cjl6 ChAP.2'7* 
Tbeatrum < Bota nicum. 1 R j 
Chap. XXVII. 
Tribe 8. 
EUufeliMtn. Pa'.udapnmjive Apium palufire. Smallage. 
7/| meant here to joyne it with iheorchnary Smallage. 
^pium vu'gare five palufire* 
Ordinary fmallage. 
Th= ordinary inr.il.'j"™"* 8““ ««f mlUdMtelhtn 
fley but denied lomewhat unevenlyabou the ^Re^atthe 
toppes o( the (bikes and branches ftand larg: tuho> 
white flower.swbichturne into tmal er feede then Pa ll y . 4 
the roore is greater but not fo long and {lender, with * number, 
ofblack.lh fibres, fet thereat! the whole ht*e“d r ooteis 
ftrongin fimell.and much more unpleafant and bittet in tafte 
then Garden Parflcy.not to be endured to be eaten alone, but 
being boyled and other wife dreiled it lavoureth better. 
2. Sehmm five Apium dnlce. 
Sweete Selinum or Smallage. _ 
The fweet Smallage or Paifiey call it which you pleale, 
srowethup in the fame manner that the former Smallage 
doth but larger then it. the leaves likewise are larger but not 
of fo deepe a greene colour the flowers and feede hkewife are 
like thole but fomewhat larger: the roote is great and long 
with divers fibres fet thereat, white and much more lappie 
and pleafant than eythcr Smallage orPaifley.with a very war¬ 
ming and comfortable rellifh alfo nothing offenfive, but the 
whole herbeis fo pleafant as if Sugar had beene mixed with 
it This both rellifh and forme wee have found it hath held 
for the firfto. fecond yeare, the feedehath beene fowen with 
us that commeth from beyond fea, but as fweete Fennell doth 
degenerate more and more in our Land, and onely contmueth 
fweete in warme countries, fo doth this, the leaves abode- 
cay in their verdure and become nothing lo rreih, but are 
more fallen or fad like Smallage. 
The Place and Time, 
The firftgrowetb naturally in wet and marfh grounds, but 
if it be planted or fowen in gardens ir there proipereth well. 
the other is familiar in Greece and Italy, where they eatc it 
with m-eat delight both herbeand roote,and is onely lowen 
and replanted in all thofe places,- the naturall place being not 
knowne to us: they both abide greene all the winter and feed 
in z/iugHfl with us. 
The Names. 
The Greeks call the firft ex*u®rfMw Eftofehnon which the Greeke word: Selinon in Greeke is al- 
Latines render PtlmUpwm or Apium palufire, and 1 “ 1 'y ame F ■ hj w hich doth demoftftrate his kind as f 
w T ayes rendered dp.tun in Latme,and thereunto is added the ot p ’ mneernine the Greeke and Ara- 
fayd before in the firft divifion of thefi eApia : but as I g«« you t “* lhe Ar abian authors,whom the Apo- 
b\an acceptation of Apitwtj fo let it here be obferved alfo that Af Smalla«e when asetfe Apium i* 
thecarics fhoppts have moft followed in their appellations,is to be un ei taludre and SUofelinttm by T)o - 
the Sreekes S'lmon: and therefore it is by rnofl writers called Aptum »»d 4 »»»<t ‘fi . “ } cede 0 f Apium 
donxM and Lobel-Columella in his eleventh book and third Chapter flitw , J /•, ma j; e j t have a broa- 
fwhich OUMUm thinketh is this palufire but I thinke rather he follow^ his 
der leafe and how to make ir have a crumpled leafe, and Manhiolm faith :alfo that Cardine« m ^ ^ ^ 
rules have made this Smallage to beare crumpled leaves, onely for p.ea n is this Apium ‘folic and his 
leevethey ..re but conceits,and rather fallacies then verities, for that Aptu f ’ , faith the Apium 
Apium enffum is our curled Parfley, both ofthem being lo by nature and no y > f batb becnC cJifpcr- 
or Petrofelinum crifpumh fo naturally growing in Sardinia, and from thenc but for Apin ’» S/w»- 
fed.The other is mentioned by Bedoniut in his obfervauons.yet taking it as c doth,who would alfo 
taneum altered by art of tranlplanting,&c. to make ir to be called Geofehnum as Qt*- ■ , . t0 be A pi- 
(a, I fuewed you before make our common Pal (ley to be Petrojelmtim Mace on <■ • ) ^ b aU / w ;,_ 
um hortinfe, whom Colntn^^ doth much inculcate for it •’ it is generally caked —c ‘JJ .„hi c h as I favd you 
ans and Greeket hkewife in their countries. I called it before Selinum Attlee, fweet Par cy, Italians Apia 
may ey ther doe fo or call it fweete Smallage which you wrU.The Arabians -call S f nal , he Germans 
paluftre and A pio aepuatico, the Spaniards Ferexil da qua aed Apto^he French Ac ache, and i f 
Fpfickjmd Eppick^lbe Dutch Eppe. 
Pliny hath erred much and caufed others to follow his trafl.in following and allowing Cbry. 
fui their writings, by miftaking the various acceptation of the word Apinm of th* Latme Jn j 
