R IBE 
6 . 
The Theater of‘Plants. 
Chap. 4.3» 8 j.I 
u rtiem fnure nr five long gceene huskcs and in them fmall purplilh flowers of five leaves a pescc 
|K in atfhebroTdcnds with lome (mail thredsin the middle, which tome into downe and fo ,nto the 
nnde : the roote is La^faZftlvatica. Wilde or wood baftard Nipplewort. 
This Wilde or wood kinde is like into the firft fort,but with iomewhat broader leaves,and more [lore of bran, 
hes.elfe in flowers and other parts not fo much differing.^ 
The firft groweth upon the bankes of ditches and the borders of fields almoft every where the other Clujtm 
I'aithhee found in Hangar ie and in Saxonies Harcyniafylva and other placesthe laft ts found neare woods tides 
md hedges rowes. The Time. 
Thev flower in the Sommer, and their feede ripeneth foone after. 
1 The Thames. 
■ The firft is taken by many to be the of Diofcorides ^ r od Umber'Jignificat paid folioram moUi. 
tiecadaca decubituvein bamum earn lambcre videatur ,and thereupon fome call it Lapfana -.but I fee no reafbn of this 
idifinition ■ the Latines keepe the fame name of Lampfana or as lome have it Lapfana, but I make lome doubt 
thereof fo although Diofcoride, giveth no defcription thereof as being well enough knowne in his erne yet hee 
it rn he a lallet or potherbe whereon the poorer fort of people did feede, as being the meaneft and chea- 
peft al cSiers wtch out of ^ 9 .- 8 . nfay a.fo be gathered when as /.«« Cafars Souldiers at 
• romDlaincd of the parcimony of their allowance in diet for their fervice by feeding on Lampfana, and 
! ffnn”verfes thereof in fport-the fame Pliny alfo faith it was of the old Romans called Napmm yaafi T^pamfylve- 
n !,T; r K wa p the cauie of CMatthiolus^neuiUra, Gefner,Label and Lagdnnenfu, their opinion that tooke for 
‘ k*! kinde of Charlocks with podsfas all their figures exprefle it, and as (hall be (he wed more amply 
n the proper place where I (hall entreate of their kinde) but this herbe hath no probab.htie to be the right being 
n-ver received by any that we can heare of to be as foode to feede upon : GeiWhath tou lely faulted in a double 
manner firft in fetting forth a falfe figure to that Lampfana ,which he ulually (hewed to all that went in company 
with him abroad in Simpling, wnich even this that is here fet forth and generally with all Herbarifts in thele 
times called Lampfana whfih differeth much from a Charlock that hath long pods: and then in giving it the 
Tml o^ockCrefs as though it were fome. wilde kind ofOrjJH when as more truly a. Lobe in Adv'rfay 
c;A iPmav be referred to an Hieracium or as I fay to a S embus. The firft is called Lampfana by Lobe l and Dodo- 
I his laft Edition (for in his former he tooke it to bee Eryfimnm ) and toMu who all give one and 
the fame true figure ofthis herbe as alio by Thahas and Cameranus who faith that in PraJJia they call it 
becaufe it is good toheale the Vlcers of the Nipples of womens breads, and thereupon 1 have entituled it Nip- 
rJpwnrr in £noliJh : by Gefner in horti, it is called Sonchis cognat,m and >» bcllo do college JhrpmmCtcbormm 
S \J S ; GerM Figure of Sonchm fylvaticm doth more truly reprclent this Lampfana : then his Figure 
Fpoivrth tor it The [econd is called by CUfius Soitchm lavior Panmmcm tjuartm parpurco flora, but I haveenti- 
tuled it Lampfana Aaflriaca, fuppofing it may more fitly agree thereunto, thenuntoa wilde Lcmce as Baubrnm 
dn'h whocallethic Labluca montanapttrpitreo flare : Columnar I faydbefore faith that this of CUfi was like 
tCunZmTanl purpureas but differed in fome things and fo doe I alfo, asfirft m the roote, Colusa his not 
being fo ftrin°ie as this of CUfius, and the flowers hereof having five leaves and his but .OLire, and therefore I 
take diem to be divers plants: If I have erred herein I refetre me to his cenfure that can confute mee by proofs : 
the laft is Tabermontanus Stnchus fylvaticus fecundue,which 'Batthims calleth Soncho affinn Lampfana (ylvanca. 
The Vertues. ■ . 
We have no properties to [hew you of this Lampfana ,more then what Camera, im as I fayd before hath given 
ns to underftand, which is that they in frit ft* from the vertues to heale womens breads, and their mppes when 
thev are fore or exulcerated call it Papillari, which may induce us to rhinke that it hath an elpeciall healing qua- 
litie therein,and that it is temperate in heate and drinefle, with fome tenuitie of parts able to digeft the vitulency 
of thofe [harpe humors that breake out into thofe parts. 
Chap. XLI II. 
LuBttca Saliva. Manured or G arden Lattice. 
;*T> Here are two kinds of Lettice, the one ofthe Garden, the other wilde Of the Garden 
kinds I have in my former booke given you the knowledge of fomany forts.that it might 
** fleme there had beene no more to have beene fet forth, for I there fliewed you eleven. 
feverall fortsbefidesthat fmall Salletherbe called Lambcs Uaw 
although it be no kind of Lettice as all know well enough, yet performed! theottic-^ot 
, Letticeina Sallet, whole Figure I here give you, and the ordinary Garden kinde alfo, but 
1 U p 0n further fearch I have two other forts to bring to your confideration which (hall bee 
• declared in this Chapter,and the wilde kinds in the next to do e up this Claffis. 
f Lattuca folio oblonqo acuto. Sharpe pointed Oaruen Letacc. 
This Lettice diffetethnot in ftalkes, or flowers o.^manner of growing 
joe not cabbage, but in the leaves onely,which, are abou^:four j thatri f nnethth ro Ugh theleafe. 
ibout the edges an dendingma ftnall^pomwhe niiddle^ribb^ ^- lggeJ Lcui 
This Italian Lettice alfo differeth not from the ordinary fort but in the leaves which are cut into many fm. 
parts,of a pale grecne colour,very tender and pleafantto^eate^ 
Thefe forts come from My and are there nourfed up in the Gardens ofthe curious, but fade knowne tomn 
as yet. 
