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Show “970 Theatrum Botanicum. Cuap.5. Triseg. ne ftalke (carfe two i commeth forth a thore up fromit,among which at the latter end of Sommer rplith threads rifing TT deatate a large roundfcaly and prickly head with many brightpu ich "7 th whiti head lyemany {mall the downe. inthe abide in their colouralongtime, and being paft among Thiftle but fhorter and fmaller stheroore tith or filver coloured feede, fomewhat like unto the firltChamzleon isgreat thick 7 yeares, and blackith on the outfide and whitith within enduring. many §. Carfina fylvefiris mayor. The great wilde Carline Thiftle, This wilde Carline Thiftle hath fandry flender round bur 7. Chamelon xiger verus. Thetrue blacke Chamzlion Thiftlec narprickly (talks rifing froma {mall long roote,bearing diversunto row long leaves thereon very prickly and fomewhat like a the former Carline Thiltle, but lefler,and at the topsof each the thrumme flower, whofe bordering leaves are yellow and reddifh, 6. Carduvs pineafer Ixine Theophraffi, ThePine Thiftle. This brave Thiftle hath a long thicke blackith yellow roote, the end, but white within, {melling fweete andtalting hor, of the thicknefle ofones thumbe, growing {maller downe to P4ny both of the white and blacke, the Carline appearance ofthe leaves, Diofcorides faith it of the white, but fuppofed that the great Emperout called (harlemaine Thiftleis called in Latine Carlina quafi Carolina, for itis with the roote whereof he might cute his Army infected had this herbe fhéwed him in his fleepe by an Angel, Chamealeo albvs but of others obferving the differences,it the be to many of {aid I as thought itis with the Plague: is (iriveth with many words, and by altering and is thought not to be knowne to the ancient writers, Lagdwnenf one plant, yet laftly hee faith that ‘many skilfull both them prove to es Diofcorid of text Greeke the correcting Fabius Columna indeede judge,and that the Ixine [pina doth fo zand ti Theophraf Jxine Carlina call did s Herbarift h ( arduws pinea & Ixiaallo,better doth agree of Theophraftus (miltetmed Helxine by Pliny )which Gaza tranflaret likely‘hee never faw the with our Carlina then with the Chamaleon albus of Diofcorides : and that becaufe asit is but Diofcorides faith the white Chamzleon Thiftle true Ixine of Theophraftus, which isa much differing plant: grew about the roote a kinde of birdlime, which Was called Ixia by fomein his time,becaufe in fomeplaces thete efpecially cdokea littlethereof after fapper, Cretanes the faith PJiny and Mafticke, of ftead in the womennfed by name I thinkeit alfo a falfe name; for Ixia is a being but night, inthe working in waking them to keepe it with the remedies thereof, in his fixt booke faid to be a deadly poyfon by Dia/corides himfelfe; who fheweth d by Dia/corides to bean Ale-<ipharmacum or counand 21.~Chapter, and theroote of the white Chamzleonisfai accorinted deadly or dangeroits:but that clamterpoyfon, fo thatit or any thing growing from it can no wayesbe the roote of the blacke Chameleon is truly t growetha that indeede will) you my gum orbirdlime(call 1c what of the blood, and P/iyin his 22.Bookeand 18. called Zxia and (/lophonon, thatis, the corruption or cortupter and (ynoxolon (miftaking Dio/co- Chameleon was called Vlophonon d Cynoxylon Chameleon allo is called Ulophonon by fome, and Ixiaby others,an be the Ixine of Theophraftus whom thiolvs Cheweth in his comments uponthe xia of Diofcoridesthat Ixia {hould doth hot declare any evill quality therein, he confuteth effectually; fhewing that Theophrafius in dilctibing Txine Gum thatis of a good tafte, and called Acanthine or Spinabut more thénfo, hefaith thatit yeeldeth a Lacrymaor or Thiftle, and although as DMattbiolus faith, lis (Maftiche becaufe it was (0 like Matticke, and grew ona Thotne miftooke for the white Chamzieon both in that he had not {eene any Gum about the roote of Ixine (which hee prickes or thornesin manner of croffes, which growing ripe bath within ita hard white fockie fabftance, wherein as alfo from among the thornes without on the head,iffueth forth a yellowith {weet gummemuch like unto Maftick of a hortafte. Alpinus faith that both Beltws and Bellonius & Dalechampiuslike= wife took this thiftle to be Chameleo albys,but untraly, for Theo. phraftus maketh mentiO of Chameleo albus