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Theatrum ‘Botanicum. 
Tribe 8* 
faflinaca lemifolla/athit Inlet. 
Common yellow Carrots. 
j. rtS'nntt tevuifaliofjlveftrei 
Wilde Carrots. 
fiowrine and the reft at the tides afterwards: after they are pafhe the feede appeareth which is of an oval forme, 
lone and round, hard and (traked, with fix lines pointed at the toppesand yellowifh, whole inner kernel! is 
brownifli and of an aromaticall favour. This laith Columna differed) from theuiuall Pafitntca ”>tnm both ill 
the large fpreading and manifold fine divifions of the leaves,and in the pleafanter tafte and greatnelTe of the roote, 
refembling rather a Parfnep although their feedes are alike. 
5. Pafliruicafylveftrii loirfut 0 caule. Wilde Carrots with hairy itajkes. 
The roote of this Carrot is white and often a foot long, fomttime, (ingle and lometimes divided into two or 
three parts, very like both in fent and tafte toaParlley roote,but hotter in the mouth for.a longtime, from 
whence rileth up a ftalke a foote and a halfehigh as thicke as ones little finger at the bottome, being fomewhat 
round but crefted orcornerc^ery plainly,exceeding hairy and fullof joynts, whereat grow large crefted (hikes 
ofwinged leaves compaffinr^ie ftalke at the bottome, afoot: in length, divided into fundry leaves, andthey 
againenito other lmaller parts very rough and hairy alfo, and of a yellowilh greene colour, from Ivtweene 
which leaves and the (hikes at the joynts, come forth other crefted ftalkes and the like leaves at their joynts but 
lelfer, and doe very well refemble the leaves of our garden Carrots but larger and foft ifone handle them hard, 
butroughboth on the backe and edge being gently touched : fromevery oncalmoftof thefe joynts both of the 
flalke and branches arifeth a certaine long huske, confiding of fix fmall long leaves dole fet together which when 
it openeth fheweth forth a fmall tuft or clofe umbellof white flowers, and lometimes yellowifh lomevvhat 
fweec, after which doe follow fomewhat round feede, two alwayes joyned together and very prickley, on the 
backfide, the inner fide being flat and more yellow then Carrot lecde,elfe fomewhat like. 
The Place and Time. 
The firft kindes are alvvayes (owen in Gardens or in the fields chofen out for that ptirpofe^he red grow wilde; 
the firft plentifully in our owne Land by the fieldsfide and in untilled places: the laft in the like places o £ Germa¬ 
ny : the reft in Naples and doe all flower and feede in the end of Summer. 
The Names . 
slapuxT;'©- in Greeke derived (as is mod likely) from the grape when it is almoft ripe whofe purplifii co¬ 
lour the one fort hereof doth refemble and not from 5wpu*©-, the ftalke of Bryonie as fome tbinke doth anfwer 
both to the tame and wilde forts of Paftinaca in Latine zs T>iofcorides fheweth in the faid Chapter,but ufually 
Staphylinns fimply is taken for the wilde Carrot if be not joyned with it to expreffe the tame but paftinaca, 
which in Latine feemeth to take the name apafeendo cum corpus alat, is now a dayes divided into two forts rhat 
is into latifolia which is the Parfnep whereof I fhall fpeake hereafter, and into tenuifolia which is the arrot cal¬ 
led alfo Carota by divers from the Italians who doefo call it, but Dodon&m thinketh the word was deduced from 
the Cjermans Garrot which is totum rubens but I doe not fo thinke, and ‘Uauctu niger as it is thought by 7 heepbra- 
ftw, whereof yet there is lome doubt whether the word fhould not bewtiw which is yellow, as it is in mod 
true copies Lather then which is blacke as it is but in few. Cdlen alfo feemeth to call it Dahcus > but with 
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