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,HAP. 5 » 
Theatrum ‘Botanicum. 
Tribe 5 
Jo. lace*Habjlonictt. The great prickly Knapweedeof Babylon. 
Becaufe we cannot yet give you a full defcription of this plant, take for the prefent, fo much thereof as hath 
come to our knowledge; for a leafeortwoonely being fent, teemed upon the vie w thereof, likeunto a leafe f 
the Acmthmm, the W hitc-way, or Cottcn Thiltle, being about a footc and a halfe long, and more than an hand' 
breadth broad, m the middle thereof; fomewhat hoary and rough in handling, compaffed all about the edZ 
with (mill fharpc prickles, having at the bottome of the leafe foine torne peeces, on each fide thereof three nr 
foure inches long, which growing fmall to the point,ended in a pricke : the middle ribbe being fomewhat nrear , 
theref 1 ’ fr ° m whencemany vcines ranne the leafe. Thus much and no more, wcecan yet fay ; 
The Tlacc. 
Thefirftgrowcthinmany places about Salamanca in Spake, as Clufim faith, and about CWompelier as Lo L e , i 
iaith: the (econd in Naples as Column* faith : the the third in Spam alio not farre from the fca fide • the fourth r 
at the footc of rename mountames in Auftria and Stjria as Clufita faith i the fift in fome other parts o f Spam, ' 
the fixe by the lea fide rn Sp.nne, about Porta SanMaria, and Coles : the feventh on the mount Calcar bv Mom 
peher : the eightby Murenam Spaine : the ninth about Cales alfo: the lad about Babylon, as the name fbould in", 
tunate, but grew in the garden of Signiot Contarim, a C/anfftmo of Venice. 
The Time , 
thlfixth “the htdoT the Somnieri fome eJrIier ° r later than otherSj and t!,eir feede is ri PC accordingly, onely 
The Names , 
Clttfius calleth thc M Iacca lutcoflore five Cardans muricattu luteoflorc ; Lobeland others call it, laced lutea maior- 
yclmbKhoys and! Obfervarions ulcth but one figure, for Iacca lutea, which he faith is Cardui flellati variety 
andfor Cardnw fieUatui/euCatc,trap* a/fn-d.whereunto in the defcription he giveth purple flowers. LuodunerCu 
hath pkced this figure of Clufim, under the title of CardumEriocepha/ui Ddoonei. It is bv Tlodontm ended of 
^ rhh* ** a tera * by. d^ohe,Cardans Stellatus cetpitn/is jpinofpsjeu Calcitrapa altera, as^ Al/.fij^K/faith^but I finde it 
doth better agree with my third iort here let downe, he calleth it lacea lutea capiteJhinofo : the fecoud Column* 
nr C 'T' r °' de \ faccalutcafpinofa cintauroides. the third is v«v 
' ? be 4, e famC ' thlt talleih Li e*purpurea Valentina muncato capite and Baubinus Urea foils 
Scr.du car.aicantibus purpurea : but I have altered it in the title, his name not fully anfwering the deferrintionIn 
all things 1 1 the fourth Clufim calleth Iacea montana cchimto capite fDodomm Cyanoidesflos wbok Rome Claim 
taketh for his Suite Salatnanttca fecund, ■ Tauh.nm calleth it Iacca Cyanoides cLato capheT the fifth Bauil 
calleth Iacca captte longts acacs jp.nofo : the fixt he alfo calleth Iacca Lin, at* Sonchi foli/ m d a I laid is vervlZ 
unto the JaceamannaTUt ca, which is the ninth here : the feventh, eight and tenth!hav7 their mles as Sfi'^ 
n.l'l* Prodromusfetteth them downe: the ninth was fent among others by Woftcn before remembret- ’the 
lad is remembred onely by Tauhtnut in his Trodromm to come from Signior Contarim his garden. ' 6 
The VcrtHcs. 
All theleKnapweedes are no doubt of the fame qualitie with the former, being binding and manv nfrfien, 
glutinous,efpecially the roote of the fixt and ninth which as they are of a very clammy iuice’and fubftance fo can 
they not be, but very confobdative, to knit and foder whatever needeth iuch properties * 
Chap. V. 
Serratula. Sawcwort.’ 
-^^r7!f r0n,e0t i 1e I herb u S ca " ed U "s’ b y Lobd and Pena, Tauh,nm and others, which I dare 
if T m T ood ° tn T ,m e hi' "? n ln Dly,l L d 8 emC, 7 worth y to beare that name, and therefore I thought 
ZTtl e P n£XC Un r° th u m ' u n fe , vera11 Clla P*rs as neared unto the Iacca. r, and then 
T i : , I . Serratula vulgari, flora purpurea. Common Sawwort with purple flowers 
This Sawwort nleth up with many ofhis firft leaves, fomewhat broads „ 
fharper dented and pointed, all of them fet upon long foote dalkcs • bur rhnt ^ r S T tbantllofe of Beton )’’ and 
and broader, and deepely cut in or galhed on thesesfoEmany^4tts and e ch 
lame manner; from among which fpring many brownifh dalkes y P w ith dinar P P fi f y dcnt 7 d f' 1(0 ,n the 
whereof are divided in the manner aforclaid, and fo the higher thWTtow n no T\ 
are unto the toppes, which are branched forth into many pfrts, bearingtealvh«^ IA lcffe dlvldcd ^ 
but nothing fo grear, round and hard, with divers purple Shreds or thrummes^n ^c mi^? Kna P weedes * 
ITorter : the feede is fmall and blacke like the Arced but lcffe lying in doTne which A dd Tf°n bDt 
the roote rsa bulh of many firings, which encreifeth into man/heads and fh’ h f h iBeddeth I a , nd , faIleth a way: 
“'“ffhem, whereby it quickly g’roweth to be f 1 * 
ofthofe: that is to fay, one iort that bringeth all his leaves, dented onely •bonrX ed make /° Ure d ' ll ' na >o ns 
m or gaflied : another fort, part hath them dented,that is, the firft leave and the^ft^r’ ^ n ° ne n T, CUt 
cut in or gaflied : a third that hath but one or two, of the firft or Ioweft leaves « hot 8 Ta Up ° n ; l,e u a,k l S * 
it is young, will have many of the Ioweft leaves wMe'^nd^ u"*’ ^ ba ' ' be T for , merl y defenbed, which while 
divided: but for the firft forr that ftiouldhw oil h » an ^ w ^ en j c g^oweth elder, will have many of them 
and if l, or any other body fhould, I^qe^nwAinke^^ouUbrfo every yeare? 6 ^' ^ C0U ^ d ncv cr find fuch a one, 
a, Serratula 
