La I B. z, 
Of the Hiitroy of Plants. • 114.7 
in, andfull of clammie iuice, and are diuided into many off-fprings, which as they creepe far, (odd 
they now and then bud forth and grow afrefh : thefe roots are fofuiloflife, that how little foeuer 
of them remaine, it oftentimes alfo bringeth forth the whole plant. 
I Acanthus fativus. ^ a Acanthus fyl. aculeatus . 
Garden Beares-breech, Prickley Beares-breech. 
2 Wilde Beares-breech, called Acanthus Jy/ueJlru,Pena fetteth forth for Chamelconta Monjpelicn .. 
reporteth that he found it growing amongfl the grauelly and moifl places neere to the 
walls of Montpellier, and at the gate of Aegidia, betweene the fountaine and the brooke neere to 
the wall : this thiftle is in ftalke, floures, colour of leaues and feed like the firft kinde, but fhorter 
and lower, hailing latere leanes,dented or iagged with many cuts and incifions, not onely in fome 
few parts of the leaues, as fome other Thiftles,but very thickly dented or clouen.and hauing many 
fliarpe, large, white and hard prickles about the Tides of the diuifions and cuts, not very eafie to be ' 
handled or touched without danger to the hand and fingers. 
The Place. i 
niofeorides writetb,that garden Branke Vrfine growethin moift 'and ftohie places, and alfo in 
gardens : it were vnaduifedly done to feeke it in either of the Germaines any where, but in gardens 
onel v ; in m v garden it doth grow very plentifully. 
The vvilde was found in certain places of Italy neere to the fea.by that notable learned man Al- 
fo,, pis p,w««r,PhyfitJon to the Duke of Perrara,and profelfor of fimples and Phyfick,and is a ftran- 
ger in England.? I haue feeneit growing in the garden of M r . JohnParkinfon. t 
*j The Time. 
Both the Branke Vrfines do flourein the fommer feafon, the feed is ripe in Antumne :the root 
remained! freih^yet now and then it perifheth in winter in both the Germaines, if the weather be 
too cold : but iff England the former feldome or neuer dieth.- 
.... ~ v^The Names. 
It is called in Greeke ; w s« : the Latines keepe the fame name Acanthus ■. yet doth Acanthus fig. 
nifie generally all kinde of Thiftles,and that is called Acanthus by the figure Antonomafia: the Eng- 
lifh name is Branke Vrfine, and Beares breech. 
The tame or garden Branke Vrfine is named in Latine Salivas, o r Hortcnlis Acanthus .in Greeke, 
and of Gaiert, orifoCm . and •• Pliny alfo calleth this AcmbusUmty or fmototh 
Ddddd 2 Branke 
