The Theater of Tlants, 
Chap. 787 
Tribe 6 . 
^flvcrv one! which will not abide or be (till either in ones hand or in paper,«cc. if it be never lo little (lirred, bet 
ill as ; c were creepeor thruft itfelfe forwards by the flifFe haires (whereupon I have given it the English name 
as it is in the title) the rootc is long and white and perilheth every time it bcareth feede, yet abldeth the firft 
Winter after it fpringeth in the Autumne, for it hardly abideth a Winter if it rile in the Spring although it 
doth neither flower nor lcede. . 
5 . ChondnlUSefamoides dicta. Strange Summe Succory. 
This other plant referred, as I faid, to the Chrtmdrillaes, hath many long and narrow rough leaves, pointed at 
the ends, and jagged in two or three places on the edges, fometimes more or leffe lying on the ground, relembling 
very much, the leaves of Coronopm or Bucks home Plantaue, but with fewer greater and longer cuts or j'agges, 
the branched ftalkes arefet from the middle of them, with fuch like leaves, bnt narrower, lome without any 
iagee, and fome but with one or two, bearing at the toppes everyone upon (lender bare long ftalkes, a ftnall 
whrtilh lilver-like lcalyhead, out of whichbreaketh forth faire double flowers confiding of many purplifli blew 
leaves dented or cut in at the broad ends, with fome yellow threads in the middle of them ( Matthioliis hath very 
badly fet this forth with the heads of Phalaris Canary graffe)after which commeth fmall feed like unto Sefamum, 
as it is compared, and from thence tooke the name of Sefamoides, but as 1 thinke more fitly unto z Cy antes Corne- 
flower or Blew-bottle but browner : the roote is fmall and long, yeelding a milke : both thefe plants may in my 
mind be better referred to the face as than unto any other herbe,they doe in leaves not much vane,nor yet in heads 
and flowers, but in feede efpccially come nefreft thereunto, and not unto the Chondrillaes , whofe ft ede is much 
differing having downe on the heads of them, and flie away together witli the wmde. 
The Place. 
The firft (as well as the fecond, for I account them both as one) growetb, as Matthhlat faith, in many places 
of Italy, as well as Tufcane in waft grounds, by ditch fides, and the way lides in fields and paftures ; and as Cerdas 
faith in the Vineyards about Cjer.a :'the third Bauhinm faith he onely law in Zuingcrus garden and his owne : the 
fourth in Spaine Narbtxe in France, and Naples alforthe laft is not certainely knowen from whence Is the original! 
but is nurfed up in gardens. 
The Time. 
They doc all flower in the Summer moneths, and yeeld their (cede foone after. 
The Names, 
They are ail accounted Chondrilla jpecies by divers, whereuntc for the former three I may wdl agree being in 
face not much differing from wilde Succory; the firft being called by Lobel Chrondrilla carulea Bclgarum, by Do- 
domeas Chondrilla altera ,by Cordrn upon Dio/corides Chrcndrillaprima Sichorio flmilis , and in his Hiftory 'Chondrilla 
tenera ; by 'Camerarius Chondrilla c arnica flore ; who faith the Italians call it Caccia lepore ; Lugdmenjts maketh it to 
be Apate D alecbampij,and faith the Italians call this Terra crepola,by Tabermontar.w Chondrilla carulea and alba, as 
CWm before himdid; Cardiff giveth two figures hereof, which noteth,andcallctli this firft Chrondnlia 
cstntlea altera Cicborijfylvcfttis folijs : the fecond is that which Matthiolut fetteth forth as an hyfleronproteron, as I 
faid before, calling it Chondrilla altera, and Lacuna Chondrilla prima, obferving, as it is likely his errour, and by 
Batehinus ChondriUa Ctcrulea latifolia laciniata: the third Banbinm mentioneth in his Phytopmax, Pbtax and Pro- 
dormtu by the name of Chondrilla purpnrafeen: fstida,and Beeler in horto SpBetenfi Chondrilla rtsbrafteiida-.tbz fourth 
is called by Label Chondrilla rara pnrpurante flore femme nitido decidnoymd C'upina Belgartmt, and findeth fault with 
his owne miftaking in callingit formerly Superba recentioram ■ wifhing itto be blotted out: Lagdtmer.fis calleth it 
Cbondri/lapttrpnrea Lobelij, and Tabermontanus ChrondriUa Hifpanica Narbonenfis : folumna finding it in Naples, 
could not well tell to what£f»»r he might referre it, and therefore called it Senctio Cardans Apulw, and Batihiaus 
to varifie his title from all others, calleth it Chondrilla folijs laciniatis ferraus,parpnrafceme flore ; the laft is but one 
fort, although Bauhinm maketh it to be two, becaufe Camerarim firft let forth the plant with the flo 'erlpread 
open that it might be the better knoWne,yet is the fame that Adatthiohts calleth Sefamoides parvam,not rightly ex- ■ 
preffed, and from him Cajfor Dttrantes, Camerarim, Tabermontanus and Colttmnad oelo enttile it, yet Columns 
thinketh it may be Cyan its Plinij. Label calleth it Sefamoides parva Viofcondis. bnt Gt/ncrin codellione flirpium Co- 
ronopuj cjnidam flore Cfraleo,Dodonaus maketh it his Chondrilla tertiafpccics.dc Leigdttnenjis Catanance tpaorundam : 
Bauhinm, as I faid, to make two forts hereof entituleth his fltid Chondrilla car aka Cyani capituh, and the other 
(which as I laid Camerarim in his Alatthiolus fetteth forth, with the title of Sefamioides parwumflore magic complex 
re, and Efletenjis Chondrilla Sefamoides ditla carule-o flore complete) Chondrilla ct rtilea Cyanicapitttlis altera. Cer¬ 
das faith that the Germans call this firft Chondrilla Klein Sonnen rrerbel, and as is faid before, the Italians Caccia le¬ 
pore and fame Terra crepola. The Vertties. 
Alatthiolus faith that the people in Italy where the firft forts doe grow doe eate them in their (allots as Succory 
is, being accounted of the fame propertie, but I have no other Author thatgiveth any fpeciall inftanccof the 
vertues therein, and therefore you may as I referre them to the kindred of the Succories, and be per Iwaded of the 
like t ffeffs to be found in them, neither have I any more certainty to fpeake of the reft. 
Chap. XXIX. 
Hicracium. Hawkeweeke. 
| O fet forth the whole family of the Hawke wcedesin due forme and order, is fuch a world 
■ ofworke, that I am much indoubt ol mine owne-abilitie, ichavinglyen heavie on his 
fhoudiers that hath already waded thorough them, and willbe as heavie to me, although 
he be a guide for me to follow: If I therefore (as he before me no'doubt hath done) flippe 
or goe awry, let it be pardoned in me, as it muft be in him, or let them that too critically 
find fault amend it by allured knowledge if they can themrclves.and I will give them 
thankes. Tor fuch a multitude of varieties in forme pertaining to one herbe is not to be 
found againe, in re rum naturals I thinke. That I may therefore fo fet them forth, that ye 
may apprehend them rightly, as I lhall endeavour to expreffc them aptly and methodically, I muff diftribute them 
