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Show = TLheatrum Botanicum. Trine 5 what broad andlittle rent or torne at the bottome, but dentedall the reft of the leafe: the flowers grow onfe= ; verall branchesat the toppesof a pale blewcolour,the roote perifheth every yeare. 7. Scabiofa arborea Cretica Alpino, Alpinus his {hrubbie Scabious ofCandy, This Scabious. hatha thicke whitith {temme next the ground for a fhaftmont high, from whence rife fundry long branches fet at certaine diftances,with five, fixe, feven or moreleaves at a {pace, each of them fomewhat refembling thofe of the true Honfeleeke but hoary white ; the toppes of the branches have two orthree large flowers, {tanding onflender long footeftalkes together, like unto the common fort forthe fafhion, but of a delayed er wafh biufh colour, after which mie: {mall feede, and is'very tender to keepe, The Place, Thefirft sroweth moft ufually in moft Medowesof this land,efpeeially about London every where, The fecond growethlikewife in fome ofthe drie fields about this Citie, but not fo plentifully as theformer, The third groweth both in the grounds where corneis {tanding, and in thofe that were formerly fowne; and now lie fallow, as alfo inthe border of fuch like fields, The fourth C/ufivs faith he found, nighinnto che wall of Tirmaviea cittie in the upper Hungarie : the fift is found in manydrie gravelly and heathy eroynds.throughont the Realine : the fixt grew in the low countries as C/x/fus faith aSere he had formerly fént thither ; and the laft in Candy, pe Time, a Theyall flower in Ine and J#/y, and fomeabide fowringuntilliit be late in-Awguff, and the {eedeis ripe in the meane time. The Names, This herbe is not found to be remembred byany the ancient Gteeké or Latine Authors; yet fome fome thinke itis that herbe e4tins calleth 1s, but becanfe there is nothing but the bare namethat is extant in him, without anydefcription, it his hard to fayit is the fame ; notwithftanding the Greeke word fignifieth Scabies in Latine But ittooke the name of Scabiofa, either a foliorum [cabritie que pre(ertim, primo huic generi convenit, or rather, and that moft ufually , q#0d Scabiei medetur ; the name is ofdivers applied, as I faid before, to divers herbes,as to the Iaceas, Stebes, and others, calling fome of them Scabiofa major, and altera [quammatis capitulis, as Biubix ‘ and others doe : but as I faid before, the heads and fowers of all thefe herbes called Scabiax/es, being all fo fre andlike one unto another, and fo differing from Jacea, Stebe, &c, mult needes fhew plainely ies the thould not be fo confounded, fora novice fhall hardly underftand whatherbe is meant, by fuch namesas are ites ofed o} livers ofthem: the Author of the Pandefts, is thought tobethe firft that miftooke Diofcorides Srebe . be ‘his cabious, from whencethe errour thereof foone {pread among Phyfitionsin all countries, and continuing (till i: hardly tobe rooted out againe, Tamfactlis eff defcen(us in errorem, & e contra arduus alcenfusin veri ile Fab* Columnain his Phytobafanus,-feemeth to referre the Scabiofes unto Phytexma of Diofcorides; but in his eh Booke of rare plants, he declineth to thinke that fuch {mall Valeriaus, as he there defcribeth becaufe ditcciice have holes in them, hiould be the Phytewma of Diofcorides, The Italians,Spanifh,French,and Enghiph do all follow the Latine name Scabio/a, as each Diale&t will admit,only the Germanescall it Apoffem kraut. eyofiens kuaut, and Grinde kraut. Thefirftis called of moit Writers; either vulgaris, orcommuniseither pratenfisot officimarum « th fecond is called Scabiofa media, and minor ofdivers, and Columbaria ofLobel. and is Clufius his fift Srabious in his Iiftory of Plants, Bawhinus ferteth it downefor his fecond {pecies of Scabiofa capitulo globofo, and yethe a meththe fame Scabiofa prima Cluft) for the {econd of his montana; hereby making thatone plant to be two ies verall kindes, whichthing is very