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.Of the Hiftoriedf Plants. 



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X 4 StttbcSflmmni folio. . 



Narrow leafed Knapweed. 





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Thorny Knapweed. 



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T rae Ieaues of this are very much diiiidcd and hoary, the ftalkes fome two cubits high, let al (o 



withmach diuided Ieaues that end in fofc harmleite prickles :at the tops of the hunches ftand the 



wadscompoled as it were of filuer fcales(whence Lobtl and others haue called this plant Stele ar~ 



imtt) andoutof thefe filuer heads come floures like thofe of the Blew-botr 1 *' ' "- **•' ,: - 1 " «»- 



pie colour : the feed is frnal^blackiiVnd hairy at the tops. 



J T " er 6 isanotber like this in each refpe&,but that the heads haue not 



"a colour : and this I haue alfo feen growing with M r lobn iradtfcant at Soi 



M To , t " efe ma y be ad ded that plant which Fax* hath fet forth by thei 

 I**'*' fllio.lt hath a whitifh wooddy root.from whence arife diuers bran< 



& J? °£. [ otnwhat likc thofe of Rofernary,but liker thofe of the Pine,6f a ^ 

 flour ?r W : at thc to P s of the b " B ches grow fuch heads as in the fir ft defcribed State, with 

 ;oof ;! Ioracvvh « a deeper purple colour : the feed is like that of Cm hdmus, but blackifh. The 

 ,00t « not annual, but lafts m!.nvo M , M 



not 



fot annual, but lafts many year 



iudffe?^ k u plantS hauc of latc bin Vu1 8 a ^y fec forth b y tbe name of St*tesyit are they 



i« - »u_ nue ^ fff ^ e ofDiofcorides and the Antients,but rather of another, whofe figure 



as by Dodoritus taken forth of a Ma'Quicript in the Emperors Library^and he 

 journey our cS c ~r& h * home fomc of the fame out of Cyprus and Moreajas nc returned from his 

 only fninr ,k yr t* a : thc botto "» Ieaues are faid to be much diuided,thofe on the (talks loncand 



bottler iL? . uctne ed ges, and white : the floures white,' contained 



ps of the branches 



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fjj The place. 







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in fields neere common high-vvayes and in Vntilled places y but axe 



I haue them in my gardfen. 



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