L i b. z. Of the Hirtorie of Plants. n 6> 
be alfo /lender, prick Iy,and fet about the /talks 
ftar-fa/bion.The knops or heads growing at the 
tops of the branches are round and prickly, bea- 
ring little blew floures and leaues,whicii cam- 
pa lie them about: the root is /lender,and ialieth 
blit oneyeare. 
4 ^ he fourth kinde ofbaftard Sea Holly, 
which Pena calleth Eryngium mofitanumrecentt- 
orum, and is the fourth according to Dodonmes 
his account, is like to the Erynges,not in ll ,ap e 
but in tafte : this bearcth a very fmall and /len- 
der llalke, ofa rneane height; whereupon eoe 
grow three or foure leaues, & feldom fine, made 
ofdiuers leaues fet vpon a midd e rib narrow, 
long, hard, and ofa darke grecne colour, dented 
on both edges of the leafe like a faw: the llalkc 
is a cubit high, ioinced or kneed, and diuiding 
it felfe into many branches, on the tops whereof 
are round tufts or vmbels, wherin arc contained 
the floures,and after they be vacleJ, the feedes 
which are fmall/omewhat long, well fmel!ing s 
and fharpe in tafte : the roor is white and Ion^ 
notafinger fhicke, in tafte fveet but afterwards 
fotnewhat /harpe,and in fenr andfauour not vn- 
pleafant:when the root is dried, it mav be crum- 
bled in pieces, and therefore ,)uick ly braied. 
t 5 This is a low plant presently from the 
root diuided into fundry branches, /lender 
round &ly ing on the groundiat each ioinr grow 
leaues without any certain order, broad toward 
their ends,and narrowerat rheirfettingon/nipc 
about their edgesidiofe t e\ t the toot were fame 
inch btoad,andnvo or more long, ofa yellowifh greene colour : the ftalkes art parted into fundry 
branches ■ and at each ioint haue little leaues, and rough and greene heads.with blewi/h floures in 
them : the roots creepe.andare fomewhat like thofc of Ajbarigus. This neither Cluftus nor lobe I 
found wilde • but it grew in the garden of lobn OHottton of Tourney, a learned Apothecarie , verie 
skilfull in the knowledge of plants : whereupon they both called it Eryngium fufillum planum 
CMouteni. ^ 
The Place. 
Thefe kindes of fea 1 lolly are //rangers in England : wc haue the firft and fecond in our London 
gardens. 
be time. t 
They floure and flouri/h when the Thirties do. 
<qj The Names. 
Thefep!antsbe£/y»?Mj^/»7/f,orbaftard Sea Hollies, and are lately obferuediand therefore they 
haue no old names. 
The firft may bee called in Latine Eryngium Borujftcum , or Non fyinofum : Sea Hollie without 
prickles. 
The lecond is called by Matth'tolus, Eryngium planum fix flat Sea Holly: others had rather name 
it ilpmum Eryngium fix Sea Holly of the Alpes. 
The third is rightly called Eryngium pumiltm, little Sea Huluer. 
iMatthiolus maketh the fourth tobe Critbmum quart um, or the fourth kinde of Sampler: and o 
thers.as Vodonxm and Lobcl, haue made it a kinde of Sea Huluer. 
The Temperature and Virtues. 
Touching ^be faculties hereof we haue nothing to fet downe, feeeing they haue as yet no vfein 
medicine, nor vfed to be eaten. But yet that they be hot 3 thevery tafte doth declare. 
$ 5 Eryngium puftllum planum. 
Small /mooch Sea Holly. 
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