frequent with him, in many other things and places, in his Pinax, Prodrom, 3 and (Wazthiolw: the third is called Scabzofa campeftrisfeu fegetum of Lobel, as al{o major(atorum anleatior The fourthis called by Clufius, Scabiofa Pannonica flore albo,andis his eight Scabions in his Hiftory ofPlants : the fift is that Scabiows, which we generally throughoutthe land,doecall fheepes Scabious,\ called by Dodonuus Ovilla al . eee 2 3, Scabiofa montana Dentis leonisfolio, Scabious with Dandelionleaves. This Scabions differeth little from other forts of Scabio#s, but in the leaves, which being fomewhat hairy and not {mooth, broad-at the bottome compaffing the ftalkes, arefo divided on the-edges, as a Dandelion leafe is, the lower divifions of the leaves, being blunt at the points, and the uppermoft fharpe yet all dented about the edges: the ftalkes being hairy and about two foote high, ate divided toward the toppes into branches, having twoleaves atthe joints, fo joyned together like the leaves of the Teafell, chat they will hold water : the fowers that grow: at the toppes ate of a pale blewith colourlike the reft. 1. Scabiofamontans maxima, The greater mountaine Scabious, 4, Scabiofa prolifera duarum fpecierum. Many flowred Scabi'ns oftwo forts. This kind ofScabions, that beareth many heads of fmall flowers, compafling the greater, as is feene in Daifyes, Marigolds, and fome other herbes ; isof two forts,oné that hath his leaves cut or divided into fome’ broader ‘and largerdivifions than the other: the branches towards the toppes where the flowers doe ftand are bare; or naked without leaves, fave under the very heads, where there ftand three or foure {mall leaves, very finely cut almoft as fmall as Fennell: round about the middle heads of flowers grow forth,other feverall fmall heads offlowers,all alike bothfor colour andfafhion; which are like the ordinary Scabions : thefe give feede like other forts, and perifh after feede time,and ¢ither rife again oftheir own fowing, or being gathered muft be new fowen. ; 5. Scabiofa argentea angustifolia, Silver leafed Scabious. This Scabions from a hard wooddy living roote,fen= deth forth three or foure ftalkes, with divers very long and narrowleaves, almoft like graffe, but ofa fine white filverlike colour; fet without order thereon; the toppes ofthe flalkes are not branchedatall, but bare. and naked for a goodfpace, bearing one flower at the head of them, white and woolly underneath,but of a pale blew colour above, as other Scabiou/es are, and confifting in the like manner of many flowers together, The Place, : The firft groweth in many places on the Alpes, and in the fields néare unto divers other mountaines andhills in Antriaand ele where: thejfecond groweth'on thelike places, as on Suealben and Sneberg hills in Austria, &c. as Clufiue reporteth : the third upon MountCalcar not farre from CMompelier : the fourth with the broader neare Vicenza in Italy, 1. Scabiofa montana maxima, The greatelt mountaine Scabious, = flower on theinfide : the {eedeis like the other forts, and the roote is long blackifh, and longlafting after feede time. calleth ee same latifolia alba the lafkisthat which 4lpizus defcribeth and planet te ean in his Booke ie de plantzs exoticy,and isa. very likel ith? ova ova in in his hi [talian tan Baldus us {etteth {c i ites tobee the fame with)? forth,in His great mountaine Scabiows, which fomefor the largeneffe thereof, have accounted ere kinde of great Centory, hath divers very large winged darke greeneleaves, thatis ae seth aah fides into divers parts to the middle ribbe, and cach part finely nicked or dented about the edges, many leaves capone SSS By 7 leaves, is onely to be found in gardens, but that withfiner leaves if it be not the fame with the former hath beene Scabiofe montane, Mountaine and wood Scabioues, =p Cuar.g, though mnchdiffering from his defcription, which he calleth alfo media 3 and of Lobel Scabiofa oiicantons minima,and yet the figures of neither ofthem are anfwerable to the true herbe:thefixt Clu/iu only maketh me to sad ee = in The TheaterofPlantes. 