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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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B.l. 
6 There is another called theDown-Thiftle.which rifethvpwith thickc and long ftalks.The 
Ieaues thereof are iagged,fet with prickles, white on the nether fide : the heads be round and many 
in number, and are couered with a foft downe,and (harpe prickles handing forth on cuerie fide, be- 
ing on the vpper part fraughted with purple floures all of firings : the feed is long, and fhinetb, as 
doth the feed of many of the Thirties. 
± 6 Carduus eriocephaltes. 
Woolly headed Thiftle. 
A AjJ erruj^J Uo r UA.J'. 
«[ The Place. 
They are Town in gardens, and do not grow 
in thefe countries that we can finde. 
t I haue found the fixth by Pocklington 
and in other places of theWoldesin Yorke- 
ftiire. M r . Goodyer alfo found it in Hamp- 
fhire. $ 
The Names. 
They floure and flourifh when the other 
Thirties do. 
«j[ The Names. 
Fuchfists did at die firft take it to be Cha- 
mtleonrngtr but afterwards being better ad- 
uifed, he named it Spina peregrine, and Cardu- 
wglobofus. Valerius Cordus doth fitly call it 
S pharocephalus .-the fame name doth alfo agree 
with the reft, for they haue a round head like 
a ball or globe. Mod would haue the firft to 
be that which CM att hiatus fetteth downe for 
Spina alia : this Thiftle is called in Englifh, 
Globe Thiftle, and Ball-Thiftle. 
The downe or woolly headed Thiftle is 
called in Latine, being deftitute of another 
name, Eriocephalus,o( the woolly head : in En- 
glifh, Downe Thiftle, or woolly headed Thi- 
ftle. It is thought of diuers to be that which 
Barthctomaus Vtbcvcteranus and Angelas Palea, 
Francifcan Friers, report to be called Corona 
Fratrum^ or Friers Crowne : but this Thiftle 
doth fardiffer from that, as iseuidentby thofe 
things which they haue written concerning 
Coma Fratrnm • which is thus : In theborders of the kingdome of Aragon towards the kingdome 
of Caftilewe finde another kind of Thiftle, which groweth plentifully there, by common wayes, 
and in wheate fields, See. VideDod.Pempt.^.lib.^.cap . 5 . 
a! TheTemperaturc andVcrtucs. 
Concerning the temperature and vertues of thefe Thirties we can alledge nothing at all. 
Chap. 479. Of the <>jf rtichoke. 
The Kinder. 
HTHere be three forts of Artichokes, two tame or of the garden ; and one wilde, which the Itali- 
an efteemeth greatly of, as the beft to be eaten raw, which he calleth Car dune. 
The Description. 
1 r I 'He Ieaues of the great Artichoke, called in Latine C/» 4 t<»,are broad.great, long, fee with 
A deepegafhes in the edges, with a deepechannell or gutter alongft the middle, hailing 
no prickles at all, or very few, and they be of a greene afh colour : the ftaike is aboue a cubit high, 
and bringeth forth on the top a fruit likea globe, refembling at the firft a cone or Pineapple, that 
Is to fay, made vp of many fcalespvhich is when the fruit is great or loofed ofa greenifh red colour 
within, and in the lower part full offubftance and wljite - 3 but when it opens it felfe there growes 
- alfo 
