Lib. i. 
1 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
1 1 
The Defer ip ion. 
x r T"’He plantwhich is commonly called oliisMumpx the white pot-herbe(whiich of fom« 
1 hath been fet out for a kinde ofValerian,butvnproperly, forthatit doth very nota 
bly referable the Lettuce, as well in forme, as in meate to be eaten , wh ich p-opertie 
is not to be found in Valerian, and therefore by reafon and authorise I place it as a kinde of Let 
nice) hath many {lender weake ftalkes trailing vpon the ground, with certaine edges* a foot ' i-h 
when it growes in mod fertile ground • otherwife a hand or two high, with fundry ioynts or kneels • 
out ofeuery one whereof grow a couple of leaues narrow and long, not vnlike to Lettuce at the firft 
cornming vp,as wel I in tendernefle as tafte in eating b and. on the top of the ftalkes ftaiid vpo i a 
broad tuft as it were certaine white floures that be maruellous little, which can fcarfely be known 
to be floures, fiuing that they grow many together like a tuft or vmbei : it hath in ftead of roots’ a 
few {lender threads like vnto haires. 
2 The other kind of Lettuce, which Dodotuus in his lafteditionfettethforthvnderthename 
of Album o!m.- the Low-countrey men call it Uattmoeg, and vfe it for their meate called Wer 
mofe ; with vs,LobIollie, This plant hath fmall long leaues a finger broad,of a pale green colour- 
amongwhichfliootethvpafmall cornered and flender ftem balfea foothigh, ioynted with two 
or three ioynts or knees, out ofwhich proceed two leaues longer than the firft, bearing at the top 
of the branches tufts of very final white floures clofely compad together, with a roodike the for 
mer. 
$ Both thefe are of one plant, differing in the bignelfe and broadndfe of the leafe and the 
whole plant befides. $ 
The Place. 
Thefe herbes grow wilde in the come fields 5 and fince ithath growne in vfe amon°' the French 
and Dutch ftrangers in England, it hath bcene fowen in gardens as a fallad herbe. ^ 
The Time. 
They are found greene almoft all W inter and Sommer. 
The Names. 
The Dutch-men do call ; t 53j’fittOC2! ; that is to hy, Album oltss- ottome it is called tUcItCCOp: 
the French terme it Satlade dec banoine : it may be called in Greeke, ; in En°-lifh jft c ’ 
White Pot-herbe ; but commonly, Come fallad. 
«|J TheT emperature and Virtues, 
This herbe is cold and fomething moift,and not vnlike in facultie and temperature to the gar- 
den Lettuce • in ftead whereof, in Winter and in the firft moneths ofthe Spring it ferues for a fal- 
lad herbe, and is with pleafure eaten with vineger, fait and oile,as other fallads be: among which it 
is none ofthe worft. 
Chap. 4.0. Of Qoleworts . 
The ICindes. 
D erides maketh two kindes of Coleworts ; the tame and the wilde : but Thcopbraftus makes 
more kindes hereof ; the ruffed or curled Cole, the fmooth Cole, and the wilde Cole, fata 
imitating Theophraftus, fetteth dowr.e alfo three Coleworts : the firft hee deferibeth to be 
X* ° 7 grear ’ br ? :u . caucL ’ 'Ptlj a bl S. ftalke j the fecond ruffed ; the third with little ftalks,ten- 
. r ’. n , ' cr y mwch ratings The fame diftindHon alfo Pliny maketh, in his twentieth booke, and 
/ } ^ la P te 7 j btrelie laitb, i hat the moft ancient Romanes haue diuided it intothree kindes - 
e ir .. iQ ug lei , the fecone. fiiooth, and the third which is properly called or Colewort^ 
And m his nineteenth booke he hath alfo added to thefe, other moe kindes- that is to fay, Tritia- 
^^Cttmanum,Pompezam mi Br::.t,arium,Sabellmm^Lacuturrium. 
■ T he Herbarif l S of , ol ' r nnae baue hkewife obferued many forts, differing eitherin colour or elfe 
in orme ■ other headed with the leaues drawne together b moft of them white , fome of a deepe 
gi eene,fcmne . moot h leaned, and others curled or ruffed ; differing likewife in their ftalkes as fhall 
beexpreffed m their feuerall deferiptions, iKes,asinau 
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