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head , yet fometimes from the bojom of the upper - 
moji Leaf, there comes forth another f mailer head , 
which is fcaly , and fomething prickly , with many 
reddifh Purple Threads or Thrums in the middle , 
which being gathered frejh , will keep their Color 
a long time -, and funding on the Stalk , will not 
fide in a long Seafon , rf/ivr which it perfetfs its 
Seed , which is of a mean Proportion for bigncfs , 
envolved in its Down. 
IV. The fecond, or our other Englifh foft, or 
Melancholy Thiftle. Its Root at its Head is J'ome- 
tvhat Tuberous , and blackifh on the out -fide, /hoot- 
ing forth fever al long Fibres or Strings , which run 
under the Earth here and there , and fendjorth new 
Thiftle Melancholy English, Second. 
Heads for increafe. Prom this Head fpring up 
long , narrow hairy Leaves , fet about the edges 
with fender Prickles, not much unlike to the for- 
mer, but more hoary underneath, and more green 
above. Prom the midf of thefe Leaves grows up a 
Stalk, a loot, or Poot and half, or two Peel high, 
which is tender , fijf and Downy -, upon which grow 
Leaves le/Jer than thofe below, which are fomething 
broad at there fet ting on, and thefe alfo a little 
nickt, notcht, or cut in. This Stalk fometimes is 
Jingle, without any Branches i, and fometimes it has 
one or two, or three long fender ones. Out of each 
of the tops of which Stalk and Branches, grows one 
large fcaly Head, with many Purple Threads in 
the middle, not much unlike the Common Knap- 
weed, which at length, Thiltle like, turn into 
Down , in which the fmall f lining Thiftle like 
Seed is envolved. 
V. The third, or great broad Leav’d, Soft, or 
Melancholy Thiftle. Its Root is fmall and long, 
with feveral Fibres adjoined thereto. Its Leaves, 
are large and long, as large a* thofe of Buglofs, 
dented and Jet about the edges with foft Prickles, of 
a greenifh Color , the middle Rib being white. The 
Stalk is tender and brittle, eafy to break, and cref - 
ed or corner'd, on which grow fuch like Leaves as 
are below , large at firf , but gradually growing 
leffer towards the tops , being alfo more torn in or 
Thiftle Melancholy Great, 
rent on the edges. The Stalk is alfo branched to- 
wards its top, each Branch bearing from among a 
Tuft of fmall Prickly Leaves, a fmall Prickly 
Thiftle //&? head, which fometimes fund uprights 
and fometimes lean a little down. Out of thefe 
Heads when fully blown, appear the Flowers, con- 
fiding of a great many elegant Purple Threads, 
which pafs into Down, in which the Seed is wrapt. 
VI. The Places. The firft and fecond grow in 
moift Meadows in many places of England, both 
in the Southern and Northern parts of our Iftand. 
Clufius found them growing in Hungary, and in 
the Mountainous Medows a long the fide of the 
Danube in Auftria -, our Pena found them grow- 
ing in the Meadows at the foot of Inglebrow-Hill 
in Yorkshire -, Lobel in the Meadows at A ft on, in 
Glouccferfhire and Johnfon fays, that he once found 
the fecond in a Meadow between Highgate and Lon- 
don. The third grows in the Fields on the Mountains 
in Germany -, and Johnfon fays it grows Wild upon 
the Sea-Coafts of Holland, Handers and Zealand ; 
and an Englifh Gentleman told me he had found it 
in fome Meadows on the Feet of fome Mountains 
in NortbAVales, as alfo in fome other parts of the 
Kingdom. 
VII. The Times. They Flower in June, July 
and Augufl, and their Seed is ripe in fome fhorc 
time after. 
VIII. The Qualities. They are hot and dry ifi 
the end of the firft Degree 5 Aperitive, Abfterfive, 
a little Aftringent, Splenetick, Nephritick, Hyfte- 
rick, and Sudorifick. 
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IX. The 
