Theatrum 'Botanicum, 
Ch A P. I 
Tribe. 
cutintotnany parts, aimed with fbarpe prickles on all (ides, every pricke ending in three points, from whence 
rifeth up a tall ftalke, fomewhat branched with one or two prickly heads at the toppes of every one branch, G ut 
of which come purplifh flowers, and afterwards ftnall long feede wrapped indowne. 
5. Cardans pratenfs pgljcephalos. The many headed medow ThifUe. 
This ThifUe hath but few leaves lying next the ground, being both fhoi t and narrow, armed with fbarpe and 
long prickes, the llalke is round (baked and without prickes, fpread into fundry fmall branches bearing many 
fmall heads with purplifh flowers, made of tbrummes or threads thrufling out ofthe middle of them, but fee 
with large and lharpe prickes: the feede is inclofed indowne as the reft ares the roote is long,hard and wooddy. 
6 Qardmtspalnftrit The moift Medowes ThifUe. 
The roote of thisThiftle is fingle, the ftalke three cubits high, ftraight and full of prickes, thicke fet with darkfe 
grecne leaves unevenly waved, and lotnetimes more deepely cut in on the edges, having a few prickes at them, 
and branched toward the toppe, with many fmall heads upon (lender (hikes, and reddiili purple flowers like o- 
thers, and then turne into downe. 
7, Cardans Ceanothos five viatum & vinearumreptns, The Creeping way or Vineyard ThifUe. 
The rootesofthis ThifUe are very fmall andwhitifh, running both deepe and farre about underground like 
unto quiche grade, but have r,o knotted joynts therein like it, but fhooteth up hcades of leaves from the branches 
ofthe roote, fo that it will be as ill, or worle than Quiche to weede out, if it be once got into a ground : the 
leaves are of a pale greene colour, fomewhat like unto the rough or prickly Sowthiflle, a little cut "in, and as it 
were crumpled on the edges, armed with very fwall, and fharpe hard prickles, the ftalke groweth to be a yard 
high, (baked and prickly, with fome liich like leaves thereon as the lower be, but fmaller to the toppes where it is 
bored with crucll fharpe prickly heads and purple flowers made of thrummes in the middle paflinsinto 
downe. 
8. Cardans AvcnarinsfiveOWn/iatus. The Oaten land or Muske Thiftle. 
This Thiftle that rileth fometimes to the height of a man among the come, is found growing lower in other 
places, having divers very fliarpe prickly jagged leaves let ronnd about the flalkes, and at the toppes where they 
are branched many fmall fliort heads fet dole together, out of which come the flowers confiding of threads or 
thrummes, as in other Thiftles, fome whereof will be white, fome of a deeper, and others of a paler purple co¬ 
lour tending to a blufh in many places duelling fweete like Muske,which being faded,the feede followeth wrap- 
ed in muth doune like the reft. 
9. Ca’duns Creticui minjmns. The fmall Thiftle of farJy. 
This fmall Thiftle hath riling from a fmall long roote divers long leaves, fomewhat like unto the AttrafyHi or 
DiftafTe Thiftle, but fmaller, and armed with lharpe prickles: the weake leaning (hikes are divided ulually into 
two other, betweene which groweth on a fbote ftalke a fmall Thiftle-like head armed with a dozen very fmall 
long prickes (landing up round about it, being fo finely netted that it maketh admirable the Workemafter, the 
middlemoft head, ever growing lower than the tell round about it: when theie heads open,the blew flower ap. 
peareth never lpreading much, after which come fmall white feede inclofed in a little downe, which will fiiea- 
way with the winde, the heads are fweete and edible before they flower. 
T'a. Place . 
All thefe forts of Thiftles grow in fields and medowes in Vineyards and grounds fowne with come, as well 
in our owne Land, as beyond the fea, fome of them all'o on Heathcs, Greenes, and waft grounds in many places 
as the Ceanothos on Kcntijh Tome greene abundantly, 
1. carlaat pratmjlt latifobat. 
Broad leafed field Thiftle. 
2. Carduus bulboftu Monlpelietifinm* 
The French bulbed Thiftle. 
