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upon its eaters. It does not appear, by 

 what the writers on plants of our own 

 country have fet down, that the Italian 

 fellery was fo much as known by them 

 at the time that Gerard and Tarkinfon 

 wrote, unlefs the apium palujlre eleofe- 

 linum Jive paladapium, the marfh parf- 

 ley or Imallage of Gerard, p. 1014. or of 

 Varkinfon be it ; which 1 fuppofe not, 

 becaufe there is a kind growing wild 

 with us tiiat feems to belong to their 

 defcription more than this, which they 

 tell us grows wild with us upon the 

 banks and fait marfhes of Kent and Ef- 

 fex. 



But however thefe things be, they are 

 all of them moft excellent herbs, when 

 eaten either raw or in fallets when 

 whitned, participating of a lovely aro- 

 matick tafte, between hot and dry, as 

 garden parfley is, and in all things as 

 good or better, when eaten with oil, 

 vinegar, fait and pepper, for its high 

 and grateful tafte is ever placed in the 

 middle of the grand faliet at great mens 

 tables, and prxtors feafts, (as Mr. Eve- 

 lyn remarks) but our wild fmallage is 

 eaten raw, being not counted good in 

 fauce, as Gerard witnefTeth. 



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