Lib. z. Of* the Hiftory of Plants. 1171 
long iagged leaues fet with prickles:the heads on the tops of the branchesare very fu! of fharp pric- 
kles .-out ofwhich grow floures all of threds, like thofe of baftard Saifron, bur they are ofa light 
yellow colour,and ibmetimes purple: the feed is fomewhat great, browne, and bitter,otherwife like 
that of baftard Saffron ; the root is ofa meane bignefle. 
1 \^AtraUyHs. 2 Car duns BettediHasi 
Wilde Eaftard Thiftle. The blefted Thiftle. 
2 The ftalkes olCarduus Rene dt Busbar Blefted Thiftle, are round, rouglganJ pliabV,?,!' h:- ; - 
parted into diners branches, do lie flat on the ground : the leaues are iagged round a 1 >o - 
ofharralelfe prickles in the edges : the heads on the tops of the ftalks are fet with pr'ic- 
ivironed withfharpe prickling leaues, out ofwhich ftandeth a yellow floure.-rhe feei J i s 'o 
withhairesatthe top like a beard : the root is w hire- and parted into firings : the whole ha! ,iea. 
and ftalks, and alfO the heads, are couered with a foft and thin downe. 
The Place. 
AtraBylis groweth in Candie,and in diners prouinces and IlLfnds of Greece,andalfoin Langue- 
doeke : and is an herbe growing in our Englifti gardens. 
Ca'duus Bcned/Hus is found euery where in Lemnos, an Ifland of the Midland Sea, in Champi- 
on grounds, as Petrus Bellomas tefti fieth : it is diligently cherifhed in Gardens in tliefe N ortherne 
parts. 
The Time. 
tsitraftylis is very late before it floureth and feedeth. 
Car duns Bcncdiclus floureth in Iulyand Auguft, at which time it is efpecially to be gathered for 
Phyficke matters. 
«J The Names. 
AtraBylis is called in Greeke hfm»is •>« iofthe Latins Ukewife,AeraBy!ts,and Cnictis fylue/lris^aad 
becaufe women in the old time were wont to vfe the ftiffe ftalk thereof^ fufo aut co/e, for a fpindle 
or a diftaffe, it is named Fufus agreflis, and Co/us Rujlica i which thing Petrus Bdlonms leporteth the 
women in Greece do al fo euen at this day ■ who call Atraslylis by a corrupt name A'datfyla : diners 
of the later herbarifts name it SylueflrisCarthamus-.that is to fay in low Dutch, tSUflDCti 
and in Englifti, wilde Baftard Saffron : or Spindle Thiftle. 
Blefted Thiftle is called in Latine euery where Car duns Benediftas, and in (hops by a compound 
Fffff z word, 
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