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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 





name ofPajtinaca latter is folij, or the Garden Parfenep, is defcribed^fthc^ld\A^ 



name : this Carrot is called in Latine hkcwite y Paftwaca fativahut with rhU *aa* r - Ucrs by a °otb^ 



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Datum which wecall Creterfs t that may be numbred among the Carrots : Galen in L- C ? racant «W 

 faculties of Simple medicines doth alfo make it to be Daucw^ but yet not fimolv D * ' 

 addeth atfo Stafhjlitws or Paftinac* t in high Dutch it is called <^eel tUbetl * in loiv'n*' i i f ° rb * 

 #«n.<BKl#MtWI,and<I5«! IIBOtfCUn: in French, C*rw*, and Racine Culm ■ m\ x T* 

 tuca'm soMiihfianaboria. : in Englifli,YelIow Carrots : the other is called red r„™ J 1 ' H 

 Carrot. ^arror.andoJackc 



^f The Temperature and Venues. 



The root of the yellow Carrot is mod commonly boyled with fat flem and eaten • itist 

 rarely hot and fomething moift. The nourishment which commeth hereof is not much, a?**" 

 very good ; it is fomething windie,but not fo much as be the Turneps.and doth not fo foil* 

 pafle through the body. r " ^noioon^, 



The red Carrot is of like factiltie with the yellow.The feed of them both is hotanddrvJtfc IC , 

 kethand confumeth windine{Te,prouoketh vrine,as doth that of the wilde Carrot. 



HAP. 



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Of Wilde Carrot. 



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Paftinaca fyluejlris Unuifolia. 



Wilde Carrot,or Becs-neft. 



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% The Dtfcriftm. 



He leaues of the wilde Carrot are car into 

 diuers (lender narrow parccls,very like \ 

 thofe of the garden Carrots, but they bee 

 fomewhat whiter and more hairy : the Mies be 

 likewife hairie and fomewhat rough Jtbefioures 

 are little,and ftand vpon broad ffX)ked tufts, of a 

 white color,of which tuft of floures the middle- 

 moft part is of a dcepe purple : the whole tuft is 

 drawne together when the feed is ripe, refem- 

 bling a birds neft 5 whereupon it hath beene r* 

 med of fome,Birds-neft : the root is flende^od 

 of a meane length. 



If The Place. 

 It groweth of it felfe in vntoyfcd place*,* 

 c~\ j« ~~a ;« •.u^u^-j«.«. fhprpni almoft etiery 



where. 



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ni we 11m** it l ff k» 



It floures and flourishes in Iuneand Iuly,* 



feed is ripe in Auguft. 



f The Names. 



The wilde Carrot is called in Greew, 



Pafi 



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fhops, hmm : and It is vfed b^«%£. 

 Daac»t,and not amiffe nor vnpw ft ^ i$ l3 . 

 len alfo in his time doth tefhfie «* ^ itboat 

 ken for Daucuspr baftard Parity ^j ckiD a e 



fybeft, 



Dutch it is named, mffo ^aftmeiOJoaOi "eft 5 in low Dutch, ffogetf mfaf W » w & 

 CtOOkcnjBf WUJt : in French, Pafhna de Sauvage : in Englifli, wilde Carrot, and an 



Birds-neft, and in fome places Bees.neft. . - , heCi0 k it f«° c * 



Athena* citing Dtfhilus for his Author faith, That the Carrot is called ♦«£»* ^ ibtfg* 



rjheus^ pu„ y W ritetb,faid,that the vfe hereof wion 





