486 Chap.^, 
7 heatrum Botanicum. 
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what broad andlMerent ortorneat'fhebottome.butdentedSthercft of the leafe the flowers grow on fe 
verall branches at the toppes of a pale blew colour,the roote perifheth every yeare. 
'7. RCdbialir. /jrhovp.'i C'rpf-irsi Afn'imn A/n.:.,, Ul. n 1 /■ 
— rr—* “ wu/u.,u.w 1 uulv every yeare. 
„ .. 7 - Scabiofa arboreaCrcticaAlpino. Alfimu his fhrubbie Swfowr of Candy 
This Sc«W hath a thickc wlntifli ftemme next the ground for afhaftmont high, from whence rife fund™ 
long branches fet at certa.ne diftances.with five, fixe, fcven or more leaves at a fpace, each of them fomewh™ re- 
fembhng thofe of the true Honfeleeke but hoary white ; the toppes of the branches have two or three laree 
flowers, handing on (lender long foote ftalkes together, like unto the common fort for the fafhion, bu of ad e . 
layed or wafh blufli colour, after which fucceedeth lmall feede, andis very tender to keeoe 
The Place. r ' 
The firft groweth molt ufually in moft Medowes of this Iand.efpecially about Lend™ every where The feennd 
groweth hke wfle ,n fome of the dr.e fields about this Citie, but not fo plentifully as the former The thirdIrow 
cth both in the grounds where corne is (landing, and in thofe that were formerly fowne and nim i3 g 
“t ord : rof t h fi l ke f ds H Tte 
the upper Hungai.e: the lift is found in many drie gravelly and heathy grounds throughout the Realm- 
fixt grew m the low countries as Cluflns faith of the (eede he had formerly fent thither ■ and the laft in Candy 
merne «me fi0WCr “ ^ ^ abidC fi ° Wri "S UnCiU itbe late in and the feede is ripe in the 
The Names . 
This herbe is not found to be remembred by any the ancient Greeke or Tatine Authors ■ yet fome fome think 
it is that herbe taEtm calleth but becaufe there is nothing but the bare name that is extant ■ i. ke 
any deicnptton, it his hard to fay it is the lame ; notwithftanding the Greeke word fipnifWh Vl" ■’ ^ hoUt 
Eut it tooke the name of Scabiofa, either a foliorum fcabritie cjtu pre(ertim, primo huic ceneri convert ' at ! ne ‘ 
and that moft ufually, w«r«»r : the name i sofdi versaonlie d ,/t r,;j i t ^ , • v mt - or rather, 
t hj < Stabes, and others, calling fome of th^i'scabio^rn^^f^rid^a/teiuif^u^mat^ca^tK^as^^f 3 to 
and others doe : but as I find before, the heads and flowers of all thefe herbes called S cabioufes b21 alf L**?*’ 
and like one unto another, and (o differing from lace.-., S take, &c mult needes The,,, ’ 7, g , 11 neare 
not be (o confounded for a novice (hall hardly underftand what herbe is meant,% fufh names asare1’mn ( SS Uld 
divers of them: the Author of the PandeEls, is thought to be the firft that 7 V 7 j a . e / mp0 , on 
Scabious, from whence the errour thereof foone fpread^amonn PhyRtionimM • ’°^ cor ] « Sr^c, to be this 
hardly to be rooted cut Tam facilis efl defeenfus in errorem * d- e centra W " n , eS ’, and contln uing ftijl i s 
Co/umna in his Phpobfmts! feemihto/eferie ZZZffnnfo 
Booke of rare plants, he decline* to thinke that fuchfmall Valerians as he there defcrL A V but lnh “ Qt her 
have holes in them,(hould be the Pbjtcuma of ‘Diofcoridcs The 7 flit-,- e„ a p i* b f caubc the feedes 
the Latine name S caih.fi, as each Dialeft will a dm A r 1? ^,and Enghfh, do all follow 
grinds kaaat. The firftiscaJledof S 
fecond is called Scabiofa media, and minor of divers and Columh l ™ pratwjis or ojjicimanm: the 
Hjftory Of Plants, 3aLn.es fet teth it downefor& tennd7’,T Ic e' V* 15 his fift Scaii °’" in W« 
tneth the fame Scabiofa prima C/ejSj for thtf 'her-h^* 1 If? tK J° Z^hofo, and yet he na- 
verall kindes, which'thing is very frequent tSS’' makmgthatone plant to betwofe- 
and OWatthio/tif ; the third is called Scabiofa campeflrU feu feJtvm nf rdf? anc JP aceSj ^ 1IS P imx , Prodrome 
fourth is called by Cb.fi*, Scabiofa PanJic/fflto The 
that Scabious, which we generally throughout the land dof* call fheenes Sr / 1 m » antS: the ^ is 
though much differing from his deferiptfon, which he cS!foS tTfrT, 
nnmma^ yet the figures of neither of them are anfwerable to the true her^l^r T™”* 
tion, and Bauhimts calleth Scabiofa fr tit leans latifoUa all . 1 a ■ « 6 ^ e ^ e *the fixt Clufivs only maketh men- 
in his Booke deplantU exoticisfi is very likely not to be the A 3 » ‘ S . tha ‘L wh, . ch , ^ , P m,s deferibeth and piflureth 
that his is fet forth to have but oneleafeataplac™ ^ Wlth m his Iu,>m ^ fo nb,in 
Scabiofe montane:. Mountaine and wood S cabioufes. 
T r 
I k 
Scabiofa won,am maxima. The greateft mountaine Scabious. 
'His great mountaine Scabious, which fome for rhplirom , c , 
— kinde of great Centory, hath divers very lame winged darke "reen/le ’ bave “counted a great and baftard 
fides into divers parts to the middle ribbe, and ead, p«U nicked or dented l"' 15 T 7 b ° th 
(efpecially growing at large in any good ground ) being a foote or forncrime. d b ° U i 10 ^ dgcs > ™ an >’ Ieavcs 
iyneare there unto -from among which rife up divers hard wooddy ftalkes r‘ nor£ln length > °rmoftcommon- 
and ufually about three foote high, branching towa-ds the tonne ntn r f ° met “? eS °r five foote high, 
toppes of each whereof ftandeth one large great round blackifh mmJ SL A ) ? eothe 5 fmaller ftem ? ,es ! at 
iuch like flowers as the S cabioufes doe yeeld, with^ threds in the middlin' f , romwt ; ence f « h dwets 
buddc before it is blowen is more yellov/then when it is open t , “? e,n m the like ” anner > but cach 
feftion are of a pale yellowifh colour; in which heads when the flowers are nafTw" 11 ^ WblCh ^d a V tbe P er_ 
red feede, which beinaflApfi imrm»-lT«'orrvn ™4 „„r l . wcrs are P att ’grow lone rough darke colou- 
the old roote per,(herb not after feede time,but abideth many yeares! * “ yMre foll ° wlng > 
This Scabiofa Montana olabro folio. Mountaine Scabious with ftnooth leaves 
bearing many fhining grTene leavesfeny ‘Zil hoa°rv at all f b rm f r ’ ^hPf'^d r ab ° Ve 3 f ° 0te hi S h * 
®SSSSSSB 63 Ss 3 £SSKS!S^^T?T^ , >f*® 5 ^**^®* 2 S!S 5 SSS! 5 S 
flower 
