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The Theater of Plants. 
Chap. 44. 813 
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CltntAcre'qu* czniu LaShtcafolelat avorum, _ , 
‘Dicrmhi cur mstrM inchoat itia dafcs. Which may be thus, 
Lettice that earft our Qrandfires meales did clofe, 
Why it begins,pray tell me whence it growes. 
, , . _ ouencheth third,helpeth to encreafe milke in Nourfes.-and eafeth all griping paines of ths 
jhelpethdigeftion,quencn > ^ . it abatct h bodily lull, and therefore both it and Hue are commended 
a "d “ft'^eepe them the charter = it repreffethaho 
0 r Monkes,Nunnes and outwar dl v t o the Coda with a little Cainfire,abatcth the prid. and heate of luft 
y merous dreames,. PP ^ _ aDp y vec i a lfb in the lame manner to the region of the Heart, Liver, or Keynes, 
i hichfome call the Coltes ev » PPJ “ diftilkd water ,wherein feme white Saunders and red Roles are put 
;: by bathing the &idpl^iWtd. Mtofl “ nd repreffe the heate and inflammations therein,but doth alfo 
$ fo, ‘ s not Si thofe parts: the fame alfo tempereth the heate of Vtine, advifeth old men to u fe 
!omfort and ftryng fadicall moyflure, and that where fpices are wanting to adde Mintes, Rockec, and 
l: with fpices to conferee the rad ca y > rrenoe ( eed e s or the young (hootes of them, ro.abatethe 
uch like hot Sallet herbes,or ^ <^Ci , ^ and f he diftilled water of the Lettice worke the like: effefts 
old of the one and th ^ ea ^,° ' • is chiefly forbidden thofe that are flrort winded or have any i mperteftion 
In their Lungs^or doe ufc to fpit Wood; faith it did hurt his teeth and fome fay it hurteth the fight. 
Chap. XL 1111. 
Wilde Lettice'.' 
UZtHC* fylvtftn 
the wilde Lettice there are two or three forts to bee declared in this Chapter, wherewith 1 fhall 
^ Clolc and fiinlh „d,re virafa. Broad leafed wilde Lettice. 
ThiswUe lattice rifah^with foure or five fomewh^atlpngari^largeleav^dmaller^at^the hot-- 
? tome and!broader mbJ liUe * nt0 the Garden Lettice, or Garden Endive leaves 
or tome at a l,of a pale °rwhitifh green ^ before, which doe foe abide the firft winter after the lowing, 
fo that it will loone deceiv „ rhe flied feede ■ but in Muy following itbeginnethto rife up to a flalke,and 
whether in the Springer Autumne oft j| d r l bb “ Qn t he backe fide fet full of flnall fliarpe prickes: the flalke 
then thofe lower leaves w , hiph at the Ieaft, and as bigge as the thumbe of any mans hand at the 
hath rifen in my Garden to be ei S ht , f °° J ■* d " vers very long branches, whereon are let large leaves like 
] S Wer JT t ’ f ° meWhaCb lTrhe lote P r and fo § to the middle oftheitalke fet with prickes in the manner of the 
the other but more crumpled.the low £ mQrc ■ d or div ided on the edges,all and every part yeelding 
bottome leaves,but leffer,an * Vi Vmplleth ftron® very like unto Opium or bitter in tafle; the flowers arc 
plenty of mtlke being broken,which fmelle n» f( J Ucr and | cr l yclloWj fcar f e ope ning themfelves, and 
very finaland (ingle tome what like unto L t * nc with f ma U blacke feede therewith very like unto 
bfacketttmffedefand ^arr^edaway with the wmde: the roote is white long and wooddy when it beareth 
feede and penlheth prefently Mveflrislacimata. Wilde Lettice with jigged leaves. _ 
This other wilde Lettice gtoweth like the laft but not fo high or great, the hrtt leaves are of a grayer greene 
colour, fmaller and narrower then the other, which to 
abide and afterwards gaine thornes or prickes on their bacK- 
fides as the other hath.- thofe that follow are much more 
lagged then the others, and fet with fliarpe prickes alio, 
velding milke as plentifull being broken and as bitter as the 
former, but doth fmell as ftrongly of Poppie or Opium as 
the other: the flowers and feede are like it flying away with 
the winde.but the roote hereof abideth after feede when as 
the other doth nor. 
3, LtStun fylvejlrit purpxreo flare. 
Wilde Lettice with purple flowers. 
This great plant fometimes in moyft grounds rifeth up to 
be four'e or five cubits high but ufually two or three wito a 
ftrong great flalke fet on each fide with leaves (mailed at the 
bottome, and larger as they rife up higher, being largelt 
about the middle of rhe flalke, and then grow fmaller a- 
gaineuptothe toppe, all of them unevenly waved ■'bout 
the edges, and comparing it at the bottome, or a aarke 
blewifh greene colour on the upper fide and grayifti under¬ 
neath yeelding a milke when it is broken : die flowers hand 
uponfmall long Italkes ifluing from the joynts with the 
leaves from the middle upwards, with many flowers on 
them,confifting of foure darkc purple coloured leaves with 
divers threds in the middle,tipt with a yellow duft & a three 
forked ftile in the midft, which ftandetfl in long purplilh 
greene huskes hanging downe their heads and turne into 
T. Laftucafyhc/ltti Endivia folijt odors vitofo. 
Broad leafed wilde Lettice, 
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