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Navew is long , and much ft retched oat in length , ' 
■whereby it f cents to be degenerated from the jorm 
of the Common Turnep. This Garden Navew, 
dr Navew Gentle is aljo of two Kinds , viz. The 
greater and the leffer. The greater is long and 
great , alnioft as large as the fhort Carrot, but for 
Navew Gentle, or Garden, f mailer . 
Navew Gentle Garden greater. 
the tno ft part of an uneven le nth and roundnefs, 
to the very end, where it fends from its Jides fever al 
[mail long Fibres. The fmaller in its growth and 
appearance above Ground , is in all things like the 
former , differing only in its Root , which is very 
much leffer , for it is fomewhat round with its lengthy 
and is about twice as big ds a Mans Thumb , fome 
bigger , fome leffer ■ both thefe are fo like to the 
Common Garden Turnep, in Stalks , Leaves , Flow- 
ers, and Seed , that they are hardly to be known 
af under, 
IV. The Wild Navew. Its Root is like wife fome - 
what Tuberous , round and long with all, of the big - 
nefs of a Mans Thumb , or fomewhat larger , with 
fever al Fibres fpringing from it towards the bottom. 
Its Leaves are long, fnooth , and not Hairy, and 
more deeply jagged than the Garden Kind. The 
Navew Wild 
Flowers are alfo yellow, and the Seed in fmall Pods 
like the former, but more hot, fharp, and biting, 
Whofoeverfays Lobel has feenor known the Garden 
Navew, or Navew Gentle, will even upon the fight 
of this , judge it to be the Wild fort, it is fo like 
thereto. 
V. Not a. There is a difference between Bunins, 
and Bunt urn , (tho’ Pliny by a miftake makes them 
but one Plant) for Bunias is truly the Navew, of 
which we treat in this Chapter ; whereas Bunium , 
is a kind of Daucus Petrofelini vel Coriandri folio, 
of which opinion are Bauhinus If Dalechampius. 
Galen likewife puts no difference between tcy] wau* 
Gongule, Rapum , a Turnep: and Rvvutt, Bunias, Na- 
pus , Navew, (i.e. the Garden Kind) becaufe there is 
but little difference in their form, manner of grow- 
ing, greatnefs of the Root, and fweetnefs alfo : but 
there is really a difference between the Plants, which 
is chiefly determined by the Root, which is much 
longer than any Turnep, and fcarcely ever fo thick 
as 
