Tbe Theater of Tlants, 
Tribe 5. 
Scabiofafore alio. 
White flowed Scabious* 
CHAP.p. 48^ 
6 . Scabiofa xfiivalh Clufij. 
Clupus his Sommer Scabious. 
ter) as the head with feede is likewifc; the roote is great,' white,- and thicke, growing downe deepe into thS 
ground, and abideth many yeares. 
3, S cabiofa minor campcjhiS' The lefler field S cabio/ts. 
This lefler fort is like the former almoft in all things, but that the leaves are not fo large, or deepely jagged, 
nor the [hikes rife fo high,nor the flowers fo great or large, yet of the fame bleake blewifh colour: this may be 
thought to be the fame with the former, differing onely but in the rankeneffe of the ground where they grow, 
butthatthisisfoufnallyobfervedtobeno greater or of any other forme, although it grow in the fame or as 
ranke ground as the other. 
3. Scabiofamajorfegetum. Corne Scabious. 
ThisCorneSe«fco«jalfo differeth little from the firft, but that it is greater in all refpeffs, the leaves being lar¬ 
ger with greater divifions, and fome whole leaves with them alfo •• the (hikes are greater and ilronger, and the 
flowers larger, more laid open, and notfo clofely thruft together, bntof the fame blewifh colour, yet a little 
more decliningto purple: the roote hereof runneth not deepe info the ground, but rather crcepeth under the 
upper cruft of the earth. 
<}'. Scabiofa Pamonica fore albe. White Scabious of Hungary. 
This great white Scabious of Hungary hath large (hikes, three foote high at the lead, whereon grow at every 
joint twoleaves one againft another, very mnch and finely cut in, and jagged on the edges, more than any of the 
former forts of Scabious, but tHofe that grow next the ground are broader, fofrer in handling, and more hairy, 
and onely dented about the edges and not divided, that one would not thinke them to be the leaves of a Scabious : 
the (hikes are branched and flowers like untoother Scabioufes, ftandat the toppes of them, but of a pure white 
colour, and the outermoft row of flowfrsforthe mofl part being twife as large as any of the reft, with white 
threds in the middle of them tipt with bjew : the feede that followeth is long and browne like, unto the reft,, 
which falling when it is ripe, fpringeth a frefh before the Winter,and abideth untill they have feeded againe the 
next yeare, for the roote periflieth yearely. 
5. Scabiofa minima OvilladiBa. Small flitepcs Scabious, 
' This fmall Scabious hath divers whitifh greene leaves at the ground divided on both fide of the long pointed 
leafe, onely into one divifion, on each fide, making every leafe feeme likethe.fmall Sage leafe, called Sage of 
V ertue, that hath fmall peeces of leaves like eares on each fide thereof; but a little dented about the ends; the 
fmall low (hikes are furnifhed likewife, with fuch like leaves but lefler, and fmall blewifh flow er or heads on 
them like unto the other field Scabious but lefler. 
G Scabiofa efiivalii Clufij. Clufiv.s his Summer Scabious. 
The (hike hereof being three cubits long beareth long leaves fet by couples thereon, which arc long and fome- 
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