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Show 474 Cuar.5. Theatram Botanicum. Trine 5 ‘ 10, Tacea Baby lonica. The great prickly Knapweedeof Babylon Becaufe wecannotyet give you fall defcription ofthis plant, take for the prefent, fo much thereof, as hath cometo our knowledge; for a leafe or two onely beingfent; feemed upon the view thereof, liketunto aleafe of the: Acanthium, the White-way, or Cotten Thiltle, being abont a foore and a halfe long, and more than an hand breadth broad,in the middle thereof; fomewhat hoary and roughin handling, compafied allabourthe edges with {mall tharpe prickles, having at the bottomeof theleafe fomie tortie peeces, on foure inches long, which growing {mall to the point,endedin a pricke : the middle each fide thereof, oteoe ribbe being fomewhat reat ti rough, from whence many Véines ranne through the feate, Thus much and no more, weecay ve fay thereof, The Place, The firt growethin many places about Salemanca in Spaine, as Clufius faith, and about CMompelitr as Lobel faith : the fecond in) Naples as Colswena faith : the the third in Spaine alfo not farre from the fea fide : the fourth at the foote of certainé mountaines in 4u/friaand Styria as Clufivs faith 3 the fife infome other parts of Spaine : thefixt by the fea fide in Spaine, about Porta Santla Maria,and Cales the feventh on the mount Calcar b pied : pelier : the eightby A¢arena in Spaine : the ninth about Calesalfo: the lalt about Babylon, as the name thould i 4 timate, but grewin the garden of Signior Contarini, a Clariffimo of Venice, o a ea ral The Time, ; _ = ==; a in the Sommer, fomeearliéer or later than > ee 2 others, and their {eede is ripe accordingly,onely The Names, Clufive calleth the firlt Iacea luteolore five Carduus muricatus luteo flore:Lobel and others call it lacedlutea major: yet in his 2cones and-Obfervations n{eth bur one figure, for Tacea lutea, which he faith is Cardui frellati wires and for Carduits Pellatusfen Calcityapa altera,whereuntoin the defeription he giveth purple howers. Lugdunengis hathplaced this figure of Cévfizs, under the title of Carduus Eriocephal ss Ddoonei. It is by Dodowews called Sh a Solftitsalis altera; by. Lobel Carduus Stellarus capitulis fpinofiis few Calcitrapa altera,as Banhinus {aith - but I fi fe i doth better agreewith my third fort here fet downe, he calleth it Tacea Intea Capite fpinofo : the feeond (ols calleth, Iacea levis maxima Centauroides Apula, and Bauhinus, Se Facea luteafpinofa Centauroides . the third i probable tobethe fame, that C/ufiws calleth, Javea purpurea Valentina muricato capite, and Bawbinus eslin Seridig candicantibus purpurea : but I havealtered it in the title, all things : the fourth Clufius calleth Iacea montana echinato his namenot fully anfwering the defcrription 4 capite,D odonaus Cyanoides floes, whofe fi neyCh Zz taketh for his Stebe Salamantica (ecunda ; Bashinus calleth it Iacea Cyanoides echinato capite: the fitch PELL calleth Iacea capitelongis aculess (pinofo : the fixt he alfo calleth Iacea in hisi Predromus fetteth them downe: wne : the the ninth was {ent amon others by Boe/ often before ; th lait is remembred onely by Bawhinys in his Prodromus to come Eoin SaneContarini his baiere pe laciujata Sonchifotio, andas | {aid is very like unto the Jacea marina Betica, which is the ninth here : the feventh, eight and tenth, fave their titles as Baibings The Vertues. j All thefe Knapweedes are no doubt of the fame qualitie with glutinous,efpecially theroote ofthefixt and ninth which a8 they the former, being binding, and many of them jui they not be, but very confolidative, to knit and foder whatttie are of avery clammy ver needeth fac préperie, Reae eee CuHaPp. Sa Ne 2. Serratula Cuar.6* By Serratula vulgaris flore purpareo albo vel rubro; flore albo, Seems cageiaad White nieat Sawewort: This Sawwort is in all things like the former, for I.never could obferve any other diftinCtion, but onely that theflower, or the threds in the midddle of the knappes are white, and the heads themfelves, and the {talkes, of a ftefh greene colour, 3. Serratula flore rubro. Red flowred Sawewort, This alfo as farre as I could learne or hearé; is wholly like the firft, and not fingularly to be found by that marke, that it fhould haveallhis leaves divided, and none whole, as the fourth fort, before fer downe is faid to be: the difference betweene them, chiefly ‘confifting inthe flower, which is of adeeper red colour, which is nor eafily found,or in manyplaces, and is often miftaken for the other, The Place; . The firft is moft common. in the corners of Fields and Wood-fides, both open and fhadowed; but that with a white flower groweth at the further end of Hamfteed wood, neare unto arill ofwater, running by the fide of a cottage there ; as alfo npon Water downe Forrelt in Suffex, neare unto the path thatleadeth from Eridgeunto Ivy Bridge, by a brooke fides; the Inft is feldome found, and not without good ob= fervation. The Time. They flower in the end of Sommér, and their feede ripeneth quickly after, The Names: Iris moft generally now adayescalled Serratula afolys minutim ferratis ; yet there be fomé other herbesalfo; called by this name, as Betony and Germander, but