Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Tie Temperature and Vertnes. 
A Thefe plants are of the nature of Scabious, whereof they be kindes, therefore their faculties ars 
like, although not fo proper to Phy fickes vfe. 
B T hey be commended again!! the fvvellings of the Vvula, as is Diuels bit, but oflefle force and I 
vertue. 
t The figure that was formerly in the fecond place was ofchc Ucta tertia of Tabem- which differs from that our Author meant and defcribed,whofc figure we hanfi ! i 
giucu you in the place thereof. 
Chap. 250. Of Siluer Knapweed. 
sjf The Definition. 
1 rp He great Siluer Knapweed hath at his firft comming vp diners leaues fpred vpon the ji 
| ground, of a deepe greenc colour, cut and iagged as are the other Knapweeds, draked I: 
* here and there with fome filuer lines downe thefame, whereof ittookehis furname, i 
Argentea ; among which leaues rifethvpadraight !!alke,of the height of two or three cubits, fom- I 
what rough and brittle,diuiding it felfe toward the top into other twiggie branches : on the tops ;ji 
whereof do grow floures fet in fcaly heads or knaps like the other Matfellons, of a gallant purple I 
colour, confiding of a number of threds or thrums thicke thrud together : after which thfc feedes 6 
appeare, flipperie,fmooth atone end, and bearded withblacke haires at the other end, which ma- 1 
keth it to leap and skip away when a man doth but lightly touch it. The root is fmall, (ingle, and if 
perifheth when the feed is ripe. X This is not dreaked with any lines,as our Author imagined,not j 
called Argentea by- any but himfelfc,and that very vnficly. f 
| 2 Stale argenteaminor. 
Little filuer Knapweed, I 
f 1 Stale argentea maior. 
Great Siluer Knapweed. 
2 The fecond agreeth with the fird in each refpefl, failing that the leaues hereofare more iag- - 
gcd,andthe filuer lines or drakes aregreater,and more in number, wherein confideth the diffe- 
rence. 
