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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 
:which is diuided into fundry branches, and are of a purple colour, fet or armed round about with the 
nlike,or rather (harper thornes than the aforefaid. 
I Acanthi urn album. 
The white Cotton Thiftle. 
i Acanthium Illy ricum furpureum. 
The purple Cotton Thiftle. 
% The Place. 
Thefe Thirties grow by high Wales fides, and in ditches almoft euery where. 
X! The Time 
They floure from Iune vntill Auguft, the fecond yeare after they be fowmand in the mean time 
tile feedvraxeth ripe, which being thoro.v ripe the herbe perifheth, as doe likewife mod of the 
•ther Thirties, which hue no longer than till the feed be fully come to matutitie. 
XT The Hames, 
This Thiftle is taken for that which is called in Greeke.V-*.., which Diofcorides defcribeth to 
Iiauc leaues fet with prickles roundabout the edges, and tobecouered with a thin downelike a 
copweb,that may be gathered and fpun to make garments of, like tbofe of (like ; in high Dutch it 
is called 8&2tf?tX)?ge Dtfltll I in Low Dutch, tOttte t@ecl) Difttl ; in French, Char don argentin .■ in 
Englifh, Cotton-Thiftle,white Cotton-Thilile, wilde white Thiftle Argentine or the Siluer 
Thiftle. 
*T The Temperature and Vcrtties. 
Diofcorides faith, that the leaues and roots hereof are a remedy for thofe that haue their bodies A 
drawne backwards^thereby Galen fuppofeth that thefe are of temperature hot. 
C h a p. 477. Of our LadieS'T. hijlle. 
The Defcription, 
T He leaues of our Ladies Thiftle are as bigge as thofe of white Cotton-ThifUeifor the leaii'C'. 
thereofbe great, broad,large,gafhed in the edges^atmed with a multitude of ftiife and fharpr 
prickles, as are thofe of Ote-Thiftle,but they are without down, altogether flippery,of a lighr 
D d d d d j ~ greenc 
