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Artichoke,being white and as it were hoary and fometimesgrcene,apd reddifh when they grow old, which va- 
netie fas Dioftoriclrs faith was the caufeot the name)would make many to belceve they were differing plants 
and ibmewhar hairy underneath : among thefe leaves rifeth a round hoary prickly head without any ftalke, o£ the 
bignelt'e of a "rear Thiftle head in which the flower is conteined, and is not compolcd of a border of leaves w ith 
a middle thrum as the Carline Thiflle hath, but out of the head rife divers flowers made of threds, every one en¬ 
din'* in five parts or points,in the fame manner as is to bee feeneinthe flower of the Artichoke,w hereunto it is 
moft like, but not of (uch a purplifh blew, but rather of a pale reddifh colourwhich withering, there growerh 
in the head fmall long and grayifh flaining feede,lying as it were at the foote of every flower as is ufuall in moft 
Thiftles, but are not thicke and round or cornered as Cmou the baftard Saffron ieede, and many other Thiflles 
feede are, which when they are ripe the head openeth it felfe as other Thiflles doc, and they together with the 
downe are carried away with the winder the roote is fomewhat thicke and long, reddifh orbrownifli on the 
outfide and white within, yeelding plentie of milke if it be never fo little broken or cut, which bccaule it is very 
thicke and vifeous hardeneth quickly and fallerh into fmall droppes or peeces, of a flrong but aromaticall lent not 
unpleafant, and quickly pierfing the fenfes, whofe tafte is fweete and fit to be eaten : about the leaves and prick¬ 
ly heads alfo hereof is fbmetimes and in fome places found a certaine peece of gumme flicking, which at the fiift 
is loft and glewifh.and being dryed is harder like unto the mitkie gumme of the roote. 
J. Carlim humilis acaulis. The low CarhneThiflle. 
The low Carline Thiflle (which is ufually accounted for the white Chamxleon Thiftle) hath many long and! 
lar°e leaves lying onthe ground cut in on both fides, and let with flrarpe prickles, but not cut in fo deepe r,or lo 
flwpe as the former ot true white Chameleon Thiftle,among which rileth a large head without any ftalkc, com- 
pafled about with divers long and narrow leaves, cut in on the edges and as prickly as the urdermoft, and both, of 
a whitilh creenc colour not varying as in the former, the head hath a number of whitifh not purplifh leaves un- 
leffe it be alittle purplifh underneath, fet about with leaves like a crowne or border as in the corne Marigold and 
many other the like flowers, which leaves are thinne fomewhatlong hard frnooth and fhining, the umboneor 
middle thrumme being flat and made of many fmall and thicke yellow flowers like threads: this hath in fome 
places a kind of vilcous or glewifh gum iffuirg from the roote as alfo about the Thiflly head which being hard- 
ned relembleth white Maff ick very notablyjthe head before it feedeth openeth in thedayanddofethatihe night. 
3. farltnac.iiilefcou. The Carline Thiftle with a ftalke. 
This Carline Thiflle neve i.Avreth low like the laft, but beareth a reddifh ftalke about a foote high,and there¬ 
on narrower greener and more prickly leaves then the low kinde, the heads ot flowers at the toppe of the ftalkc 
are many, every one (landing on his owne footeftalke, compofed of a border of Imalkr leaves being hard, thin, 
Imooth and whitifh like the former, whofe middle thrumme is yellowifh before the flowers therein begin to 
open but then are of a reddifli purple colour, which thing unlcffe one heeae it well hee may thinke them divers 
plants : the roote is blackifn on the outfide, but whitifh within, and as it were biften off, which being cut or 
broken yceldeth fuch like thicke white vifeous milke,and hardneth ir.ro a gumme as in the former, but of no fenc 
:% carlim 1 humlis. The low Carline Thiftle/ 
Cartinacau'cfcent. 
The Cailine Thiftle with a ftalke* 
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