Book III

, The Gardener. All the recipes, with the exception of the above, fit a vegetable like parsnips. Even Lister's and Humelberg's interpretation of the term, who read _spongioli_--mushrooms--could be questioned under this heading, Book III .

It is barely possible that this entire series of formulæ, _Spondyli uel fonduli_ ({Rx} Nos. 115-121) does belong to