CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

COMMON GARDEN PARSNEP (PARSNIP)

Description. This has a long and large root running deep into the earth, not much branched, white in the inside, of a pleasant sweet taste; it ahs many large, winged, hairy leaves, of a dull green colour, divided into several tripartite sections. The stalks grow to be five or six feet high, much branched and chanelled, beset with several smaller leaves, which grow at the division; on the tops grow umbels of yellow, five-leaved, small flowers, and after them come smooth, flat, oval seed, two growing together, as in other umbelliferous plants.

Place. It is planted in gardens.

Time. It flowers in June and July. The root only is used.

Government and virtues. It is under Venus. Parsneps are more used for food than medicine, being a pleasing nourishing root, though somewhat windy, are though to be provokers to venery.