I Lyin.i.' Of the Hiftory of Plants. icz^ 
again ft another, fnipt about- the edges, antlending in along and (harpe pointed leafe: thefe leaucs 
as alia the ftalkes are fomewbat rough and harih,and of a darke greene colonthc floureS are fmall 
and 'reddifh, and grow in little vmbels, and are fuccecded by longifh little rough feed bf fome- 
rvhata ftrong andaromaticke tafte and Odell . It is an anndall plant,and flotires commonly in In- 
ly, and the feeds are ripe in Angi \&S£Wdiss and Thalius call it Dail’coldcs minus jand Batthinefiaucaiit 
femme afpeoflofculis (uhrultetitiius.T here is a bigger and leffer variety or fort of this plant, ior you 
fhall (ind it growing to the height of twOclrbits, with leauesandall the vpper parts anlvverable 
and you may agair.e obferue it not toexceed the height of halfe a foot- 
6 This other, which Batehine hath firft fet forth in writing by the name of faticalis rtodofa (chi- 
natofemine, hath a white and long root,from which it fends vp fundry fmall crefted and rough bran- 
ches which commonly lie along vpon the ground, and they are commonly of an vnequalllength, 
! fome a cuoit long.otber-fome fcarfe two handfullsithc leaucs are fmall, rough, winged, and deeply 
jagged, and at the fetting on of each leafe clofe to the ftalkes vfually vpon very fhort foot- ftalkes 
grow fmall little floures of colour white, or reddifh, and made of fine little leaucs apeece: after 
thefe follow the feed, round, fmall and rough, and they grow clofe to the ftalkes. It floures in lure 
:and July, and growes-wilde in fundry places, as in the fields, and vpon the bankes about S. lames, 
and Pickadil!.-. Fa£/VwCfcW»,»iudgesittobechcrriicSrW/.voftheAntients. t 
There is likewife one of thefe found in S paine, called Caucalis 'Hifpantca, like the firft : but it is 
an annual! planr, which perifhes at the firft approach of winter, 'the which I haue fowne in my <*ar- 
den,but it periftied before the feed was perfected. 
y The Place. 
Thefe plants do grow naturally vpon rockes and ftony grounds : we haue the firft and the third 
in our paftures in moft places of England : that with red floures isa Granger in England. 
t I haue not heard that the third growes vvilde with vs, but the fecond was found growing 
in the corne fields on the hilles about Bathe, by M r . Bowles, f , .5 
The Tin*. 
They floure and flourifh from May to the end of Auguft. . '' 
• iff The Names. i * 
Ballard Parfley is called in Greeke in Larine alfo Caucalis ; of (bme, Daunts fylueftn's .- a- 
imongthe baftard names of Democritus, V” --in Lacine, Pet Gallinaceus, Pes Pnlh .- the Egyptians 
I name it Sefelis : the country-men of Hetruria, Petrofllojaluattco .-in Englifh, baftard Parfley, and 
Hennes foot. 
TheTempcraUtr^andvertues. 
Diofcorides faith,that baftard Parfley is a pot-herbe which is eaten either raw or bcSiled,and pfo- A 
luoketh vrine. 
I Ph'ny doth reckon it vp alfo among the pot-herbes : Galen addeth, that it is preferued in pickle B 
:for faliades in winter. 
The feed of baftard Parfley is euidently hot and dry, and that in the fecond degtee : it proud- C 
keth vrine, and bringeth downe the defired fickenelfe: it diflolueth the ftone,and driueth it forth,' ‘ 
It taketh away the Hoppings of the liuer, fpleene,and kidnies: it cuttetli'and concodleth raw p> 
and flegmaticke humours : it comfortethacold ftomack, diflolueth winde, it quickneth the fight, 
i and refrefheth the heart, if it be taken fading. 
Matthiolus in his Commentaries vpon Diofcorides, the fecond booke, attributed! vnto it many E 
^xcellentvertueSjto'prouokevenery and bodily-lull, and eredion of the parts. 
t The fi?urc which belonged to the third deferipcion in this chapter was formerly put for EngliGi Saxifrage- 
C h a p. 404. Of Qandj ^Alexanders. 
«[ ThcDefcription . , 
D iofcorides and Pliny haue reckoned Smyrnium among the kindes. of Parfley, wbofe Judgements 
while this plant is young, and notgrownevp toa ftalke,may (land with very good reafon, 
for that the young leaucs next the ground are like to Parfley, but fdmewhat thicker and lar- 
: ger.-aniong which rifeth vp a ftalke a cubit high, and fomewhat more,garnifhed with round leaucs, 
darre different from thofe next the ground, inclofing the ftalke about like Thorow wax, or Perfoliata. 
••which leaucs are of a yellow colour, and do rather referable the Ieauesof Fole-foot than Parfley j 
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