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, rr-He fird and larged of thefe hath toots confiding of great longifh bulbes like thofc cf 
I the Afphodill : from whence arife many large dalkes tnrce or foil* cnbrts m-n, cre- 
1 fte d and downy : the leaues are very long and large, iuycic, grcemfh , and cut abo ,t 
theedgcs,andfetwithfoft prickles. At the tops of the ftalkes and branches gro-.v heads round 
and lame out whereof come floures confiding of aboundance of threds, ofa pur-ple colour, winch 
flic wav in downe. This growes wilde in the mountainous medow.es and in feme wet p.aces n 
floures in luly. OM<«'hath called it Cirfum maxtmm monum.mofol;o, b,*. .vp r.Me . Buihe aue 
no figure thereof,nor any elfe 3 vnlcffe the dcMbimH m l^rn.mrent. (which our Author 
^ S§>03 ' 
* Chap. 493. Of fofi Thi files , and Tbfle gentle. 
± T Here are certainc other plants by mod writers referred to the Tluftlesj which being o. 
A mitted by our Author, I hauc thought fit here to giue you. 
\ Cirfitim maximum x_yifyhodeli radicc, 2 '’ m ‘ 
Great foft bulbed Thidle. CteatfoftThiftle. 
Of the Hifione ot Plants. 
It is troublcfome to beate it, vnlefle the noftrils of him that beats it be carefully flo P £u and 
defended- for if it happen that the hot (harpneffe thereof Joenrermw the nofe, it prefently cau- 
feth itching and moueth neefing, and after that, by reafoaof the cxcreimue ot tec heatepr draw- 
eth out aboundance of flegme and filth, and lad ofall bloud, r.or without great quantity ofteares 
But againd the hot n^pnefTe of Euphrbiuv, it is reported that the inhabitants are remedied 
bv a certainc herbe, which of the effe<2 and contrarie faculties is named Ar.tcupMw* his plant 
liicewife is full ofiuyce, which is nothing at all hot and flaarne but code and fi,my,a,] lyrng the 
heate and (harpneffe of E,Mur,n. We hauc not yet learned that the old writers haue fee downe 
any thing touching this lirbe ; notwithdanding it feeraeth to be a k inde of Orpine, when is the 
antidote or counterpoyfon againd the poy fon and venome of SnfMttm. 
