Chap. 6i^. 
Herbs. 
fpread it fclf, taking up a great deal of room. It 
r ifes up with fever al bard flrong and round Stalks , 
without any Branches at all from them , to the 
height of three or jour feet , bearing thereon at 
Jcveral places , fomcwhat large and long Leaves , 
dented about the edges t of a fad or dusky green 
color. At the top oj every Stalky fands one great 
clofe hard fcaly Head , but not prickly at all not 
fo great as the other Cnicus or Baftard-Saffron, 
never opening the Scales of the Head , as it does : 
from the middle of which , comes forth a great many 
J breads ( yet nothing fo many as in the other) of a 
fad blewifh AJh color , and whitifh at their bot- 
toms. 1 he Seed which lyes in the Down in thofe 
Heads , is greater (as it grows with us) alfo thick 
andfhort , of a brow nijh color, and fewer in number 
in each Head. 
II. Wild Baftard Saffron, At ratty 1 is 
Or DiftafF Thif'tle. 
VIII. The Jhft of this Will Kind, or Yellow 
Wild Carthamus, Cnic,us or Diftaff Thiftle. Its 
Root is whitifh .and woody , perifhing every Lear 
after Seed time. Its lower Leaves are winged , 
long and narrow , very much cut in on the Edges , 
very hairy , or as it were a little , Hoary, and not 
prickly whilft they are Toung , and before the Stalk 
fifes up ■, but then are harder and more prickly • 
and fill the higher , the more Jharp jet with 
Prickles •, which rifing to be three or four feet 
high, are rough , round and branched from the 
middle up war ds •, and has at the top of every Branch , 
- few f nailer, but more prickly Leaves , under 
fiHrhh, U„.J -../'I. r y • 5 lit 
— j — j 5 yin,r<.ijr ucuucs, nrmc/ 
every prickly Head ; which from their middles , 
Jhoot forth a few pale yellow Threads, which are 
the flowers -, and being paf, have in them fever al 
blackifh hard Seeds, fomewhat larger than thofe of 
Saffron Baftard Wild. 
Or, 
Difiaff Thiftle. 
993 
He of the Ballard Saffron of Candy, lodged in 
Prff b: “ not hing fo much in it. The leaves here- 
°1 being gently broken (but not bruifed) before 
t?o4 r Tuice aU w ^ m,,yM “"W” 
ThJrI he fecon / ' or Pur P le Diftaff Thiftle. 
tm W[ rs not front the Lift in the jorm of the 
f TRed Ut ° nly - ' niU C° l °'t b o.ng oflpur- 
p tjh Red ; nor m its Leaves, faving that thefe 
are no, hairy, or Hoary, nor in ,,s Stalk ei- 
■“ 'f eUom rifes fo high. In 'all o. 
in the W w 1 t f° ‘‘H ,he f orjn e r . yea even 
7J!h l iy l UK , e a V°' ,hat one ™ uli fry 
(without a particular Ohfervation,) that it mere 
the very fame plant. 
r * n , JW or Pnrpk Diftaff Thiftle of 
Lyprus. X he whole Stalk and Branches rife to 
Lt Ut rl f ° 0t “l* A hd f in h ^ ht ’ « ba, 
JA,[ ft. “A'° ,he , Garden or Manured Cnicus 
or Baitard- Saffron but lefter, and Something Rug - 
€, ,, Crumpled, from among which rifes up the 
Stalks aforef aid bearing a Thiftle-like head 
L u u Pi ah,ch I enis f° r,h “Ifo ). lender 
Branches bare or without Leaves , half a foot 
‘on? or more having on each of them a fmali 
& £ A d, J' ke ,hat on ,he ,0 P °f 'be mam 
Stalk. The Flowers are Purple in the middle 
out m fame Countries enclinmg to yellow: and 
cLl eei > hke <o 'bat of Cnicus or 
vr It S i t I vus > or Garden Baftard Saffron. 
XI. The Places. The firft of the Garden 
funds are Sown m Fields .in divers places of 
Spam, Italy, Germany, England and France : but 
^ry fftb 2 ;. Cap. i;. f a y S t b at ii 
1 
ifrur ~~ r ' ‘ ““ l in the Reign 
of Vefpajjan rt was not known in Italy, and is 
accounted by Theophraftus and Diofcorides to be 
a Manured Plant, fo generally Sown for the ma- 
ny ufes thereof The fecond Alpinus fays was 
brought out of Candy. The Third is a Native 
or Spam about Sevil and Corduba, and as Clulius 
fays, grows in other places, Pena fays upon 
Mount Baldus. * 
XII. The Wild Baftard Saffron or Difiaff Thiftle 
The firft Species there of Clufius fays grows a- 
bout Sevil and Corduba in Spain. The Second 
and Third kinds grow in many Countries as a- 
bout Mompelier and Narbon in France ■ at alfo 
m Italy, Greece, &c. Anguilara fays the Third is 
found growing in Cyprus ; and Lugdunenfis fays 
he found it in France, but fomething differing 
m the color of the Flower. The firft of thefe 
Wild Kinds more efpecially grows in our Eng- 
lijh Gardens. 
XIII. The Times. The Three Garden Kinds 
Flower in the latter end of July or beginning 
of Auguft , and the feed is ripe about the end 
of Auguft or beginning of September. The Three 
Wild forts Flower about the end of Summer, and 
the feed is ripe towards the end of Auguft, or 
in September , but the laft of the three flowers 
and feeds fomething fooner than the other two 
forts. 
XIV. Nota. r. Of thefe plants the AtraSylis 
or Wild Baftard Saffron, has few or no Virtues 
aferibed to it by Authors, yet Galen fays, That 
it is of a Drying faculty, and moderately duell- 
ing. Diofcorides fays that if any one is Stung 
by a Scorpion, he (hall feel no pain fo long as 
he holds it in his hand, but being laid by, that 
the pain will immediately return again. Pliny 
fays, that it is very good againft the poilon of 
all kind of Creatures, and is good for fuch as 
are poifoned by eating of Mulhromes. 
6 L XV, Nota 
