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Show ne 24 Of the Hiftorie ofPlants. at thetop ofthe ftalkes doe Stowround fp. kie tufts ofa yellowcolor, after Wwhichcom. Smyrniam Creticum. meth round and blacke feedlike Coleworts ofa fharpeand bitter tafte like Myrhesthe Candy Alexander. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lips 2. Li B.2, 1 Paftinaca latifoliafativas 2 Paftinacalatifoliafylucitre. Garden Parfneps, Wilde Parfneps, root is white and thicke, contrary tothe o. ——————— pinion of Dodonaws, who faith it is bade without,but I fpeake thatwhichI haue fey and prooued. G The Place, Smyrninm groweth naturally vponthehils - and mountaines of Candy,andin my garden alfo in great plenty:alfo yponthe mountain Amanus in Cilicia, © The Time. Smyrniumflourcthin Iune,andthefeed is ripe in Auguft, qq The Names, This plant is called in Latine,Smrniom : in Greeke,qwmn in Cilicia, Petrofelinum,and as Galen teftifieth,fomehauecalled it, Hippo. felinumagrefte + in Englith, Candy Alexan- ders, or Thorowbored Parfley. q The Naturt. 4 Smyrninm is hot and dry in the third des gree, ™ q The Vertes. = The Ieaues of Smyrninm diffolue wens and hard fwellings, dry vpvicers and excotl- R vu r ~ ations,and glew wounds together, like The feeds are good againft the floppings of the fpleene,kidnies,andbladder. in other things ted Candy Alexanders hath force todigeft and waft awayhard fwellings, to gardenParfley, and ftone Parfley, and therefore we vfe the feed heereof to prouoke the en fickeneffe,and vrine,and to helpe thofethat are ftuffed in the lungs,as Galen writeth, dl cape The rootis hor, fo is the herbeand feed, which is good to be drunke againtt thei f cannottake Os ee pents: it is a remedyfor the cough, andprofitable for thofe that they do fit or ftand vpright : it helpeth thofe that can hardly make their water: the Ce aa againft the infirmityof thefpleene or milt,the kidnies and bladder ; it is likewileag' cine for thofe that haue the dropfie, as Diofcorides writeth, Cuar. 405. Of Parfneps. q The Names. The Herbarifts ofour time do call the garden Parfneps sxpuains and Paffinaca, and therefore wee haue furnamedit Latifolia,ox broad leafed,that it may differ fromthe other garden Parfhep with Aattow leaueswhichis truly and properlycalled Staphylinus,that is, the garden Carrot.Some Phyfitions doubtingand not knowing to what herbe of the Ancientsit fhould be referred, haue fained the wilde kindehereof to be Panacis [pecées,or a kind of Alheale:diuets haue namedit Bavcia;others, Paflinacathat is to fay, Tevuifolie, or Carrot : but the old writers, and efpecially Déofcorides haue Fra this wilde Parfhép by thename of Elaphobofcum : and wee doe call them Parfheps and types. 5 Jeaues Heleaues ofthe tame or Garden Parfneps are broad, confifting of many e of the faftened to one middle rib like thofe of the afh tree: the ftalke 1s Peertieh fei height ofa man: the floures ftand vpon fpokje tufts, of colour ee commeth the feed flat and round, greater than thofe of Dil: the root 1s white, long, =00d to be eaten. flouressitt and 2 Thewilde Parfnepis like to that ofthe Garden,in leaues,ftalke,tuft,yelO"nee ound feed,but altogether leffer : the rootis fmall, hard,wooddy, and not fe q The Place. They floure in Inly and Auguft,andfeed the fecond yeareafter they be fowne. Branca Leoninabut ifyoudiligently marke and confer ic with Elaphobofcum ofDiofcorides, you thal hard ly finde any difference at alf: but the plant called at Montpelier Pafuluys Ceruinum:in Englith, Harts fodder, fuppofed there to be the true Elaphobofeum,differeth much fromthetrue notes thereOh,NowBaucia,as Tacobus Manlius reporteth in Luminari maiore, is Diofcorides, and the old Writers | The Defcription. 3 infertillsround,do prouebetter roots,fweeter and greater than they that are fowne offeeds gathered from thofe of the garden. ; oe ; qq The Temperature. The Par{nep root is moderately hot,and more drie than moitt,’ eae : ; © The Vertues. TI the Carrots,and the nourifhmnete Agee oer nourifh more than doe the Turneps or g the bodfeat not faultie not bad ; notwithftandin they be fomwhat windy:they pee aliaet flowlynor fpeedily: theyneither bindenor loofe the belly: they p “ak of the bodie: theybe goodfor the ftomacke, kidneies, bladder, and lungs. evrine, p hath oa 4 goodandpleafant foodor bread made of the roots ofParfneps, a8 acne «Plat? ip deepe> Parfnep requiretha fat ;and loofe earth, and : : The garden : ; : that : that is digged vpypont The wilde Parfnep growethin vntoiled places, efpecially in the fale marthessdeta and borders of the fame : the feed whereof being gatheredand brought into thes ‘ : 1, Theirs in his booke of experiments,which I haue made no triall a for m peasePAKS, Winde cedis hotter and drier euén vnto the fecond degree, it mooueth vrine, ac Con Rrrz |