132 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



edges, somewhat like a parsley-leaf, but of j the seed being ripe about the beginning of 



a very dusky green colour. The stalks are < 

 very weak and slender, about three or four 

 fingers in length, set so full of leaves that 

 they can hardly be seen, either having no 

 foot-stalk at all, or but very short; the 



August, the second year after its sowing ; 

 for if they do flower the first year, the coun- 

 try people call them Madneps. 



Government and virtues.] The garden 

 Parsnips are under Venus. The garden 



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flowers are so small they can hardly be ; Parsnip nourishes much, and is good and 

 seen, and the seed as small as may be. j wholesome nourishment, but a little windy, 



Place."] It is a common herb throughout I whereby it is thought to procure bodily 

 the nation, and rejoices in barren, sandy, { lust ; but it fastens the body much, if much 

 moist places. It may bs found plentifully i need. It is conducible to the stomach and 

 about Hampstead Heath, Hyde Park, and | reins, and provokes urine. But the wild 

 in Tothill-fields. j Parsnips hath a cutting, attenuating, clean- 



TimeJ] It maybe found all the Sum- i sing, and opening quality therein. It re- 

 mer-time, even from the beginning of April jsists and helps the bitings of serpents, eases 

 to the end of October. 5 the pains and stitches in the sides, and dis- 



Governmeni and virtues.] Its operation) solves wind both in the stomach and bowels, 

 is very prevalent to provoke urine, and to j which is the cholic, and provokes urine, 

 break the stone. It is a very good salladlThe root is often used, but the seed much 

 herb. It were good the gentry would pickle I more. The wild being better than the tame, 

 it up as they pickle up Samphire for their i shews Dame Nature to be the best phy- 

 use all the Winter. I cannot teach them j sician. 

 how to do it; yet this I can tell them, it is* 



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a very wholesome herb. Ihey may also* 



keep the herb dry, or in a syrup, if they | Descript.~\ THIS grows with three or 

 please. You may take a dram of the pow- 1 four large, spread winged, rough leaves, 

 derof it in white wine; it would bring awa^ | lying often on the ground, or else raised a 

 gravel from the kidneys insensibly, and \ little from it, with long, round, hairy foot- 

 without pain. It also helps the stranguary. j stalks under them, parted usually into five 



divisions, the two couples standing each 

 j against the other ; and one at the end, and 



THE garden kind thereof is so well known i each leaf, being almost round, yet some- 

 (the root being commonly eaten) that I j what deeply cut in on the edges in some 

 shall not trouble you with any description i leaves, and not so deep in others, of a whitish 

 of it. But the wild kind being of more j green colour, smelling somewhat strongly; 

 physical use, I shall in this place describe : among which rises up a round, crusted, 

 it unto you. ; hairy stalk, two or three feet high, with a 



Descript.~\ The wild Parsnip differs j few joints and leaves thereon, and branched 

 little from the garden, but grows not so fair ; at the top, where stand large umbels of 

 and large, nor hath so many leaves, and the i white, and sometimes reddish flowers, and 

 root is shorter, more woody, and not so fit j alter them flat, whitish, thin, winged seed, 

 to be eaten, and therefore more medicinal. j two always joined together. The root is 



Place.] The name of the first shews the \ long and white, with two or three long 

 place of its growth. The other grows wild : strings growing down into the ground^ 

 in divers places, as in the marshes in Roches- > smelling likewise strongly and unpleasant 

 ter, and elsewhere, and flowers in July ; 5 Place.] It grows in moist meadows, ana 



