-r and SoHcbm ant«fiif>li<t> maritime : the Italians doe call it Smuh lifcto, and Gicerbita gentile ; the Spa- 
‘ j, r, rr ai* and Severn ■ the French Lablerones, and Ifafair an licmre from the Latine Pa’atiam leptris, and as 
me have it Leporumcubilc ; the Germans Gem diftell,S<to-dift*l and DudHieU-, the ‘Dutch gar,fen difieb 
fnme havelt “uvnumcubUe th e. Germans Gens dtpll,Sm-dift*l and DudiSlcll ; th e‘Dutch gar,fen difieb and 
Mclkeweye ■ and we in Snglifi generally Sow-thiftle, and of fome Hares-lettice. 
^ J * The Virtues, 
Thefe as well as the former Sow-thiftles are cooling and fomewhat binding, and are very fit to code an hot fto- 
macke andtoeafethe gnawing paines thereof, they are ufually eaten as falet herbcs in the Winter and Spring, 
hile thev are voting and tender by thofe beyond the feas familiarly, but the rootes are much more efleemed by 
rhrmbeinu very tender and fwcete : theherbe boyled in wine is very helpefull today the diffolutions of the 
ft macke and the milke that is taken from the (hikes when they are broken given m drmkc.is beneficiall to thofe 
rhar are fhort winded and have a wheefing withall: Srafifiratw, faith <Phny, did therewith caufe the graved and 
done to be voided by urine, and faith, that the eating thereof helpeth a (Jinking breath : the juyee thereof to the 
nuantitie of three fpoonfulls taken in white wine warmed, and fome oyle put thereto,caufeth women in travell 
of child to have lo eafie and fpeedy delivery, that they may be able to walke prelcntly after : the laid juyee taken 
in warme drinke helpeth the (trangurie or piffing by droppes.and paines in making water: the decoftion of the 
leaves and ftalkes given to Nourfescavfeth abundance ofmuke, and their children to.be well coloured, andis 
„ 00 d for thofe whofe milke doe curdle in their breads; the juyee boyled or throughly heated with a little oyle of 
bitter Almonds in the pill of a Pomegranate and dropped into the eares, is a fare remedy fordeafeneffcandfin- 
„: nns an d a n ot l,er difeafes in the eares, it is faid that the herbe bruifed and bound upon wattes will quickly take 
them awav : the herbe bruifed or the juyee is profitably applied to all hot inflammations in the eyes, or wlrerefor 
ever elfe and for puflules, wheales, blifters, or other the like eruptions of heate in the skmne, as alfo for the heatc 
and itchin°s 0 f the bemonboides or piles and the heate and (harpenelTe of humours hapning in the feci et parts of 
man or woman ■ the dillilled water of the herbe is not onely effeauall for all the difeafes aforefaid.to be taken in¬ 
wardly with a little Sugar, which medicine the daintieft ftomacke that ,s will not refute it, or outwardly by ap¬ 
plying cloathes or fpunges wetted therein i but is wonderfully good for women to waflr their faces toclearc the 
skinne and to give a luftre thereunto. 
Chap. XL. 
Sonchi Montani. Mountaine Sow-thiftles. 
Tcrtius Ordo. The third Ranke. 
Smtchui Alpimts aruleus. Blew flowred mountaine Sow-thiftle. 
i. Soxcbus AlpmtiS urulcus. 
Blew flowred Mouiuainc Sowt-hiflle.’ 
His mountaine Sow-thiftle hath divers 
broad and long leaves much cut in to the 
midle ribbe, and dented alfo on the 
edges, the end peeces being the broadeft, 
of a greene colour on the upper fide, and 
grayifh underneath, copaffmg the ftalke 
at the bottome, which is round, rough, 
and fet with hard reddifli haires about 
three foote high branched atthctoppe,withlefler and lelfe di¬ 
vided leaves on them t the flowers (land many together in 
fmall hairie greene tufts upon purplifh hairie foote ftalkes, cve- 
rie one confiding of twentie and more fmall narrow leaves, 
broad at the ends and nicked in of a purplifh blew colour like 
unto Succory,which turne into downe as other forts doe,Scare 
bio wne awayjthe maine rootc is great,thicke, white and hard, 
very intricately foulded with long firings faftned ftrongly in the 
earth, which perifireth not butabideth many yeares by the 
fhew of the dry ftalkes: this giveth milke in as plentifull man¬ 
ner as the others doe and is very bitter. There is another of this 
fort, whofe leaves ate more divided into fmaller patts, yet the 
endpeece is longed like the other, and fo are the flowers but 
more (parfedly fet at the toppes fomewhat leffer alfo, and of a 
fairer blew colour. 
2 . Soncbus arborefetns. ThegreateftSow-thiftle. 
This Sow-thiftle groweth to the height of any man, with a 
flrong ftalke of the bigneffe of a mans thumme, (mooth flraked 
and without anypricke whereabout are fet many leaves,parted 
into foure and fotnetimes into five divifions placed on each fide 
one againft another, and compaffing it about at the lower end, 
where they have fmall peeces flicking forth beyond the 
ftalke, the upper leaves have no divifions nor prickles on the 
backes but on the edges upon the dents, and are greene 
on the upperfide, and grayifh underneath and full of milke: the 
ftalke is parted at the toppe into fundry branches, bearing at the 
toppes many flowers fet together,as it were in an umbell, all of 
them being fetto an even height, fmall in companion of the tallnefle of the plant, elfe not much unlike thofe of 
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