Of the Biftorie of Plants, 
Lib. i, 
a8 6 
Chap. 51. Of Cjumme Succorie. 
the Defcription. 
t Vrame Succoric with b lew floures hath a thicke and tough root, with fome firings 
(j annexed thereto, full ofamilkie iuyce,as is all the reft of the plant, the floures ex- 
cepted. 1 he leaues are great and long, in fhape like to thole of garden Succorie, but 
deeplier cut or iagged, fomewhat after the manner of wilde'Rocket: among which rile tender 
ft alkes very eafie to be broken, branched toward the top in two or fometimes three branches,bea- 
ring very pleafant floures’ of an azure colour or deepe blew 3 which being paft, the feed flicth away 
in dotvne with the winde. 
2 Gum Succorie with broad leaues, which I haue named Rolnnus Gum Succorie (for that he 
was the firft that made any mention of a fecond kind,which he fcnt me as a great dainty, as indeed 
I confcffe it) in roots is like the former : the leaues be greater, not vnlike to thofe of Endiue , but 
cut more deeply euen to the middle rib: the ftalkes grow to the height of two foot : the floures 
likewife are ofan azure colour, but fprinckled oueras it were with filuer fandj which addethvnto 
the floure great grace and beauty. 
3 Yellow gum Succorie hath long leaues like in forme and diuifion of the cut leaues to thofe 
ofwild Succoric, but lelfer,couered all ouer with a hoaric down. The ftalke is two foot high,w hite 
and downie alfo , diuided into fundry branches, whereupon doe grow tome floures like thofe of 
Succoric, but in colour yellow, which are turned into downe that is catied away with the winde. 
The root is long, andofameane thickneffe, from which, as from all the reft of the plant, doth if- 
fue forth a milky iuvce, which being dried is of a yellovvifh red, fharp, or biting the tongue. There 
is found vpon the branches hereof a gum,as Diofcorides faith, which is vfed at this day in phyficke 
in the Ifle Lemnos, as w-itneffeth. 
4 Spanifh 
