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Show Pi 02 a, : Tris ® Theatram Botanicum. Cx AP. 14. 2. Paftimace tenuifotio(ytuefris, Paftinaca tennifoliafativa luted. Wilde Carrots. Common yellory Carrots. The Theater ofPlants. Trise 3. 903 Cuar.15; Adition of saeualr@- Paftinaca,that others might know hedid diftinguith it from the trné Daaces but hereu fo all the Apothecaries fhops beyond the feasjand with us, thefirft wild fortwas ufually in former times ihehfor fheweththat Sr.phylinus bed. Daucus; and fo ufed, and the ufe continueth with many to this day 3 and Diofcorides may be knowne.to differ mich ftom any Dancus reth a purplefpotin the middle of the white umbell,whereby itChapters, Thefirlt is the PaPinaca/ativa, or teusia which doth notfo, befides that he {peaketh ofthém in feverall wy VBS folia fativaby moft Authors, yet fome following the Greeke name, call it Staphylinus primus & fecundus, aca and AZatrhiolus, Lacuna, and T;bere cordingto the colour of the roote yellow orred, as Tragus and fomeothers, montanus Sifer, and Sifer altersm, ot Carota, as Guilandinus, Cafalpinus, Camerarius and Lobel : Camerarius faith Ae tenpifolia.and album and r#bram ; the fecondis called Paftinaca[ylueft ria by Matthiolus and others, and /ylvestris gemuina Diofcoridia by Dodonews and Lobel, Paftinaca ervatica by F,chs Cordus and Tabermontanus, Staphylinus and officinas vulgarin, Daucus 3 alimentis de lib, fylvefris by Tragus and Cefalpinus, and Daucus agreftis by Galen in Dancoides Apwla: the fourth is by rum by Clufius and Lobel: the third is called by Colsmma Paftinaca ylueftris PAIN, Quai BO NYO u in borto,that fome.donot much amiffe that take the rootesofthe red and yellow Carrotfor the/uccedanexm —_> to Ben Thalius, that is to fay birfuto casle,and may him alfo called, asitis in thetitle : the aft is the Dancus raacinaern@ of from his. he the Dancus angulofus of Cordis in hiftoria although he findeth fome defeéts and differences therein the The Italians call it Caretta, and by fome Paffinacas the Spaniards Canshoria, as they call the Parfneppe; French alfo Paffenades, but they adde jasnes to diftinguifh it from the Parfneppe, and the wilde kinde Paffea the wild Carrrot Vogelneft as the Dutch doe, and the nadefaunage sthe Germanes Geel Ruben, and Mohren, andEnglife wilde Carrot. wortelens and wein anidgeel pooten, Geel kind manured the ; The Uertues. The manured or garden kinde is fomewhat windie with the {weetneffe, and thereforein the nourifhing ftir- reth up bodily Inf, but doth not expell winde asfome have thought, forfo it fhould worke contrary effe@ts which RST aS eX POON NS that itbreaketh winde, and ftitches is not found herein : the wilde kinde indeede, is more phyficall, and befides in the fides, it provoketh urine and womens courfes, and helpeth to breake and expell the ftone : rhe feede alfo of the fame worketh thelike effects, andis good for the dropfie, and thofewhofe bellyes are {wollen with winde, helpeth the cholicke and the ftonein the kidneyes,and the rifing of rhe mother being taken in wine, or boyled in wine and taken, and helpeth conception + Diofcorides faith, thatit is fo powerfull to. helpe thebitings or {tingsand of fhall not burt them ; the leaves alfo he faith, yenemouls creatures, that if it be taken before handtheir bitings Galen doth the like, being applied with honeyto runningulcersor fores doth clenfe them, > Cuar, XV. Sefeli, Hart-wort: MLaeang Ecanfe there are many forts of Se/els, much differing in forme oné from another, fomé having finé ; forme, flowring,andthe reft at the fides afterwards after they até pafte the feede appeareth whichis ofanovall kernellis long.andround,hard and ftraked, with fix. lines pointed at the toppes and yellowith, whofe inner brownifh,and of an aromaticall favour. This faith Colvmna differeth from the ufuall Paftinaca marina both in ofthe rote, the large{preading and manifold fine divifions of the leaves,and in the pleafanter tafte and greatneffe refembling rather a Parfnepalthough theirfeedes are alike. 