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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



IB. 2 



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. The fmall cue Colewort hath very large leaues,vvonderfully cut,hackt, and hewen eurn 

 the middle rib,refembling a kind of curled Parflythat (halbedefcribedin his place (which k 



common nor h arh h i n k nruv n*» nr AnC^riUnA^riu .k.v + ;^ a \ „.„„.,»i „«. : :^u \ . " 1S n 0C 



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mencioncd.buc dirfereth in the curious cutting and lagging of the leaues : in ftalke Joure & r A 





f i£ Brdfiicafyfocftris. 



WildcCoIeworts, 





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1 5 Sea Colewort hath large and broad leaues re 

 ry thick and curled, and fo brittle that they cannot b 

 handled without breaking, of anouerworne ereen co° 

 lour tending to graynefle .• among which rif e b vp ft a j k$ * 

 two cubits # high,bearing fmall paIeflouresattheto D 

 which being paft,there follow round knobs wherein is 

 ' contained one round feed and no more , blacke of co- 

 lour, oftbebigneflTeofa tare or vetch. % And there 



fore Petta and LobelczW itBrapca marina monojbermos i 



16 ^ The wilde Colewort hath long broad leaues 

 not vnlike to the tame Colewort, but le/Tcr, as is aj| 

 the reft of the plant, and is of his owne nature wilde 

 and therefore not fought after as a meat , but is fame 

 and husbanded vpon ditch banks and fuch like places 



•for the fr>f*Ac ftta kirntli.'^ «.f. -.: '. .' 



fake 



gotten 



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The greateft fort of Colewoorts grow in gardens, 



and do loue a fbile which is fat, being throughly dun! 



ged and manured : they doe beft profper being remo- 



' ued, and euery of them grow in our Englifh gardens, 



except the wilde, which growesin fields and new dig. 

 ged ditch banks. 



The fea Colewort grows naturally vpon the baycfi 

 and brims of the fea,wbere there is noearth to be feen, 

 but fand and rolling pibble ftones , which thofe that 

 dwell neere the fea do call Bayche J found it growing 

 between Whitftable and the I lie of Tenet neere the 

 brinkeof thefea,and in many places neere to Colche- 

 fter,and elfewhere b y the fea fide . 



H the Time. 

 Crefcentius faith,That the Colewort may be fowne and remoued at any time of the yeare, 





and 



often times 



The Colewort,faith pW//*, muft be remoued when it attaineth to fix leaues after itiscome 

 vp rrom teed • the which muft be done in Aprill or May,efpecially thofe wh ich were fowne in A* 

 tumne,which afterwards flouriili in the Winter moneths,at what time they arefitteft for meat. 



But the Sauoy Cole and the Cole florey muft be fowne in Aprill, in a bed of hot borfe-duog, 

 and couered with ftraw or fuch like , to keepe it from the cold and frofty moraines ; and hauiflg 

 gotten fix leaues in fuch fort,you (hall remoue it as aforefaid ; otherwife if you tarry for tempc* 

 weather before you fow,the yeare will be fpent before it come to ripenefle. 



'/Ai'Sufe 



% The Names . 

 Colewoorts is called in Greeke by Diofcorides 



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/onrfntr,*. r»T.- n ' ""■*«»«: " anuetn away arunicenneiie, but alio tor tnat itisu^ -- 



The Anorffl ° US ft ° ne u called tbe Amethyft - which is meant by the firft and garden Color* 



Ihe ACt' t" 3nd - the COfnmon Herb «ifts do call it Caul* J the goodnefif of the ftalke- » 

 the Germane Toneue it is callprl&ftAi* »».*..*.. -niT^cu « '„» .?_«_-•: a r*«i««nrt«. 



igree with Brafi 



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Crafiea Cypria and CauliHora: in Italian, Caultfi 



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