Tribe 5. 
The Theater of Tlantes. 
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6. Tacea pumila Narbonenfir. 
Pineapple headed Knapwcede, 
the ground round about it, very much rent or tome onbothfides.into many fmall leaves, which are each of them 
deepely dented on the edges, lbme what like unto the leaves ofS tube or jagged Scabious-, all covered over,-with a 
hoary white cotten or wooll.or as it were fprinkted with flower or mealejfrom whence rifeth up a crefted whites 
hoary flalke,about a foot ora cubite high, fcarfe having any leaves thereon to the top,where it beareth only two 
or three fcaly heads like the others with purple threads riling out of the middle of themtthe feeders like the reft, 
5. laceahumilis Hieract] folio. Low Knapwcede with tome leaves, 
I This fmall Knapwcede hath many fmall and narrow long leaves, unevenly cut in or gafhed on die edges, buE 
r. blunt or fomewhat round at the ends of every divifion, as at the point end alfo, from among which rife up 
i 1 weake flalkes, not able to (land upright, butleane downe tothe 
II ground, of about a foote high, with iome fmaller leaves on them; 
11 and at the toppes fmall fcaly headcs, like unto the others, out of 
h which thrulleth the flower, very like unto the Cymnt or Corne- 
I flower,but ofa whitifliblew purple colour, fomewhat obfcurq 
Si or fullen, and fometimes white, the feedethat follov/eth is not 
I unlike the reft : the roote is thicke and long. 
6 l.uca alia pumila Narbonenjit. 
The Pineapple headed Thiftle or Knapweede. 
ij , This fmall French plant groweth fometimes in the natural! 
|i places, without any ftalke, bearng his Cone or Pineapple-like 
II head, fo neare the ground, that fcarfe anypartof a flalkecanbe 
i feene under it, and fometimes, and in the fame grounds alfo, it 
n will beare a round hollow ftalke, of an handbreadth or two, ora 
j foote high,having divers leaves thereon, cut on both fides, into 
1 many narrow fhort peeces, greene on the upperfide and hoary un- 
1 derneath: at the toppe of the flalke flandeth only one large round 
‘ and long great head, bigger than befeemeth the fmallneffe of the 
1 plant, refembling a Cone or Pine apple, delicately fet with feales, 
1 blackilh at the toppes,and forked or cut into two or three notches 
at the end,and bright (hining white fromthence to the bottome of 
them ; from the middle whereof rifeth up divers purple threds,as 
in the other forts, after which come fmall feeds wrapped in much 
down,as the reft are, and like unto the former fmall Knapweedes,' 
but blackilh: the roote is blackilh on the outfide, and whicifh 
within, of the bignetfe of ones little linger. 
7 • lace a Lac ini at a alba. 
Jagged white Knapweede. 
, This white ICnapweede hath the ftalke fee with many ve¬ 
ry much j'agged leaves, from the bottome branching fort-h 
onallfides,withlefler 5 c lefl'e jagged leaves up to the tops, 
where on the feverall fmall flalkes Hand fuch like fcaly 
herds as the other before have, but with fine white threds- 
rifing out of them : the roote is long and threddy, and 
fpreadeth fomewhat under ground. 
8 Iacea montana minima luted. 
Small yellow mountaine Knapweede.' 
This mountaine Knapweede, hath divers leaves next the 
roote, about three inches long, cut into many divilions on 
both (ides, and each of them againe into fmaller, but fome¬ 
what thicke and flefliie,fmooth alfo, but ending in a fharpe 
point .* fine Halite is fmall fcarfe a foote high,bearing a grea¬ 
ter fcaly head, then the fmallneffe of the plant fhould 
feeme to beare, with a gold-yellow flower in the middle, 
having many upright threds in the middle, and the out¬ 
ward leaves, lying downewards and compaffing them : 
after which core fmall [cede, wrapped in downe like o- 
thers, but fmaller: the roote is fomewhat thicke, hairy at 
the head, and parted into fibres. 
The Place. 
The firft, as I faid groweth in many places of this land, 
among corne as well as in other fields, efpecially about Co. 
vemn : the fecond groweth in Candy, from whence the 
feede being fent, hath fprung in divers parts : the third 
groweth upon the hills of Cajlrum novsim,nave Aiompelieri 
the fourth neare Capua in Italy ■, the fift about CMompelier 
alfo, in the borders of fields; the fixt there alfo, but a- 
mong the Ciftu, an d skarlet Oakes ; the feventh is found in 
fundry places ofour owne land • the laft, as FabimColnmna 
laith on the hills sy£cjuicoli\ n Naples. 
The Time. 
The firft five lores flower in Sommer,and their feede ripe- 
neth fhortly after, but the two laft flower not untill Sep. 
temper m their naturall places. 
7. la ea Licivlataa'b- 
lagged white Knapweede. 
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