Chap. 8. 
Theatrum Botanicum . 
Tribi 
9 ; 
I. c arduus Martt vulgaris. 
The common LadiesThilUe. 
3. Sily bum minus Baticum. 
The finall SpaviCh Milke Thiftlc. 
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and arc more cut in on the edges and fet with Tome fmall (harpe prickes, and marked with white lines as the 0 - 
ther, the upper leaves being llill more divided and leffer at the upper joynts, and at thetoppe come forth ve¬ 
ry lmall prickly heads with purpli flr threads bi eaking out of the middle, and after they are palt come very fmai-l 
white tcede lying in fome downc, which by rcafonola kind ofdeare white Gum that ifluet-h out of the head, 
fticketh fo fait to the feede that they can very hardly be pulled in funder, efpecially after they grow ripe and the 
Sunne hath dryed th^m; the roote is fmall and wooddy and perilhethcvefy years, 
The P l acc. 
The firft is frequent on every ditch banke in the fields every where : both the leccnd and the laft I received 
among divers other leedes that Guillaume Boel brought out ot Spaine, and I beleeverhe laft may be the fame^hat 
Camerariw laith he picked out of Fpithyrhum, and that Rauyvolfi.ni gave him brought cut of Syria, becaufe the 
leede being white in both and the leaves marked white doe demonftrate them to be both one. 
The Time. 
They flower and feede in June, Inly and Auguft when other forts of Thifcles doe. 
The Names . 
This is generally fuppofed to be the Silybum ot T> iofc or ides,hut thereof he bath made fo breefe a relati¬ 
on that it is hard to lay which is the right indeedeifor he faith onely thus>Silybnm is a broad Thiftlc vvhofe leaves 
are like unto the white Chainseleon : Pliny in a manner faith the lame ineffed for the deftription; but laith in 
Cilicia, Syria, and Thenice where it groweth it is hardly boyled tender, and that it hath rroufe in Phyficke; but 
furely the white lines and markesin this Thiftle is fuch an evident note and lo remarkeable, that I thinkeic 
could not be overpaid in filence by all the old writers if Phey had knowne it and defenbed it: fome therefore 
doe thinke that it more fitly agreeth with Leucacamha and Spina alba : Lacuna, Malthiolw . Cornariw , Dodonaw, 
Fuchfius and Lugdunenfis take it to b ee Lcucographis Plinij , 'Brttnfeljius calieth it Car daw albus and Chair. Aeon, 
Mattbioliu and Lobcl Carduus LaEleus, fome Cardans argent atm and Car dims ramptarius, Tragrn, Lontccrm , 
Fuel: jins,Gefnerznd Camerarim call it Carduus Marie, Cordas on Diofcorides and Tabermontanus Carduus Ma» 
ri.niM- Dodoneus Carduus Leticographui , Anguilara and Lobel Silybum,Cefalpinus ('ardsii fylvefirbs aliudgenus 
and Ac anon Theopbrafii : but Baubinus Carduus albus maculis notatus vulgaris : the fecond is not fet forth by any 
author before now, and from the likenefle thereof unto the former, I have fo called it as it is in the title, Silybum 
r,/ s annuum. The laft as I fayd I had out of Spain*, and in regard it doth lo nearely in all things relemble the 
1 . ■ duns La Elens Syriacus of Camerarius , 1 prelume it is the lame which Tauhinus refet reth as well as Camera - 
, Carduus LaEletts or Bedcgnar Arabtim of RauTvolfiusyVjhichTauhinus faith came to him by the name ^4 
C>v.,'. .. -d! ethic Carduus alb is maculis notatus exoticus j our wilde kinde is generally called Carduus 
c ' ' Cardodi Santa Mariajoy the French Chardon noflre Dame, byThe Germans 
- - . d\eT)utch OnfcrVrowcn dijfel, and wee in Englifb our Ladies Thillle and 
Thiftle, ' v The 
