L I B. 2. 
Of theHiftory of Plants; 
The like operations Diofcorides hath concerning Leucacmha : Leucacantha (faith he) hath a root E 
like Cyperns, bitter and ftrong, which being chewed eafeth the paine of the teeth : the deco&ion 
thereof with a draught of wine is a remedie again ft paipes,of the (ides, and is good forthofe that 
haue the Sciatica or ache in the hackle bones, and for them that be troubled with the crampe. 
' The iuycealfo being drutike is of like vertues. 
Chap. 482. Of mlde (far line Thiftle. 
«f[ The Defcriptiott. 
1 r~r~ He great vvilde Carl ine Thiftle rifeth vp with a ftalke ofa cubit high or higher, diuided 
1 into certaine branches : the Iedues are long, and very full of prickles in the edges, like 
thofe of Carline : the floures gtow alfo vpon a prickely head , being fet with threds in the mid- 
deft, and paled round about with a little yetfowiih leaues: the root is (lender, and hath a twinging 
tafte. 
2 Carolus Clufws deferibeth a certaine other alfo of this kinde, with one onely ftalke, (lender, 
fhort,and not aboue ahandfull high, with prickly leaues like thofe of the other, but le(fer,both of 
them couered with a certaine hoary downe: the heads or knaps are for themoft part two, they haue 
a pale downe in the midft,and leaues (landing round about, being fomewhat (line and yi 
root is (lender, and of a reddifh yellow. 
1 Carlinafjlucfiris mttior. 2 Carlmafi/ueflru minor. 
The great vvilde Carline Thiftle. The little wilde Carline Thiftle 
The Place. 
The great Carline is found in vntoiledand defart places, and oftentimes vpon hills. * It grow-' 
eth vponBlacke Heath, and in many other places of Kent . * , 
be leflcr Carline Carolus C la fins writeth that he found growing in dry (tony and defart places; 
aboutSalmanticaacityof Spaine. 
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