T r se e 9, The Theater of Plants. 
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appearance ot the leaves, Diofcorides faith it of the wbice, bur Pliny both of the white and blacke, the Carlins 
7 hiftle is called in Latin t Car Una quafi Carolina, for it is fuppofed chat the great Emperour called (burlemaine 
had this herbc (hewed him in his fleepe by an Angel, with the roote whereof he might cure his Army inferred 
with the Plague: itisthoughtas I faid of many to be the Cbamaleoalbus (out oiothztsobfc.tv\mtht differcnccs,ic 
is thought not to be knowne to the ancient writers. Lugdunenfis firivcth with many words, and by altering and 
correcting the Greeke text of Dio/coridrs to prove them both one plant, yet laftly hce faith chat many skilfull 
Herbarifts did call Carlina Jxm$ Tbeophrafti :and fo doth Fabius Column* indeede judge,and that the Ixine I'pina 
oh Tbeopbrafius (miftermed Helxine by ‘Pliny) which Gaza tranflateth (arduus pinea & lxia alto,better doth agree 
with our Carlina then with th cCbamaleon albus of Diofcorides : and that becaufe as it is likely bee never law the 
true Ixine ofThcophraftw) which isa much differing plant; but ‘Diofcorides faith the white Chameleon Thiftle 
was called lxia by fome in his time,bccaufe in fome places there grew about the roote a kinde of birdlime, which 
the women ufed in head of Mafticke, and Pliny faith the Cretancs e{pc daily tooke a little thereof after fnpper, 
to keepe them waking in working in the night, but being a by name I thinks it alfo a falfe name, for lxia iu 
faid to be a deadly poyfon by Diofcorides himfclfe, who fheweth it with the remedies thereof, in bis £xt booke 
and 21. Chapter, and the roote of the white Chameleon is faid by Diofcorides to be an Alexipbarmacetm or cotin- 
terpoy fon, fo that it or any thing growing from it can no wayes be accounted deadly or dangerous:buc that clam¬ 
my gum or birdlime (call it what you will) indeede that groweeh at the roote of the blacke Chameleon is truly 
called lxia and Jlopbonon, that is, the corruption or corrupter of the blood, and Pliny in his 22. Booke and 1 8 . 
Chapter doth fay that the roote of the blacke Chameleon was called Vlopkonon and (fyncwlon (miftaking Diofco - 
rides his Cynoxylon ) and as it is fet downe in the divers appellations of herbes attributed to Diofcorides , the blacke 
Chameleon alio is called Vlopbonon by fome, and lxia by others,and Cynoxylon. Some alfo have affirmed as Mat - 
tbiolus fheweth in his comments upon the Lxia of Diofcorides jfc&X. Ixtafc ould be the Ixine of Tbeopbrafius whom 
he confuterb effedtuallyj fhewing that Tbeopbrafius i n diferibing Ixine doth not declare any evili quality therein, 
but more then fo,he faith that it yeeldcth a Lacryma or Gum that is of a good tafte, and called Acantbine or Spina¬ 
lis Ulfafiicbe becaute it was fo like Mafticke, and grew on a Thorne or Thiftle, and although as Mat tbiolus faith, 
he had not feene any Gum abcu t the roote of Ixine (which hee miftooke for the white Chameleon both in that 
and in other places) in Italy, yet faith tbatfuch was lent him both from Cor tufas of Padoa and CaUolarius from 
Verona^ and faith alfo that he underftood by a Candiot Herbarift, that the Fletchers in Candy did ufe the laid Gum 
to fafien Feathers to Arrowes as others doe with Glew ; Matthiolw fetteth forth the Carlina caitlefctns (as it 
is judged by the beft) to bee the true Cbamfleoniger of Diofcorides and Tbeopbrafius > although himlelfe findet'n 
form defei therein and likewife impugrfeth that which Marantafcnz him from Naples, as not anfwering the 
d’efeription thereof, which is now received by the molt judicious to bee the indubitate blacke Chatnadeon, Co - 
/// 7 »^feemethto tbinkein thedifcourleof C bam* l ec albus andniger that lxia (and not Ixine') was a fmall low 
plant, more agreeing with the blacke then the white Chameleon, efpecially feeing that Diofcorides in the end of 
his Preface to his fixt booke numbreth/.vfi* as well as Ghamaleon among the roots that are venemous,: The fu ff 
here fet downe is the (bam*L 0 albus Apulw purpureo fore gummifer of Column# differing from the ufuall Carlina 
which is taken by many to be (fhamzleon albus as is evident the by deferiptionfit is alfo the ChametLon albus gummi 
m CMaflix fenens of Hcnorius Bellm, exprdfed in his firft Epiftle to C la fins 1 but Bassbinm callcch it Carlina acaulis 
gummi fera , whereof I much marvaile that hefhould continue that opinion of Chamaleo albus and (arlinatobe. 
