Tribe 6 . 
The Theater of Tlants. 
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HAP. 41. 
Sow-thiftle,compofed of many yellow leaves cut in at the ends,compafling a middle thrutnme 
t he common ^ which when they are ripe paffe into downe with grayiih ilriped feede thereinjboch which 
re carried 1 away with the winde: the roote is great and whitiih fet with many great fibres, and periibeth not,but 
yearely encreafeth. endroides Dalechrtmpij. Tall Sow-thiflle without branches. 
> , _ ' A .rhlfl-lc which Dalcchamt>iw{o\md, 3 nd Lngdnn'nfis hath fet forth, hath a great blackifh root 
This other f a (lened thereto,from whence rife divers ftrong, tall, round ftalkes, two cubits high or more 
with dl J ers , g . r u bu,. t hicke fee with broad leaves from the bottome to the toppes on both;fides, waved 
without any fmaller at the bottomes and broader toward the ends which are pointed: from the toppes- 
° r ( rTalT^ and hkewife from the joynts with the leaves come forth (hort foote ftalkes, with three or foure 
fmali e Letrice or Sow-thiftle-like flowers on them, which turne into downe, and fo into the winde as others doe, 
lmall Lettice < ^ MmtMmUci ^ msnam r. The Idler Mountame Sow-thiftle. 
This Ieffer Mountaine Sow- thiftle hath the ftalke next the ground for a fmall (pace frnooth and round, fome- 
what hicke and wooddy, which then breaketh out into branches, and rifeth to the height of two foote or there 
wnat tnicK / leaves farre jn funder Qne from ano^e,. 0 f an inc h and a halfe long, and cut in on 
the°fides into feverall peeces, and pointed at the ends the flowers (land at the toppes of the ftalkes and branches, 
many fet one above another, as it were in a (pike, being fmall and yellowifh, which being ripe is turned into 
downe!and carried away with the winde as all thereft are, the roote is fomewhat blacke 
All rhefe f but the fecond which groweth among .Willowes and Rcedes, and yet I have here inferred for the 
tallneffe thereof) grow upon the hills in Axfirix and other places, and for their ramie arc nurfed up in Gardens. 
The Time, 
Thefe in their naturall places flower fomewhat late, but tranfplantcd are in flower about Mj, and their fee* 
• 7 . u The Names. 
n Thffirft 1 ,stalled by upon SmM'Ctrjhm and &°nchccicbor,m by Srndnu 
JZXlrHarcjmJ, the other of this lortsis Clnfm h.s -.Smdm *v,or Anflriwctruleo^r', the fecond is the 
fiftl lt of C», which he calleth Soncbn Um*r Aprvm i|che third is, as I laid, called oy LugJx- 
^lasLcbls^idradrs Dalecbimplj : the fourth B whims fetteth forth by the name of Smchus Uv» 
/ ■■ The Verities. 
Thrfe S SoTthiftles are ofthe like qualitie and operation with the former and therefore whatever hath beene 
faid of the other before may be transferred to thefe to fave a repetition of the fame things. 
j, Soncbus xiUofud kilcus major. 
Thcgrcatci'vvooUy Sow thjftle. 
Chap. XLIJ 
Sonctii birfntifive villafi. 
Hairy or woolly Sow-thiftles. 
Or do quartos. The fourth ranke. 
j. Sonchus vittoftts luteas major. 
The greater wolly Sow-thiftle. 
He greater woolly Sow-thiftle hath divers ve¬ 
ry woolly long rough and fomewhat narrow 
leaves lying on the ground pointed at the 
ends, and unevenly waved at large di- 
ftances on the edges, with a white middle 
ribbe in them, from among which rifeth up a 
woolly cornered ftalke a cubit high let with fuch like 
woolly leavesthercon but lefler and lefler up tothetoppe 
where it breaketh forth into fome few- branches, with loft 
woolly heads on them, out of which come gold yellow 
flowers, like in forme unto the ordinary Sow-thiftle, and 
like it alfo, is blowne away being ripe: the whole plant 
yeeldeth milke as the Succories doe, and is almoft as bitter: 
the roote is very long, white and {lender, with divers fmall 
fibres thereat. 
2. Sonchus villofus listens minor. 
The lefler woolly Sow-thiftle. 
This lefler fort hath from a fmall reddifh long roote al¬ 
moft without fibres, two or three round woolly ftalkes 
halfe a foote high, parted at the toppe into two or three 
branches, whereon grow very narrow leaves about 
an inch long, litrle or nothing divided on the edges, but 
thole that grow lower and at the ground are narrow and a- 
bout foure inches long, with fome rents or divifions upon 
them fee farrea funder one from another, the flowers are of 
a deepe gold yellow colour Handing in fmall huskes, cove¬ 
red with a veryfoft and woolly downe which paffe into 
downe, and are blowne away, with the winde. 
The place. 
Both thefe plants are found in the woods about Montpelier in France, "and in fome other places of Spake and 
Italy. ' ' Zzz 3 The 
