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They come vp in the Spring,and fometimes fooner,andripentheir feed inIuly and Augutt, | The Names. 1 Itake the firft of thefe to be the Ladiuca Sylvefiris of Dic Corides and the Ancients, andthar which the Authours ofthe Adverfaria gaue vs voder the title of Lad/aca agreflis {oariole hortenfs ; folio; Leiluceflore, Opi odore ve hementi, foporifero cr virofo. 2 This is the Endiuia of Trag we, pag. 268.and the Thefion of Dalefchampius, pag. 5 64, Banbine A B D q The Defcription. fome He plant which iscommonly called olus album,ox the whitepot-herbe(which of hath beenfet out for a kinde of Valerian, butvaproperly, for that it dothvery notably refemble the Lettuce, as well in forme, as in meate to beeaten, which propertie kinde of Leris not to be found in Valerian,and therefore by reafon andauthoritie I place itasa | _tuce) hath manyflenderweakeftalkestrailing vpon the ground, with certaine edges a foot high whenit growes in moft fertile ground , otherwife a handor twohigh,with fundry ioynts Or knees: out ofeuery one whereofgrowa couple of leaues narrow and [ong,notvoliketo Lettuceat thefirft confounds this with the former. 3 Thisis the Lactuca Sylveftris prior, of Tragus :the Latiuca Sylvefiris of Matthiolus, Fuchfig, f Dodonaus,andothers: it is the Seris Domejtica ofLobel, known broad tuftas it were certaine white floures that be maruellouslittle,which can fearfely be Thefe certainly, efpecially thetwo firft, arecold, and that in the later end ofthe thirdorbeginning of the four th degree (if opiumbe cold inthe fourth. ) few flender threads like vnto haires. 2 Theotherkind ofLettuce, which Dodoseus inhis laft edition fetteth forth vnder the name tobe floutes,faning that they grow many together like a tuft or vmbel: it hath in ftead of roots a The Vertuts. of Album olus : the Low-countrey men call it W@itmoes, and vie it for their meate called Wer- Some (faith Diefcorides ) mix the milkie inice hereof withopium ; ( for his Meconiye is out Opium.) inthe making thereof. ‘ Healfo faith, that the iuice hereof drunke in Oxycrate in the quantity of 2 ebuli, (whichmeke fomeone feruple ) purgeth watrifh humors by ftoole ; it alfo clenfeth the little vicer in theeje Alfobeaten and applied with womans milke it is good againft burnes and fealdes. Laftly,it precuses fleepe, aflwages paine, moues thecourfes inwomen, and is drunkeagaislt the ftingings of {corpions, and bitings of{piders. E _ Thefeed taken indrinke, like as the Garden Lettuce,hindreth generation offeed and veneteaus imaginations. £ mofe; withvs,Loblollie. This plant hath fimall long leaues a finger broad,ofa pale green colour; among whichfhooteth vp fmall cornered and flender ftem halfea foot high , ioynted with two or three ioyntsor knees, out ofwhichproceed twoleaues longer thanthefirft, bearing atthe top of the branchestufts ofvery fmal white floures clofely compaé together,with rootlike the former. + Boththefeareofoneplant,differing in the bigneffe and broadneffe of the leafe and the whole plantbefides. + g The Place. Thefe herbes grow wilde in the corne fields ; and fince it hath grownein vfe among the French and Dutch ftrangers in England, it hath beene fowen in gardens as a fallad herbe, qq) The Time. Cua v.39. OfLambs Lettuce, or (orne fallad. 1 Lattuca:Agnina. Lambes Lettuce. vpon a comming vp,as well in tenderneffe as tafte ineating , and on the top ofthe ftalkes ftand The Temper. called 4 rgemonin Grecke,as alfothe myftines or darkenefle of fight. Cc Ofthe Hiftorie’ of Plants. 2 Laituta Acnina latifolia: d Cornefallade. Theyare found greeneal mof al] VWinter and Sommer. qG The Names. eltcrop: The Dutch-men docall it waptitoes ; that is to fay, Album olus offomeit is called in Englifh, The the French terme-it Sallade de Ghanoive : it may be called in Grecke, svma‘zvo: White Pot-herbe but commonly; Come fallad. f @] The Temperature and Vertues. This herbeis cold and fomething moift,and not vnlike in facultie and temperature to rhegarfora falden Lettuce ; in ftead whereof, in Winterandin thefirft moneths ofthe Springit ferues lad herbe,andis with pleafure eaten with vineger,falt and oile,as other fallads be,among whiehit isnone of the work. Cuar. 40. Of (oleworts. q The Kindes. lofeorides maketh two kindes of Coleworts; the tame and: the wilde : but Teophrafius makes more kindes hereof; the ruffed or curled Cole, the fmooth Cole, and the wilde Cole: ¢ato imitating Theophraftus, fetteth downealfo three Coleworts: the firfthee defcribeth to be fmooth, great, broad leaued, witha big ftalke, the fecondruffed ; the third withlittle ftalks,tender, and very much biting. The famediftinG@ion alfo Pliny maketh, in his twentieth booke, and ninth chapter ; where he faith, That the moft ancient Romanes haue diuided it intothree kindes ; the firftroughed,the fecond {mooth, and the third whieh is properly called ue, or Colewort. , And in his nineteenth booke he hath alfo addedto thefe,other moe kindes ; thatis to fay, Tritsasuite, Cumanum,Pompeianun, Brutianum,S abellinm, and Lacuturrium, _ The Herbarifts ofour time haue likewife obferued many forts, differing either in colour or elfe in forme ; other headed with the leaues drawne together, moft of them white, fomeof a deepe greene,fome fmoothleaued, and others curled or ruffed ; differing likewife in their ftalkes,as fhall deexpreffedin their feucrall deferiptions, a The ee The other grow plentifully betweene inwhofe gardenI fawit growing fome two yeares ~Eis m Pn aa “ + eS ae 0”~SCO”:CtheHiiftotic OFPlants,= Lay |