Of the Hiftory of Plants. L i b. 2. 
8 The double crifpeor curled Colewoort agreeth with the laft before defcribed in euery re- . 
fpeft, onely it differcth in the leaues, which are fo intricately curled, and fo thick fet ouer with o- • 
ther fmall cut leaues, that it is hard to fee any part of the leafe it felfe, except ye take and put slide ; 
fome of thofe iagges and ragged leaues with your hand. 
<) JSmfiica flortda . 
Cole-Florie. 
Io BraficaTopbofh. 
Swollen Colewoort. 
9 Cole flore, or after fome Colieflore, hath many large leaues fleightly indented about the 
edges, of a whitifh greene colour, narrower and (harper pointed than Cabbage : in the middeft of 
which leaues rifeth vp a great white head of hard floures clofely thruft together, with a root full 
offtrings ; in other parts likevnro the Coleworts. 
10 The fwollcn Colewortof all other is the ftrangeft, which I receiued from a worfhipfull 
merchant of London matter Tiicholas Lctc, who brought the feed thereof out of France ; who is 
greatly in lone with rare and faire floures S c plants, for which he doth carefully fend into Syria,ha- 
uinga feruant there at Aleppo, and in many other countries, for the which my felfe and likewife the 
whole land are much bound vnto him. This goodly Colewort hath many leaues ofablewifli green, 
or of the colour of Woade, bunched or flvollen vp about the edges as it wereapeece of leather wet 
and broiled ona gridiron, in inch flrange fort thatl cannot with words defcribe it to the full. 
The floures grow at the top of the ftalkes,ofa bleake yellow colour.The root is thickeand ftrong 
like to the other kindes of Coleworts. ° 
1 1 Sauoy Cole is alfo numbred among the headed Colewoorts or Cabbages. The leaues are 
great and large very like to thofe of the great Cabbage, which turne themfelues vpwards as 
though they would embrace one another to make a loued Cabbage, but when they cometo the 
fhutting vp they (land at a flay, and rather fhew themfelues wider open, than fhut any neerer to- 
gether ; in other refpefts it is like vnto the Cabbage. 
12 The curled Sauoy Cole in euery refpeftis like the precedent, failing that the leaues 
hereof doe fomewhat curie or crifpe about the midle of the plant : which plant if it be opened in 
the fpring timers fometimes it is,it fenderh forth branched ftalks,with many fmall white floures 
at the top, which being pall: their follow long cods and feeds like the common or firftkinde de- 
fcribed. 
1 3 kinde of Colewoort hath very large leaues deepely iagged euen to the middle rib, in 
race refemblinggreat and ranke parfley. ' It barh a great and thicke ftalke of three cubits high, 
whereupon doe grow floures, cods, and feed like the other Colewoorts. 
14 The 
