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L i b; i. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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l Pajlinaca latifiliafitivd} 
Garden Parfneps. 
a Pajlinacalatifoliafylitcjlris, 
Wilde Parfneps. 
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m fern IIground,do prouc better root s/vvee ter and greater than they that are fowne of feeds sathc- 
I red trom thofe of the garden. ° 
They floure ih Inly and Auguft,and feed the fecond yeareaftcr they be fowne. 
«T The Thames. • 
! The Herbarifts of our time do call the garden Parfneps tamt*. and Pafimaca, and therefore wee 
lratie furnamed it Lanfolu, or broad leafed, that it may differ from the other garden Parfnep with 
J narrow leaues ? which is truly and properly called Staphylinue, that is, the garden Carrot.Some Phy- 
ht/ons doubting, and not knowing to what herbe of the Antients it fhould be referred, haue fained 
I the wilde kinde hereof to be Panacts /peeks, or a kind of Alheale.-diuers haue named it Panda- others, 
l ran /. a ^ emma >but if you diligently marke and confer it with Elaphobofcum of Diofcorides, you Aral 
hardly finde any difference at all: but the plant called at Montpelier Pabulum Ctruimm: in Englifh, 
f xt :) “° er ’^ u PP 0 ^ there tobe the true£/a/>^n^!)jta/»,differeth much from the true notes there- 
! ot Now Bait elites Iacobm Manlius reportethin Luminari maiore, is Diofcorides, and the old Writers 
Pafttnaca ,that is to fay, Tenui folia, or Carrot : but the old writers, andefpccially Diofcorides haue 
Myp C ” iS W ^ E Par ^ ne P b y the name of Elaphobofcum : and wee doe call them Parfneps and 
7 he Temperature. 
The Parlnep root is moderately hot, and more dric than moift.' 
. «f TheVertues. 
The Parfneps nourifh more than doe the T urneps or the Carrots, and the nou-rifhment is fome - A 
vv rat thicker,butnot faultienor bad i notwithftandingtheybefomwhatwindyitheypafferhroueh 
the bodte neither llowly not fpeedily : they neither binde nor loofe the belly : they prouoke vrine 
andlutt of thebodie : they be good for the ftomacke, kidneies, bladder, and lungs. 
, There is a good and pleafant food or bread made of the roots of Parfneps, as my friend M c . Plat £ 
ath let forth in hisbooke of experiments, which I haue made no triall of, nor meane to do. 
.v;J2 efCcdlSh0ttCranddriereUen vnco the fecond de § ree = ic mo °tieth vrine, and confumeth C 
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