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The Theater of ‘Plants. 
Chap. 26. 781 
awerlike unto other Dandelions turning into downe,and flying away with the wind carrying the feede with it, 
fhich is fomewhat long and broad with hard haires likebeardes at the tops: the roote is fmall and blackifh with- 
: at and white within,very fweete in talle as the leaves are alfo,and fo tender to keepe that it perifheth with the 
rft cold it feeleth •• and mull: therefore be houfed, which then will endure many yeares giving feede year ely. 
5 , Dens leonis minor ajpero folio. Small rough Dandelion. 
The fmall rough Dandelion fendeth forth fundry fmall leaves lying round about the roote of two or three 
iches long and one inch broade, dividedor torne in onthefides, eachofthem fet with fmall fmoothfharpe 
rickes or haires like as the prickly Sowthiftle hath: the ftalkes are about two inches high, and bcare each of them 
large pale yellow flower like the reft and.turned into downe: the roote is fmall and whitifh. 
0 Dens leonis Monjpclicnfvsmfive Afphode/i 6nlbulis. Bulbed or clogged Dandelion. 
This Afphodell rooted Dandelion tpreade th many large and blewilh greene hairy leaves upon the ground un¬ 
evenly,waved or cut In on the edges but not deepely gafhed, as the common Dandelion is of a bitter and fharpe 
alle like unto it, from which rife fundry bare or naked ftalkes with feverall flowers, at the toppes of them larger 
(ind more double than it, and of a paler yellow colour which paffe into downe like the reft : the rootesare fnn- 
fry long tuberous and (lender dogges like unto thofc of the Afphodill but ftnaller, fliorter, and more pointed at 
(the ends. _ 
I . y. Dens leonUGadenfiis. Dandelion of Cadis in Spaine. 
ft This plant fo like in face unto a little Dandelion hath made me contrarie unto others opinions place it in the 
tifameranke with them. It hathanumberoflong leaves a fpanne long or more riling from a long white tender 
[bote : the middle ribbe of the leafe is bare from the cootc to the halfe length of the leafe, and then it hath many 
Brents or cuts on each fide, very much refembling the leafe of the ordinary Dandelion but fmaller and narrower: 
riche flowers likewife Hand upon long foote ftalkes as the Dandelion doth being fmall and yellow, and doe turne 
Into downe that is carried away in the wiride, with the feede which is fmall long, and reddiili like unto (ome of 
tthe Hawkeweedes. Itgroweth in the Hand of (jades, which wee call Cales or Cadis as Guillaume Boel faith, 
[who brought it us out of Spaine ,and called it Cichorium Gadenfe : Clufim it feemeth not well marking the plant 
(being dric, and never having (eene it greene or growing, tookeitfrom Hoel, andcalleth it in his Car* pefieriores 
{Cichorium fylvefire pumilatfifive Hedipnois, and faith it is altogether like unto it though leife : but how like it is, 
illipon thjsdefcriptiontruely fet downe as before, Heave it to any judicious to determine. It flowretbin Inly, Au- 
i guftand September, and the feede is foone ripe after the flower ispaft; the roote liveth all the Winter if it be 
milde, or elle it perifheth with the hard froftes. 
The Place. 
The firft is too frequent in all medowes and pafture grounds, but the fecond is more rare, yet often to be met 
i with the third groweth in Auftria : the fourth in Italy as it is fufpefted, becaule it came from thence: the fife 
i and fixt about Mompeliar, as alfo about Florence, and in other parts of Italy efpecially the fixt,and the laft in Spaine. 
The Time . 
1 They flower in the Summer moneths, yet as is well knowne the firft is found in fome place or other in flower 
, every moneth in the yeare. 
The Karnes. 
The Dandelion is not certainely intituled by any Greeke denomination,for it is certaine it is not mjSleoxii chon, 
dritla : but hath divers Latine names, asDeni leonit, Urinaria, Corona and Caput monachi, Rofiram porcinum- and as 
Anotfilarathinketh Chrondrilla Galeni: the firft is ufually called of moil of the later writers T>ens leonis, but Tra- 
gits tooke it to be Hieracinmmajus, and Cordus in hiftoria , to be Hieraeium parvttm ; Gefner in hurt is Hteracium 
minus,Thaliw and Dodonau t chondrilla altera, and Cafalpimts (as divers others alfo doe) to be the AphacaotTheo. 
phrafltu, in lib.& cap.y.and io. among the Wottes: divers alfo take it to be Hcdypnois Plinij lib. iS.c. 8. but the 
moll judicious rather take the former Cichorium lutetsm to be it: Facbfius calleth it Hedypnois major, and Lugdu- 
nenfiis HedypnoisDa/echampij ■ Lonicerw calleth it Taraxacon minus,and is generally held to be the true Taraxacon 
oSSerapio.ini Avicen, and fo ufed with us in all compofitions'whereunto Taraxacon is appointed : thelecond 
fofalpinus calleth Aphaca anguftioris folij : the third is called by Colutyna.fjitracium fcctidum : and Camerarius 
calleth the fourth Trinciatilla ; the fife is ajfo of Bauhimu mentioned by the name in the title: the fist is called by 
Matthiolus Cichoriam Confiantinopolitanum, becaufe, as hee faith, hee received it from lAlngerms de Busbcque the 
Emperours agent at Confiantinople ■ but Lobe! and Pena fay that hee needed not to extoll this plant as a ftranger, 
being to be had plentifully in his owne country of Siena and Tafcane, Liguria and other places of hall whereof 
he was ignorant, as aifo about Mompelier, whereupon they called it Dens leonis Alonfyehenjium' Afphodeli bulbil, 
lit, and withall fuppofe it to be the Chondrilla altera Diofcoridis, or Perdion (rather Pcrdicionj of Theophrajhu■ 
which hath more rootes chan leaves: Tabermontantts calleth it Dens leonis altera ; the laft is mentioned liifticient- 
ly in the.defeription : the Italians call Dandelion Ttente de leon r - the Spaniards Diente de Icon ; the FrencbDcntdc 
Ijon and Piffe cn lift-, the Germane* pfajfenblat, Korlkraut and Pfajfienrorlin j the Dutch Fapepcrnyt Koutsroofen 
and Camkerbloemen, and we in Englifb Piftea bed and Dandelion. 
The Uertues. 
Dandelion is nearc in propertie unto the vvilde Snccory.andby tbebitterneffe doth more open and clenfe, and 
is therefore very effetftuall for the obftrutftions of the liver, gall and fpeene, and the difeafes that arife from them, 
as the faundife and the hypochondriacaU paflion, it wonderfully openeth. the uritorie parts, cauling abundance of 
urine, not onely in children whofc meferaicall veines are not fufficigntly ftrong ts containe theqnjntitieofurine 
drawne inthe night, but that then without reftraint or keeping it backe they water their beds, but in thole of 
old age alio upon the flopping or yeeldir.g fmall quantitie of urine ; it alfo powerfully clenfeth apoftumes and in¬ 
ward ulcers in the uritorie paffages, and by the drying and temperate qualitie doth afterwards heale them, and far 
thofe purpofes the rootes being buried a while in fand and whited ( which taketh away much of the bitcemefle, 
and maketh them the more tender) being eaten as a fallet are more effeftuall than thpleaves ufed in the fame man¬ 
ner, or who lo are not accuftomed tofuch raw fallets may take the decoftion of the rootes or leaves in white 
wine, or the leaves chopped as'pot herbes with a few Allifanders boiled in their broth. And who fo is macilenc 
drawing towards a confumption,orhath an evil! difpofition of the whole bodyjready to fall into a Cachexia by 
Xxis the 
