Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
IV 
f 4 Stabe Rofmarini folio. 
Narrow leafed Knapweed. 
$ 5 Stabe cx Codicc Ctfareo, 
Thornie Knapweed. 
rence. f: The leaues of this are very ranch diuided and hoarie, the Italkes fome two cub ires high 
fee alfo with much diuided leaues, that end in foftharmldfe prickles: at the tops of the branches 
Hand the heads compofed as it were of filuer feales (whence Lobel and others haue called this plant 
Stcbe argentea) andoutofthefe filuer heads come floures like thole of the blew bottles but of a 
light purple colour, the feed is fmall,blacki(h,and hairy at the tops . f 
$ 3 There is another like this in each refpe(tt,but that the heads haue not fo white a fhining 
filuer colour: and this I haue alfo feene growing with Matter lohn Tradefcm at South Lanf 
beth.t 
t 4 To thefe may be added that plant which Puna hath fet forth by the name of Stabe capita- 
tn Rofmarini folio. It hath a vvhitifh wooddy root, from whence arife diners branches fet with loner 
narrow leaues fomewhat like thofe of Rofemary, but likc-r thofe of the Pine, of a greenifh colour 
aboue,and vvhitifh below: at the tops of the branches grow fuch heads as in the firft deferibed 
Stabe, with floures offomewhatadeeper purple colour : thefeed is like that of Cartkimus, but biac- 
kiflr. The root is not annuall, but lafts many yeares. £ 
t 5 Though thefe plants haue of late been vulgarly fet forth by the name of Stake's, yet are they 
notiudgedto bee the true Stabe of Diofcorides and the Antients, but rather another, whole figure 
which we here giue was by Dodonaus taken forth of a manufeript in the Emperours Library, and he 
faith; Paludmus brought home fome of the fame out of Cyprus and Morea,as he returned from his 
journey out of Syria: the bottome leaues are faid to be much diuided; thofe on the ftalkeslonm 
and onely fnipt about the edges,and white: the floures white, and contained in fcaly heads like the 
Blevv-bottles,and the tops of the branches end in fharpe prickles. $ 
The Place. 
Thefe doe grow of themfelues in fields neere common highwaies,and in vntiiled places , but 
they are ftrangers in England, neuerthelelfe I haue them in my garden. 
