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Of the Hiftoric of Plants. 
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t 3 Carlina aeanlos minor flore fur f. 
Dwavfe Carline Thiftle. 
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themfelues wide open, and when the weather is 
foule and mifty, are drawne clofe together : the 
root hereof is long, and fvveetof fmell, white 
found, not nicked or fplitted as the other. ’ 
i 3^ This fmall purple Carline Thiftlehath 
aprety large root. diuided oft times at the top 
into diuers branches, from which rife many 
green leaues lying fpred vpon the ground, deep, 
ly cut and fetwith fharpe prickles -in the midft 
of thefe leaues come vp fometimes one, buto- 
thervvhiles more icaly heads,vvhich carry a pret- 
ty large floure compofcd of many purple threds" 
like that of the Knapweed,but larger, and of a 
brighter colour ; thefe heads grow vfually clofe 
to the leaues, yet fometimes they Hand vpon 
flalkes three or foure inches high : when the 
floure is paft they turne into downe, and are car- 
ried away with the winde : the feed is fmall and 
grayifh. This growes vpon Blacke-Heath VD . 
on the chalky hills about Dartford,and in many 
fuch places. It floures in Iuly and Auguft, xra- 
gus calls it Chamdeen alius, vel exigum ■ Lobel 
Car duns acaulis, Seftcntrtonditim, and Chameleon 
albuSjCorat-CMusfarlinamimrpurfuret, flore and 
he faith in the opinion of forne, it feemes’non 
vnlike to the Chamdecn whereof Theophraflus 
makes mention, Hi. 6. cap. yHift, plant, f 1 
% The Place. 
They both grow vpon high mountaines in 
bm that which bringeth forth a ftalke groweth euer/wlLeTnCerma,^ Sger in^ng! 
% The Time. 
They floure and feed in Iuly and Auguft, and many times later 
„ . „ , . „ . If The Names. 
The former is called in Latine, Carlina, and Cardopatium- and ofdiuers Carolina r£ • 
the fir ft Romane Emperor of chat name, whofe armiefas its renorte)wasn^’,? al t 
the benefit of this root deliueredand prefcrued from the pSh LTledTn hS M 
Cbcctoutt?: m low Dutch, French, and other languages,aslikewife in Enelifh r / h ° j P L,t . C1 ' 
alfo are anfiverable, as forthwith we will declare : Leucacantha hath alfo the other names but he. 
are counterfeit's among the Romanes Gntacardus- andamornnhe Thufcans ePJ/c’ V S 
' ESSfcS owneproper faculties 
The later writers do alfo call the other Carlina aherd, and Carlina humilu, or minor low or little 
Carline : but they are much deceiued who go about to referre them both m thr- rvX , r 
in Italy, Germany* France, Ckamdetmcs, the Chameleons doneiTer Cham * Ie ° ns S°! 
for many, Petra s Bcllonius, in his fift booke of Singularities, who furficientlv rwfJ 0 !l ° n f W1 j n .^ e 
rence there is betweene the Carlines and the Chameleons • which thin^fhall hr l] a hat d -f n 
by the defcription of the Chameleons. J & be made manifeft 
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. TheTempcratftre and Vert ties. 
The root of Carline,which is chiefely vfechis hot in the later end nfrlio i j , , 
in the third, with athinnes of parts and fubftancejit procureth fweate it driueth fortlfJf 
wormes of thebelly.it is an enemy toall maner of poifons it doth nor nnM« ■ r“ d . e ° 
of the plague, but alfocureth the fame, ifitbedrunkein time. riueaway mfedhon: 
J , .wv VUMllAV.tU IIU1C, 
Being chewed it helpeth the tooth-ache ; it openeth the Hoppings of the liuer and fnl 
It prouokethvnne, bringeth downe the menfes, and cureth thedropfie P 
And it is giuen to thofe that haue been dry beaten, and fallen from fome high place. 
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