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L i B. X 
Of the Hifto y o' Plants. 
QJ The Time. 
Thefe kindcs of Thirties do floure from the beginning oflunevntill the end of September. 
«|| The Names. 
Thefe Thirties comprehended in this prefent chapter are by one generall name called in La- 
tine Cardu / fyheeflres , or vvilde Thirties ; and that which is the fecond in order is named Scolymtu : I 
but not that Scolymus which Theophr. declareth toyeeld a milky iuyee (of which wee haue written 
before)but one of thofe which P/wy in his twentieth bcoke,tv/.23 . defcribeth :of Lome they are 
taken for kindes of Chamxleon : their feuerall titles do fet forth their feuerail Lacine names, and 
alfo the Englilh. 
t There was formerly muchconfufionin this chapter, both in the figures and hiftojie, Which 
I will here endcauour to amend, and giueasmuch light as I can, to the obfeuritieofour Authour 
and Lome others ; to which end I haue made choice of the names as the fitted place. 
1 This defeription was taken out of Dodoruw, and the title alfo of Onopordon which was for- 
merly put ouer the figure, and they belong to the Thiftle our Author before deferibed by the name 
of ricamhinmparp. Illyricum z ca{.^6. I haue therefore changed the title, yet let the defeription 
ftand, forit reafonable well agrees with the figure which is of the Cardans fitnofifimns vulgaris of 
Lobel, and PolyacanthaTheophrafii of Tabern. Ofthis Thiftle I obferue three kindes: the fir ft is a 
Thiftle foinc two cubits and a halfe high, with many flender rtalkes and branches exceeding pne- 
' kly, bailing commonly hue prickly welts running alongft the ftalks' the leaues on the vpper fidcs 
as alfo the rtalkes areofa reafonable frefh greene colour, but the vnderfideof the leafe is fomwhat 
tvhitiflt: the heads confift of fundry hairy greene threds which looke like prickles, but they are 
weake, and not prickly : the floure is of the bigndfe,and of the like colour and fhapeas the com- 
mon Knapweed, yet fomwhat brighter : it growes on ditch fides, and flonres in Inly. This I take 
to be the Aculeopt Gafe ohhe Aduei/i pag. j 4. but not thatvvhich Lob: l figures forit in his leones. 
This is that which Tabernamontanus figures for Polyacantha, and our Author gaue his figure in this 
place. The fecond of thefe I rake to be that which Lobel hath figured for Poly.icmha , and Dodinaus 
for Cor dims fyl, 3 . (which figure we here giue you) and in the h'/JI. Lagd. pag. 1 4 7 3 . it is both figu- 
red and deferibed by the name of Polyacantbos Theophrajli. In the figure there is little difference: 
in the things tbemfelues this ; the rtalkes of this areas high as thofeof the laft, but flendererjwith 
fewer and ftraighrer branches, and commonly edged with foure large welts, which haue fewer, yet 
longer prickles than thofe of the former : the leaues and (talkes of this are of a grayifh or whitifh 
colour : the head s are longiftgbut much fmaller than thofe of the former, and they fe'Idom open or 
fpred abroad their fioures, but onely fhew the tops of diners reddifh threds of a feint colour. This 
growes as frequently as the former, and commonly in the fame places. The third, which I thinke 
may fitly be referred vnto thefe, growes on wet heaths and fuch like places, bailing a ftalke fome- 
times foure or fine cubits high, growing ftraightvp, with few branches, and thofe finort ones : the 
fioures are of an indifferent bignefle,and commonly purple, yet fomerimes white. I thinke this 
may be the Onopyxos alter Lngdanenf. or ihtCarduuspalujlns deferibed in Bauhinus his Prodromns, 
pag. i 5 <?. 
2 The fecond, which is a ftranger with vs, is the Phoenix ;Lco dr Cardans ferox of Label and hod. 
Bdahins both refer’d it to carnet, calling it K^Acarnaminor canlenonfoliofo. 
3 The third defeription was alfo out of Dodotixtts, being ofhis Cardans fylueflris primus, or the 
Onopyxos Voaonxi of the Hift. Lagd. The figures formerly both in the third and fourth place of this 
chapt: r were of the cAcanthtum l/lyricum of Lobel , or the Onopordon of Dodonxas, formerly men- 
tioned. 
^ 4 This defeription alfo wasoutof being of his Cardans fyluejlris alter, agreeing in 
all things but the co'ourof the fioures, which fliould be purple. Lobel in his Obferuations defcri- 
beth the fame Thiftle by the name o Cardans vulgatijiimus viarnm : but both he and Dodon. giue 
the figure of Carlina fylueflris for it: but neither the fioures nor the heads of that agree with that 
defeription. I iudge this to be the Thiftle that Fabius Columna hath fet forth for the ftanothos of 
Ihcophrajlus ; and T abern. for Cardans arvenfis : and our Author, though vnfitly, gaue it in the next 
place for Cardms mu feat us. 
5 The Muske-Thiftle I haue feene growing about Deptford, and (as far as my memory femes 
me) it is very like to the third here deferibed : it growes better than a cubit high, with reafonable 
large leaues, and alfo heads which are a little foft or downy, large, with purple fioures : the heads 
before the fioures open fmell ftrongof maske. I haue found no mention of this but only in Gefner, 
de Collelhone inparte , where he hath thefe words • Cardans arvenjis maior pttrpureo fiore (etui fl rc non* 
dam nato'jMofchamolcbat) floret lulio. Our Author formerly gaue an vafit figure for this, as I for 
merly noted. 
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