A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

Of wilde Parsely. Chap. xlvi.

❀ The Description.

THE herbe which we (in folowing the auncient Theophrastus) do cal wilde Ache or Parsely, hath large leaues, al iagged, cut, and vittered, muche lyke the leaues of the wilde Carrot but larger. The stalkes be rounde and holow of foure or fiue foote long, of a browne red colour next the grounde, at the top of them growe spokie rundels, or rounde tuffetes with white flowers, after them commeth a flat rough seede, not muche vnlyke the sede of Dyl, but greater. The roote is parted into two or three long rootes, the whiche doo growe very seldome downewardes, but most commonly are founde lying ouerthwarte and alongst, here and there, and are hoate and bur∣ning vpon the tongue. The whole herbe both stalkes & leaues, is full of white sappe, lyke to the Tithymales or Spurges, the whiche commeth foorth when it is broken or pluckt.

¶ The Place.

This herbe is founde in this Countrie in moyst places, about pondes, and alongst by diches, neuerthelesse it is not very common.

❀ The Tyme.

The wilde Parsely flowreth in Iune, and his seede is ripe in Iuly.

❧ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine, Apium syluestre, that is to say, Wilde Parsely: in Frenche, Persil, or Ache sauuage: in high Douche, Wilder Eppich, or Epffich: in base Almaigne, Wilde Eppe. Of this herbe Theo∣phrastus writeth, in his vij. booke the iiij. Chap. saying that y^e wilde Parsely hath red stemmes. And Dioscorides in his third booke the lxvij. Chap. In some shops of this Countrie it is cal∣led Meum: & they vse the rootes of this Parsely in steede of Meum.

❀ The Nature.

The wilde Parsely and specially the roote thereof is hoate and drye in the thirde degree.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The roote of wilde Parsely holden in the mouth & chewed, appeaseth the rigour of the tooth ache, and draweth abundance of humours frō the braine.

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Apium syluestre.