* W' 
v,m ■ ! 
green and fpcckled,wTth Vti'itfciild ifiifky fpots 
and lines d'raVVne diners waits: thd/hiji is high, 
and as big as a mans the flourcs grow J 
forrh of heads full of prickJeijb'eingrhfeds of a i 
purple colour : the feed is wrapped in downer 
like that of Cotton Thiftle : the root is long,; 
thicke, and white. 
The Place. 
It groweth vponwafte and common places 
by high waies,and by diing-hils ahnoft euerie i 
where. 
U rhe Time. 
It floureth and feedeth when Cotton Thiftle 
doth. 
f T he Names. 
It is called in Latine, Cat dum I.ailcue, and 
Car duns M aria ^inhigh Dutcb.j©nf£tSBtpUiX)Cn 
©iftell : ill I tench, Chardoti atmjlr c cLrnc : in 
EngliflijOur Ladies Thiftle; it may properly be 
called Lcucographuspi the white fpots and lines 
that are on theleaues : Pliny in his 27. booke,i 
chap. 1 1 .maketh mcntionol an herb cal led Lcti- 
nra 
ccgr aphis, but what maner of one it is he hath not: 
exprdTedjtherefore it would behard to affi'rme: 
this to be the fame that his Ltuctgripku is- 
and this is thought to bccSfinji alba, called in 
Greek e twOaJ.i.L-^or white Thiftle, Milk Thiftle,: 
and Carduuj Bantptarius : of the Arabians, Bedol 
and, or Bcdcguar, as Matthaus Syhiaticus teftifieth. 
The Temperature andVerttils. 
The tender leaues of Carduus Liucografhtts, 
the prickles taken off,are form-times \ fed to bee 
eaten with other herbes. 
B 
Galen writeth,that the roots of Spina alha do drie and moderately binde,that therefore it is good 
for thofe that be troubled with the lask and the bloudy flix, that it ftaieth bleedings, wafteth away 
cold fwellings -eafetb the paine of the teeth if they bee wafhed with the decoAion thereof. 
The feed thereofis of a thin eifence and hot iacultie, therefore he faith that it is good for thofe 
that be troubled with cramps. 
Diofcondes affirmeth that the feeds being drunke are a rc-medie for infants that haue their f news 
drawne together, and for thofe that be bitten of ferpents ; and that it is thought todriuc;qw f ty fer- 
pentspf it be but hanged about the necke. 
C h a p. 478. Of the Cjlobe Thijlle. 
*[ The Vcfcripuon. 
G Lobe Thiftle hath a very long ftalke.and leaues iagged,great,long,and broad, deeply gafhed, 
ftrongof fmell, Somewhat greeneon thevpper fide,and on the nether fide whiter and downy ; 
the flourcs grow forth of a round head like a globe, which ftandeth on the tops of the ftalkes; 
they are white and fmall, with blew threds in the rnidft: the feed is long, with haircsof aineane 
length : the root is thicke and branched. 
2 There is another Globe Thiftle that hath Idler leaues, but more fullof prickles, with round 
heads alfo: but there growe th outofthembefides the flourcs, certaine long and ftiffe prickles. 
3 Thereis likewife another kinderefembling the firft in forme and figure, but much Idler, and 
the flourcs thereof tend more to a blew. 
4 There is alfo another Globe Thiftle, which is the leaft, and hath the fharpeft prickles of all 
the reft : the head is fmalLthe flourcs whereof are white-dike to thofe of the firft. 
5 Thetc 
