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Lib. I 
and Branches thereon, but lejjer. The F 'lowers 
which grow in .Umbels at the tops of the Stalk, 
and Branches , are yellow , which faffing away, 
brownifh, thin, rounaifh, flat Seed comes in their 
places, having a good, and a kind of Aromatick 
Smell. 
V. The fccond , or Pine Parfnep. This is not 
Jo common in every Garden as the former , 
but yet is found in many. The Root is white 
both within and without, which is not fo long 
as the farmer , but it is thicker at the Head and 
fmaller below. The Stalk js neither fo big , nor 
fo high, but Branched forth in like manner. The 
Umbels of flowers at the lops of the Stalk 
and Branches are lejjer than the former , and 
the Seed fmaller. The Root hereof is not alto- 
gether fo J'weet in eating , but more flafliy and 
infipid, but its Table is more pleafant , if it 
grow in a fat and Sandy Soil. 
VI. The third , or Our Wild Parfnep The 
The Root (m moft Writers of every Country 
affirm,) is Shorter and more moody , and therefore 
not fo fit to be eaten as the former Garden Kinds 
ere but is thought to be more Medicinable. 
This Wild fort differs very little from the 
firjl Garden Kind, but only as a Wild Plant , 
and fo grows not fo fair and large , nor has 
it fo many Leaves , nor fuch large Umbels • of 
flowers-, it is thought to be the Garden Kind 
found Wild, (as the Garden Kind is thought ■ 
by others to be the Wild Kind Tranfplanted 
into Gardens ; ) And it is to be met with in 
many places of England , as [meet and tender, 
after the Sowing as tbofe of the Garden fort 
be. This Wild Species grows in fame Fields 
and places fo plentifully , that a Sack full of 
its Seed might be gotten from it, which be- 
ing Sown in Gardens (having a Sandy but 
yet rich and fat Soil,) and there well ordered 
.will prove as good as the former Garden 
Parfneps. 
VII. Pafiinaca Infant , or Mad-Nep , we deferibe 
not, for that it is the fame Plant with our Common 
Garden Parfnep, or Pine Garden Parfnep, before 
Defcribed, the only difference between them and 
the Mad-Neps is the time of Flowering, as Par- 
hinfon fays ; for if (lays he) the Common Garden 
Parfneps do Flower in the firft Year after Sowing, 
the Country People do call them Mad-Neps. 
Thefe are only to be known by the report of the 
Gardner , or fuch as Gather or Sell them ; for they 
are fo like to the Choice Landable ones, that there 
is no diltinguilhing them by the outward appear- 
ance. They are found by long experience to have 
an evil and pernicious quality; for they not only 
caufe a Vertigo or Swimming of the Head, but 
Frenfy alfo, and in fome even Madnefs it felf, ouc 
of which the Patient is not prel'ently reftored, 
fome having continued in that Condition tor the 
fpace of twenty four Hours, and others not ha- 
ving come perfectly co themfelves for the fpace of 
2 whole Days and Nights. Gerard fays, that thefe 
Mad-Neps, are the Produce of our Common Gar- 
den Turneps , ariling from the Seed of the Garden 
Kind ; which if they Flower the fame Year they 
are Sown, they are faid to degenerate, and become 
what the Country People in Cheshire, about Nant- 
wtch, &c. call Mad-Neps. But I fuppofe this is 
a tniftake, that being the moft probable, which 
Parkinfon has declared of our Common Garden 
Parfnep, as is aforefiid. 
VIII. The Places. The firft and fecond grow 
only in Gardens, where they are Nurft up for 
Food, but efpecially the firft fore. The third 
grows Wild in feveral places of England ; as in 
the Mariks by Rocheffer, in the Grounds of for- 
merly 
