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what blackifh furrowed or guttered like unto Cumin feede, _s>( a very fharpe taftealmofl burning the mouth 
and of a fweete lent, but fo bitter withall that it may well bee accounted the mod bitter of all the kindcs 
ofParfiey. , , _ 
The Place and Time. 
The firft is thought originally to come from Candy amoVenice where they have fowen it,and takin° it to be the 
cmresWj Parfley, have ufedit m their difpenfatioftsfor MithridaummiThsriaca Andromacht and have fo 
much efttemed of it that they are loath to let any good feede come from them that might grow’in any other 
place.befides the unreafonable price hath bcene fet upon it hath made it the more efleemed and fought after V ec 
I have had it growing in my garden and from it have gathered good (lore of feede in one yeare, but the htff 
rootes perifhing I could not get againc any to Ipring from the feede that I gathered, being as it fl-.otild feeme not 
iufficient ripe, nor could I get any outlandifh feede lince to grow with me againe : the other grovveth as Lu,da. 
nenfis faith on the rockie hills of qratianopolis, and as Column* faith on the hills of [amyeelamfu and tAEyuifoli \ 
they feede late with us. 
The Names, 
T abitu Column* hath much commented upon thefe two kindes ofParfiey, concerning the firfl hee laboureth to 
prove it to be the fecond Daucus of Diofcorides, from the forme of the leaves thereof like unto Aputmagrefic as he 
compareth his fecond unto,and not to the feed as the qualities of fwcttnefle,fharpenclTe and heate might import- 
but in the defeription of this Parfley Column* alTimilateth the leaves unto Apium vulgare (and not to Avium apre/f'e 
as Diofcorides doth,which is rhat herba Sardinia called Apium rujus, for other uAmum agrtfle is not fet downe by 
Diofcorides in any place that I can finde j our common Parfley which although it doe, ‘yet other authors have as 
likely herbes as this, and as agreeable to the fecond Caucus of Diofcorides in all things I thinke, but becaufe nei¬ 
ther Z)io/ierides nor any other ancient author hath given any defeription of the leaves,&c, of the Fetrofeliuum 
Macedoxictm more then of the feede,and that Pliny faith it differeth in the kinde, it is a hard matter to determine 
any certaintie upon fo fliort a relation, all being buc conj'eftures that can be faid in it, which may as likely niilfe 
as hit.Concerning the other he faith that the Neapolitans where it groweth call it Auetbum[ylveftre , and others 
Saxifrage from tlTe effefts.But that the firfl Ihould be Petrofclinum MacedonicH,AIatthiolw,Lobel,Dodon £ Hs Caller 
Dur antes,LugdUnenfs and Tabermontamu doe all call it as it was in their time held to be,and flill continucth the 
fame opinon and not undefervedly as I thinke,both the forme of the leaves flowers and feed.fo nearely refembl/ntj 
the other kinds of Sclinon or Apia declaring it,but efpecially the qualitie of the feed being anfwerable to the pro¬ 
perties that Cyalen doth appropriate it. And for the other it alfocommethneareunto that relation of Pliny concer¬ 
ning Petrofclinum, that it was another kinde,differing from the other cApi* Paifleys as this doth,in the forme of 
the leaves being finer cut then any of them, but fomewhat more like in the lharpenelTe and bitrernefle of the fifed 
and therefore faith Column* it may be ufed in the want of a better in head of the true Fetrofeliuum CMacedonicum 
or untill a truer may be had out of Macedonia or Epirus. Put Bauhiuus callethit Apium montanum folio tenuiore 
The Tertties, 
Thetru c Petrofclinum faith Diofeorides provoketh urine and womens counts, and is profitable againfl ths 
win* and belchings of the flomacke and againfl: the winde Collicke alfo, and eafeth the griping paines and tor¬ 
ments of the belly, as alfo the paines in the Tides and the raines and in the bladder being taken in drirke, itispu" 
alio into thofe medicines that provoke urine. The feede ofthis (lone P arfley faith Cyalen is mod in ufe, the herbe 
and roo.e alfo is ufed alike, but are of a weaker propertie but the leede is very fharpe in tafle and bitter alfo hoc 
in qualitie, and of a cutting propertie withall, and hereby it mightily provoketh urine and womens courfes ’ and 
driveth forth wir.de,and is therefore hot and dry in the third degree. This faith Galen j n l,b . 8. fimphcinm'medi-, 
camentorum : but in his firfl booke de antidotis he doth profccLite this fub/ed more fully, which although itbee 
fomewhat large,yetlam the more willing to infert it here for young (Indents fake, that they might be acquain¬ 
ted with q«lens minde (who was in his facultie almoft abfolute) in this matter: As concerning Petroflirmm fl 0 ne 
Parfley (faith he) thebeft isknowne to all to be that of Macedonia, which feme call alfo Eflreaticttm, impofine’ 
that name from the place wherein it groweth : yet it is but very little that groweth there, the place being very 
dangerous by rocks and fmall in compaffe withall : and therefore this Macedonian hone Parfley that is of Eflrt- 
«n',and carried unto all nations (is but (mail in quantitie to be had in theeountrey of Aiacedenia it felfebut it hap. 
peneth to this (tone Parfley of Macedonia, in the like manner that fallcth out with thehony of Athens and the 
xvine of Falerno. For as the Merchants doe export into all countries of the world the Athenian bony and the 
Falerno wine,lb doe they this (lose Parfley of dMacedonia, when as there doth not grow (uch a quantitie thereof 
in Oflacedonia as may fuffice all nations: but there groweth much of this Paifley in Epirus, as there is much ho¬ 
tly gathered in the Hands called Cyclades or Sporades (which are iu the cAgran Seajand as the hony is carried from 
the lies to Athens, fois thisftone Parfley firfl brought out of Epirus into Macedonia, and much of it if not all into 
Theffalonica, and from thence is carried forth as ll it were of Macedonia : the fame thing happeneth to the wine 
Falerno, for growing in a fmall peece of ground in Italy called Falerno , ytt cunning Marchants doe fo prepare 
the wine that they carry to all the fubjedl Nations of the Romane Empire that they make it feeme the very fame 
of Falerno. If you therefore at any time (hall want this EJlreaiicutn Petrofclinum, doc not eftceme the Treakle the 
worfe ifyou fliall put thereinto others: for although another is not fo fit againfl deadly poyfons or the bitin^s of 
venemous beads, yet againfl other dileafes it may be not a little profitable, fuchasarethe paines and torments 
inthebodyorbowells, the weakeneffeof the flomacke, theDropfie and divers otherfuch like, which dileafes 
theTreakleschiefeintentdothnotpromifetocure. Andbefidcs this EjireatittumTctrofelinum doth make the 
Treakle more bitter, efpecially being ufed while it is frefh, for it differeth from other done Paffleys, in that as it 
is moll fharpe fo it is mod titter of all other Parfleys the feede whtreofis thus deferibed from ‘Diofcorides Galen 
and Pliny, wihout any relation of herbe, that it differeth in kinde from all others,the feede being like unto 'Ammi 
Bifhops weede which is whiter and Idler then Cumin feede, but of a bitter fijnt, of a fharpe talfe, and fmelling 
aromatically,and as </*fe»addethmoftbic{er« b 
