¶ The Names.
The Herbarists of our time do call the garden Parsneps 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and Pastinaca, and therefore wee haue surnamed it Latifolia, or broad leafed, that it may differ from the other garden Parsnep with narrow leaues, which is truly and properly called Staphylinus, that is, the garden Carrot. Some Phy∣sitions doubting, and not knowing to what herbe of the Antients it should be referred, haue fained the wilde kinde hereof to be Panacis species, or a kind of Alheale: diuers haue named it Baucia; others, Branca Leonina, but if you diligently marke and confer it with Elaphoboscum of Dioscorides, you shal hardly finde any difference at all: but the plant called at Montpelier Pabulum Ceruinum: in English, Harts fodder, supposed there to be the true Elaphoboscum, differeth much from the true notes there∣of. Now Baucia, as Iacobus Manlius reporteth in Luminari maiore, is Dioscorides, and the old Writers Pastinaca, that is to say, Tenuifolia, or Carrot: but the old writers, and especially Dioscorides haue called this wilde Parsnep by the name of Elaphoboscum: and wee doe call them Parsneps and Mypes.