¶ The Names.
It is called in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of the stony places where it groweth: in Latine, Petrapium, and Petroselinum Macedonicum: in English, stone Parsley: the Apothecaries know it not: they are farre deceiued that would haue the herbe which Fuchsius pictureth to be Amomum: for Amomum dif∣fereth from this, as it is very plaine by the description thereof in Dioscorides: but we hold this for the true stone Parsley, till such time as we may learne some other more like in leaues to the Par∣slies, and in seed, such as that of stone Parsley ought to be: and the very seed it selfe may cause vs to hold this opinion, being so agreeing to the description as no herbe more; for it is sharpe and biting, and of a sweeter smell than is that of Ameos, and of a more spicy sent; yet do not the leaues gainesay it, which though they haue not the perfect forme of other Parsleyes, yet notwithstanding are not altogether vnlike. ‡ The first of these is thought by Anguillara, Turner, Gesner, Cordus, and others, to be the Sison of Dioscorides, and Tragus calls it, Amomum Germanicum, and the seeds in shops retaine the name of Sem. Amomi. The second is thought by Columna to be the second Dau∣cus of Dioscorides. ‡