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another fore,with more leaves, refembling Smallach aforefaid, but that it commeth up indrie G 
places,and this the Greekes named Hippofelinon,¢.Alifanders.A third there is befidesfoundin 
mountaines,named by them thereupon Oreofelinum, 7.Mountaine Ach,or Perfely of the hils: 
it beareth leaves like Hemlocke, andailittle flender root: the feed refembleth Dill feed ve 
much, but only thatitis fmaller. And as for the garden Ach,commonly called Perféley,there be 
many kinds therof,differing one from another: firft in leafe, wherby you fhall have fome leafed 
thicke and fullandthe fame jagged and curled : others thinner,& thofe alfo more plain, fmooth 
and broad, /tem,In ftalke which in fome is more groffe or thin than in other : in one kind white, 
in another purple,and in a thirdof fundrie colours, Leo hir tag & 
Of Leétuce, the Greeks have fet downe three kinds: whereof the firft rifeth up with fo large * 
and broad a ftalke, that by their report, little garden wickets were commonly made thereof,in H 
partitions betweene quarter and quarter. And yet the leafe of this Le¢tuce 1s not much bigger 
than others thatbee common and fervefor pot-hearbs: the fame alfo paflingnarrow,by reaton 
thatall the nutriment is otherwife {pent in the maine ftem. The fecond hath a round ftalke :the 
third is the broad flat LeQtuce which fetleth neare the ground,called Laconicon,or the Lectuce 
of Lacedzinon, But other writers have defcribed the diftin€ kinds thereof by their colour,and 
the fundrie feafons wherein they be fet :for (fay they) there be blacke Lettuces, the feed whereof 
ought to be fowed in lanuarie : there be white alfo, and fuch:would be fowed in March :& there 
area third fort which be ted, and the firtime of their Seednes isthe moneth of Aptill. Andac- 
cording to thofe authors, all the fort of them are to bee remooved in young plants, when they 
have growne two moneths, Howbeit, thofe Herbarifts who have looked fartherintotheknow- J 
ledge of Simples, add morekinds yet unto the other; to wit, the purple,the crifpeor curled, the 
Cappadocian, andthe Greckith Lettuce. As forthefe of Greece they are taller in ftem than the 
reft,and broader withall ; befides, their leaves be longand narrow, like to thofe of Endive or Ci- 
chorie. The worftkind of all is that, which the Greeks by way of reproofe and reproch for theie 
bitternefle, tearme Picris, Yet is there anotherdiftin@ kind of the blacke LeCtuce,which for 
the plentie that it yeeldeth ofa milkie white juice procuring drowfinefle, is tearmed Meconis3 
although all of them are thought tocaute fleepe, In oldtime, our auncetors knewno other Let 
tuce in Italy but this alone, and thereupon it tooke thename in Latine of Lactuca: The purple 
Leétuce which hath the biggeft root, they name’Czciliana:butthe round kind with fmalleft - 
*SeeCelig, Oot and broad leaves, iscalied* Attylis, [the chaft Letuce,or the civile LeGtuce:} howbeit, K 
Rhodiginns 27 {ome give itthenameof Eunuchij, becaufe of allothers itcooleth lnft moft, and is anenemie 
perks andlat to the fports of Venus, Andto fay atruth, all Leétuces are by nature reftigerative,and doe coole 
Ledhnumand the bodie;and therfore be théy eaten ordinarily in Summer :for they pleafe the ftomack when 
lethimrell itis enclined to loath meat,and procureth good appetite. Certes, reported it is of Auguflus Ca 
ae at far late Emperour of famous memorie, thathe efcaped a daungerous difeafe, and.was recove- 
LeGuce, “fy- redby the meansof LeGuce, whereunto.hewas directed by the difereet counfellof cA2afahis 
tis Phyfician. And whereas in times patt, folkeprecifely forbare to eat Lectuce, now there isno 
doubt or fcruple at all made therof} nay they are fo far from abftinence that way,that itis a meat 
generally received andcommendedinfomuch as they have devifedco:keepe itinthe fyrrup of 
Oxymel, all winter long, forto have itreadieandeverat hand: yeaandmore thanfo,men are E 
verely periuaded, that LeCtuce will encreafe good blood. Over and befidesall the forts of Lee- 
tuce before fpecified there is yet another kind named in Latine Captina,as one would fay,the 
Goats Lectuce, whereof I purpofe tofpeake more at large among othermedicinable hearbs.As 
touching the wild Leétuce called Cilician fee howitis cteprapace into the garden after it came 
once to be knowne, andis commended’as exceeding good amongother hearbs there fown and 
planted: the leaferefembleth the Cappadocian LeCtace; but that iris jagged & broaderthanit. 
As for Endives and C ichories, !cannovtell what¢to make of thei: for néither can they betruly 
faidakind of LeGuce,nor yet raunged well among other hearbs, More unpatient they areand 
fearful of winter, than Le@tuces, and withall carri¢.an unpleafant ftrong taft : howbeit their 
ftalks areno lefle acceptable than they. Their young plants ufetobe {et in.che beginning of the M 
Spring, but tranflated afterwards and replanted inthe latter end thereof, There isacertain wild 
and wandring Endive, which the gyptians call Cichorie, whereof I meaneto difcourfe more 
amply in anotherplace. There hath beema devife lately come np tocondite and preferve as well 
the ftems as the leaves of all LeGtuces for the winter time, in pitchers and pots,within fome ap- 
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