Theatrum Potankum. 
Tribe 8, 
944 Chap. 39 * 
Thefertues, 
Goutewort had not his name given as it feemeth at nndome,but upon good experience to helpe the cold Goute 
and Sciatica as alio iovnt aches and other cold griefes, for as Label faith his vulgar in taking it to bte Lbnius 
Danewoi t.a’pplyed it for the fame difeafes that Danewort was good for. 
Chaf. XXXIX. 
pajliiutca Latifolia. Parfnep. 
F Parfneps there are two forts, the tame or Garden kinde, and another that groweth wilde in divers 
places beyond the Seas,as well as in our owne Land. 
'EpfO'lMr 1 u <p»fiiMCAiMifilUfativ*. Garden Parfnepps. 
This Garden Parfnep hath large winged leaves,that is many ftt on both fidesof a longflalke, each 
B i ffin 0 f them for the mod part Handing direflly one againlt another, and one at the end, being much larger 
•hen t hofe of the Skirret.and clofer fet together and rougher, and dented about the edges: the flalke groweth five 
or fix footehigh, with divers the like'leaves and branches 
P aflitaca la tifolia fativa . 
Garden Parfneps. 
Alt eta. 
llUHUjdUUUUlU ivccojjV.. c - 
or 1.x tootemgn, with divers the like leaves and branches 
thereon but lefter : the flowers are yellow chat grow m tufts 
and umbells at the roppe, which turne into brownifh thmnc 
flat feede, fmellingreafonable well, the roote groweth grea¬ 
ter and larger infome grounds then in others, being white 
within and without, very fweet and pleafant to be eaten,when 
thev are fodden tender and are drefled afterwards many 
waves as every one lift. Qfthis kinde I have declared in my 
former booke another fort differing in nothing but the roote, 
which is thicker at the head and (horter, and not io lavourie 
as the former. . 
2. Paflinaca /at i folia fjlveflru. 
Wilde Parfnep. 
The wilde Parfnep differeth little tromthe former,but as a 
wilde plant, not growing fofaire and large, nor hath fo many 
leaves and that the roote (as all writers affirme of their coun¬ 
tries^ (horter more wooddy.and not fo fit to bee eaten, and 
therefore the more medicinable, but as t faid in my former 
booke it is the garden kinde is found wilde in many places of 
our Land fo fweete and fo tender after the (owing, that by be¬ 
ing manured it provetb as good as the Garden kinde. 
The P lace and Time. 
The firft is every where in thefe parts nurfed up in Gardens: 
the other growing wilde as I fayd in divers places, as m the 
Mar flies by Rechefier in the grounds of Sir M» Levefin 
there,and flowreth in I«lj, the lcede beingripe about the be¬ 
ginning of Auruft the fecond yeate after the lowing, for if 
they doe flower the firft yearc, the countrey pleople call them 
madde Neepes. 
The Names. 
The later writers generally call it Paftinaca Iatifilia to pur a 
difference betweeneit and the Carrot which is called Puflixa- 
ca tcimifiliafls I laid before, fome authors calling it fattva or 
domejlica or vulgaris. Fudfin calleth it S ijartmjanvum mag¬ 
num and Tahermentams Plapobofctem fattvum ■ but Column* 
takeih ittobe tbcSifer of ‘Dicfcmdes. The wilde fort uncal¬ 
led by many Paftinaca Jyheftris or latifolia fyhcOru as ,Dode-_ Tahermattanm 
doth, Cmdus upon Dscfcoriies calleth r’/^Zlman SU&tafium : 
ElapkabafcunSyFucbS* calleth it Sif'r Mv'ftrc, and Lobe BauoaPaftmaca fylvejlru “ intheApo- 
but whether this fhcnld be the Ehphebefcm of ^efcorsics I (halfreferee you to the next Chapter,,n t ^ 
thecaries fliops of Italy and qermanj it was nil,ally called Sanaa, Tragus faith and fo doth ® d, 
in their time did call it Staphylinu* as well as the other tenmfeha. The Italians call it C*> TfZclcn the Dutch 
arch Qanaoria Blmqtta, the French Paftenade, the Germans meren tceijf, Tafteney and Pafiinach 
P #ftinaken % 
!The Vertttes . _ . 
The Garden Parfnep nourifheth much, and the nourifhment is good and wholfomx bu^ 
by it is thought to procure bodily lull, but it fattened, the body much if it be ufed: it little tripeftah y 
call ufc as molt of thofe herbes and rootes doe that arc much eaten, which made Dtefcori , , wilde 
fift much upon them: onely ic is conducible to the ftomacke reines and bladder and provokteh unne.hut t 
kinde is more phyficall, having a cutting, attenuating, clenfing and opening quahtie therein :it remte i 
peth the bitings of Serpentsif eafeth the paincs and flitches in the fide,, and diffolvcth win • f Pct ) e much 
macke and bowels which is the chollicke and provoketh Vrine, the toote is often u e u 