in anotherplaces bur faith Alpinus Chameleo albus differeth not from Chameleo niger but onelyin the colourof the leafe & therefore (faith he)I doubt not to affirmethat the Carlina having blacker leaves then Cha~ meleo albus whichhath white leavesisthe Chameleo niger, but Theophraftws putceth not any{isch difference in the leaves to be blacker or whiter, for that hee referrethto the rootes,and the leaves of the white Chameleon to bee greater and the blacke fmaller then thofe of Scolymsus,and {uch diftinGtion in the leaves from Cortufus of Padea and Calzolarius from and in other places) in Jta/7, yet faith that firch was fent him both in Candy did afe the faid Gum Verona,and faithalfo that he underftood by a Candiot Herbarilt, that the Fletchers Matthiolus ferteth forth the Carlina canlefcens:(as it Zo faften Feathers to Arroweéas others doe with Glew; tus, althohgh bimfelfe findeth Theopbraf is judged by the belt) tobee the true Chameleo niger of Diofcorides and fent him from Waples, as not anfwering the fomedef@ therein and likewife impugneth that which Adaranta the: indubitate blacke Chamzleon, Cobee to defcription thereof, whichis now received by the moft jiidicions (and not Ixixe) was a {mall low Jumra {eemeth to thinke in the difcourfe of Chameleo albus and niger that 17a on, efpecially feeing that Diofcorides in the nd of plant, more agreeing with the blacke then the white Chamele on among the roots that are venemous, Thefirft his Preface to his fixt booke numbreth Lia as well as Chamele from the ufnall Carlina ore gummifer of Colamna differing here fet downe is the (amelco albus Apulus purpureofl the by defcription,it is alfo the Chamaleon albus gummi whichis taken by many tobe (‘hameleon albus as isevident calleth it Carlina acaulis Diefeorides alfo maketh, but in fhewing their differences more amply there Theophraftus faith, that the white Chamzleen the white hath purplifh fowers and the blacké variable hath noftalke, and the blacke a ftalke of a cubit height, his leave are not to be feene in Carling, coloured fowers, and like a Jacinth,which by Alpism The true blacke Chamzlcon Thiftle. The blacke ChatnzleonThiftle hath many long leavés lying about the roote, much thinner andleffe prickly then the white Chamaleon Thiftle,much cut in alfo on the edges into manyfine parts or jagges, which as the ftalke that rifeth up among them are fometimesgreene, and fometimes whitith, and fomerimes reddifh, which brancheth forth onall fides, and beareth at the toppes of them many {mall prickly heads in a tufe together, f{omewhatfealy, out of which comedivers {mall long blew flowers, ending in five and fometimesin fix fharpe pricke ly points or ends, fomewhat like unto thofe of the Orientall Iacinth, withfive or fix white threads in the middle to Clujins ; but Bawhinus ut Maftixferens of Henorins Bellis, exprefiedin his firft Epiftle Chamaleo albus and (arlina tobe gummifera, whereofI mich marvaile that he (hould continiie that opinion ofto be different, although that Carin his booke both but one plant, knowing that Co/umna fhewed them plainely tus his Ivine hathfuchlikewife which Jina as well as Chameleo albus giveth a like gum alfo: and that Theophraf Carlina humilis of Columna,taken by him Columna as is {ayd being deceived thought tobe Carlinasthe fecond is the called by Lobel Carlinaherbaaiorum and to be the [vine of Theophraftus as Anguilara did before him)and Dodonems s a8 Guilandinus in Papyro did thinke before ) (yet thought by him & C/ufixsto be the Chamalon albus of Diofcoride lonaws Carlinafive Leucacantha,by Céfalpinus Carline i alfo tobe Crocodilion, by Gener in hortis Cardoa tior, by Lugdunenfis Carlinacaulem babens, and takethit canledonatws, but Chameleo niger by Lacuna, sre albo caulem habens, and called by, Lobel Chamaleo albus Befter that fet forth the Hortus Eyffetenfis, Lugdunenfis, Chameleon niger vulgaris by Tragus and came the name ¢ Banhinus faith in his Aattbiolus Eberwurtz that is, Apri radix (and from hence Carlina acatte Bruafelfins unto the of name this referreth he Pizax his butin Cardopacts, ids) and it in his Pinax Carlina caule- ning pimples, and almoft exulcerating the'skinneif the face or other tender part betouched therewith,orif the hands that have handled itdoe touch the face as Befonius hath obferved. : The Place, call both forts Eberwurtz, he