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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Cuar.3u Bi 2. Lis 2. Of the Hittorie of Plants, 4 Spanifh Gum Succorie hath manyleaues {pred vpon the ground, in fhape like tho. Groundfell,but much more diuided, and not faitiick ne fat: suncdguce ch rife @tmecs ftalkes fet with leaues like thofe of Stabefalamanticaminor, or Siluer-weed, whereof this is a kinde Of Gumme Succorie. The floures growat the top, ofan ouerworne purple colour, which feldome q The Defcription. thew themfelues broad blowne: + Thefeedis like that ofCurthamus in fhape, but blackeand fhining. + VimmeSuccorie with blewfloures hatha thicke and tough root, with fome ftrings t 3 Chondrilla lutea. annexed thereto,full ofa milkie iuyce, as is all the reft of the plant,the floures ex. ' t 4 Chondrilla Hifpanica, Yellow Gum Succorie. cepted, The leaucs are greaviand long,in fhapelike to thofe of garden Succorie,but deeplier cut or iagged, fomewhatafter the manner of wilde Rocket: among whichrife tendet Spanifh Gum Succorie. ~ We ftalkes very eafie to be broken, branched toward the top in two or fometimesthree branches,bea- ring very pleafantfloures ofan azure colour or deepe blew ; whichbeingpaft, the feed fliethaway in downe with the winde, 1 Chondrillacersilea, Blew Gum Succorie. 2 Chondrilla coerulea latifolia. Robings Gum Succory. a 5 oe oe iene hatha tough and hardroot, witha few fhort threds faftned tHeret o; Paik: nae ri ee a lagged leaueslike thofe of Succorie, but much more diuided: The . “ me to oeet of twofoot, tough and limmer like vnto rufhes Be a aues. ‘The floures be yellow,fingle, and {mall, which being , whereon are fer fadeddoe fly away : ao le: the whole plant hauing milky inyce vnto the otherofhis kinde. Here 1s another fort ofthis plant to be foundilike n fome places ofthis kingdome, and it is ofChendyilla a humilis, = : iiss oD ee ae many knobby or vj[cof tuberous rootsfull ofiuyce, ofa whitith purace Bios Hie sholeofScotu _ ae by Bauhinus vnder the name 2 Gum Succorie with broad leaues,which I hauenamed Robinus Gum Succorie (for thathe Was the firft that made any mentionof a fecond kind which he fent meas a great dainty,2s inace I confeffit) inrootsis like the former : the leaues be greater, not vnlike to thofe of Endive, PM cut more deeply euento the middle rib: the ftalkes grow to the height of twofoot : the flout likewife are 6fanazure colour, but fprinckled ouerasit were with filuer fand , which addeth the floure great grace and beauty. 2 fe 3. Yellow gumSuccorie hath long leaues like in forme and diuifion ofthe cut Jeaues totho® ofwild Succorie,but leffer,coucred all ouer with a hoarie down, The ftalkeis two foot high,whitt and downie alfo:, diuided into fundry branches, whereupon doe grow.torne floureslike thole 0 Succoric, but in colouryellow, which are turned into downethatis caried away with the wi " The root is long, and ofameane thickneffe, from which, as from all the reft ofthe plant, doth* fue fortha milky inyce,which being dried is ofa yellowith red, fharp,or biting the tongue. b ; is found vpon the branches heneofa gum,as Diofcorides faith, which is vfed at this day inphyficke in the Ifle Lemnos, as Bellonins witneffeth, : : a ft 4x Spani = s: sy hy gnmnesliately vp few fmall thinne be ahah L sharrower below, and fomewhat largtr towards their ; eeeee en tender ftalkes 3 , naked, fuporcholioasjena of fome foot an Them: each of thefe ftalkes haue one floure, in fhape like that ofthe Dandelion but leffer V . € plantis whitith or hoary,as are manyo f the fea plants. + ree mene white fmall ‘Y and tender roots, from the which rife many; indented whereo f rife y t ofDandelicn I fof Sa but much leffe, {predorlaid flatvpon the ground ; from the mid Si - tender ftalkes, bearing at the top double yellow floure s like thofe 8 The male S i? but fmaller: the feed with the downytuft flicth away with thewind. fafined oa : =a hatha long andflender root, with fome few threds or ftrings Pred vpon the ‘a a ich Ipring vp {mall tender leaues about the bigneffe of thofe of Dafies, milkyinyee nen oh »cut or fhipt about the edges confu fedly, ofan ouerworne colour,full of a Balke ane floureant which rife vp diuers {mall tender naked ftalkes Na no more, ofa faint yellowcolour, and fomet , bearing at the top of euery hine double :which being ripe, do ‘ |
