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p if aver is erratic i, Diofcoridis & Baubini -, Our 1 
Common Star Thiftle. 2. Cardum Stellar is flore I 
albo, Carduus Stellatusflorealho, The white Flow- 
ered Star Thiltle. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or our Common Star Thiftle, has 
a Root which is finally long , woody, and perifhing 
every Tear , the Riant raijing it [elf every Spring 
from the Seed of its own Sowing. It has divers 
long and narrow Leaves lying next unto the Ground , 
cui or torn in on the edges very deeply , into many 
almojt even parts , fojt, or a little woolly all over 
the green , which is a little whitijh ■, from among 
Thiftle Star Common. 
icSch rife up fever al weak Stalks , fpread out into 
. . . Branches, all lying, or leaning down towards 
1 r-md, rather than much raified up fo that it 
. ' . ■_ ] ' a i /r tty Bufh Jet with divers the like divided 
\ eaves up to their tops, on which do fiand long and 
ima ■'/ whin 7 green Heads, jet with very fharp and 
long :■ hu.fb Trickles no part of the Riant being in 
any put or place there prickly bcfidcs. Thefie 
Rrickles are of a whitifh yellow, and as fharp ns in 
ary other 1 hi file. Out of the middle of the Head 
if. res the Viewer, comPofed of many Jmall reddifh 
Thrums or Threads, after which in the /aid Head 
lyes the Seed, which is /mail, whitifh and round , 
enveloped in fine [oft Down. 
IV. Tnefecoi.d, or white Flowered Star Thiltle. 
Its Root is long and brown without , from whence 
fpr ng up many (oft frizled Leaves, deeply cut or 
rafht on the edges, -wholly without Prickles ■, among 
which rifies up a Stalk dividing it fie If into many 
Branches, and growing about two beet high , on the 
tops whereof are Jmall Thiltle like heads , armed 
round about with many fimrp Prickles , not ?nuch 
Thiftle Star white Flower’d. 
unlike to a large fparkling Star. The F lowers are 
of a white color, and the Seed is Jmall and fiatt ifi) 
round. In a word, there is little or no difference 
in the Form of this from the former , but in the 
white greennefis of the Leaves , and the white 
threaded Flowers. 
V. The Places. They are faid to grow onwafte 
and Barren places, near Cities and Towns, almolt 
every where : The firft has been found in many 
parts about Mile-End Green near London. The 
other is much more rare, not being fo common to 
be met withall. 
VI. The Times. They Flourifh and Flower in 
June and July , and their Seed is ripe in July and 
Augufi. 
VII. The Qualities. It is hot and dry in the firft 
Degree, Aperitive, Diuredck, Stomatick, and 
Nephritick. 
VIII. The Specification. It isufed for the Cure 
of the Strangury, Gravel and Stone in Reins or Blad- 
der, Fiftula’s, French Pox , Obltruftions of the 
Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Reinsand Womb, Agues, 
the Plague, and all forts of Peftilential Difeafes. 
IX. The Preparations. You may make there- 
from, 1 . A Liquid Juice or Effence of the whole 
Plant. 2. A Pouder of the Seed. 3. A Pouder 
of the Root. 4. A Difiilled Water from the whole 
Plant. 
The Virtues. 
\ X. The Juice or Effence. Drunk from 2 to 4 
Spoonfuls in a Glafs ot white Port, or Lisbon Wine, 
i it Ofens all Obftru&icns of the Vifcera, cleanles 
1 the Stomach. Womb, Reins and Bladder, gives 