5. Paftinacafylveftris birfutocanle. YN ilde Carrots with hairy ftalkes. The roote of this Carrot is white and often afoot long, fometimesfingle and fometimes divided into two ot mouth for a long time, from three pares, very like both in fent and tafte toa Parfley roote,but hotter in the being fomewhat whencerifeth up ftalke a foote and a halfe high as thicke as oneslittle finger at the bottome, ftalkes round butcrefted or cornered very plainly,exceeding hairy andfull of joynts, whereat growlargec refted leaves, andthey of winged leaves compaffing the {talke at the bottome, a foote in length, divided into {undry apaineinto other {maller parts very rough and hairy alfo, and of a yellowifh greene colour, from betweene which leaves and the ftalkes at the joynts, come forth othercrefted ftalkes and the like leaves at their joynts but leffer, and doe very well refemble the leaves of our garden Carrots butlarger andfoft ifone handle them hard, but rough both on the backe and edge being gently touched : fromevery one almoft of thefe joynts both of the ftalke and branches arifeth a certaine long huske, confifting offix {mall long leaves clofe fet together which when it openeth fheweth forth a fmall tuft or clofe umbell of white flowers, and fometimes yellowifh fomewhat {weet, after which doe follow fomewhatround feede,two alwayes joyned together and very prickley, on the backfide,the innerfide beingflat and more yellow then Carrot{eede,elfe fomewhatlike, The Place and Time, The firlt kindes are alwayes fowen in Gardens orin the fields chofen out for that purpofe,the reft grow wilde: of Germs the firft plentifully in our owne Landby the fields fide and in untilled places : the laft in the like places ay zthereft in Naples and doe all flower and feede in the end of Summer. dad The Names, SlequxivG- in Greeke derived (as is moft likely) from seus the grape whenitis almoft ripe whofe lour the one fort hereof doth refemble and not from eva, the ftalke of Bryonie as {Ome thinke bothto the tame and wilde forts of Paffizacain Latine as Diofcorides fhewethinthe {aid Chapter, to expreffe the tame but P4 Staphylinus Gply istaken for the wilde Carrotif ue be not joyned with itdayes divided into two a whichin Latine feemeth to take the name 4 pa/cendo cum corpus alat, isnow a is into /atifolia whichis the Parfnep whereof I thall {peake hereafter, and intotenuifolia whichis the Carrot cal- it, bur Dedoneus thinketh the word was deduced from led alo Carotaby divers fromthe Italians who doe {o call fo thinke, and Dxcns niger asit isthought by Theopbra- the Germans Garrot whichis torum ynbens but I doe not m o fius, whereof yet there is {ome doubt whether the word fhould not be##Aivar which is yellow, as it is butineyfew,. Galen alfo feemeth tocall it Dawes, but with true copicg rather then wcAciver which is blackeasiris an wu & leaves like Fennell, others like Hemlockes, or other herbesthey might peradventure feemefit to oy fome tobereferred to the feverall Orders here appointed, but I thinkeit better to place them all 1. Sefeli Maffilienfe F eniculifolio, quod Diofcoridis cenfetur. The true Sefeli or Hart-wort of Afarfelles, as itis thought. Thetrne Sefeli Maffilienfe Diofcoridis, as iis taken by the molt judicious Herbarifts of our times hath aves3 ry long white flender rootelike uxtto Fennell, but {mel- ling better, and tafting hotter and fharper, having but fewleaves thinly fer on the ftalkes,thicker and fhorter, and hardderthan Fennellleaves, tarning downewards, of agrayithora(k colour, as all the reft of the plant is (cfpecially in the hotter countries, for in fome places theyare thicker or longeror fhortet than in others, as Baubinus faith is obferved) the middle ftalke rifech , notabove a foote high, bowing to and fro fometimes like having many branches from the bottome with the leaves on them, and each bearirig umbells of white ( moft tifually and {eldome purplifh ) flowers, after which¢ome {mall long feede more like to Annifeede than Fennell, fomewhat pleafant in tafte yet fharpe and hot, 2, Sefeli (Maffilienfe alterum, Another Hartwort of Afarfelles, This other Se/feli Afaffilienfe hath likewife Fennelllike leaves, but thicker and fhorter divided, green€ and hard, but with white points, whofe wingedftalkes are large and more fpread than Fennel: the middle ftalke is two cubits or more high, ofa fingets thickheffe, ctefted, jointed, and branced into divers other fmaller parts, each of them carrying umbells of white flowers on their toppes which turneinto flat feede, nos much unlike to Angelica feede, and bigger than Dill, hotintafte, and very aromaticall, the roote is thicke, Tong, and white, with divére ftrings and fibres thereat encreafing carely. Fei —_g, Se/eli Mafflienfe folio Feniguloguod Diofcoridis cen/iture The true Scfeli or Hart wort of Dinfioridsasit is thovghte4 |