\\6o Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b.i. 
f The Time. 
They floure and flourifh in Iuneand Iuly. 
The Names. 
It is commonly called in Latine, and that notvnfitly, Carlinajylueftris * foritis like to Carline 
in floures, and is not very vnlike in leaues. And that this is it is fo much the harder to affirme, 
by how much the briefer Theopbrajlus hath written hereof ; for he faith that this is like baftard faf- 
fron,ofa yellow colourand fat iuyee : and Acorn.i differs from x^dcurn*^ for \^4carna, as Hcjpchius 
faith, is the Bay tree • but Acorna is a prickly plant. 
The Temperature andyertues. 
It ishot,efpecially in the root, the twinging tafte thereof doth declare; but feeing it is of no 
vie, the other faculties be vnfearched out. 
Chap. 4^3* Of C^ am ^ eon 'Thijlle. 
«[ The Kindts. 
T Here be two Chamte Icons, and both blacke : the vertues of their roots do differ, and the roots 
themlelucs do differ in kinde, as Thcopbrafius declareth. 
-j- i Chamdeonniger. 
The blacke Chameleon Thiftle. 
2 chamdeon niger Salmanticenfis. 
The Spanifh blacke Chameleon. 
The Inscription. 
i * | ' He leaues of blacke Chameleon are leffer and flenderer than thofe of the prickely Ar- 
j tichoke, and fprinck led with red fpots .-the ftalke is a cubit high, a finger thicke, 
and fomewhat red : it beareth a tufted rundle, in which are flender prickely floures 
of a blew colour like the Hyacinth. The root is thicke, blacke without, of a clofe lubftance, 
fometimes eaten away, which being cut is of a yellowifh colour within, and being chewed it bites 
the tongue. 
2 This 
