. Acetaria : a discourse of sallets. Vegetables; Herbs; Salad greens; Salads. / 'A ,68 A^niJ^tA. ro^ Spice, Wm, &c. 3s'Artichoak,Skirrets, &C. fliced or whole: They likewire may bake, fry, or boil them ; a more excellent^ Root there is hardly growing. 8i. Wood-Sorrel, Trifolium Jcetofum^ or Attehja j of the na- ture of other Sorrels. To all which might we add fundry more, formerly had \ti delkiis, fince ^/ff/f/f, or quite negle^ed with us : As among the nobleft Bulls, that of the Tulip-, a Root of which ' has been valued not to eat, but for the Floiver (and yet eaten by miftake
. Acetaria : a discourse of sallets. Vegetables; Herbs; Salad greens; Salads. / 'A ,68 A^niJ^tA. ro^ Spice, Wm, &c. 3s'Artichoak,Skirrets, &C. fliced or whole: They likewire may bake, fry, or boil them ; a more excellent^ Root there is hardly growing. 8i. Wood-Sorrel, Trifolium Jcetofum^ or Attehja j of the na- ture of other Sorrels. To all which might we add fundry more, formerly had \ti delkiis, fince ^/ff/f/f, or quite negle^ed with us : As among the nobleft Bulls, that of the Tulip-, a Root of which ' has been valued not to eat, but for the Floiver (and yet eaten by miftake) at more than an hundred Pounds. The young frelh Bulis are fweet, and high of Tafte. • The Afpbodil or DaffoJil; z ,Sallet fo rare in Hefiod's Days, that Lohel thinks it the Farfnip, tho' not at all hke it; however it was (with the Mallow) taken anciently for any Edule-Root. The Ornithogalons roafted, as they do Cheflnuts, are eaten by the Italians, the wild yellow efpecially, with Ojl, Vinegar, and Tep'per. And fo the fmall tulerous Roots of Gramen-Amjudalo- y«»w, which they alfo roaft, and make an Emulfion of, toufe in Broaths as a great Reftorative. The Oxylapathum us'd of Old; in the time of Galen was eaten frequently : As aUb DracmtiMm>^ with the mordicant Arum Theophrafli, which Do^onaus teaches how to drefs\ Nay, divers of the Satyrions, which fome con- dited with S«g To conclude : And after all that has been faid of Plants and Salleting, formerly in great Efieera, (but fince obfolete and quite rejcded) VVh:^ if the exalted Juice of the ancient Silphium Ihould come in, and challenge the Precedency? It is a * Plant'/>;.«. , formerly fo highly priz'd, and rare for thei:ichn£ its Tafte, ^^j^*|^"P3- and other Vertues ,• that as it was dedicated to Apollo, and hung5«- up in his Temple at Delphi; fo we read of one fingle Root zes chii. yi. brought to the Emperor Nero for dn. extraordinary Prefent; and *'/"'*"• the Drug fo ef
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