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fecond Red Kind , Lobe/ fays , was brought from 
Syria. The third or Fellow Kind, Chtfius makes to 
be his third Wild Anemone, and fays, it was found 
growing plentifully at the foot of St. Bernards 
Hill near to the Cantons of Switzerland. The 
fourth or White Kind is growing on the Alps near 
Auftria : in France likewife, and in other places. 
Now all thefe are planted and grow with us in 
our Gardens , where they flourifh as well as in 
their Native places. 
X. The Times. They all Flower for the molt 
part about Eafter , from whence came the Name 
of Pafque Flower. They do indeed Flower early 
in the Year, at the fartheft in the beginning or 
middle of April, accordingly as the Spring proves 
feafonable. 
XI. The Qualities. Thefe are all of them hot 
and dry in the fourth Degree : vehemently at- 
tractive arid exulcerating ; and therefore not fit to 
be taken inwardly. 
XII. The. Specification. By external applicati- 
on they are good againlt the Bitings of Mad-Dogs, 
Vipers, Rattle-Snakes, and all other forts of Ser- 
pents and Venomous Beads, drawing forth the 
Poylon by means of their ftrong attraftve force : 
and for the fame reafon they prevail againlt an 
inveterate Sciatica. 
XIII. The Preparations. You may make of the 
Pafquc Flower, all the Preparations which you 
make of Crowfoot , which you may fee in Chap. 
’7 6. Sell. 2d. ad 33. Thefe having all the fame 
/ ''lues with thofe there mentioned. But general- 
.ve only make, 1. A Cataplafm of the frejh 
or Root, 2. A dijlil/ed Water of the whole 
Plant, 
The Virtues. 
XIV. The Cataplafm of Herb or Root. It is 
applyed againlt the Bitings of Mad-Dogs, Vipers, 
Rattle-Snakes, and other Poifonous Creatures, and 
to places affefted with the Gout, Sciatica, &c. 
with admirable fuccefs. 
XV. The Diftilled Water of the whole Plant. 
Camerarixs in his Hortus Mediate fays, that in 
BoruJJia it is ufed with good Succefs, to be given 
to thofe who are troubled with a Tertian Ague, 
for he faith that it is an 'twetuemuv, or Medicamen- 
tum ecphraticum , vel dcobflru'divim, a Remedy to 
open Obftruftions. 
XVI. The Hanger. The Herb, Flower or Root, 
being taken inwardly in fubltance, are without 
doubt deleterious, or deadly: It kills by making 
the Patient look Laughing all the while, whence 
it obtained the Name of Apium Rifits. And yet 
notwithftanding the Standets by, or lookers on, 
may think, that the Patient is really a Laughing, 
or in a Laughing Humor, there is indeed no fuch 
thing. It only by its Poifonous qualities, hurts 
the Senfes and Underftanding , thereby caufing 
Foolifiinefs ; and Convulfing the Nerves, efpecially 
of the Mouth, Jaws, and Eyes, draws them this 
way, and that way, and fometimes in a manner 
all ways, making the Sick feem to the by-itanders 
as if he continually Laughed, whereas, it is only 
a Convulfive Motion, wringing , or drawing of 
the Mouth and Jaws awry ; and fo the poor Pati- 
ent dying in this Condition, the lookers on , think 
he dyes Laughing, and fo report it ; when at the 
fame time there is no fuch matter, but he goes out 
lions, vehement Pain, and the moll extream Tor- 
ment imaginable. 
XVII. But the chief ufe that is now made of 
thefe Flowers is for Ornament fake, more than any 
thing elfe-, and to fet off and Adorn a Garden ; 
among fuch as are curious and delight in things 
of this Nature ; they being very beautiful in their 
Kind, 
CHAP. DXLIV. 
Of PARSNEP 
Garden and Wild. 
HE Names. It is called in Arabic/: ' 
Jezar , Gezar , and Giezar : in Greek 
STafWif©-: in Latine, Pajtinaca /at, folia, Staphy- 
linus lat, Johns : and in Englifh, Parfnep. 
II. The Kinds. There are leveral Species of this 
riant, as, 1. Mmaot, Pajlinaca latifolia 
nortenfis vel Domejlica, The Garden Parlnep. 2. 
Pajlinaca latifolia Sylveflris, The 
Wild Parfnep ; of both which we lhall Treat in 
this Chapter. 3. Sphondilium, Cow Patf- 
nep, of which in Chap. 54;. 4 . sm, Sium 
Pajhnaca Aquatica, The Water Parfnep, of which 
in Chap. 546. following. 
III. The Garden and Wild Kinds. Of the Gar- 
den fort there are two Species, viz. i. Pajlinaca 
latifolia fattva communis-, Pajlinaca latifolia Do- 
mejlica-, Pajlinaca alba fativa-, Sifarum fativum 
Magnum lucbfij-, Sifer Diofcoridts Column* -, E/a- 
phobofeum fativum Tabernmontam, Our Common 
Garden Parfnep. 2 ■ Pajlinaca alba fatwa altera-, 
Pajhnaca Ptnea -, The Pine Parfnep. 3. Pajlinaca 
latifolia Sylveflris-, Pajlinaca Sylveflris-, Pajlinaca 
Sylveflris Galina Cordi -, Sifer Sylveftre Fuchjij .- 
•Enwc -am Diofcoridts, Lib. 3. Chap. 80. Elapbo- 
i0 J C “Z' L!b - 22 ‘ Cha P- 22. and fo Dodona- 
n ’ Ttaberntmontanus , call it : 
Nep S Wl d Paifnep ' 4 ' ?a fi lr,aca irifana: Mad 
The Defcriptio/ts. 
IV. The firft, or Our Common Garden Parfnep. 
The Root is white, great, long and large , thick at 
its top or upper part , and Jharp or /pear pointed 
at bottom ; and as it is white without , fo it is alfo 
within, of a very J'weet and pleafant Tafle , being 
boiled, baked, or roajled, which then are dreft up 
with Butter and Vinegar, as every one likes belt. 
From this Root fpring up large winged Leaves , a 
great many lejjer being Jet on both flies of a long- 
ribbed Stalk, each of them flanding for the mofl 
part direSly one againft another, with a Jingle one 
at the end, being much larger than thofe of the 
Skirret, and clofer Jet together, and rougher, being 
— , 0 alfo dented about the edges. The Stalk grows four, 
of ths World under the Senfe of violent Convul- [five, or fin Feet high, with divers the like Leaves 
and 
