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Of the Hiflorie of PJ 



$ 3 I> if facus minor 9 five Virgapaftor is. 



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.ftalkethari<£ a ;„iA gethf 



of the ioynts byc£i\£''^^&**& 



fa one righc Ure&TSiF 

 fing the ftaifce abound faftened ""» 

 fo ftftened, that they hold dewS. 5 * 

 in manner of a little bafon : thefeb f? 

 light greenecolour,and like toth f 3/' 

 but full of prickles in the edses Z h "^ 



.thetopsoftbeftalkesfta^dheaSt 

 prickles like thofe of the Hedge-ho* iff 



king backward at the point life hooCtf 

 which heads grow little floures : Thefecdislfe 

 Fennell-feed, and in tafte bitter : the headsta 

 white when they grow old, and there are fan 1 

 in them id (t of them when they are cut, certae 

 little magots : the root is white, and of a 

 length. 



2 The fecond k inde of Teafell which is i 

 fo a kinde of Tbiftle,is very likevnto the former, 

 but his leauesare fmallcrand narnweriistiaB 

 of a purple colour, and the hooks oftbe Tea£! 

 nothing fo hard or fharpe as the other, nor god 

 for any vfe in diefling ofcloath. 



$ There is another kinde of Teafell, beint 

 wilde kinde thereof, and accounted among thefc 

 Thirties , growing higher than the red of fcii 



kindes • buthis knobbed heads are no bigger than a Nutmeg, in all other things el fe they are like 

 totbeother wildekindes. $ This hath the lower leaues deeply cut in with one galh on each fide 

 at the bottomc of the leafe.which little eares are omitted in the figurc:the leaues alfoarele&rb* 

 the former, and narrower at the fetting on,and hold no water as the tw o former do ; the irhoie plaa 







is alio much lelTc. 4: 



^ The Place. 



The firft called the tame Teafell is fowne in this country in gardens, to ferue the vfe of Mien 



and Clothworkers. 



The fecond kindegroweth in moiftplacesby brookes,riuers, and fuch like places 

 ~ru~+u:~* t f— nc j growing in moift places in the high way leading from Bra/ntree ^Hen mj 

 udujcaiuciu cucA^and not in any other place except here and ^ereaplanrvponthejiig^v 



Mucb-Dunmow to London, t I found it growing in great plenty at Edgecombeby f°/ 

 clofe by the gate of thehoufeof my much honoured friend Sir lohnlunfkd. X 



The third I found 

 hamcaftleinElTex 



<tf ThcTime. 



Tbefe flourc for the moft part in Iune and Iuly . 



^J The Names. 



and £'** 



Teafell is called in Greeke,^ w and likewifc in Latine, Ditfacu*, L ^ rm f entr ^s^ 



Veneris: it is termed Labrttm Feneris,and Latter Lauacrum, of the formc'of rhe kw& 



aijdC- 



ihionofabafon,which is neuer without water : they commonly call it VtWffl ' .- Cir frk- 



duus fuBenum 



and Cdrdo Penteador ^_ f ___ 



Englifti,Teafell,Carde Tea fell>and Venus bafon. 



The third is thought to be Caledragon Plinij : of which he hath written 



in high Dutch, fcatDctl Blftell t in low Dutch, XmUUl in >l 

 tudor : in Italian, Dtffaco, and Cardo : in French, Char fade fouw, 



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d*terf 



Chapter. 



^r The Temperature 



The roots of thefe plants arc dry in the fecond degree,and haue a certain* 





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