Chap. 3^9- ^V# E&rbi. 



m 



Scolymu! bylvejins, Cynara SyJve/ins Lat, folia Bat 



To which Authors add. 7. Scolymus Theophrafi 

 e7Thms """"'' C?/-i*«^ aryfamhemus. The Gol( 



J}L \^^ Defcriptions. Thefirfl, or Wild Harti 



■aves, ending in long poinn^ very conftierahly fcol- 

 >ed in on the edges, fet with Jirong great pricks. 





caly^amljrickly I 



i(h,'c 

 . _, ..., _ -eSe^lnteHl^dsV 



IV. The Second, or Candy Wild Ha 

 up long and hoary white Leaves' fome)hing broader 



|om among' whTch' LravL^'rf e'^up'lfevtd 'S 

 Stalks, fet with but few Leaves, and 1 



_ V. The third, or Golden Thiftle, has a Root which 

 tslong, of the bignefs of a Finger, very fweet and 

 plea/ant to eat //^^ ««/<, Eiyngium , .r Sea-Holly, 

 v>hch fends forth Several skinny and Vrickly Stalks, 

 M mfome Countries, as ,n Spain, Italy, Kc. 

 "Si E^^C G>*«rL, as in France 



kn "aSmiwha°* ^ ^'^^"^ a L^f whicMs 

 any where elfe, much'cut"i'„ ot the edge°TSd fet 

 with fmall white prickles , in feme places marked 

 with white fpots on the deep green Leaves, but in 



forth feveral fmall Heads, fmaller than any' of the 

 fomjer, compofed of fmall Scales, with very (harp 

 prickles at the ends, out of the middle of which 

 come forth many Gold yellow Threads, which abide 

 not long, and are the Flower, in which, when they 



sSles1yinVd!,2°?g«h J'''^' '"'"^ ^"''" '"^ ''^^ 



VI. The Places. The firft grows in France, Ger- 

 many and Italy, the fecond is natural to Candy, the 



oi with usT ° ^^''''' """^ ^'''^' ^""^ *^^ ^^^ 

 ^^l^^ThTrinPf^^"^^^^^ j^ty ,„d 



Auguf, or in the end of Summer, and their Seed ri- 

 P^H^ix" ^ii?^^'**"'' or quickly after. 



VIU. The Qualities. They are temperate in re- 

 fpeft to heat or cold, drynefsor moifture arc Ape- 

 ritive, Abfterfive, and Diuretick. ^ 



IX. The Specification. The IVild Hartichoke is 

 found to be of fingular nfe to take away thrftmking 

 or rank fmell of the Armpits. 



^me droAer^fil W ^''^' '" ^ ^^'^^ °^ Generous 

 :' Xli. I^J Declswn'ir'wine Tr ho. .»,<. r.^= 

 ^7"' ^"^. r t°S«her ?o-nowe!!^\ *rf t:"|^ 

 maae in Keel fort Wine, it is a fingular sood thins 

 T. f^rZ ^^?i?''"' '°^ ^"^ '" "'^"S*^" ^he Womb, 

 as to caule a Woman to go out her time 



thi?!l?ep2;i?;sirts%;l^io S\tS 



and^to'^clulefrdtfulnefr '™^" ""^ ^'^ ^^"^" 



r, ^. K^H-^-^^f^"/.' as alfo the young Heads 

 (in Spain) before they Flower, but they u(e to raili 



Thiftle, is very pleafant eaten raw, or boiled, 

 ftance of the Heads is eaten'j and with the Hower^ 

 they counterfeit Saffron, as we do with the Baftard 



CHAP. CCCXL. 

 0/ H AR T I C HOKE Jerufalem, 



R, 



Canada POTATO. 



-l but has variety of Names given to it b^^the 

 .<ar//:f Writers: Pelleterius calls it Heliotropmrnln- 

 <cumTuberofu»t, Columna in the fecond Part of his 

 Phytobafanos^Ah it Flos Solis Farnefianus, (becaufe 

 growing in the Cardinal's Garden) alfo After Perua- 

 Chryfanthemum Utifolium Brafilianum, but in his 

 Pmax, Helianthemum Indicum Tubero/um; but our 

 pLnT^""'^ his Paradice, as alfo in his Theater of 

 mt%,' Potato's Bf'cmada; Cour^ufual EngUJh 

 Name is Jerufalem hartichoke. Bauhinus 3K0 in . 

 ■ IS Pinax calls it Ariftochijub Terra. 

 II. The Kinds. It is a fingular Plant of th<t Kind, 

 It hovv it ftiould be accounted among the Species 



3 refemblance to any of thefe Plants in any of its 

 irts, but the vulgar feldom give Names to Plants 