both but one plant, knowing that Columna fhewed them plainely in his booke to be different, alchough that Car¬ 
lina as well as CbamAco albtu giveth a like gum alfo : and that Tbeopbrafius his Ixine hath fuch likewile which 
Columna as i? fayd being deceived thought to be Carlina :the fecond is the Car Una bumilis of Coltmntij taken by him 
to be the Ixine of Tbeopbrafiits as AngmLra did before him)and D odon*us yax\d called by Label Carlina berbaaiorum 
(yet thought by him Sc Clufius to be the Chamalon albus oiDiofcorides as Gnilandinus in Papyro did thinke before.) 
as alfo by Matthiolus >Cordus and Lugdunenfis C*falp:ntts (farlina ■julgp^xid by Gefner in hortirCardopatium caule 
nullo , by Sr.iciw Cordus Carduus pants fen pads, by Camerarius Carlina feffilifiorey by Dodon*us in former times 
taken to be Spina Arabica, and by the Monkes that commented upon Mefu.es Acantbe Isnce of Diofcorid.cs , and by 
B an bin: is Carlina acanlos magnofiore : the third is the (farlina caulefcens ob Columna and Camerarius both in borth 
and in Lpitomeby Dcdonaus Carlina five Leucacantha^ by C&falpinm Carlin* alter um genus } by Clufius Carlina ma¬ 
jor & elatior i by Lugdunenfis Carlina cattlem habens y and taketh it alfo to be Crocodilian , by Gefner in bortis Cardo - 
pat turn flore albo caulemhabens , and called by Lob el Cbamaleo albus cauledonatns , but Cbamelco niger by Lacuna * 
cMattbiolui and Lugdunenfis , Chameleon niger vulgaris by Tragus and Be filer that fet forth the Hortus Eyftetenfis, 
by Erunfelfius as Banbimss {aith in his Alattfjiolus Eberwurtz . that is, Apri radix (and from hence came the name 
of Carduus Suarius ) and Cardopacis , but in his Pinax he referreth this name of Brunfelpus unto the Carlina acau- 
lisy fo that it feemeth the Germi- nes call both forts Eberwurtx, he himfelfe calling it in his P inax Carlina cattle- 
ferns magnofiore , and in his cMatthiqlus, Carlina caule donatus : the fourth is called Chameleon albus feu exigent? 
by Tragus and Lugdunenfis t and parvus by Louieerus, by Colnmna Chameleon Septentrionalium exigents appelia- 
tus , by Label Carduus acaulis Septentrionalium, by Clufiw Car Una minor purpureo flore y who faith that fome 
were of opinion that it did not feeme unlike unto the ChamreleonofT/7d , ^r^y?«jinhisfixt Bocke and third 
Chapter,and by Baubinus (farlina acaulis minor purpureo flore : thefift is the Carlina fylvefiris vulgaris , the firft 
Carlinafylvefires cfiDodonsLus ,andthe Acarriti. vel Cirfiumluteu Secyuanorum olLobcly&c. thefixt is fet forth by 
A/pinus in his bock de plant is exoticis, and called alfo by him as Gaz,a did Carduus Pinea, but is not, although fome- 
what like the I ace a pir.ea called pumila Narbon of Lobe! the Iaft is called Chameleon niger DiofcoridU by Angetilara 
dWarantba, Cortufus^Camerarius y Lebel and Coltsmna^ and Cbamaleon niger alter by Matthiolus, Chameleon nigr 
verw Dalecbampij by LugdunenfisybutthQughttobcCrocodilionby Tdbermontanus , and called by Banhimu Cba~ 
maleon niger umbeJattts fore car uleo byacinthino . The Italians c^W the white and blacke Chameleon Thiitle Came - 
Icon bianco and nero, and the white moreufaally Carlina, the Spaniards call both forts Cardo pinto , the French 
call the white Charline and Chameleon blanc,buX.t\\cb\ackcChardonnette ; the Germanes as is faid before call all 
forts Eberrvurtz, as the Dutch doe Ebewortelc, and wee in Englifh Chameleon Thiftleor Changeable Thiftle, 
White or blacke,or as they arc fet downe in their titles, and the reft accordingly. , 
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