I0 z8 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i e. z. 
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name of Pajttmc* Utioris foil], or the Garden Parfnep , is deferibed of the old writers by another 
namerthis Carrot is called in Latine likewi Ce,Paftinaca f*tiva,but with this addition tenuifo/ia , that 
it may differ from the garden Parfnep with broad lcaues,and white roots. ThttfhraUtu in the ninth 
booke ofliis hiftorie of pla nts nameth this Supbyhnw, or Cacrot^w , and writeth that it grow- 
eth in Arcadia, and faith that thebeft is found in Sf/trwfi Achaiajput dotibtlcfle he meant that Dau- 
cus which we call Otff«fo,that may be numbred among the Carrots : Galen in his booke of the fa- 
culties of Simple medicines doth alfo make it to be Daucus, but yet not fimply Daucm ; forhe ad- 
dcthalfo Staphihnm ot Paftinaca ■■ in High Dutch it is called ®e«l tllbet) : in Low Dutch, ©eel 
3Bcm.©eel Wooten, and c3ccl aaojtclcil .• in French, Canotte, and Racine iaulne : in Italian, P aft mac a r 
in Spanifh, Canahoria in English, Ynliow Carrots; the other is called red Carrot, andblacke 
Carrot. 
«|j The T emperature ana V ertues . 
Therootof the yellow Carrot is mo ft commonly boiled with fat fleflv and eaten: itis tempe- 
A rately hot and fomethingmoift. The nourithment which commeth thercofis not much, and not 
verie good ; it is fomething windie,but not fo much as be the Turneps,and dothnotfo foonasthey 
pafte through thebodie. 
-d The red Carrot is of like facultie with the yellow. The feed of them both is hot and drie.it brea- 
kethand confumeth vv ifld ine lTc,prouok eth vrine,as doth that of the vvilde Carrot. 
C h a p. 408. Of JVUde Carrot. 
Paftinaca [ylueftristenuifolia. 
Wilde Cgrrot,or Bees-neft. 
T he Vefcription. 
T Heleaues of thewilde Carrot are cut into* 
diners flender narrow parcels, very likevntoi 
thofe of the garden Carrots, but they be fome- 
w hat whiter, and more hairie : the ftalks be like- 
wife hairie and fomewhat rough : the floures are 
little, and Hand vpon broad looked tuftes, of a 
white coIor,ofwhich tuft of floures the middle- 
moft part is of a deep purple : the whole tuft is 
drawn together when the feedis ripe,refembling' 
a birds neft 3 whereupon it hath been named of 
fome Birds-neft : the root flender, and ofamean 
length.- 
The Place. 
Itgroweth of itfelfein vntoyled places, ini 
fields, and in the borders tbereof.almofteiierie 
where. 
The Time. 
It floures and flourifhes in Iuoeand Iuly,the i 
feedis ripe in Auguft. 
The Names. 
The vvilde Carrot is called in Greeke j 
„ii?t ..t : in Latine, Paftinacafylueftris tenuifolia: in :i 
{hops, Dar/ctcs : and it is vfed in Head of the true : 
Daucus, and net amiire,norvnprofitably : for Ga-\ 
/taalfo in his time doth teftifie that it was ta- i| 
■ ken (ox Daucus, or baftard Parfly,and is without 1 
doubt Dauci fylueftris genus, orawilde kinde of* 
baftard Parflyjo called of Theophrastus: in high Ij 
Dutch it is named ^Jlllencn.WOgOl tuft : in Low Dutch, t&Hjelg nett, and Billie CatOtEtl ii 
CreoUengS ttupt ; in French, Paftenade Sauvage ; in Englifh, vvilde Carrot, and after the Dutch, 
Birds-iieft, and infomeplaccs Bees-neft; , “ j 
Athenatu citing Diphilus for his Author, faith, that the Carrot is called becaufe it'ferueth.: 
for lone mattersjand Orpheus , as pliny writeth, (aid, that the vfe hereof winneth lone : which things: 
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