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TbeTheater of \'Plants , 
Chap.26. 865 
Chap. XX VI. 
Bunias five Nap/is fylveflris. The wildc Navew. 
He Navew differeth little from the Turnep either in leafe flower or feed that they are hardly known 
afunder, ot both which being garden herbes,whole rootes are to be eaten and therein chiefly to be 
diftinguifhcd, 1 have fpoken in my former bookejof the wilde kinde hereof I am to fpeake in this 
Chapter, which differeth almoft as little from his owne kinde of the Garden, as the Garden kinds 
themfeles doe: nnto whom I mult adde one (trangcr not well knowne to many. 
I. B uniat five Napus fylveflris noflras. Our wilde Navew. 
W h sfoever faith Label hath feene and knowne the manured Navew,may foone upon the fight hereof fay it is 
the wilde fort of it .becaufe it is fo like thereunto in the long 
0 fmooth and not hairy leaves, more or deepelier jagged then 
1 the Garden kinde, the flowers alfo are yellow, and the 
jafeede in fmall pods like it but more fliarpe hot and biting : 
othe roote likewife is fomewhat tuberous, round and long 
)i withall of the bignefle of ones thumbe or thereabouts,with 
1 fibres at the bottome. 
3 . Napus fylveflris (frelica. Candy wilde Navew, 
r The Candy wildc Navew hath divers rough leaves of the 
n length of ones hand,fomewhat like unto the leaves of the 
1 white flowred Charlocke,or the wildehedge Muftard,divi- 
i ded into eight or ten gafhes on both (ides,and each of them 
r dented about the edges,the flalk is white round & rough,di- 
b videdinto fundry branches each of them ending in a fharpe 
point the flowers (land not at the toppes but on the (ides, 
at the j'oynts with the uppermoft leaves whofe colour is not 
exprefled, but the cods that follow them are very (lender 
1 and fmall, about two inches long. 
The C place. 
\ The firft is often found wilde by the hedges and wayes 
1 fidcs,and upon ditch bankes likewife, and in clay grounds 
efpecially, and leldome in any other; the other was fent 
from Candy. 
The Time. 
Thefe doe flower about the fame time that the Charlocks 
doe. 
The Names. 
As the manured Navew is called Bunias in Greeke 
and Napu rinLatine, fo this wilde kinde is called 
ayeia, Bunias or Naptts agreflis css fylveflris in Tatitie, flgni- 
fcatione a tumente radices flguradeatsbla, fed rapis hoc nomen 
magis competent videtur , cjudm yeysvl.it ; but Cjalen putteth 
no difference betweene Buniadas and Gengyhdas. as indeede 
there is little but in the forme and greatneffe of the roote 
and fweetenefle alfo. Pliny hath much erred herein, for in 
his ao. Booke and fourth Chap, he faith, that the Grcekes 
made two for?;, hereof, the one they called Bnnium which 
it feemeth hee referred to the manured, and Bunias to the 
wilde fort, which by the judgement of the learned cannot hold true,for that Bunium is a farre differing plant 
as I (hewed you before,and Diofcorides alfo declareth it plainely,.entreating of Bunias in one place.and of Bnnium 
in another. Pliny againe in lib. 19. cap. maketh cjuin^uegenera Naporumfivc kinds of Navewes miflaking the 
Grecke word }*<pzyi< miflaking it to be Napiss, for it is evident that hSe taketh this divifion from Tbeopbraflut, 
who lib,y.cap 4.maketh foure forts w fzev’iPv, Raphanorum and not Tfapomm. There is a great controverfte 
among divers learned men,whether of the forts of 'Bunias or Napusfativus or fylveflris , the feede fliould be taken 
that is appointed to be put into the Theriaca Andromachi, fome following the Greeke verfes of the Father,where- 
in the compofition is deferibed and tranflated into Latine verfes, extant in (falens Lacine workes, who mentio¬ 
ned 1 the feede of Bunias dulcis, which all doe underftand to be the manured kind,and which Diofcorides commen- 
deih (forhee mentioneth no wilde kind thereof^ to bee good againft venome and poifon ; and fome follow- 
lowing Andromachtts the fonne, who in a continued (tile or profe in fetting downe the faid receipt,(aith,the feede 
of Bunias fylveflris which many of our moderne Phyfirions doe better allow of, becaufe they have more acrimo¬ 
ny in them, whereby they are thought to be more vigorous then the tame kinde, which is more fwtete,even as the 
ThlaSfidat hath the more fharpeneffe in it is taken for that compofition, and for Mithridate alfo, before that 
which is milder. Galen alio lib. 1, de Antidotii, examining th ingredients into Andromachus Treaklc iaith,the 
feede of N apsis fylveflris that commeth’ from Candy is to be taken in that place.The firft is called by Trat/uskapttm 
Cylveflre which fome might thinke did better appertaine unto the firft wilde Turnep, but that in his delcriptfon 
thereof he maketh the leave sfofter then the manured Turnep, andufed to be eaten of the poore while they are 
young, and that the roote is tuberous which this rape is not. Tuner calleth it Napus agreflis, Lugdunenfls and 
Dodonaus,Napus fylveflris andfo doth, Lobe l calleth it Bunias fylveflris, and Napus,md Cafalpinus 
Rapa fylveflris. The other Rauhinus had it lent him from Honerius BeUtss in Candy, yet by the name of Bunias 
ficee “ "" .. fylveflris 
I, Bunias five Napus fylvefiris. 
Our wilde MaveWo 
