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Show S12 Crar.43. Tbeatrum Botanicum; Lafaca (ative. T riszé, $13. ? Claudere ye canas Latkucafolebat avorum, x. Lalinea oblongofolie acuto, Sharpe pointed Garden Lettice, Garden Lettice, Cuar. 44. The Theater of Plants. TrisE 6, Which tay be thus, Die mihi. cur nostras inchoat ita dapes, Lettice that earft our Grandfires mealesdid clofe, Whyitbegins,pray tell me whence it growes. eafeth all griping paines of the ‘seftion,quencheth thirft,helpeth to éncreafe milke in Noyrfesyand therefore both it and Rue Reoeteeie aeeacinue come of Choller : it abateth bodily Iuft, and them the chafter : it repreflethalfo for Monkes, Nunnes and the like fort of people to eate, and ufe to keepe bateth the pridé and heate of Luft venerous dreames,and applyed outwardly tothe Cods witha little Camfire,a Reyness which fomecall the Coltes evill ; applyed al(o in the fame mannertothe regionof the Heart, Liver, or are put Saunders and red Rofés or by bathingthe faid place with thejuice or diftilled water, wherein fome white alfo doth inflammations therein,but alfo,is not onely a repercuflive medicine to flay and repreffe the heate andVrine, Galen advifeth old men tonfe of heate the tempereth alfo fame the : s thof€part ftrengthen comfort and to adde Mintes, Rocket, and it with {pices to conferve the radicall moyfture, and that where {pices are wanting the young fhootes of them, to abatethe fach like hot Sallet herbes,orelfe Citron, Lemon,or Orrenge feedes, or water of the Lettice worke the like effects cold of the one and theheate ofthe other. The feedeand the diftilled winded or have anyimperfection inall things : but thé ufc of the Lettice is chiefly forbidden thofe that are fhort his reeth and fomefay it hurteth the fight, in'their Lungsor doe ufetofpitblood; Gales faith it did hurt Cuar. XLIIII: Lattuca fyluefirz, Wilde Létticé, bee declared inthis Chapter, wherewith I fhall B the wilde Lettice thére are twoor three forts to ; . herbes g coolin of Claffis is finithth clofe and Lettice. 1. Lattucafylueftris Endivia folijs odore virofo,, Broad leafed wilde {maller at the botThis wilde Lettice rifeth up with foure orfive fomewhatlong and large leaves, about the edges but not cut in ? tome and broader at the ends being round pointed, unevenly dented : GardenLettice, or Garden Endiveleaves or torne at all,ofa pale or w hitifh greene colour,and very like unto the r after the fowing, abide the firft:winte fo that it will {oone deceive one that never fawit before, which doe foc rife upto a ftalke,and. it beginnethto whether in the Spring or Autumne of the fhed feede : but in A4ay following fharpe ptickes: the ftalke then tho(e lowerleaves will have the middle ribbe on the backe fide fer full of{mall any mans hand at the hath rifen in my Gardentobe eightfoote high at the leaft; and as bigge asthe thumbe of fet large leaves like Their time of fowring, feeding, and {pending is the fam with the commonfort. im lower joynt, fomewhat browne and {preading into divers very long branches, whereonare with prickes in the manner of the the other but more crumpled,the lowerand {o to the middle of the[talke fet the edges,al! and every part yeelding bottomeleaves, but leffer,and higher, fomewhat more jagged or divided on orbitter in tafte: the flowers are plenty of milke being broken, which fmelleth ftrong, very like unto Opium fearfe opening themfelves, and very{mallandfingle fomewhatlike urito Lettice, but {maller and paler yellow, therewith very like unto {cate abiding alfo halfe a day open, but turne into downe with {mall blacke feede and wooddy whenit beareth blacke Lettice fede, and is carryed away with the winde : the roote is white long icabe 5 ; {cede and perifhechprefently after. 4 2, Laltuca fylveftrislaciniata, Wilde Lettice withj aged leaves, leaves are of a grayer greene This other wilde Lettice groweth like thelait but not fo high or great, the firft Lattuca agnina, Lambes Lettice or Corne Sallet. The Names, & Thridax in Greeke,and in Latine copi _ The firlt is taken by Bawhinus to bee of Caftor Durantes and calleth it himfelfe Lettice is called ‘ Latuca alathis to, the other alfo is called by him colour, fiialler aid narrower then the other, which fo abide and afterwards gaine thornesorprickes on their back- lica lac , and wein Engli/b thereafter Italian Lettice, the Arabians call Lettice Chas and Cherbgs fides as the other hath: thofe that follow are much moré jageed then the others, and fet with fharpe prickes alfo, yelding milkeas ptentifull being broken and.as bitter as the former; butdoth fmellas ftrongly of Poppie or Opium as the other : the flowers and feede are like it flying away with tga, the Sp: iards Lechuga and Alfalfa,the sthe Germans Lattikthe Dutch Lattoume,and udled with choller, yee [ erience tl hat the a been € f the winde,bnt the roote hereof abideth after feede when as ne from another in the forme iey are alike, and ¢ the other doth nor. 3, goa) on themfe Lattuca [ylveftria perpureo flore. Wilde Lettice with purple flowers, as both Serapio and Galen teltifie of the This great plant fometimes in’ moylt grounds rifeth upto aifo fheweth be foure orfive cubits high but ufually swo or three with a afe Auguftus us difea em fheweth that theeatine = at night when hee went to bed procured ftrong great ftalke {et on eachfide withleaves f{malleft at the bottome, and larger as-theyrife up higher, being largeft aboutthe middle of the ftalke, and then grow fmaller againc upto the toppe; all/of them unevenly waved about theedges, and compaffing it at the bottome, of a darke blewith greene colour on theupper fide and grayifh underneathyeelding a milke whenit is broken : the flowersftand upon {mall long ftalkes“iffuing from the joynts with the epe, who fhould havehad none ifhee had without it, having ufed himfelfe to watching his yonger dayes: the fame is found effe@uall alfo withfrom divers, or the juice thereof mixed or boyled with oyle of Road and temples,both ro procure reftand flcepe and to eafe tl ne headach of any hot canfe: being eaten rawor boyledit he oo to loofen the belly,and the 1 boyled more then the raw » Which eaten|, rtheth i the better and was generally fo nfed in audi Te leaves fromthe middle upwards, with many flowers on them, confifting of foure darke purple coloured leaves with divers threds in the middle,tipt with a yellow duft &athree forked ftile in the midft, which ftandethin long purplifh made the Poet Murtiall move this queftion {eeing the trary courfe held in his time. See greene huskes' hanging downe their heads and turne into Clasdzye 1. Laltuea [ylveftrin Endiviefolijs odore virofo. Broadleafed wilde Lettice, |