becaufe eachofthem is knowne by a more proper name, this of Serrats#/aholdeth tothis, and is given but 4forma. Some doethinke that it wasalfocalled, ( efpecially by thofe of Germany and Italy ) Serrarula sinttoria or tinttoris, becaufe it was ufed by them in dying andfetting of a greenecolour; for which purpofes they in formertimes, untill they had learned things of better refpe, nfed it much ; but I rather thinke it was called Tinétoria,by the miltaking of Tragm, his Flos Tinttoriws, in Fol, 2524 which heealleth Scharten kraut to be this ; for his is thé ester Italorum purpureus, asby his fignre under that V. Serratula, Sawewtor; Se 279 Here are fome other ; herbes called ed Laced, by by Lob Lacea, LobelLf and Pena, Banhinu y s and others, which cS" not = doe;not nee them é in my judgementworthy to beare that name, and therefore I aeoh goo to Joyne this and the next unto them in feverall Chapters as neareft unto the Iaceas, : <.saad = oe Sapnsesoe ey and chet they doe beft refemble them alfo as you fhall heare when ‘ this thatis neareft unt i ‘ inthecolour ofthe fower, as the leaves, ifferi being more ee signs1. Serratula4 vulgaris floree purpureo, . iedan a oe Common Saw wwort with i Gace Say popaSh — am purple . firft : fomewhat and Pacer danthole of Betony, and d r all them fet upon longfooteftalkes broader ; but thofe that rif =prone - deepely cut in or gafhed onthef ong idesinto many parts, and Sich anheee one = ae ; i among which {pring e alfo ae many brownith ftalkes, with divers leayes on ea the reWerinotk wees ue é=. a — oe and fo the higher they Stow uponthe ftalkes, the teffe divided they bea1u on 35 ce icia chedrshilig forth into erpuet many eatate i {ealy headslike j the former Knapweedes, : feede is {mall fhorter: the andd blacke like L the Iace 4, but leffe lying ingiind baie ae the roote isa bufh of many ftring whi iene and fa’ : h away s, which encreafeth into many heads v , and fhoote tak many like beave s 2 cocky one ofthem, wherebyit quickly : groweth to bea : ¢ ¢ great tuft or buth. Ik ne gs ci -to=:one fort that bringeth all his leaves, dennedShebpishecneoe ennai aon ies ot me bets part hath them dented,that is, the firft leaves, and the ref that grow upon the t iikes, wioee oilhe na 2 ies ths hath but one or two,of the firft or loweft leaves whole, and denied ab , he ae gates ae itete mie fome more fome leffe ; and fourth, that hath all the Keaves in generall divid d eee cee oe et ee and none whole:which diftinétion of thefe foure forts as is Eid, Tco fe‘fe I itis youpe, will Leptinof= ounceGiletis, Ihavehere formerly defcribed, ‘which while ce a2 2 en sine zbut for thefirlt fort, that thouldhave all whole idavesjanduseiedividoa 2 or any other body fheuld, I doe not thinke it would be fo every The TheaterofPlantes. [rise 5. yeare i tite Sa ae ‘3 BeSE Te AGO, 2, Serratuls title may well be perceived ; into which errour, Bashinus, as hee faith himfelfe, was mifled by 7bali, who did fo thinkeir to be, and calledit in his Harcynia/ylva Centauroides, aut Centaurinm majus Iyluefire Germanicum, untill he found his errour, andreclaimed it inhis Pinaxin the title of Aer Atticus cerulews., and Serratnla, I cannotfinde any other Greeke, Arabian, Italian, Spanifh, French, German, or Low-Dutch name givenit, than according to the Latine,as we in Englifo Sawewrot. And for‘other Latine name,7alims onely,as I before faid, accounteth ita kinde of great Centory, and Lonicerus Solidago Sarafenica, from the effects. The Vertues, It is commended tobefingulat good for fach as are bruifed by anyfall, and thereby have fome veine broken within them ; or that are much bruifed by cruell blowes, and much beating, or otherwife much bruifed by ca- fualty, for it wonderfully ftayeth fuch bleeding, and eafeth the paine and foreneffe that commeth thereupon, if fome of the greene or dryed leaves be boyled in white wine,or the powder of them be putinto the faid wine and drunke, Itisno leffe effe&tuall alfo, inall inward torments and paines, inthe guts and bowels, if both leaves and rootes be boyled in wine and drunke, It is wonderfull good alfo for all wounds, whether they be frefh, to confolidate and heale them, or being old andfilthy fores, to clenfe and heale them alfo ; if the wine of the decoétion of the herbe be often ufed to wath them withall. It isalfo commendedfor burltings or ruptures, by often bathingthe places,and applying the greene herbe and roote, asa plaifter outwardly ; it is good alfo for the piles, or hemorrhoides, when they growfull of blood andare very painefull, after the applying of leeches, by fomenting the part, with the deco¢tionofthe herbe in wine, Cuar VI. Stebe, Silver Knapweede, eam, His herbe Stebe, that isufially fo called with all Herbarifts now adayes { but not that which was fo formerly of the ancient Writers,8& whichis quite differing from it)being fo like unto the Iaceas, ‘| as none other more ; is ofdivers forts, differing bothin the leaves and heads of fowers, and fome s)), other things,as fhall be prefently fhewed you. et8 1, Stebe Salamantica prima Clufi. Clufius his fick Spanifh Stabe. This firtt Spanife Stebe of Clufims, hath divers large leaves lying on the ground, very much cutin on both fides, F inte 475 |