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Show tia Ot the Hiftory of Plants. ts Line, br “Lin, ~~Of theHiftoryotPlants.= 1177 @ The Time. taken for kindes of Chameleon: their feuerall titles do fer forth their feucrai! Latine fies nd aifo the Englith. a ¢ Therewas formerly much confufion in this chapter, bothin the figures and hiftorie, which Iwill here endeanour to amend, and giue as muchlightasI can, to the obfeuritie ofour Auth Our and fome others ; towhich end I haue made choice of the namesasthe fitreft place. t This defcription was taken out ofDodonaus, and thetitle alfo of Onopor don which was for merlyput ouer the figure,and they belong to the Thiftle our Author before deferibed-by the name of Acanthium purp. Ilyricum, cap.476. Uhaue therefore changedthe title, yet let the deferition {tand,for it reafonable well! agrees with the figure whichis of the Carduus fpinofifimus ules of Lobel, and Polyacantha Theophrafti of Taber. Of this Thiftle I obferue three kindes: the filtis2 Thiftle fome two cubits and a halfe high, with manyflenderftalkes and branches exceeding ic kly, hauing commonlyfiue prickly welts runningaiongft the ftalks : the leaues onthe ohelis as alfo the ftalkes are ofa reafonable freth greene colour, but the vnderfide ofthe leafe is fomwhat whitifh : the heads confift of fundry hairy greene threds whichlookelike prickles, but theyat weake, and notprickly : the floure is ofthe bigneffe, and of tue like co!our and fhapeas the con mon Knapweed, yet fomwhatbrighter: it growes onditchfides, and floures inluly. This [take to bethe Aculeofa Gafe of the Aduerf-pag. 374. but not thatwhich Lobel figures for it in his Ione This is that which 7abernamontanus figures for Polyacantha,and our Authorcavehis figure in this place. The fecond ofthefe [take to be that which Lobe! hath figured for Poly. cantha, anid Dedonen for Carduusfyl. 3. (which figure we here giue you) and in the Arf? Lugd. pave 4 73. itisbothfigtted and defcribed by the nameof Polyacanthos Thophr afti. Inthe figure there is little difference Diofcorides faith,that the root of the common Thiftle applied plaifterwife corre&teth the filthy {mellofthe arme holes and whole body, And that it workes the fame effect ifit be boyled inwine and drunke,andthat it expellethplentie of inking vrine. Thefame Authoraffirmethalfo, that the herbe being as yet greene and tenderis vfed tobe catenamong other herbes after the manner of Afparagus. Thisbeing ftampedbefore the floure appeareth, faith Plzy,and the iuyce preffed forth,canfeth huiteto grow whereit is pilledoff,if the place be bathed withthe iuyce. Theroot ofany of the wilde Thiftles being boyled in waterand drunke,is reported to make themdry that drinke it. Itftrengthneth the ftomacke ; andit is reported (ifwe beleeue it)that the fame is alfo good for themattix, that boyes may be ingendred: for fo Chereas of Athens hath written,and Glaycras, who isthought towrite moft diligently of Thiftles. ; This Thiftle being chewed is good againft ftinking breath. Thus farre P/iay, inhis twentieth O0ke, cap. 2.3. Cuar. got. Mélocarduus Echinatus Pena & Lob. The Hedge-hog Thiftle. inthe things them/elues this , the ftalkes of this are as high as tho!cofthe laft, but flendererwith fewer and ftraighter branches, and commonly edged with foure large welts,which hauefewer, yet longer prickles than tho{e of the former : the leaues and ftalkes of this are of a grayith or whitith colour : the heads are longifh,but much {maller than thofe ofthe formerand they feldom openor {pred abroadtheir floures, but onely fhew the tops of diuers reddiththreds ofa feint colour. This growes as frequently as the former, and commonlyin the fame places. Thethird, which I thinke maffe or lump is ftrangely compact and context together, containing in it fundry thapes and formes, participating of a Pepon or Melon, and a Thiftle, both being incorporate in one body-; which is made after the forme of acockofhay, broad and flat below,but fharp towardthe top, as big as a mans bodyfrom the belly vpward : on the outfide hereofare fourteene hard ribbes, deftending from the crowneto the loweft part, like the bunchy