The Theater of Plants. 
Fr iBE.5. 
Chap.O. 
$! Scabiofa tenuifolia glofofa. 
Globe flowred Station v?ith thinac cut leaves* 
6, Scabiofa tenuifolia globofa eUtior. 
Another finall leafed Globe Ssabiovt. 
6 Scabiofa teuuifolla altera elatlof. Another fmall leafed®lobe Scabious', 
This other rifeth'up more upright with thS Cngle (Tender ftalke having at the lower joint* two.or three fmail 
narrow leaves fet thereat, finely dented about the edges: bit : thofe at the h.gheft part of the (hike (land by, 
couples • the flowers are fmall and round but like in colour to the other forts. 
c ’ fke Tlacc and Time. 
The fir HBaubmm faith, Terr antes Imperatu, o( Naples fenrhim, but nameth not the naturall place; the 
fecond is not well knowne where it groweth wildest is noutfthed up in the gardensof thofe that are Herba- 
rifts and lovers of plants: the third groweth in Germany, m Harcyr.taljlva^TbaUm fa K h 1the: fourth, asCAr- 
Jj«r faith in rockie and ftony places, on the hills of Hungary and Auflna, asalfo in other untilled places there- 
abouts ■ the fift on divers hills in Germany ■ the laft we know not the ^natural! place, the feede comming among 
other forts from Italy, and flower all ot them atthe time with the reft. 
The Names, 
SaMnm onely remembreth the firft by the name of Scabiofa folic Clufim the fecond by 
the fame name in the title : the third is called by Lobel Scab, of* media ferrate anguft folio flore Globular,* ■ and by 
Thahw in Harcynia fjlva Scabiofa PellidU majorjt folio minor . and by Baukinw Scabtof * captulo globofo minor : the 
fourth is called bv ClnfiM, Scabiofa montana minor repent, five decima • and by Cameranus Scabiofa Montana repent £ 
by Tabermutan*l Scabiofa odorata : but Baublnus following none of them, cajleth it 
tins ( as thoueh it did frutefecre which is nothing (o) oecaufethe leaves are fome what like the fmall Dayfie, as 
I faid, and that the GMalaria Mdnfpelicnfium is reckoned as a Dayfie,and called "Belli, csruka, which is fome- 
what like unto it; but Clufius doth even account that Globular',*, to be Scabiofa pumdum genus. The fifth is cal¬ 
led by Thai, us in the place before remembred, Altera Scabiofa temifoli* fpectes. The laft being a fort not fet forth 
before hath his title fit for it. 
Scabiofa jlellato fore. Scabiou s with Starre like flowers. 
I. Scabiofa Hijj, attic* major. The greater Spanijh Scabious, 
T" His greater Spanifh Scabious hath large foft woolly leaves, much cut m on both edges,'like the leaves of 
F the freat field or Corne Scabious, each part alfo dented about the edges,the ftalkes rife to the heighth of two 
TOte, bearing fuch like leaves at the joynts, but fmaller up to the topper, where they branch forth into feve- 
ill fmall lprigges, bearing every one a head of many flowers, like the other Scabioufes ,but each ma 
nd ftiffer skinnes, of a whitilh colour, in whofe places after they are paft, the cuppes of huskes whereinthey 
:ood, doe appeare like blacke ftarres, with divers points, wherein the feede is contained, which is fomwmtt 
mg, thicke, andhairy, like the other forts: the roote is thicke.and white like the common kmde, but^perun 
:th every yeare, after it hath borne flower or feede. 
