2?0 Chap. 
Tbeatrum ‘Botanicum, 
Tribe i 
4 . Brajficama’inamonnfticmoi . 
Sea Colcworc. 
fine crumpling forme of the leaves, and of the variable 
mixture of colours in them,as greene, white, red and yel¬ 
low. which maketh them to be beheld with the more ad¬ 
miration : of all which 1 have fpoken in my former book, 
untothefel tnufl joyne the wilde forts. 
2. Hrajpca fjlveflris, Wilde Coleworts. 
The wild Colewort groweth with many long grayifin 
round leaves,much gafhed o r toriie on the edges, among 
which tile the ftalkes bearing (uch like but fmaller leaves 
on them,and yellowifii flowers at the toppes/ucceded by 
fmall rough pods with finall round feede in them : the 
roote is white,hard and fomewhat woddy. 
3. BraJJicaftmofa. Thorny Coleworts. 
The whitifh woddy flalke of this thorny Colewort ri- 
feth to be more then two foore high, branching forth in¬ 
to fundryftriped or crefled branches, and they againc into 
other leflerflender twigges,eachof them ending in fmall 
fnarp white thornes,and on each of them under the thornes 
groweth one flower, in forme like unto an Hiacinthe of 
a pale redde or blulh colour, from which rife fmall round 
pea fe like heads pointed,wherein lyeth the feede: the leaves that grow without order on the branches are fome-. 
what long and narrow, a little dented or waved about the edges, and with other fmaller fometimes fettoge- • 
ther,of a gray ifhgreene colour. 
4. Bra.jficamxrinci monofperrnof . Sea Colewort. 
The Sea Colewort hath divers fomewhat broad and large thicke wrinckled leaves, or as it were curled about: 
the edges, ^rowing each upon a feverall thicke footflalke and veryeafytobe broken, of a grayifti greene co¬ 
lour; fro m?mong which arifeth up a ftrong thicke flalke wo foote high and better,with fome leaves thereon to: 
the roppe • where it brancheth forth much,and on every branch ftandeth a large buflh of pale whicifli flowers, ! 
confifting offourc leaves a peece; afeer which come fmall thicke and fhort pods, conteining but one roundifli 
crayifli feede a pcece, much greater then Soldandla or Sea Bindweede feede ; the roote is fomewhat great and; 
fhooteth forth many branches underground,':ceping the greene leaves all the winter. 
The Place. 
The manured edible forts are onely nurfed up in Cardens: the fecond groweth wilde on many ditch bankes, 
as well in the uplands as neare the fea Tides: the third is nouried in the curious Gardens of Italy : the laft grow¬ 
eth in many places upon our owr.e coafts, as well the Kentijh as Ejfex Ihore, as at Lidde in Kent and (fiolchefter' 
in Ejje agand in other places alfo, and in other countries likewife. 
The Time. 
Their flowring time is towards the middle or end of !uly,aui the feede is ripe in the end of Auguft. 
The Names. 
The Greeks call it and Atticex°&Aa,or rfSpfrr fo called as it is fuppofed by Come.quod wedt.i'.e. octtlorm 
tmpill.it ohtund.1t &hebetet, tecaufe it dulleth anddimmeththe eyefght,which Columella Tgnifieth by this DU 
Jhchon.Oculis inimica cor amble but he doth contrary himfelfe.for both he and other good authors fay that it is good' 
for dim eyes, as alfo to take away the canker in the eyes; others fay queitomf *iA~vel riEHutAvnfr.quodcraJ. 
pttUfiatUtatiqneadverfiatnr. Theopbraftm and other Creeke Authors before him, doe call it Raftarntp 
ob matuamfzi Come thinhe)q«ondamamicitiam & affnitatem utriufvisftmittii, vetttfttori,prtfertimyttramvUplana 
tarn oenerand jbecaufe of the like effe of the feed, they fuppofing that if it were old, the one would degenerate 
into‘the other • which error in this as in many other things, is fatall to the old world.and I would to God it were 
not fo alfo to curs; for rhe opinion is almofl hereditary, at the lead growne fo old by cuflome.that there is fmall 
hope to roote it out of the mindes of a great many, that the feeds doe often change into other herbes, then fuch ij 
as they were taken from, which is quire contrary ro the Text of rhe Scripture, Genefis 1.29. that faith God did) 
appoint every herbe and tree to have the feede of his owne kind within it felfe, and not of another kind ; and IJ 
would faine have any man of judgement, to tell me ifhee thinke it poflible that the feede of Cabbiges fhouldl 
bring forth Raddifhcs.or Raddifo feede Cabbages; but PI «/and others alfo before him, miflaking the Grcckd 
word of Theophrajf'ti and others,which is underftood by all of good judgement to be Brafi!ca,mnsCcncth all thd 
properties of 'Braffica to Rapbanus pthit is, to Raddifh.Tt is cal led alfo in Latin Braffica,quafiprifeca as Vane faith;! 
quod httjiii fcaput mimitatim prafecatnr ; or as others thinke of Pajfica, quod ex cattle minutatim prafecato pajfafiat ; a 
or as fome i-r! t* "fiber, id eft. a veranda,becauCe poore people did molt ofall call for them to eate thermit is calledb 
alfo in Latin of many Caulie quiaprscaterit grar.di,va/idoqtte turgefeit caule. And from thence as I thinke came outiK 
Englifh word Cole,whereby anciently the Colewort was calledithe fecond isufually called Brajfcafyhefiri, by t 
all,for Arvcnfis as Bauhinm bath itibut that itfhould be that oftheauncients I make great doubt: the third is alfoa 
called Brafficaftino r a both by Alp nm and Baubinitt , who onely that I know have written thereof: The lad is 1 
thought by fome, as Ttimer y tr.rud.va and Cafialpintu to bee the iyeia of DipfcorHetyunA that not Wl'th-sl 
out goodVeafon, the face thereof fo well relembling a Colewort,and the bitternefTe anfwerable likewife. Lobeli 
callech it ' Bajfica marina fylueftrit multipra mono/permes, but Bauhinut BraJJlcamantima-, Gerard calk th it BrofpA 
ca marina Anglica,as if it were onely proper to our coalls. The Arabians call Cabbiges Cojumb and Karttmb\ 
the Italians Cavolo and Verna, the Spaniards Celbes and Couues, the French Cheulx, the Germans Roll, the Dutch , 
Cabuifchoolen, and wee in Englifh Cabbige and Colewort. 
The Vertites. 
The Cabbiges or Coleworts (for they are inamannerof one operation) themfelves being boyled gently in 
broth. 