or out fwelling rib of a Melonftanding out,and chanelled betweene: at the top or crowne of the plant iffueth forth a fine filkencotton, wherewith it is full fraught ; within which cottonorflockeslie hid certain {mal fheaths fioures are of an indifferent bignefle, and commonly purple, yet fometimes white. I thinke this may be the Onopyxosalter Lugdunen{. or the Cardunspaluftris defcribed in Bashinus his Prodromut, 2 3. } The fecond, whichisa ftrangerwith vs, is the Phenix, Leo ¢» Carduusferox of Label and Dl ow Thethird defcription was alfo out of Dodongus, being ofhis Carduusfylueftris primus, OF . Oropyxos Dodonai ofthe Hi/t, Lugd. The figures formerly both in the third and fourth place !#® me twere of the 4canthium ilyricum of Lobel , or the Onopordon of Dodonaas, formerly mc tioned. ‘ 4 Thisdefcription alfo was outof Dodoneus, being of his Carduussfilueftris alter,agreein al! things but the colour ofthe floures,which fhouldbe purple. Lobel in his Obferuations “ beth the fame Thiftle by thename ofCarduus vuleatifineus viarum : but bothhe and Doden. if orcods,fharpe at the point,and ofa deep fan- the figure ofCarlinafj/ueftris for wt: but neither the floures nor the heads of that agree Wit) defeription. I iudgethis tobe the Thiftle that Fabius Columna hath fet forth for the (a!” Jae guine colour, anfwering the cods ofCap/icum orIndian Pepper, not in fhew only,but 1nco- Theovhraftus ; and Tabern, for Carduus arvenfis : and our Author,thoughvafitly, gave * —e place for Carduus mufcatus. , fertie 5 The Muske-Thiftle I haue feene growing about Deptford, and(as far as my ms ple lour, but the cods are fomewhat fmaller. The furrowedor chanelled ribs on the outfide are garnifhed of rathet armed with many ptickly ftars, ftanding ina compafle like fhatpe crooked hornes or hookes, cach ftarconfifting of me)it is very like to the third here defcribed : it growesbetter than a cubit high, with repeat Jarge leaues, and alfo heads whicharea little foft or downy,large, with purple coast before the floures open {mell ftrong of muske. I haue found no mention of this but ae de Collectione in parte, where he bath thefe words ; Carduus arvenfis maior purpurte flere fe gs 1 108 dum nato -Mofchum olebat) floret Iulio, Our Author formerly gaue an vafic figure tor th merly noted, There is fufficient ofthe reft in their titles and defcriptions.’ # VV Ho can but maruelat the rare andfiti= gular workmanfhip which the Lord lo-carduws Echinatus? This knobby or bunchy times foureorfiue cubits high, growing ftraight vp, with few branches and thofefhort ones: the Bauhine hoth refer'd it to Acarna, calling it C4 carna minor caule non foliofo. @] The Defcription. God almighty hath fhewed in this Thiftle, called by the name Echino-Melocattos, or Me- may fitly be referred vnto thefe, growes on wet heaths and fuch like places, hauinga ftalke fome- pag. 156. Of the Melonor Hedgehog Thifile. bart tot & . ten ortwelue pricks, wherewith the outward barke or pilling is garded a ee ona hurofthecrens it cannot be touched this rindeishard, thicke,and like 8 1 ree the se “line ec ucumber : the fleth or inner pulpe is white, fat, waterith, of tafte oure, vn BUREYsani : Orhan? much like wnto the meate ofa raw Melonor Pompioa. This plant groweth without leafe “alke,as our Northerne Thiftle doth,called Carduns Acawles,and is bigger than lanes ompion > LSS. ee before)but oneof thofe which Pliny in his twentieth booke, cap.23.deferiberh : of fome the fi ~ tine Cardui [ylueftres, or wilde Thitties ; and that whichis the fecond in orderis nam S colyny ., burnor that Sco/yus which Theephr. declarethto yeeld a milky iuyce (of which wee hai es q| The Temperature and Vertues, Thefewild Thiftles (according to Galen)are hot and dry in the fecond degree,and that through the propertic oftheir effence they driucforth ftinking vrine,if the roots be boyled in Wine shut drunke ; and that they take away the ranke fmell of the body and arme-holes, SNe Wak2s Ee Thefe kindes of Thiftles do floure ftom the beginning ofIune vntill the end of September, q The Names, _ Thefe Thiftles comprehended in this prefent chapter are by one generall namecalled in La. |