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(efpecially growing at large in any good ground ) being a foote or fometimes more in length or molt Eee, ly neare there unto = from amongwhichrife up divers hard wooddy ftalkes fometimes foureor five foote high and nfvally about three foote high, brariching towards the toppes, into fome other {maller ftemmes; at the toppes of each whereof ftandeth one large greatround, blackifh greene head, from whence fhoote forth divers fuchlike flowersas the Scabioufes doe yeeld, with thredsinthe middle of them inthe like manner, but each budde before it is blowen is more yellow then whenit is open, and hath ftood any time, which yet at the perfection are of a pale yellowithcolour ; in which heads when the flowers are paft, grow long rough darke colcured feede, which being fhed uponthe ground,as fooneas theyareripe, will foone {pring up before W inter, and will abide greene all the Winter time, and fhoote up and flowerfor the moft part the next yeare following, yet the old roote perifheth notafter {eede time,but abideth many yeares, vast i _ 2 Scabiofa montana glabrofolio, Mountaine Scabiows with {mooth leaves. This mountaine Scabious is a low plant, in comparifon of the former,for it feldomerifeth above a foote hich; bearing many fhining greeneleaves, not any thing hoary at all, but {mooth foft andfull ofjuice Poe cht in onthe edges, like the ordinaryfield Scabious, and each ofthe divifions dentedalittle about <2 edges : upon the ftalkes grow the like leaves, two alwayes ata joint, but much more divided than the loweft, and a at the'toppes asin other forts of Scabions,of a fine blewith purple colour, with blackith threds at the foote of every flower obferved to grow wilde, about thebaths of our Lady neare Padea ;, the laft was found upon the hill Swmano The Time, Theydoe all flowerat the time when the otherforts doc. The Names, The firttis called by Lobel Scabio[amontana maxima ; by (amerarius Scabiofa Alpina (entauroides s by Lagdue nenfis Centanrium nothum Dalechampy ; Bawhinus calleth it Scabio(a Alpina folys Centanrij majoris: Banhinus maketh the fecond tobe thefift Seabions with C/x/ius in his hiftory of plants,as I faid before;& callethit Scabiofa mona tana glabrafolijs Scabiofe uulgariss the third is onely rémembred by Bamhinus in his Pinax and Prodromus, under the title exprefled : the fourthig called both by Lobel and (/ufizs Proliféra,and their kinde is that with the lars ger leaves ;the other fort Baxhinusfaith, hath finer cut leaves like unto Gingidiam or Vifnage: the laft is rememe bred as well by Camerariss in horto medico, by the name of Scabiofagraminea folio argenteo flore purpurco, as by Banbinus underthetitle expreffed, Scabiofe globofo flore.. Globe flowred Scabious: ¥, Scabiofa Neapolitana folio Sinapi[yluestris, The Globe Scabiows of Naples, ie Scabious hath a ftraked ftalke a footé and a halfe high, divided from the bottomeinto long branchés, hae; ving two long {mooth leaves divided to the middle ribbe on both fides, and each part divided alfo, fomewhatlike unto theleaves of wild Muftard, ftanding at éach joint, and together with them many {mall haires growingtherelikewife : the flowersthat ftand fingly at the toppes-of every ftalke, are of a middle fife, and very round at the head, whereof it tooke the name:for the heads of the former fortsare fomewhatflat at the toppes, and not fo round or globe fafhion as thefein this ranke,and are ofa reddifh colour,yet not fo deepe or darke red, as that whichI fet forth in my former Booke,by the name Scabiofa rubra Indica, Red flowred Indian Scabious s which pertainethto this order, buc that itisdefcribed there, and thefigure here ; the {eedes are fall, like thetcs unto, and the rootes likewife perithing after feede time for the moft part, ; : : ; 2, Scabjofe |