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Show 8 Crap, Theatrum Botanicum. eens a _ f “ si cut into manyparts, atmed withfharpeprickles on all fides, every pricke ending in three points, whence rifeth upa tall ftalke, {omewhat branched with one or two prickly heads atthe toppes ofevery onefrom branch, ont of which come purplith flowers, and afterwards {mall long feede wrapped in downe. . Tripe9. TheT heater of Plants. =e 4 Carduas een eenae Medow Thiftle with Afp' . 5 Carduus Ceanothosfive viarum ey vinearam repens. ‘The creeping way or Vineyard Thiflles —___g 5. Cardanspratenfis polycephalos. The many headed medow Thiftle, This Thiftle hath but few leaves lying next the ground, being both fhort and narrow, armed with tharpe and longprickes, the {talkeis round. ftrakedand without prickes, {pread into fundry {mall branches bearing many {mall heads with purplifh fowers, made of thrummesor threads thrufting out ofthe middle of them, but fer with large and fharpe prickes : the feede is inclofed in downe as the reftare ; the rooteis long, hard and wooddy, A 6 (arduus paluftris, The moift MedowésThiltle. The roote of this Thiftle is fingle, the ftalke three cubits high,ftraight andfull of prickes, thick e greene leaves unevenly waved, and fometimes more deepelycut in on the edges, having afew fet with dake prickes at them, and branched toward the toppe; with many{mall heads uponflender ftalk es, and reddifh purple flowerslike Others, and then turne into downe. 7, Carduns Ceanothosfive viarum & vinearum repens. The Creeping Way or Vineyard The rootes of this Thiltle are very {mall and whitifh, running both deepe and farre aboutThiftle, under groundlike unto quiche grafle, but have no knotted joynts therein like it, but fhooteth np heades ofléaves from the branches of the roote, fo that it will be as ill, or worfe than Quiche to weede out, ifit be once got into a ground: the leaves are of a pale greene colour, fomewhat like unto the rough orprickly Sowthiftle,a little cut in, and as it were crumpled on the edges, armed with very {wall, and fharpe hardprickles, the ftalke groweth to be a yard high, ftraked and prickly, with fome fuch like leaves thereon as the lower be, but {maller to the toppes whereitis ftored with cruell fharpe prickly heads and purple flowers made of thrummes in the middle paffing into downe. 8. Carduus Avenarins five Mnfcatus. The Oaten land or Muske Thiftlé. This Thiftle that rifech fometimes to the height of a man amiong the corne,is found growing lowerin other la ng divers very fharpe prickly jagged leaves fet ronnd about the ftalkes, and atthe toppes where they {many{mall fhortheadsfer clofe together, out of which come the flowers confifting of threads or s in other Thiftles, fome whereof will be white, fome ofa deeper, and others of a paler purple cong to a blufh in many places {melling fweetelike Muske,which being faded,the feede followeth Wraped in much doune like the reft. : 9. Gardius Creticts minimus. The {mall Thiltle of (%andy. This {mall Thiftle hath rifing from a {mall long roote divers long leaves, fomewhat like unto the Arty.astylis ox Diftaffe Thiftle, but {maller, and armed with fharpe prickles: the weake leaning talkes aredivided ufn ally into two other, betweene which groweth on a foote ftalke a {mall Thiftle-like head armed witha dozeny ery {mall long prickes Randing up round about it, being fo finely netted that it maketh admirablé theale Workem after, the middlemoft head, ever growing lower than the reftround about it : whenthefe heads open,the blew flower aps peareth never {preading much, after which come {mall white feede inclofed ina little lowne, which will flicawaywith the winde, the heads are {weete and edible before they ower, The Place, All thefe forts of Thiftles grow in fields and medowesin Vineyards and grounds fowne with corne; as well in our owne Land, as beyond the fea, fome of themalfo on HéatheS, Greenes; and waft ground s in manyplaces, asthe Ceanothos on Kentife Towne greene abundantly, I. Carduus pratenfis latifolias, Broad leafed field Thiftle. 32 Carduus bulbo/is Moniheliew fiunng The French bulbed Thittle, fi si Cuap.l. 959 ss Cov dagt Crptizas misiangs: *hetonal Thiflle of Canes |
