L j b. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
The Defcription. 
1 ►■pHe Garden Colewort hath many great broad leaues of a deepe blacke greene colour, 
A mixed with ribs and lines ofreddifh and white colours : the ftalke groweth out of the 
middeft from among the leaues, branched with fundry armes bearing at the top little yellow 
floures : and after they be part, there do fucceed long cods full of round feed like tkofe of the Tur- 
nep, but ftnaller, with a wooddy root hailing many firings or threds faftned thereto. 
2 There is another lefter fort than the former, with many deepe cuts on both tides euen to the 
middeft of the rib, and very much curled and roughed in the edges; in other things it differeth 
not. 
3 The red kinde of Colewort is likevvife a Colewort of the garden , and differeth from the 
common in the colour of his leaues, which tend vnto rednelfe ; otherwife very like. 
4 There isalfofoundacertainekindehereofiviththeleaueswrappedtogether into a round 
head or globe, whofe head is white ofcolour,efpecially toward Winter when it is ripe. The root 
is hard, and the ftalkes ofa wooddy fubftance. % This is the great ordinarie Cabbage knowne 
cuery where, and as commonly eaten all otter this kingdome. t \ 
5 BraJ&ca upitata ruhr 4. 
Red Cabbage Cole. 
6 Bre^icaputula 
Open Cabbage Cole. 
y There is another fort of Cabbage or loued Colewort which hath his leaues wrapped toge- 
ther into a round head or globe, yet lefter than that of the white Cabbage, and the colour of the 
leaues of a lighter red than thofe of the former. 
6 The open loued Colewort hath a very great hard or wooddy ftalke, whereupon do grow very 
large leaues ofa white greene colour, and (et with thicke white ribs, and gathereth the reft of the 
leauesclofelytogether,whichbeleflerthanthofenexttheground; yet when it commeth to the 
fhutting vp or doling together, it rather dilateth it felfe abroad, than clofeth all together. 
7 Double Colewort hath many great and large leaues , whereupon doe grow here and there 
other fmall iagged leaues, as it were made of ragged fhreds and iagges fet vpon the fmooth leafe, 
which giueth (hew ofa plumeor fan offeathers. In ftalke, root, andeuery other part belides it 
doth agree with the Garden Colewort. 
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