7 2 4- Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b. z. 
t 12 The other Sheeps Scabious of our Author(according to the figure) is greater than the 
M defcribed, growing forae foot or better high,vvith flender rough branchesfet with leaues not fo 
much diuidedjbutonely nicked about the edges : the floures arc in colour and fhnpe like thole of 
the laft defcribed, or of the b lew dailie ; the root is fingle, and like that of a Rampion, w hence 
bun Columns, (the feed and milkie juice inducing him) hath refer'd this to the Rampions.callin'r 
it Rapumium mntanum cspnatum leptopkyllon. Lobell calls it Scahiofamedia : and Dodonnus ’scabiols 
minor. ’ 1 1 
To thefe little plants we may fitly adde another finall one refer’d by C lupus to this Claffis 
and called Scdiofa. 1 o.fiue r opens. -yet R aniline refers it to the Dailies, and termes it Bella entitles men- 
tanafrutefcens-Jout it matters not to which we referre it : the defeription is thus 5 The root is hard 
blacke,and creeping, fo that it fpreds much vpon thefurface of the ground, fending forth many 
thicke, fmooth, greene leaues, like thofe ol the blew Daifie, not fharpe pointed.buf ending as , V c 
vulgarly figure an heart, hauing a oertaine grafsiebut notvnpIeafantfmeIl,and fomewharabitrer 
and hor tafteiout of the middeft ot thefe leaues grow flender naked ftalks fomehand high, hauing 
round floures on their tops, like thofe of Diuells bit,and of the lame colour, yet fometimes'of a 
lighter blew. Itgrowes in the mountatnes of Hungary and Auftria, It floures in April! and 
May, and ripens the feed in luly and Auguft. 
t 16 ScaBioptrubrsIndica. J 17 Scabiofii nftinjalis C/ufij. 
Red Indian Scabious. Sommer Scabious. 
14 this (which is the feuenth Scabious of C lupus, and which he termes s X e of the whi. 
tifh yellow colour of the floure)hath round, flender, ftiffe, and greene ftalkes fer at each joint with 
two large and much diuided leaues ofa whitifh greene colour : thofe leaues that come from the 
root before the ftalke grow vp are broader, and lefle diuided ; vpon the topsof the branches and 
ftalkes grow floures like thofe of the common Scabious, being white or rather (before they be 
throughly open) of a whitilh yellow colour ■ which fading, there follow {cedes like as in the ordi- 
nary kinde. This floures in Iune and luly, and growes very plentifully in all the hilly grounds and 
dry Meades of Auftria and Morauia. 
15 There is alfo a kinde of Scabious hauing the leaues much cut and diuided,, and the 
ftalkes and floures like to the common fort, of a blewifh purple colour, but differing in this, *hat at 
