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OfthcHiftoric of Plants 



fundry brancbes.and are of a purple colour,fet or 



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thornes than theaforefaid 





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They floure from Iune vntill Auguft,the fecond yeare after they be fowne:and in the mean time 

 the feed waxcth ripe, which being thorow ripe the herbe perifheth,as doe Iikewife moft of the 

 other Thiftlcs,vvhich Hue no longer than till the feed be fully come to maturity. 



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kaucleaues fct with prickles round about the ed ges, and to be couered with a thin domic like a 



copwcb,that may be gathered and fpun to make garments of, like thofe of filke • inhiafc n.nJ, ;C 

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 EnghOi, Cotton-Thiftle, white Cotton-Thillle, wilde white Thiftle, Argentine or fhe Silucr 



Oiofcmdes faith, That the leaues and roots hereof are a rpm<*lu f«r ♦*.«/•„ .». t .... 

 **rae backwards i thereby <?</«, funnnf.rh rhJTutr? L\^ y J 0t thofe . chat hai * their bodies 



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 thereof be great broad torov* cr* n„~i • i? 5 . noIe ot w «it< 



Cotton-Thiftltnfor the leaues. 



a multitude of ftiffe and iliarpe 



thofe of OtcThiftle but th™ £1 V u "T" 11 a altitude of ftiffe a 



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