Tribe 8 . ’The Theater ofTlants, Chap. 25 . 923 
1 . Fttrefelittum vulgwc. J. Fetrofelinvm msjus five Virgimnm t 
Common Garden Parfley. Virginia, Parfley. 
that is but one, of the thickneffe of ones thumbe, long, and covered with a thinne blacke barke or rinde that ma j 
eafily be rubbed off with ones finger,being white underneath,and of a lweetift, tafle.like unto the Earth Cheinut, 
being often eatenby the Natives, and liveth after feede time, (hooting forth anew every yeare. There is an other 
of this k nd which differeth in nothing from it, but in the colour of the roote,which is reddifii on the outfide, and 
not blacke as the former: this flowreth and feedeth earlier than others,and is called oAgriopaftica by the countrey 
people in Ca»dj,tbat is .fjlveftri, Pajlinaca, but hath no likeneffe to a Palnippe, but in that it is fit to he eaten. Ci¬ 
thers there, as Honoris Bcllm faith, doe call it Saxifragict, and ufe it as Saxifrage: but he himfelfe faith it doth 
come neareft unto the Bufelinon defcribedbyJVw; in/i*.*o.c.iespecially that with thered roote, andhath 
the fan e vertues that the ordinary hath. 
The Place undTimc. 
Thefe doe all grow in gardens onely in our Ladd; theinaturall place of the firft being not ccrtainely knownc, 
but the fecond is of the Hand of Sard*, and the third, as the name fheweth, was fent out from Virginia ; the lad in 
Candy : they perfeft their feede in Augufi, but the laft earlier. 
' The Names. 
It is, as I (aid, by acontinuall received opinion held by moft,thac this Parfiey is the oihmv eai?mm,Apiumh<irtenJi 
of Dilfcorides and other the ancients; firft, becaufe there cannot be found another herb; that can anfwer both the 
forme and the properties given thereunto, to be fo pleafant and to be eaten familiarly in all countries • and next 
that the ufe of this Paifiey is continued to this day, asal'allet herbe among the Greckes andTurkes, and called 
alfo Petrofelino Macedonia, by the vulgar Greckes ufually, whereby there groweth iome doubt with many whe¬ 
ther this fhculd not be the 'Petrofelimm UVlacedonicum of the ancients, as Ifidorut and T/atina, Marcellus V,rgi. 
tim, and Q rutramim did take,feeing, as BedoniM laith, it is fo uled and called throughout all Macedonia, SpWus, 
Thcffalia etc. and in Candy, and with all the Greekes, and that all Chriftian Nations all'o according to their Dia¬ 
led: doe follow the Latine Petmfclimm- but becaufe the feede is not bitter, as Galen faith the true fort is, wee as 
many other doejrefufe it,and doe not hold it for the right Petrcfelimsm Macedonians. It is alfo called by all Wri¬ 
ters ApUim ■vetenrn ot hortenfe, or domefticum : yet Fuchfisss tookc it to be Oreofehr.ttm ■ the laft is declared fuffi- 
ciently in the defeription : the Arabians call it Charjf Chares, or Charfi, the Italians Pesrofello and Apiodemcjlico,, 
the Spaniards PerexiU, the French dt, Perf/l, the Germanes Peterftlgen and Peterlin, the Dutch Psterfeli, an d W e 
Patfiev. or garden Parfley. There is lome caution to be ufed concerning this herbe that it is ufually called Apium 
limply ‘ if it be to be ufed in any of the Greeke Authors medicines, for io Selinon is tranfiated, but the Arabians 
Apium'is our Smallage, which they held to be hurtfull to the eyes,and the ufe therof to bring the falling fickneffe. 
The Vertues. 
This Parfley is much ufed in meate and broths, &c. in all countries, as hath beene aforefaid, being of fomildea 
tafte .and fo comfortable to the ftomacke, that no other is more, and betides doth helpe to provoke urine and wo¬ 
mens courfes, and to breake winde, both in the ftomacke and bowelb, and doth a little open the body, but the 
roote much more, and openeth the obftruftions, both of the liver and fpleene, and therefore is ufually put among 
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