L i b. 2 . Of the Hiftroy of Plants. n5 1 
2 This blacke Chameleon hath many leaues, long and narrow,very full of prickles, of a light v, 
greene, in a manner white : the ftalke is chamfered, a foot high, anddiuided into branches, on the 
tops whereof Hand purple floures growing forth of prickly heads : the root is blacke, and fiveet in 
tafte. T his is defcribedby Clufins in his Spanifh Obferuations,by the name of Cbamn' eon Salman. 
ticcnfis , of the place wherein he found it : for he faith that this growetli plentifully in the territory 
of Salmanticaa city in Spaine .-but it is very manifeft that this is not blacke Chamsleon, neither 
doth Cl/ijius alfirme it. 
The Placet 
It is very common, faith Bellonhu, in Lemnos, where it beareth a flourc of fo gallant a blew, as 
that it feemeth to contend with the skie in beantie- and that the flourc of Blew-Bottle being of 
this colour, fecmes in companion of it to be but pale. It groweth alfo in the fields neere Abydum, 
and hard by theriuersofHellefpont, and in Heraclea in Thracia. 
Cham&leon Salmantieenjis groweth plentifully in the territorie of Salmantica a city in Spaine, 
9 ^ The Time. 
They flourc and flouriih when the other Thirties do. 
. ^y The Names. 
The blacke Chameleon is called in Greeke *<««»*»> i in Latine, Cbtmuleonniger : ofthe Ro- 
mans, cW#«; niger, and Termin'; o : odaw.c, Crocodilian : in Englifh,the Chameleon Thiftlc, or 
the ihiftle that changeth it fcife into many lhapes and colours. 
T he T emperaturc andfertues. 
's' ' \ 
The toot hereof, as Galen faith, containeth in it a deadly qualitie : it is alfoby Nicander num- A 
bredamongthepoyfonousherbes,inhisbookeofTreacles ; by Diofcorides^lib. 6 - and by Paulus 
^Egineta : and therefore it is vied only outwardly, as for feabs,morpbewcs,tetters,and to be briefe, 
for all fuch things as ftand in need of clenfing : moreouer,it is mixed with Rich things as doedif- 
folue and molIifie,as Galen faith. 
f The figure which was formerly in the fi.fl place did not agree with the hiflorie (which was taken out Of DcdoMUl) though T abet*. glUc it for CbtmxUon ti- 
ger ; for iristhcTiinomoi £Vct«, of Label. You (hall findc it hereafter with the tAetmiValeunJi* 
Chap. 484.. Of Sea Holly* 
^y The Kindes. 
D lefcorides makedi mention oneiy of one fea Holly : Plinj, lib. 22 . cap. 7. feemes to acknow- 
ledge two, one growing in tough places, another by the fea fide. The Phyfitians after them 
haue obferued more. 
f The Defer ipliorii 
l f*' Ea Holly hath broad leatles almoft like to Mallow leaues, but cornered in the edges,and 
^ fet round about with hard prickles, fat, ofablewifh white, and of an aromaticall or fpi- 
cie tafte : the ftalke is thicke, aboue a cubit high, now and then fomewhat red below : 
it breaketh forth on the tops into prickly or round heads or knops,of thebigneffeof a Wall-nut, 
held in for the moft part with fix prickely leaties, compaffingthetop of the ftalke round about: 
which leaues as wel as the heads are of a gliftring blew : the floures forth of the heads are likewife 
blew, with white threds in the rnidft: the root isofthebignelfeof a mans finger, vefy iong,and fo 
long, as that it cannot be all plucked vp, vnleffe very feldome • fet here and there with knots, and of 
tafte fvveet and pleafant. 
2 The leaues of the fecond fea Holly are diuerfly cut into fundry parcels, being all ful of pric- 
kles alongft the edges : the ftalke isdiuided into many branches, and bringeth forth prickly heads, 
but Idler than thofe oftbc other : from which there alfo grow forth blew floures,feldome yellow : 
there ftand likqwifevndereueryoneofthefe, fix roughand prickly leaues like thofe of the other, 
but thinner and fmaller : the root hereof is alfo long, blacke without, white within.a finger thickc, 
of tafte and fmell like that of the other, as bcalfo the leaues, which arelikewife of an aromaticall 
or fpicie tafte which being new fprung vp, and as yet tender, be alfo good to be eaten, 
Eeeee 3 
4 $ The 
