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Show 206 ainsi Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lis. a eh | The Temperature, The Sow-thiftles, as Galen writeth,are ofa mixt temperature ; for they confitt of a Watery aiid earthy fubftance,cold,and likewife binding, @ The Vertues, Whileft theyate yet yong and tender theyare eatenas other pot-herbes are ; but whether the be eaten,or outwardly applied in manner ofa pulteffe, they do euidentlycoole : therefore theybe goodforall inflammationsorhotfwellings, ifthey be laid thereon. Sow-thiftle giuen in broth taketh awaythe gnawings of the ftomacke proceedingof an hot caufe, and increafe milkein the breafts of Nurfés, caufing the children whom they nurfetohane a good colour: and of the famevertueis the broth ifitbe drunken. Theiuyce of thefe herbes doth coole and temperthe heate ofthe fundament and priuy parts, Cuar, 34. Of the Hiftorie of Plants; Lis, 2. 2. The {mall Hawke-weed, which ofmoft writers hath been takenforyellow Diuielssbit, hath long leaues deepely-cut about the edges, with fome tharpe roughineffe thereon like vnto Sow-thiz file. Theftalkes and floures are like the former ; the root is compaét ofmany {mall firings with a {mall knob, or as it were the ftumpeof an old root in the middle ofthofe ftrings, cut or bitten off. whereuponit tooke his name Diuels bit. 3,-Blacke Hawke-weedhath very many long iagged leaues,not muchvnlike to thofe of Bucks horhe, {pted flat and farre abroad vpon the ground, whichthe pidture cannot exptefleas is requifite, in fo little roome :among which rife vp many ftalkes flenderand weake, the floures growing at the top yellow and very double’:.it hath alfo a threddy root. # Our Author formerly gauethree figures,and fo manydefcriptions of this {mall Hieracium, which haue contracted into two; for the onelydifference that I can findeis, that the one haththe rootas it were bitten off, with the leauesleffe cut in; the other hatha root fomewhat longer, and fibrous as the former; the leaues alfo in this are much more finely anddeepe cutin: in other refpects there is no difference, + Of Havke-weed. 3 Hieratiumnigrum, Blacke Hawke-weed. | The Kindes. 4. Hitracinm Aphacoides. Succory Hawke-weed, HiAwkeweed isalfo a kinde ofSuccorie ; ofwhich Dioftorides maketh two forts , and thelatet Writers more : the which fhall be deferibedin this chapter following , where they hall b diftinguithed as well with feuerall titles as fundty déferiptions. t 3 Hitracium majus Diofcorids, Great Hawke-weed, 2 Hieracium minusfine Leporinum, Small’ Hares Hawk-weed,or Yellow Ditiels-bit! 4 Succory Hawke-weed hath many long and large ledties {pred vpon the ground,deepely cut , onbothfides almoft to the middle rib ; from whichrife vp fmall ftalkes and floures like thofe of theleffe Dandelion, but leffer. The root confifteth ofmany {mall threddyftrings. 5 Endiue Hawke-weed hath many broad leaues, indented aboutthe edgesvery like vnto Garden Endiue, but narrower ; among which rife vp ftalkes a foot or mote high,flender,hairy,and brittle: the floures are yellow,and growat the top double,and thick fet ina fcaly huske like the Knap- Weed or Iacea, hauing great thicke and threddy roots. +. This hatha ftalke fometimes moreand otherwhiles leffe rough, with the leaues fomitimes more cut in, more long and natrow, and againe othenvhiles more fhort and broad. t q The Defiription. z Lt great Hawke-weed hath large and long leaues fpred vpon the ground, in fhape like thofe ofthe Sow-thiftle : the ftalk gtoweth to the heightoftwo cubits, branched into fundry armesordiuifions,hollow within as the yong Kexe,reddi(h ofcolour ; whereupondo g°o" yellow floures thickeand double,which turne into Downethatflieth away with thewindewhe the feed isripe. Theroot is thicke,tough and threddy. The 6 Longrooted Hawk-weed hath many broad leaues {pread vponthe ground, fleightly & confufedly indented about the edges,with fomewhata bluntith point , among which leaues {priig vp i and tough ftalks a foot andhalfe high,fet on the top with faire double yellow floures much ‘kevntoa Piffe-abed, Theroot is very long,white and tough. 2 Le Sharpe Hawk-weed hath leaues like thofe ofLangiiebeefe or Ox-tongue, but much narro+ lik 7 1atpe aboutthe edges,and roughin the middle : the ftalks be long and flendér, fet with the sXe Zeatics, butleffer : the floures grow at the top,double and yellow:the rootis tough & threddy, “= Bh. $ 8 Crooked |