Tribe 9. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
1 AcarnafLore Ititeopatulo, The fifh Thiftle with abroad yellow flower. 
c r a Thiftle hath many leaves lying in a compaffe upon the ground, {'mailer, narrower, harder and more 
■Vfclir then either emeus or AtraBilitoi ayellowifti greene colour on the upper fide and gtayifh underneath, 
V infr nrirkea are fmall and yellow, and when the ftalkebeing one or more nleth up are let thereon on all fides 
unto the toppe without order,where itbrancheth forth into two or three parts bearing fmall prickly heads, from 
«,henre come forth the flowers compofed of many fmall leaves of a yellow colour (landing as a pale or border 
Tout a more yellow thrum, in forme of an After or Starrewort, which when they are paft the feede being fmall 
and erayifh is found Wrapped in downe: the roote is about a footer long of a fingers thickeneffe, and of a whitifia 
colour with divers fibres growing thereat,fmellmg fweet and yelding alfo a white milke fweet w tide and vif- 
cous or clammy qi ^^JfJn^arpureo rutentefutulo. The fifh Thiftle with broad reddifh flowers. 
This fmall Thifile hath (hotter andbroader leaves then the former denied or cut iu on the edges, and fer with 
fmall fharpe Ptickes greene on the upper fide and grayifh underneath : the ftalke rifeth nothing fo high as the for¬ 
mer beating fmaller leaves thereon but not lefl'e prickly and fuch like heads and flowers at the toppes as in the 
other but that the pale or border of leaves are not yellow but reddifh fet about a middle yellow tbramme. 
2 A can* altera Apula. The Neapolitane fifh Thifile, 
This NeapolitaneThiftles lowed leaves are fpread on the ground (omewhat like unto the AtraBjlis or difiaffc 
Thifile butbroader andfetwith more and (harper prickes, from the middle of whom rife up divers fomewhae 
reddifh ftalkes about a cubit high,having fuch like leaves fet thereon which yeeld a white rmlke like the laft, 
and bearing at the tops(not feverall heads like the laft but) a tuft or umbell of many fmall prickly heads fet toge¬ 
ther fomewhat like into the toppesof the blacke Chameleon Thiftle, and out of them rife fmall leaves as bcatds 
' of a deepe yeiloW colour fet about a middle thrum, of a paler yellow colour, the milkie j nice that this giveth bc- 
ing condenfate and made thicke is like unto Sum. 
5 a Acarna glob efts capitulis , Round headed fifh Thiftle# 
This Globe Thifile is a fmall plant about a foot high (hooting forth from the head of the roote which is long 
and fmall many leaves fome of an inch or more, or two inches iong.anu lcatfe halte an inch broad, much cur in on 
the edges,and thicke fet with prickes,grow ing round about the ftalke without order at the toppe w hereof is jet 
a round head,netted as it were all over,and compofed of many very (mail end narrow leav es, armed on both fides 
with long fharpe prickes,out of whofe middle ftarteth forth a fmall yellow flower, from the toppe of which 
ftalke fpringeth fofth fometimes two other ftalkes s bearmg each of them a round head like the other but Idler: the 
whole beauty of the plant confifteth in thofe round heads, formed lAe a net. 
y / Acarna hum'tlis cattle foliojo. The low fifhThiftle with winged ftalkes. 
T-he ftalke of this low thiftle is winged from thebottome to the toppe that is having a jagged prickly filme fee 
on both fides thereof,and long narrow j'agged prickly leaves two fet at a joynt, from whence it brancheth forth 
in divers places unto the toppe, and bearing thereon (hiding yellow flowers like thole of Cmcm or Atrattyhs ri- 
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i. Actinia flore luteopatulo. 
TheF 1'fli Thiftle vtitha broad yellow flower. 
3 . Acarna altera Apula. 
The Neapolitane FjflrThifUe. 
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