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Show THE“SEC-OND OF HISTORIE ‘OFHNTHE BOOKE PLANTS. The place. Thefe kinds of Sowthiftles do growe wilde in paftures,medowes swoods,and marhes neere the fea, and among pot herbes. bast rae The tree Sowthiftle Ihaue not as yet {eene,and may be counted a ftranger in Englith gardensor el(wherein thefe Northerne and colde regions. % The time, They flowerin Iune,luly, Auguft,and fometimes later, %& The names. Sowthiftle is called in Greeke ty,ein Latine Sonchi:ofdiuers Cicer bsta,lactucella,and Lacteromes: Apuleius callethit Lactuca Leporina, ot Hares Thiftle, of fome Braftca leporima , ot Hares Cole woort ; the Englifh names arefufficiently touched in their feuerall titles: in Dutchitis callediy fen Lattouwe tthe French Palaysde lieure. %& The temperatare, The Sowthiftles,as Ga/en writeth,are ofa mixt temperatures for they confift ofa watry &earthie I "FischerThile, Tice eaues {pread vpon the grounde cubits braunch tholeofthemilke Thiftle. The ftalke groweth to the height of two gkexe, reddith ofc 5 tofundrie armes or diuifions,hollowe w c hturne into downe that flieth awaie with the ypon do growyellow flowers thicke and double winde whenthe feede is ripe.The roote is thicke,tough and threddie, long 2 Thefinal Haukeweede which ofmoft writers hath beene taken for yellowDiuels bit, hath leaues deepely cut about the edges,with fome fharper sughneffe thereonlike vnto Sowthiftle, The flalkesand flowers arelike the former, the roote is compact of many{mal {trings w ith a final knob, oras it were the ftumpeof anolde roote in the middle of thofe ftringes cut orbitten off, whereupon ittooke hisname Diuels bit. 3 Hueracium nigrum. 4 Hieracium Leporinum. Hares Haukeweede. fubftance,colde and likewife binding, % The vertues. : A Whileft they are yetyoong and tendertheyare eatenas other potherbes are, but whether they SSS be eatenot outwardly applied in manerof a pultus theyeuidently coole : therefore they be good for all inflammations or hotfivellings if theybe laide thereon, B Sowthiftle giuenin broth taketh away the gnawingsof the ftomack proceeding ofanhot catl, andincteafe milke in the breafts of nurfes, caufingtheir children whom they nurfe to hauea f goodcolour,and ofthe fame vertue is the brothifit be drunken, C The iuice of thefe herbes doth coole and temperthe heate ofthe fundamentandpriuie patts. OfHaukewe \ ede. (hap. P332. ee % The kindes. L Aukeweede is alfoa kinde ofSuccorie, ofwhich Dioféorides makethtwoforts, and thelate writers mo the which hall be defcribed in this chapter followin g , where they fhall be diftie guifhed as well with feueralltitles as fundrie defcriptions, 1 Hitraciwmmaius Dioftoridis, Great Haukeweede, 2 Hieracium minus Dioftoridit lacl. - ged leaues, not muchvnlike to thofe of Buckes »,whichthe picture cannot exprefieinfolittle “Otne; flatand farre abroad vponthe gt Tome asIpted is teq uifite :’among whichrife vp many ftalkes {lender and weake, the flowers growing Yellowat the to 4 Hares Hay pand verie double, with a threddie roote. keweede hath many long iagged leaues, cutabout the edges on both thefideslike Neteeth ofa {a we, refembling very well the yellowe Diuels bit as well in leaues as rootes, faning Blacke Haukeweede hath very manylong tatithath no act ah knobbed bitten robte asithath. Theftalke is hollowe, weake and flender : the e like ¢ ne former, but not fo double, oth fide aukeweede hath manylong andlarge leaues {pread vpon the grounde,decpely cu mel ees to the middle ribbe,ftomwhichrife vp finall ftalkes and flowers like thofe ofthe lefie , on,butleffer,The roote confifteth ofmany{mall threddie ftrings... ; ia ger de Endnn, plaukeweede hath many broad leaues , endented about theedges very like es ie: uenatrower among whichrife vp ftalkes a foote high,flenderand brittle. The flowers tino oe atthe top, double and thicke fer ina {caley huskelikethe Knap-weede orIacea, ha- PrepensBs <9 a 5 ee eae eaeee aN 232 Succotie H ob'at,thicke and threddie roote, 5 Hreracium |