620 Salmon ‘s Herbal. Lib. I. 
nuchion FJinij , lib. 19. c^p.8. and it is called, Lattu- 
ca, a Latteo fucco : in tjnglijh, Wild Lett ice. 
II. The Kinds. It is the lecond generick Species 
of Lettice, and. has the three following Varieties, 
viz. 1. Lettuce fylvefiris , Endivia foliis odore viro- 
fo - Lettuce fylvefiris majo/ odore Opij Gerardi •, 
Endivia major Tragi, which he alio calls, Lattuca 
Jylvejiris altera -, Lattuca fylvefiris fcarioldt bort en- 
ds folio , Lattuca flore Opij odore vehement i Sopo- 
rifero Virofn •, Lugduncnfis lets it down for La- 
ttuca jylvejiris vera Dalecbampij , and in the 1 4th 
Chapter of the fame Book calls it Thejion Dalecham- 
pij\ of which Plinyi out of Tbeopbrajlus, makes 
mention. Lattuca jylvejiris Ang/ica odore Opt /, 
Broad-leaved Wild Lettice. 2. Lattuca fylvefiris 
laciniata -, Lattuca fylvefiris Matthioli , Euchftj , Do- 
don.ci , Gsfalpini , Lbalij & aliorum , Endivia Vulga- 
ris Tragi ( becaufe that generally in all the German 
Appthecaries-Shops it was fo accounted and ufed) 
Sens dome fed lattucina Diefcoridis -, Scarriola Bri- 
ef Go Ji, Jagged-leaved Wild Lettice. 3. Lattuca 
fyiittfris /'ore purpureo Gefneri in hortis ■, alfo 
Sonchus arbor efee ns puniceo /lore, ' Kha- 
li j • . So/icb//s Mont an us purpureus , mwepnnrov Co- 
lumn a •, Sonchus icrtius Tabernsmontani , Lattuca 
Montana pur pare car idea major Baubini , (his minor 
heing the Lampfana Auflriaca of Tarkinfon ) Wild 
Lettice with purple flowers. 
111 . Khef/fl., or Broad -leaved Wild Lettice. It 
i-a t a Root which is white , long, and woody, when it 
boars Seed, iind perijhes prefcntly after. It riles up 
with four cr five lomewhat long and large Leaves, 
final let at the bottom, and broader at the ends, be- 
ing round-pointed, unevenly dented about the edges, 
but not cut in or torn at all, of a pale or whitifh 
green Color, and very like unto the Garden Lettice, 
ves, lb that it will icon de- 
ceive one that never fuw it before, which do fo a- 
blde the firft Winter after the Sowing, whether in 
the Spring or Autumn, of the Ihed Seed : but in 
.May following it begins to rife up to a Stalk, and 
then thofe lower Leaves will have the middle Rib 
on the backlide grown full of lmall lharp Prickles. 
The Stalk fas riled jo be.-fometimes' leyen or eight 
Feet high at leaft, and as big as the Thumb'of any 
Mans Hand at the lower Joint -, fomething brown, 
and fpreading it felf into leveral very long Branches, 
on which grow large Leaves, like the others, but 
more crumpled, the lower,, and fo to the middle of 
the Stalk, let with Prickles in the manner of -the 
bottom Leaves, but ldfer and higher, and fome- 
thing jagged or divided on the edges, all and every 
part yielding plenty of a Milk Juice and Clammy, 
being broken, which fthells Itrong, and very like un- 
to Opium, being of a bitter Talte. The Flowers 
are very lmall and lingle, fomething like unto Lat- 
tice, but fmaller, and of a paler yellow, lcarcely 
opening themlelves, and hardly abiding half a Dav 
open, but turn into Down, with fmall black Seed, 
very like unto Black Lettice Seed, and is carried a 
way with the Wind. 
IV. The fecond , or Jagged-leaved Wild Lettice. 
It has a Root which abides after the Seeding- time, 
when as the other does not. This Wild Lettice 
grows like the lalt, but not fo high or great : the 
firlt Leaves are of a greyer green Color, fmaller and 
narrower than the other, which fo abide, and after- 
wards has Prickles growing on its backlide, as the 
other has. Thofe which iollow, are much more 
jagged than the others, and let with lharp Prickles 
alfo, and^ being broken, yields Milk as plentifully 
as the former, and as bitter as it •, and fmells alfo 
as itrongly of Loppy or Opium. The Flowers and 
Seed are like it too, and fly like wile away with the 
Wind. 
V. The third, or Wild Lettice with purple Flow- 
ers. It has a Root which is thick fet with A odes in 
fever al places , not growing downwards, but fpread- 
ing forwards, and having long Eibres fhooting from 
h, which perifk not. It is a great Plant, and riles 
up fometimes (in moift Ground) to be fix, feven or 
eight Feet high, but ulually three, four or five Feet, 
with a Itrong great 'Stalk, let on each fide with 
Leaves, fmallelt at the bottom, and larger as they 
.rife up higher, being largeft about the middle of 
; the Sralk, and then grow fmaller again up ro rhe 
;top all of them unevenly waved about the edges, 
and encompalhng rhe Sralk at rhe bottom ; of a 
dark, blewifh green Color, on the upper fide, and 
greyilh underneath, yielding a Milky Juice when it 
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