Chap. 143. lingltjh Herbs. 
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the Apothecaries, Caulis : In Englifh,Cole, and Cole- 
wort. 1 
II. The Kinds. There are two principal Kinds, 
viz. t. The Headed Colewort, which is our Common 
Cabbage, of which we have at large Treated in 
Chap. 103. aforegoing. 2. The not headed , or open 
Colemrt , of which there are feveral Species, viz. 
1. The Garden Kinds , of which in this Chapter. 
2. The Cole-Flower, of which in Cap. 144. 3. The 
Wild Kind , of which in Cap. 147. 4. The Sea Cole- 
wort, of which in Cap. 146. Of the Garden Kind 
there are many Species, as 1. Brajjica vulgaris fat iva. 
Our common Garden Colewort. 2. Brajjica fativa 
Crifpa , Curled Garden Colewort. 3. Brajjica Ru- 
bra , The common Red Colewort. 4* Brajjica Pa- 
tula, The open Cabbage Colewort : Of all which 
in their order. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firfi which is our com- 
mon Garden Colewort, has a woody JtrongRoot, with 
many Fibres or Strings adjoining to it : From which 
Root rife up many broad, thick, fat Leaves, of a 
deep black green color, through the middle of which 
Leaves runs in each a great Rib, which is thick and 
high on the backfide, with many f mailer Ribs or 
Branches rifing from that middle Rib, of Reddifh , 
Whitifh, and Afh-colors. The Stalk grows out of 
the midft from among thefe Leaves, which fpreads 
it f elf forth into feveral Branches , bearing at the 
top, f mall yellow Flowers : which Flowers being pafi, 
long Cods Jucceed, full of round Seed, like thofe of 
the Turnep, but fmaller. 
IV. The fecond, or Crifped Kind, has a Root, 
Stalk, Flowers , Cods, and feed not much differing 
from the former : but the greatefi difference lyes in 
the magnitude, this being fomething leffer than the 
former •, and in the Leaf, this being divided with 
many deep Cuts, even to the middle Rib on both 
ftdes, by which means it becomes rough every where 
in its edges , and very much Crifped or Curled. 
V. The third Kind, is fo like unto the firj } in its 
Roots , Stalk , broad, thick, fat Leaves , Flowers, Cod 
and Seed, that it would feem to be wholly the fame 
individual Species, did not the color make the diffe- 
rence, that being of a green color, this of a Red-, 
fome of a deep purple, others of a lighter Red, and 
fome of a reddifh Green. 
VI. The fourth Kind, has a Root fomewhat thick- 
flrong, and woody , filled with almoft an innumerable 
company of fibres, fome greater, fome fmaller, fome 
Jhorter, and fome longer, like in number ds it were 
to the hairs of ones head ■, from which Root fprings 
up one thick Stalk, having at top thereof a great 
thick head of crumpled Leaves : the Leaves are large, 
and of a zvhite green color, and fet with thick large 
white Ribs : the outermoft of which gather the rejl 
of the Leaves clofely together, which are leffer than 
thofe next the ground, thefe lye open mofi part of 
the Summer, without any feemingnefs to clofe : but 
towards the end of the Summer, being grown to have 
a great many Leaves, it then feems as if it would 
fhut up or clofe together -, but fianding a while at a 
Jlay, it on the contrary rather dilates and fpreads 
it 7 elf abroad, looking fomething like a thick , hard , 
whitened Colewort, and is indeed nothing elfe. 
VII. There are befides thefe, feveral other Species 
of edible Colewort s fome Curled, and wholly of a 
Green color, fome of divers colors in one Plant, as 
White, Yellow, Red, Purple, or Crimfon, lo vari- 
ably mixed as to caufe admiration, the Leaves be- 
ing curled on the edges like a Ruff, very beautiful 
to behold. 2. There is alfo another curPd Colewo/ /- 
of lels beauty and refpeft, being but a little curl’d 
on the edges, whofe Leaves are white, and edged 
with green : or green and edg'd with white. 
3. There are two other forts of Colewort s, one of a 
Popinjay green color : the other of a fine deep 
green, like unto the Savoys. 4. There is the Cole 
Rape, which is alfo a Colewort, which bears a white 
Head, or headed Stalk above the ground, as large 
as a reafonable Turnep, but longer, and from the 
top whereof fpring out divers great Leaves, like 
unto other Coleworts, among which rife up divers 
Stalks, which bear yellow Flowers, and Seed in 
D d 2 Pods, 
