with very fharpe prickea at the endjJ out of the middle 
whereof (fare forth many gold yellow threads, which abide not 
long, and wherein when they are part the feede is contained, 
being fmall and thinne fcales lying clofe together s the rootc is 
Jong,of the bigneffe of a finger,very fweete and pleafanc to care 
like unto Erjngium Sea Holly: both rootc and leaves doc yeeld 
a white milke, efpecially when they are young, and perifh 
every yeare. r 
The place. 
The firft is found about Montpelier and the laft in Spaine : the 
iecond is naturall of Car.Ay. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower in the end of Sommer, and their feede ri- 
peneth quickly. 
The Names 
Dinfcorides calleth the firft in Greek Sainfe©- Scolymtts, which 
the Latmesgenerally traflatefimply, and Thcophraflm 
o calleth the laft alfo, yet there is great difference betweene 
tiem, tor chat of Diofcorides was knovvne unto Theophrajlus, 
who called it >@w©- Catlos (being the fame that is Sailed 
and "rajs Cjnar mni Cmarafor it is written both wayes by 
divers, ana as Columella and Palladia; thinke tooke the name 
annerc wherein they delight to grow, but is not likely that 
the ^reekes derived their names from Latine appellations, but 
contrariwifethe Latincsfrom the ffireekes, forfo the ancient 
both Poets and Orators doe declare, as Sophocles flecutzus Mi- 
/'fi’tsCahmacbus and others: and Athetum in his fecond Book' 
maketh mention oi Cfrm* Spina, fome Poets have therefore 
invented a tale of a faire maid called Cyrana, metamorphofed in-. 
to an Artichoke,and fome againe thinke it tooke the name from 
i!" cams, and that Locrns a King asking connfell at ApoUos 
Oracle at Delphos it was anfwered him thathee (liould there 
tmld him a City where he fhould be bitten by a woodden Dog, 
Who afterwards being 1 hurt in the Legge by a wildc Artichoke, 
Oooo 3 
? « TbeophnlliJive Erynyum Intern 
Monftilimfitm. The golden Tfufllc. 
