132 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



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



'August, the second year after its sowing; 

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

 try people call them Madneps. 



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 noj Government and virtues^] The garden 

 foot-stalk at all, or but very short; the | Parsnips are under Venus. The garden 

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

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



Place.] It is a common herb throughout! 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 be found plentifully ! need. It is conducible to the stomach and 

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

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



Time.~\ It maybe found all the Sum-; 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. i 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 salladjThe root is often used, but the seed much 

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

 it up as they pickle up Samphire for their j 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 J 



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a very wholesome herb. Ihey may alsoj 



jeep the herb dry, or in a syrup, if they; Descnpt.") THIS grows with three or 

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

 derof it in white wine; it would bring away Hying often on the ground, or else raised a 

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

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



| divisions, the two couples standing each 

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



THE garden kind thereof is so well known* 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 Heaves, 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 {white, and sometimes reddish flowers, and 

 root is shorter, more woody, and not so fit \ after 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;: Place.] It grows in moist meadows,- an 1 



