IS 4- The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



of the carrot there are two kinds that 

 are temperately warm, dry and fpicy 5 

 but the bcft are the yellow, tho* there 

 are fome that love the red bcft, on ac- 

 count of its noble colour 5 nor do I 

 think there is any remarkable difference 

 in their tafte or goodnefs. 



The pajlinaca above-nam'd, is of two 

 fpecies, the latifolia and temtifo- 



lia--, the former the parfnip, and the lat- 

 ter the carrot, and are faid hy^JJidorus 

 (as Mr. Ray has it) to be derived from 

 paftuSj food, becaufe the roots thereof 

 are of great ufe in the food of man 5 

 however it be, they were of great efteem 

 amongft the ancients, as Tliny and o- 

 thers teftify. 



TheophraJitiSy in his ninth book of 

 plants (as fays Gerard) mentions ano- 

 ther kind, Vv^hich he terms ftaphylinus 

 and Thny has, as I remember, the fame 

 name, but it muft be the daiicus Creten- 

 Jis, not fo well know^n in kitchen gar- 

 dens, the roots whereof are faid tQ be 

 a fovereign remedy againft poifon. 

 Of dejc- Our Englifh Herbals have a long time 

 W/ds S^^^^^ ^^^^ account of thofe kinds we are 



* Paftinaca f. d. quod radix ejus prscipims lit ^af^ 



iits kosiirii, ut vult If Jar us, lib,, 17. (at, 



now 



