Treacle,at1d fuch like Antipbarznaca do. _ A
, Ugelica is an enemy to poyfons : it cureth pefiilent difeafes ifit bee vfed in feafon : a dratnme
“€11: ofthe ponder‘ hereof is giuen with thin wine, or ifthe feuer be vehement, with the difii Iled i
claret of Cardin;-u fzezzcdzfifm or of T ormcmi/l,and with a little vinegre,and by it felf alfo,or with trea— e 3 ._ . . ‘ ‘J . ‘ . pers added. V V . _ .; » r _ . _ i din ‘ Operietb. the liner and 1" plecne : drafwegh downe the termes, drrueth out or expelleth the {econ- e. .
The decoggdgn myth; root made in winegis good againfi the cold {hiuering ofagues. V _ Us rel-‘Owed that the root is auaileable againfi witchcraft and rnchantments,if a man carry the ca 0"~1Eti1€f11,8.S Pzzc1J,"5w.r faith. V _ i_ _ _ ~ , if tattenuaterh and mak Bth thi11,grO{i'e and tough flegme : the root being vfed greene, and while this L_1llofjuyc¢=, helneth them that bee althmaticke, drlfoluing and errpeérorating the lhrfiings wfirein, y ¢mti;]g Org-‘andiclenfing the ‘parts affeéted, reducing the body to health agarne 5 but ten.“ 3 dry it worketh not To effeetually. _ . A , _ i V , . .1‘ is a meg fincum medicine againfi firrfeting and loathfomeneffe to meate : it helperh conco- an n in the ftom:cke,and is right beneficiall to the heart» : it cureth the biting Of mad d0?§%€5sa“d other venomous beafis.
WT“ wilde kindes are not of fuch force in working; albeit they haue the fame vertucs attributed ° them. i i i
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