2q6 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. 2. 
The Temp erasure. 
The Sow-thiftles, as Galen writeth, are of a mixt temperature ; for they confift of a watery and 
earthy fub fiance, cold, and likew ife binding. 
The Vermes. 
A Whileft they are yet yong and tender they are eaten as other pot-herbes are 5 but whether they 
be eaten, or outwardly applied in manner ofa pultefle, they do euidently coole : therefore they be 
good for all inflammations or hot fwellings, if they be laid thereon. 
B Sow-thiftle giiten in broth taketh away the gnawings of the ftomacke proceeding of an hot 
caufe • and increafe milke in the breads of N urfes, caufing the children whom they nurfe to haue 
a good colour : and of the fame vertue is the broth if it be drunken. 
C The iuyee of thefe herbes doth coole and temper the heate of the fundament and priuy parts . 
C h a p. 34.. Of HaVpkgAceed. 
The Kinder. 
H Awke-weed is alfo a kinde of Succorie ; of which Diofcorides maketh two forts , and the latef 
Writers more : the which fhall be deferibed in this chapter following , where they {hall be 
diftinguifhed as well with feuerall titles as fundry deferiptions . 
■f 1 Hiertcium majus Biofceridis, 
Great Hawke-weed. 
2 Hieracium minus, Jiue Leporinum. 
Small Hares Hawk-weed, or Yellow Diuels-bici 
ThtBefcription. 
1 *T*He great Hawke-weed hath large and long leaues fpred vpon the ground in (hape like 
A thofe of the Sow-thiftle : the ftalk groweth to the height of two cubits, branched into 
fundry armes or diu.fions,hollow within as the yong Kexe,reddifh ofcolour- whereupon do grow 
yellovv floures thicke and double, which turne into Downe that flieth away with the winde when 
the feed is ripe. The rootis thicke, tough and threddy. 
