art let at the ioynts of the (lender fmooth greene and high [hike where it braticheth, are fomewhat greater am 
not lo finely cut in on the edges, at the toppes are yellowilh flowers tike the others, of a middle fife which grov 
(j Sonchue artguflifeliuemaritimM. Sea narrow leafed Sow*thiftIe. 
This Sea Sow-thiftle from a (lender long roote wanting fibre, rife many long darke greene leaves, fomeo 
fonre and feme of fix inches long and fcarfe one inch broad, a little rough withifn.ll prickles about the edge 
which "ive milkeastheothersdoe, and among them one (lender ftalke about a foore or Idle high, with two a 
three leaves thereon which campaffe it at the bottome. and beare one or leldomc two yellow flowers at the top 
of a realonable bigneffe,which paffe away into downe tic. 
The Place . 
Th- firft and fecond [ometimes alfo, grow in Gardens and manured grounds, and fomettmes by old wall: 
the nathfides of fields, highwayes, but the third and the fourth in Germany : the lift about CKempeherwd Fhrem 
alfo.where they cate it familiarly as the common: the laftis found in the Ifland of Lio m the Venetian teritory 
and by Montpelier aifo. 
The Time. 
They doe flower quickly after they are fprung,for it is late before they rife out of the ground, and abide un- 
till isfugteft. 
The Names. 
It is called Sonchtu Itz is in Latine to diftinguifli the one from the other as is fayd before : fome call it Ctceriiit 
as the Italians doe to this day. Apuleiui calleth it LaBuca leporina, and the Germans thereafter, Flafen Lat- 
tauwe, fome alfo Hafen Kell, that is, ’Brajflca leporina : it may well be accountedas a kind.of wi.de Letticeitu 
fo like it others therefore call it Lattucella and LaBerones from the French LaiBerons, Tragm calleth the lull 
bitliu, (ylveflm five erratica tertiet , Lonicerus Endmafl/lveflris, Lugdmer.fi.: Andrjala minor Dalechampy, Cor- 
dm in hi florin Stmchus Unit feu hvis, al 1 other authors S onchns lavie, or non ajpera, or vulgar*, or lacimaw foltfi 
the fecond Matthioltts calleth Sonchus Uvti alter, and Label Sonchm alter profundss Ucinijs finuatolxderaceo Liu- 
fit* Sonchtu lavie vulr.irit fecundw, Tabermontanw Sonchm fylvatkm yuartus ; AnguiUra calleth it Scmolafpl- 
veftr* LaBuca fbecies Galeni, gefner inhortit Germania LaBttca fylveftris fiore Utteo , which although it aott 
in the outward face refemble fomewhat, yet it is much more bitter, and never eaten as the other forts ol 
fallet herbes; aAd Ca/alpintu LaBuca murorum, Bauhinm calleth it Stmchus. lavie LtcimaUu muralvparvvfionbm. 
the third Tabermonianus and Gerard have fee forth by the iamename is in the title, and Bauhinttf Sonc m svi 
minor paucioribus /acinus • the fourth Lobel fetteth forth in his Dutch Herball by the name of Sonchm Uvii Mat- 
tbioli , Gefner in Hortp, calleth it S »nchi qenus terra crifpa, and Cafalpinus faith they call it Terra crepe la w tfcotrftru 
or Florence , Lugduuenfis fetteth it forth for Creph Dalechampij , and Tauhinus calleth it Sonchus Unit at, g u J ‘J° iil [ 
t^c fife and future fee forth owely by \’Banhims by the names oiSonehusUvitin plnrimas & tcnuijjimasjacinui 
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