himfelfe calling at it feemeth the Germ called Chamelc inhis Marthiolus, Carlina caule donatus : the fourth is n Septentrionalinm € xiguaes appella as, and paruus by Lonicerus, by Colamna Chameleo fore, who faith that fon arduus acatlis Septentrionalium, by Clufius Carlina minor purpureo third # Thefirft is not fo frequently found in théfe Wefterne or tranfalpine countries as the fecond which is ufually found upon the hills and mountaines in many places of Germany,and the Alpes ,whereit is generally taken to bee the Chamzleon Thiftle, though called the Carline Thiftle ; but the true Chamzleon Thiftle is more frequent in Italy Greece, and thofe parts where the Carline is more raresthe thirdis oftentimes found in the fame places with the fecond andoftentimes byit felfe ahd in other countries alfo sand this wee have obferved alfo that from the Pia in our countrey, e{pecially in Kent every where almoft,as the formerare in others, and is alfo found in {cede of the low kind fowenin our gardens fometimesit hath growenhigh and notabidden low: the fourthis as Germany and France, efpecially the more Northerly parts : the fift alfo many cimes with us,butthe fixt onely jn the warmer countries: thelaft is found butin Greece and Afia and thofe hotter countri¢s. The Time, Fier rg aiid~ in the yearé with us,but in Sommerin their naturall places, but the Carline Thiltle :ue i. :“i=rahi climate, although the white Chameleonwill hardly, but the blacke and the Pine th white and dth eblacke hye are called in Greeke xauaintay W/x0¢ 5 ener, and in LaSoth the Thuiltles both Chamzleon Thiftles _ The The Chamzleon tine Chameleon or Chameleo albus & niger (Gaza tranflateth them both Vernilago) and fo calledfromthe aries appearance in hortis Cardopatinm caule and Lugdunenjis by Cefalpinus (arlina valgoand by Gefner ttbiolus ,Cordus by Dodonews in former times nullo, by Ericius Cordus Carduus panis fen pacis, by Camerarius Carlinafeffili flore, upon AZe/ues Acanthe lence of Diofcorides, and by taken tobe Spisa Arabica, and by she Monkes that commented a and Camerarivs both in hortes Carlina acanlos magno flores the third is the (‘arlinacande/tens ofColumn alterum genms,oy Clufius Carlina maa asalfoby #: of them; the roote groweth great and thicke ar the head ending in many great longftrings, andis. of ablackifh colouronthe outfide andpale yellow within,of a molt tharpe tafte as the leaves are alfo, procuring itching, bur; The Theater ofPlants. Chapter doth fay that the roote of the blacke blacke appellations of herbes attributed to Dio/corides, the vides his Cynoxylon) and as it is fet downein the divers , Somealfo have affirmed as A4at~ fomewhat like the Carline Thiftle, but of a weaker and pleafanter {mell: che many leaves that rife from thence are long and ofa fingersbreadth, witha middle rib therein, fomewhat like to the leaves of Cyperus, but harder whiter and broader, without either dents.incifure or prickles; in the middle of which leaves lyeth hid a prickley head,armed fully with long Chameleon niger vers, TRIBE OQ, tws in his fixt Booke and pinion that it did not feeme unlike unto the Chamzleon of Theophra/ the Gilt minor purpureo flore + the fift is the Carlina [ylveftris vulgaris, nd by Banhinus Carlina acaults um of Lobel,cec. thefixt is fer forth by fylveftrés of Dodoncus and the Acarna vel Cirfium luteti Sequanor Cardaus Piaea,but is not, although fomes pines inhis book de plantis excoticis,and called alfo by him as Gaza did called Chameleon niger Diofcoridis by Anguilara vhat like the Iacea pineacalled pumila Narbon of Lobel:the lak is n niger s, Chameleo ws, Camcrarivs, Lobel and Columna, and Chameleon niger alter by Afatthiolu and called by Bauhinmn Chantanus, T:‘abermo by on Crocodili be o thoughtt but fis, y Lugdunen blacke Chameleon Thiltle Came~ niger umbellatys flore certuleohyacinthino, The Italians call thé white andboth forts Cardo pinto, the French s call bianco and nero, and the white moreufually Carlina, the Spaniard Marantha,C con Germanes as 18 {aid before call alll ll the white Charline and Chameleon blanc, but the blacke Chardonnette : the eon Thiltle or Changeable Thiftle, forts E berwurtzas the Dutch doe Ebewortele, and wee in Englify Chamzl white or blacke,or asthey are fet downe intheirtitles, and the reft accordingly. 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