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Show Theatrum Botanicum. Cuar. Tripe 6. which is fomewhat long and broad with hard haires withthe out and white within,very fweetein talte as the leaves are alfo,and fo tender to keepe'thatit perifheth endure many yeares giving feede yearcly. firft cold it fceleth : and mult therefore be honfed, which then will h Dandelion, 54. Dens leonis minor alpero folio, Smallroug Sq He Dandelionis afluredly adiffering kinde ofwildé yellow Succory, and therefore! thinke it meete to exprefle it before the illa Gumme Succory whichis alfo an other kinde: hereofthereare -e differences and varieties found out of late than have formerly beene knowne, which fhall be fet forth here together, _ 1, Dens leonis vulgaris. Common Dandelion. iswell knowne to have many longand deepely gafhed leaves lying onthe ground the head of the roote, the ends ofeach gafhor jagge on both fides looking downeward to the roote ddle ribbe being white which being broken yeeld abundance of bitter milke, but the roote much | s wh wayes abide greene, arife many flender weakenaked foote ftalkes, rather ing at the toppe one large yellow flower, confifting of manyrowes of yellow nicked in, withadeepe {pot ofyellowin the middle,which growing ripe thé r flood, turneth it {elfe downe tothe ftalke, and the head of downe becommeth reddifh feede undernath bearing apart of the downe on the head of every ohe which he wind, or with the blaft of ones mouth may be blowne away at once:the roote g deepe, which being broken off within the ground will notwithftanding illhardlybe deftroyed whereit hath once taken deeperooting in the'ground. j Dandelion with narrow leaves. ikethe other, but thatthe leaves are narrower; yét hath not fewergathes o1 his one note it may be diftinguifhed. E fimo folio, Fine jagged Dandelion, ereddifh roote full of fibres, fending forth fundry moft finely cut very dth long andtwoinches broad, deepely jagged, and divided againe intotwo0 € ng ina fine {mall point’: the flowers are much {maller that ftand at the tops of ‘o downe as the other. . Dens Leonis m olijs five Trinciatella Italorum Camerariz, 981. flying away with the wind carrying the feede with it, flowerlike untoother Dandelionsturning into downe,and like beardes at the tops: the roote is fmall and blackifh with+ XXVI. Densleonis, Dandelion. oribus fo Cuar. 26. The Theater of Plants. Taise 6, Sweete Dandelion: eete Dandelion( amerarius Trinciatella Italorum, hath many leaves {pread on 1s long and halfe an inch broade, cutin on the fides intofuncry deepe gafhes, whofe ends haveeach of ree very deepedents, and cach having divers pointsftanding like ftarre or {purre, the footeftalke, Pare alittle hairy, among which rifeup many {moothflender naked ftalkes, one whereofftandeth upright fearfe an hand breadthhigh, the reft are lower and berid downewards, each ofthembearing a {mall yellow SH wr Or 6; Dens leonis Manfpalienfium Fue A(phodelé bulbulis. Bulbed or clogged Dandelion, d about the roote of two or three The {mall rough Dandelion fendeth forth fundry {mall leaves lyingroun em fetwith {mall {mooth fharpe eachofth fides, the on tornein dividedor broade, inch one inches long and high, and beareeach of them prickes orhaireslike as the prickly Sowthiftle haths theftalkes are about twoinches whitifh. : therooteis fimall and a large pale yellow flower like the re(t and turned into downe : Bulbed or clogged Dandelion. 6 | Dens leonis Mon{pelienfinmfive Afphodeli bulbalis, greene hairy leaves upon’ the ground uns This A(phodell rooted Dandelion {preade th many large and blewith fharpe Dandelion ‘is of a bitter and evenly waved or cut in on the edges but not deepely gafhed, as the common ftalkes with feverall flowers, at the toppes of them larger talte like unto it, from which rife fundry bare or naked the reft : the rootesare funand more double thanit, and of a paler yellow colour which paffe into downelike fhorter, and more pointed ar {maller, drylong tiberous and {lender clogges like unto thofe of the Afphodill but he ends : : . Dens leonts Gadenfis, Dandelion of Cadés in Spaine, ee unto others opinions place. it in thé This plant fo titre in face unto little Dandelion hath made miecontrarie morerifing from.a long white tender fametanke with them, Ir hatha numberoflong Ieaves a {panne long or length ofthe leafe, and then it hath many, roote : the middle ribbeof the léafe is bare from the soote to the halfe but {maller and narrower: rents or cuts on éach fide, very muchrefembling the leafe of the ordinary. Dandelion being fmalland yellow, and doe turne the flowers likewile {tand uponlongfooteftalkes as the Dandelion doth long, and reddifh like unto fome of into downe thatis catried away inthe winde, with the feede which is {mall Cales or Cadis as Guillanme Boel {aith, the Hawkeweedes, It groweth in the Iland of Gades, which wee call the plans well marking brought it us out of Spaine,and called it Cichorinm Gadenfe 3 Clufins it feemeth not who and cailethit in his Care pofteriores being dri, and never having {eneit greene or growing, tooke it from Béel, howlikeit is, Cichorium[ylueftre pumilum five Hedipnoss, and faith it is alcogetherlike unto ic thoughleffe: but in Ialy, Aus determine. It flowreth tipon this defcription truely fet downeas before, I leave it to any judiciousto allthe Winter if itbe gufkand September, and the feedeis foone ripe after the oweris paft; theroote liveth or el{é it perifheth with the hard froftes, The Place, yet often to bé met The fir is too frequentin all medowes and pafture grounds, but the fecond is moretare, with: the third groweth in Aujfria: the fourthin Italy asit is fafpedted, becaule it came from thence: the fift andGxt about AZompeliar,as alfo about Florence, and in other parts ofItaly efpecially the fixt,and the The Time, laft in Spaine, z fomeplace or other in flower They flower inthe Summer moneths, yetasis well knownethe firft is found in | every monethinthe yeare. i The Names. 4 it isnot xrdelan.Chone The Dandelionis not certainely intituled by any Greeke denomination,forit is certaine porcinum; and as ‘iia: but hath divers Larine names, as Dens leonis, Urinaria, Corona and Caput monachi, Roffrum leonss, but Trahinketh Chrondrilla Galeni : the firft is ufually called of moft of the later writers Dens in hortys Hieracium obe Hieracium majus, and Cordus in hiftoria, tobe Hieraciam parvam ; Gefner Aphaca of Theo~ alias and Dodoneus Chondrilla alteraand Cefalpinus (as divers others alfo doe) to be the ib. 28.c.8. but the 6.cap.7.and 10. among the Wortes : divers alfo take it ta be Hedypnois Plinij and Engdu= us rather take the former Cichorinm luteum to beit : Fuch{ivs calleth it Hedypnocs major, is Dalechampij ; Lonicerus calleth it Tarascacon minus and is genetally held to bethe true Taraxacon Avicen, and foufed withus inall compofitions whereunto 7aramacon is appointed + thefecond fatidum : and Camerarius wscalleth Aphaca anguftioris folij’ the third is called by Columna Hicracinm fourth Trinciarillas us Cieh ; che fife isalfo of Banhines mentionéd by the nameinthe title : the fixtis called by opolitanum, becaufe, as hee faith, hee received it from e4ngerin de Busbeque the Conftantivople , but Lobeland Pena fay thatheeneedednotto extoll this plantas aftranger, ours agent ac whereof obe had plentifullyin his owne country ofSiewa and Tu/cane, Liguria and other places of /taly li bulbsa asignorant, as alfoabout A¢ompelier, whereupontheycalled it Dens leours Monfpeltenfium:Afphede s; Saad MS II of Theophraftu ithall fuppofe irto be the Chondrilla altera Diofcoridss, or Perdion (rather Perdicion) es than leaves : Tabermontanus callethit Densleowig altera ; the lalt is mentioned fufficientdelion Dentede leon’; the Spaniards Diente de leon; the French Dentde ¢ lat, Korlkraut and Pfaffenrorlin ; the Dutch Papencruyt Hoursroofen ;and we in Englifs Piffea bed and Dandelion. : The Vertues. wilde Saccory, and bythe bitterneffe doth more open and clenfe, and ionsof theliver, gall and {peene, and.the difeafes that arife fiom them, paffion, it wonderfully openeth the uritorie parts, caufing abundance of (e meferaicall veines are not fufficiently {trong ro containe the quahtitie ofurine that chen without reftraint or keepingitbacke they water theirbeds, but inthofe of ing or yeelding {mall quantitie of urine ; it alfo powerfully clenfeth apoftumes andinaflages, and bythe drying and temperate qualitie doth afcerwards heale them, and for being buried a while in fand and whited ( which taketh away mnchof the bitcernefle, ore tender) being eatenasa fallet are more effeCtuall thanthe leaves ufed in the fame man= t accuttomed tofuch raw fallets may take the decoction of the rootes orleaves in white who fo is macilent eaves chopped agpot herbes with a few Allifanders boiled in their broth, And Fl wing towards a confumption, orhath an evill difpofition of the whole body,ready to fallinto a Cachexiachs XXX |