1 Tbeatrum Botanicum , 
Ch a P.4, 
Tribe 
all things thereunto,the feeds beingblacke and bitttr alfo that none can doe more, as alio in that property pecu¬ 
liar to Atrallylis, as Tbeopbraflus recordeth, w hich yeeldeth a bletidy juyee as ours doc,and thereloi e, as he faith 
was called t'n& enter, and is taken from the leaves, not by bruiling and wringing out the juyee, as the juyeeof 
other herbes are taken,but droppeth out of the veines of the leaves of it owne accord, being broken off and laid in 
any thing to receive it, in the fame manner as 1 have fhe wed you here before the juyee of Aloes is prepared, and 
that I may enforme you throughly how to doe it, the time is chiefely to be regarded, that is, While the leaves are 
young, or before they grow hard and faplcffe upon the flalkes when they are old ; for both leaves, llalkes, and the 
young heads being broken off will) eeld that red or bloody juyee. The Atrallylis is in fome copies of Diofcm-idcs 
as Matthiolus fheweth, called Cnicus fylvejlris, and derived Irom IttamisAdiftfufus, whereupon Gtnza trar.flal 
teth it Fufns agrejlis, the dried ITalke whereof, as Diafccrides faith, the women in ancient times uledin Head of a 
Rockeor Diftaffe, yet Cs/wwwuhinketh it tooke the name from the head, which beingftored, as he faith, with 
hoary downe, the reft of the ftalke underneath being bare lefembleth a Rocke or Diftaffe with wooll upon it 
and thereupon fome called it alio Coltts ruflica, howfoever Matthiolus thinketh, that the diverfitic of thefc names 
fhould certainely demonftrate twofeverail plants, for you fee they are indifferently ufed, and fo called by theon- 
cicnt Authors them (elves, tide, cither for a Rocke or Diftaffe, or fora Spinde. The firft here fee downe, is called 
by Clufeui Cnicus alter , becaufe, as he laith, it is fo like the firft Cnicus called fativus , and from him Camerarius 
Label, Lugdunenfu and others doe la call it, or Cnicus caruleus : the fecond and third is called Atraliylii lutea o'* 
purpurea by many Authors, buc "Baubinus in driving to fhew a Cnicusfylvefl is difFefingTront/4/t«S»&, bath in 
my opinion erred much ■■ for as I faid before, the moft judicious of our times can finde no other Cnicus fyhejhi, 
hut the Atr ably lit which he doth not fo acknowledge, blit malteth the Atrallylis of CMatthiolus ( whom Caflor 
Vurantes, Lacuna,Lugdunen/is and Gerard^ do follow,exhibiting the fame figure of his, which is acknowledged bv 
Camerarius to be a falle one) to be the true At>a(lylis,vihkh Matthiolus himfelfe did not fo acknowledge, be¬ 
caufe,as he faid,it wanted chetru: propertieof AnallyH, to yceld a bloody juyee, and moreover confoundeth the 
Car/ina fylveflris of Clsifitts , with the C“rduus vulgatiffimus viarum of Label , and hit C ir fi um l«teum Scq„an 0 - 
rum, andmaketh the Acarnaoi Lugdunenfis, and the Scclymus Pliny of Dodonstus to be the fame AtraBylis Q f 
Tragus, Fuchfius, firdus,Gefi,cr and others, which he would rather call Cnicus fylveflris jpinofior than Atrallr- 
lis, as alfo making the Atraliylii of filumna, to be a differing herbefrSm that ofthole former Authors, whenas 
his defeription and notes thereof fhew it to be the fame and no other. Baulinas againe maketh Fee. Atrallylis Cy- 
pria of Anguilara and Lugdunenfis to be the fame Atrallylis flare purpurea of Label, ‘Dodonsus, and LuedunenRs 
whenas they plainely diftinguifh them; and laftly, he maketh the Cbalochierm of Uonorius Bellas mentioned in 
the firft E piffle he wrote to Clufiur, to be a differing plant from Atraliylii vulgar is,when as Clufius himfelfe faith 
that law it growing with him that it was like the ordinary Atraliylii. It may be called in Snglifi, cither wilde 
haftard Saffron, as referring it to (fnicus or Diftaffe Thiftlc unto the AtraSylis, 
The Venues. 
The Atrallylis, as Galen faith, is ofadryingfaculty,and moderately digefting. Diafiorades faith that they fliall 
f ecle no paines of the Hinging of the Scorpion for fo long as it is held by them, but that the pair.es returne as foone 
as they lay it by. Pliny laith that it helpcth greatly againft the venome of all creatures, as’alfo againft the hartne 
that commeth by eating Muflrromes: I finde no propcitie exprefled of the other b. Hard Saffron of Clufiu, The 
properties of the Spanifb Saffron or gardenbaftard Saffron called Cnicus, is briefely fet downe in iny former book- 
but becaufe I was therein more fhort chan was convenient or expefled, 1 thinke good to fet . downe the vertues 
thereof in this place fomewhat more amply. Galen faith little of it, the feede onely, faith he, is tiled onelyfor 
purgations, and is hot in the third degiee being outwardly applied: but CMefues fpeaketh more largely thereof in 
this manner.-it is hot in the firft degree,and dry in the fecond; the pulpe or kerndl of the feede is chiefely ufed, yet 
the flower is not unprofitable, which being taken inwardly purgeth flegme and water by Vomit, and fo doth it al¬ 
fo being ufed in a glider, which therefore is profitable againft thofe difeafes are bred thereof, as alfo the collicke 
and the like ntclcanfeth theftomacke and lungs of tough flegme flicking tflcrein, efpectally being made into an 
Electuary or Lohoc, with theoyle drawnc from the feede, which alio maketh the voyce cleare that was hoarfc, 
as alio encreafeth the fperme.if be much ufed, but it is of evill nourifhment, very hurtful] to theftomacke, and 
procure* loathing and trouble thereunto,he therefore adviftth toufe ftomachicall hdpes, as Anifcede and Ga- 
langa or Mafticke if neede be, or of thofe that are more forcible, that is, Cardamomes, Ginger md« e *w 
which quicken his operatiou , and preferve the inward parts from harme : the flowers thereof taken with 
fweete wine helpeth the jaundife, for itclenfcth and openeth, yet in a meaner degtee than the milkieheibes 
jwhich I underhand to be the Tithymales) the Lohoc that UUefues fo much commendeth againft the deftdb of 
the chelt and lungs is made in this manner. Take three drammes of the inner kernells of the feede of Cniast or 
Carthamtts, one dramme of Allmonds, and halfe a dramme of Pineapple kernells, rhefe being made into an Ele- 
fluary with honey, wherein the dried feales of Scylla have beene boyled is admirable good for the fai'd purnofe 
This note is given alfo of the feedes hereof, that thofe that come out of the Levant countries are mote quicke in 
purging, and more powerfull in operation than thofe of theft neeccr parts. 
Chap. IIII. 
Acarna. The FifhThiftle. 
j E "fn th ^ hmie i Sf ^ t0 be /° L like , untc “ and Cnicus that it might bee the fame.' 
1|ff < / 1 leafc andjuyee, 1 thinke it not amiflero joyne it next thereunto; 
$£§ rh-e. a C C e a n clCrj t Writers thereof, which aieTkeophraftus and Pliny have beene very briefe in 
« • ere ^r-V < ?^f 2t ^ er ^ avc §* ven none ac or but by companion, the moderne authors 
f hZ* every ones opinion led them, of all whichicisnotamiffe 
o fpcak in this Chapcenand Wichall to Ihcw you which of them is held to come neereft untochat of the ancients. 
Acarna 
