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ftna (others vfe to call Cow-Parfnep by the name of Branca Vrfin* butwirtit?"^!? ^ 11 ,r< *« 

 the Italians call it ^dcambo, and *iwm Or/?*,: the Spaniards,!*** c iw^thT 1 Cf ""*" 

 time were wont to carue the leaues of this Branke Vrfine in pillers andothe t ^ rauc " °f * 

 the eares of pots • as among others Virgil teftifieth in the third Eclogof his BucoHcks ^ ^° *** 



Et nobis idem Alcimedon duo focnla fecit, 

 Et molli circum ejl an fas ample xus Acantha. 



% I tdKfirgdt Acanthus to be that which we now commonly call JWiMh, as i m, l 

 after fhew when I come to treat thereof, t wmtWlMhat 



^Acantha 



ine, Syluejl 

 a prickle s I 



Cd cant bus 



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whereof peraduenture this kinde of Acanthus is named Herbacantha : There is like wife found 

 thebaftard names of Acanthus the word Jt/dw/d/^andalfoCV-" ' L -— -'- 



of them,whcther to the wilde or tame it ought to be referred. 



tftus affirme, is a gurame : for differ 



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ing fomwhat moift 3 with a mollifying and gentle digefting faculty,as are thofe of the Mallow aai 

 thereforethey are profitably boy led in c" '~ 

 eth,is of a more drying quality. 



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Diofcorides fai th,that the roots arc a remedy for lims that are burnt with (Ireland that haue bee* 

 out of joyntjif they be laied thereunto : that being drunke they prouoke vrine, and ftop the bell- 

 that they hclpe thofc that be broken,and be troubled with the crampe,andbeinaconfmnptiooo( 

 the lungs. 



They are good for fuch ashauetheptificke and fpetbloud withall;for thofe that haue fain froo 

 fomc high place,that are bruifed and dry beaten, and that haue ouerftrained themfelucs,and they 

 arc as good as the roots of the greater Comfrey, whereunto they are very like in fubftance, toa^i 

 juyce,and quality. 



Of the fame root is made an excellent plaifter againft the ache and nutnneffe of the hands tod 



feet. 



It is put into cly Hers with good fuccefle againft fundry maladies. 



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Of the Cotton Thiftle, 



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Tjrie common 1 innie,wnereoi tncgreateii quantity ui uvmu « & -»« n f feathers, » 

 pofes.as well by the poore to ftop pillowes, cuihions, and beds for want 01 ^ 

 i i r_ 2— t. ~c !u~ -: lu .._t,..i a J, X -:- ~Lk .»,. f^rhw anH down they dote I.*" 



long ftalke about two cubusDU,^ 



vp 



h floures confiding of many whitifh threds : the feed which to«f°™ ". 

 ne ; it is long, of a light crimfon colour, and lefler than the fee d oiM u 1 



a is * rtPrf 



Saftoo : * 



root groweth deep in the ground,being white,hard,wooi 

 2 The Illyrian cotton rhiftfp hath a lone naked root 



*«»i«ii Liiicu* ur jagsnrora which anietn a very large ana tan na»Kc,ui 6 »- : leaue5 . ..- 



a tree than an annual lherbe or plant .-this ftalkeis garnifhed with fa° ,cs ° r ft " lke a nd eu«y F* 1 

 the bottoroe to the top, fet full of moft horrible fharpe prickes,and h is tot ■» hutt ordtfj 

 of the plant, fothat it is impoflible for man or beaft to touch the hm ^ l ^„u%(oc^, c0 ^ 

 gcr : his leaues are very great, far broader and longer than any other Tnyuie rf ^ fta i,e> 

 with an hoarie cotton 01 downe like the former : the floures doe grow at r ws»- 



