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Theatrum Botanicum . 
Laflaca fativa. 
OardeaLctticc, 
R I B E 6 , 
i. Lafiuca cblcngofolie atuto. 
Sharpe pointed Carden Lettice. 
The Time, 
Their time of flowring, feeding, andfpendingis the fame 
with the common fort. 
The Names, 
Lettice is called ifLfef Thridax in Greeke.and inLatine 
Lattuca a laBis copia. The fird is taken by Baiihintu t0 [, ce 
the LaBtica Gallica oCCafier Dttrantes and calleth it himfelfe 
LaEluca folio oblongo aettto , the other alfo is called by him 
LaBuca Italica laciniata, and we in Englijb thereafter Italian 
jagged Lctrice, the Arabians call Lettice C*v» and Cberbas 
the Italians Launga, the Spaniards Lechuga and Alfalfa the 
French Laid tie,the Germans Lattilp, the Dutch Lattouwe ’anrl 
we in SngLfh Lettice, 
7 he Verities, 
Although th:fe forts of Lettice doe differ in forme from 
the other. & each of them alfo one from another in the forme 
oftheir leaves,yet in oualirie thev arc alike, and acceptable to 
an hot ftomacke troubled with chollcr. ycelding good nou- 
rifliment to thebody,as both Serapio and Galen teftihe of the 
experience thereof on themfeives, and Pliny alfo (liciveth 
that the learned Phyfition MuPa did by Lettice eafe Asttralhit 
ofthc violence of ins difeafe. Calm ffeweth that theeatin™ 
. “oyie l Lettice at night when hee went to bed procured 
him reft andflecpc, who fhould havehadnone if hee had 
oecnc without it, having uled himfelfe to watching from 
Ills yongerdayes: the fame is found effebluall alfo with di¬ 
vers, or the juice thereof mixed or boylcd with oyleofRo- 
esandapphedto the forehead and temples,both to procure 
reft and lleepe and ro eafe the headachof any hot caufebe- 
ng eaten raw or boyled it heipeth to loofen the belly,and the 
boy ed more then the raw, which eaten lad perfo meth it 
the better and was generally fo nfed in ancient dayes which 
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Claude re 
