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Show “1160 Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants, q The Time. They floure andflourith in Tune and Tuly, a The Names, It is commonly called in Latine, and that not vnfitly, Carlinafjlueftris ; forit is liketo Catling: in floures, andis not veryvnlike in leaues. And that this is asi; at is {6 much the hardertoafirme, by howmuchthe briefer Theophrafius hath written hereof; for he faith thatthis is like baftard fat fron, ofa yellowcolourandfat iuyce: and Acerna differs from Wdcarna; for WAcarna, as Hefychius faith, is the Bay tree , but Acorna isapricklyplant. f The Temperature andVertues, Tt is hor, efpecially in the root, the twinging tafte thereofdothdeclare ; but fecing it is of no vfe,the other faculties be vnfearched our, Li.2. Of the Hiftroy ofPlants. 1151 4 This blacke Chameleon hath many Icaues,long and narrow,veryfull of pricles of a light rene, ina manner white : the ftalke is chamfered, a foot high, anddiuided into branches, on the tops whereofftand purple floures growing forth of prickly heads : the root is blacke, and {weet in tale. This is defcribed by Clufius in his Spanifh Obferuations, by the nameof Chameleon Salmanrerritory tieafis, of the place whereinhe foundit : for he faith that this groweth plentifully in the of Salmantica a city in Spaine : butit is very manifeft that this is norblacke Chamzleon,heither doth Clufivs affirmeit. | The Place, Itisvery common, faith BeYonius, in Lemnos, whereit beareth a floure of fo gallant a blew,as thatitfeemeth tocontend withthe skie in beautie ; and that the floure of Blew-Bottle being of this colour, feemes in comparifonofit to be but pale. It groweth alfo in thefields neere Abydum, and hard by the riuers of Hellefpont, and in Heraclea in Thracia. Chameleon Salmantisenfis growethplentifully in the territorie of Salmanticaa city in Spaine, Cuar. 483 Of Chameleon Thiftle. @ The Time. They floure and flourith whenthe other Thiftles do, q The Kindes. T Here be two’ Chameleons,and both blacke : the vertues oftheir roorsido differ, anid the roots themfelues do differ in kinde, as Theophraftus declareth: f q The Names. Theblacke Chamzleonis called in Greeke sensor uae : in Latine, Chamaeleon niger : ofthe Ro- mans,Carduys niger, and Vernilago : offome, Crocodilion : in Englith,the Chameleon Thiftle, or the Thiftle that changethit felfe into many fhapes and colours. t 1 Chamaleonniger, The blacke Chamzleon Thiftle. @ The Temperature andVertues. Theroorhereof, as Galen faith, containethin it a deadly qualitie:itis alfoby Nécauder numbredamong the poyfonousherbes, in his booke of Treacles , by Dioftorides, lib. 6. and by Paulus +Azintta : and thereforeit is vfed only, outwardly,as for {cabs,morphewes,tetters,and to be briefe, forall fuch things as ftand in needof clenfing : moreouer, it ts mixed with {uch things as doe di folueand mollifie,as Galen faith, t Thefizarewhich was formerly in the fictt place did not agree with the hiflorie (which was taken out of Dggimaus) though Tabern. gauc it for Chamalean m3: Uy mitisthePicramas Crevescrcs ofLobel. You Shall finde it hergafter with the AcamaYslerandie Anas... Cuars 484: Of Sea Holly, @ The Kinds. [ye* maketh mentiononely of one fea Holly : Pliny, ib. 22. cap. 7. {eemes to acknow- : ledge two, one growingin roughplaces, another by thefea fide, The Phyfitians after them haye obferued more. @] The Defiription. 1 @Ea Holly hath broad leaues almoft like to Mallow leaues,but cornered in the edges,and fetround about withhard prickles, fat, ofa blewifh white,and ofan aromaticall or {pi- x cie tafte: the ftalke is thicke, aboue a cubit high, now and then fomewhat red below? ,_,eaketh forth on the tops into prickly or round heads.or knops,of the bigneffe of a Wall-nur, | The Defiription. He leaues of blacke Chamzleonareleffer and flenderer than thofe oftheprick As o tichoke,andfprinckled with red {pots : the ftalke is a cubit high,a_ aly floutes and fomewhat red it beareth a tufted rundle, in which are flender pricktance, of ablewcolourlikethe Hyacinth. The root is thicke, blacke without, of@ ae 4 jebites fometimes eaten away, which being cut is ofa yellowifh colour within, and being chewe che tongue. This . on the moft part with fix prickelyleaues, compafling the top of the ftalke roundabout: blesewes aswelas the heads are ofa gliftring blew the floures forth ofthe heads arelikewife With white threds in the midft: the root is ofthe bignefle of a mansfinger, very long,andfo ’s that it cannotbe al! pluckedvp, vnleffe very feldome; fet here and there withknots,and of i weet and pleafant. : "ag leaues ofthe fecond fea Holly ate diuerfly cut into fundry patcels,being all ful ofpric- but le ngtt the edges : the ftalke is diuidedinto many branches,and bringethforthprickly heads, there aa thofe ofthe other: from whichthere alfo growforth blew floures,feldome yellow : i thine likewife vnder every one ofthefe, fix rough and prickly leaucs like thofe ofthe other, ratte ve and {maller : the root hereofis alfo long, blacke without,white within,a finger thicke, bic; oP frell like that ofthe other,as bealfotlie leaues, which are likewife ofanaromaticall “ie tate, which being new {prung vp,and.as yet tender,be alfo goodto be eaten, Eecee:3 @ The |