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i. Scabiofamontam maxima. 
The greater moyntaine tcainom. 
. flower on the infide : the feede is like the other forts, and the roote is long blackifb, and long lading after feede 
time. 
3. Scabiofa montana Dentis konis folio. Scabious with Dandelion leaves. 
[ This Scabious differeth little from other forts of Scabious , but in the leaves, which being fomewhat hairy and 
: 1 not finooth, broad at the bottome compafling the ftalkes, are fo divided on the edges, as a Dandelion leafe is* 
1 the lower divifions of the leaves,being blunt at the points, 
fci and the uppermoft fharpe yet all dented about the edges: 
the ftalkes being hairy and about two foote high, are di¬ 
ll vided toward the toppes into branches, having two leaves 
at the joints, foj'oyned together like the leaves of the 
-Teafelljthat they will hold water: the flowers that grow 
I at the toppes are of a pale blewifti colour like the reft, 
4, Scabiofa pro lifer a duarum Jpecierum. 
Many flowred Scabi ».roftwo forts. 
This kind of Scabious , that beareth many heads of fmall 
j flowers, compafling the greater, as is feene in Daifyes, 
i! Marigolds, and fome other herbes; is of two forts,one 
r that hath his leaves cut or divided into fome broader and 
U larger divifions than the other: the branches towards the 
c toppes where the flowers doe ft and are bare, or naked 
\ without leaves, fave under the very heads, where there 
i: ftand three or foure fmall leaves, very finely cut almoft as 
c fmaLlas Pennell: round about the middle heads of flowers 
r grow forth, other feverall fmall heads offlowers, all alike 
i both for colour and fafibion, which are like the ordinary 
l Scabious 1 thefe give feede like other forts, and perifli 
I after feede time,and either rife again of their own fowing, 
I or being gathered muft be new fowen. 
5, Scabiofa argentca angusiifolia B 
Silver leafed Scabious. 
This Scabious from a hard wooddy living roote, fen- 
deth forth three or foure flalkes, with divers very long 
and narrow leaves, almoft like graflfe, but of a fine white 
filver like colour, fet without order thereon; the toppes 
of the ftalkes are not branched at all, but bare and naked 
for a good fpace, bearing one flower at the head of them s 
white and woolly underneath, but of a pale blew colour 
above, as other Scabioufes are, and confiding in the like 
manner of many flowers together. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth in many places on the Alpes y and in the fields neare unto divers-other mountaines and hills 
in Aft Iria and elfe where: the; fecond groweth Jon the like places, as on Snealben and Sneberg hills in Auflria^ 
&c. as Clujiut reporteth : the third upon Mount Calcar not farre from c Jktompelicr: the fourth with the broader 
leaves, is onely to be found in gardens, but that with finer leaves if it be not the fame with the former hath beene 
obferved to grow wilde, about the baths of our Lady neare Padoa % the laft was found upon the hill Snmanc 
neare Vicenza in Italy . 
The Time , 
They doe all flower at the time when the other forts doe. 
The Names. 
The firft is called by Label Scabiofa montana maxima ; by famerariut Scabiofa Alpina (fentauroides • by Lugdu- 
nenfis Centaurium nothum Dalechamptj ; Bauhinus calleth it Scabiofa Alpina folijs Centaur i) majoris: Bauhinus ma- 
keth the fecond to be the fift Scabious with Clufusin his hiftory of plants,as I faid before;& calleth it Scabiofa mon- 
tana glabra folijs Scabiofa vulgaris : the third is onely remembred by Bauhinus in his Pinax and Prodromw , under 
the title exprefled : the fourth is called both by Lobel and flufius Prolifera y and their kindc is that with the lar¬ 
ger leaves 5 the other fort Bauhinus faith, hath finer cut leaves like unto Gingidium or Vifnaga: the laft is remem- 
bred as well by Camerarius in horto medico^ by the name of Scabiofa grantine a folio argenteo fore purpureo, as by 
Bauhinus under the title exprefled. 
Scabiofa globofo fore. Globe flowred Scabious: 
r. Scabiofa Neapolitana folio SinapifylveBris. The Globe Scabious of Naples . 
T H is Scabious hath a ftraked ftalke a foote and a halfe high, divided from the bottome into long branches, ha¬ 
ving two long fmooth leaves divided to the middle ribbe on both fides, and each part divided alfo, fome¬ 
what like unto the leaves of wild Muftard, {landing at each j'oint, and together with them many fmall haires 
growing there likewife: the flowers that ftand fingly at the toppes of every ftalke, are of a middle .file, and very 
round at the head, whereof it tooke the name-Por the heads of the former forts are fomewhat flat at the toppes, 
and not fo round or globe fafhion as thefe in this ranke.and are of a reddifh colour,yet not fo deepe or darke red, 
as that which I fet forth in my former Booke, by the name Scabiofa rubra Indica, Red flowred Indian Scabious : 
which pertaineth to this order, but chat it is deferibed there, and the figure here; the feedes are fmall, like there¬ 
unto, and the rootes likewife perilhing after feeds time for the moft part. 
a, Scabiofa 
