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AP.9, 
Theatrum Botanicum. 
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l Cardm Tomentofis Cor on* fratrum diffus. 
The Fryers Crownc Thiftle. 
alfo, but not armed with filch long (harpe prickes as 
the former out of the huskes whereof come whitifh 
(lowers. 
4. CardansJpinof/fimusfp£rocephalns 
Cardai Arabici nomine mijfns. 
The Arabian G loe Thiftle. 
This Thiftle hath a winged prickly ftalke two foote 
high having large leaves thereon fomewhat broad and 
long, let thlcke with (harpe prickes, but fparingly pla¬ 
ced on the flalkes bearing round fpharricall headsjthick 
and (trongly armed with long prickes j out of the 
midit whereof breake forth white threads fomewhat 
(wtece : the feede is long and crefted or cornered. 
The Place. 
All thefe Thiftles are ftrangers to us, neither is their 
naturall places certainly knowne, but imparted and 
fent by friends with whom as rarities they havebeenc 
accepted. 
The Tifne. 
Thefe flower at the fame time with the reft, that is, 
in lane and Inly, 
The Names. 
W ee cannot finde certainely that they were knowrie 
eytherto the ancient Grcekc or Latine writers, but 
Angstilara and Lob el fuppofe that the firft is the AWrStc 
f.d'Kii Spina alba of Diofc or ides ( fome alfo take the 
greater kinde mentioned in my former booke to bee 
Spina alba, as tamer arias, CMatthiolus arrd Lngdunen- 
ftr, which as he faith is the Bedegaar of the Arabians ; 
and fome tooke it to be y.^vjsFkiov Crocodilian Diofco- 
ridis as Lacar.a and Label , and fome to bee %*?&."©• 
Chalcheios Tbeopbraf i, which Gaza tranflateth <v 4 T- 
raria as Lttgdunenfs, and fome to be TJTpaA/f Tetralix 
(pino/aTbeophraftt as Lugdancnfs, and is called S pino/a 
as a diftinction from Tetralix Athenienfam which is 
j Erica, of both which Pliny maketh mention, and 
lometo be AVo-Vdet Spina Arabic a, as the fayd 
Lugdanenfis alfo and in fome to be Rut hr os or 
Rrtthro Tbeopbrafi as Lobel, and fome to be Silybum as 
Lugdanenfis according to the defeription, ardfome to be Cbamaleon vents as Tragus and Fnchfus, and fome 
to bee Scbinopus as Gefner inhortif , but Cordas in hifloria as I take it firft called it Cat dates Sphxrocepbalas 
or olobofas moft properly, and from him Camerarias , Dodoneus alfo calleth it Spina peregrina, and 
T abermontanus and others call it fo: the lefler fort alfo of that Cardans Sph£rocephalas mentioned in my book 
is fo called by many of the Paid authors: thefe things I thought good to note here having lo fit an occafion, al¬ 
though I have a little digreffed from the matter in hand ) but Dodonans and Lagdanenfs from him call it Cardaus 
Spbxrocepbalat acatus, Dodon^as maketh the fecond here fet downe to be his third Cardans Spb£recepbal.:s acu¬ 
ta s r the third is the Paid bis Cardans Spharocep'^alas quartas, and Lagdanenfs alfo meptioneth them 
from him as Baukinus doth alfo : the Iaft Banlanas c Tleth Cardansfpinofffmus Spbarocrphalns rigidis aca/eis arma- 
tns.Sc faith it was fent him under the name of C are ^ uus / 4 r*£^#j\Although the Cardans Enocephalns (iveTomen- 
tofus be with moft herbarifts now a dayes called Corona fratrn that it doth fomewhat refemble the bald or fhorne 
head of a Fryer, yet this is not that Thift'e which Bartbolom&us urbe venetanus and Angelas Palea Franctfcan 
Fryers fay they law growing in the confines of Aragon neare Cafiile, which while they were digging up deman¬ 
ded of a countrey man there palling by them if he knew the name thereof,who anfwered they called it vulgarly 
The Fryers Crowne, which fay they had leaves fpread upon the ground like to thole of the Carline Thiftle, 
it bore divers heads ofThillles Pet cloPe one unto another without any ftalke under them, whereof the middle- 
moft was greateft ; ancfo:he reft to the number of eight or tenor more or leffe (mailer ones handing round about it, 
of the bignefie of a Wallnut or greater : which name fay they may not inconveniently be given to it, in that the 
middle head feemeth as a father and the fmaller as his children, that (oas brethren they doe compafle their fa¬ 
ther in fafhion of a Crowne. The roore Pay they when they had digged up part of it was of the bignefie of a 
ftafiebeing white and tender and of a pleal’ant tafie. yet with fome aftriftion ; Dodonstus reciteth this,but Lng- 
danenfs hath fit the true figure of it in the Chapter or AFyacanthos for lacealutcacapitulis fpinofs of Clafas r and 
others, but nee faith withall that the Cardans tomentofus Anglicns of Lobel is the the fame alfo, when as it is his 
other Cardans tomentofns chat he calleth Corona fratrum herbarioram, and Baubinns thinketh that his Acanthiam 
m out an am Dalecbampij is the fame alfo. 
The Vertnes. 
I findenothing recorded by any that have written of thefe Thiftles that they are applyed to any Phyficall ufe 3 
neither haye I any thing to declare of them by particular experience. 
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