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Chap. X: 
Acmthium & Cardans Tomentifits. The Woo'ly ot Cotton Thiflle. 
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Here be divers forts of woolly Thiflles, although there bee but one or two that can fitly bee referred to 
1*7 m. Acantbium Diofcoridi, which is alfo woolly, X have therefore put the other hereunto m one Chapter. 
j. Acwthinm vuhare. The common Cotton Thiftie. 
t'.V-.b; ?.. Thecommon Cotton Thitlle hath many large leaves lying on the ground, fomewhat cut in, and as it 
were crumpled on the edges, of a greene colour on the upper fide but covered overwrth a long harry wooll or 
cottonv Downe and not much more white or hoary underneath, let with mod lliarpe and cruell prickes, from 
the middle ofwhofe heads of flowers thruft forth many purplilh crimfon threads and fometimes white, be: 
much more feldome, the feede that f olloweth in thefe heads lying in a great deale of fine white Downe is lome- 
what large,long andround, tefcmbling the feede of Sylibnm orLadits Thitlle, but fomewhat paler: the roots 
is great and thicke fpreading much,yet ufually dyeth after feede time^ 
2 tAccmtbium lUyricum. Thegreateft Cotton Thiltle. 
This great Cotton Thiftlefremembred by Lobd and Pena in their AdverfarU that Dear's pf Lite m 
Finders, brought out of ScUvony andfowed at Lyons m France) groweth to be two or three cubits higher then 
any man almofl to the height of a Speareor Pike branched forth on all fides, fet with a prickly filme all a- 
long like in forme to the other, and with large and long tome leaves fully fraught and armed with as cruel! 
prickes and prickly large heads with purple flowers and feede like the former. 
3 Mm1 tomentofw Anglicise. Our Engltjb woolly Thlltle, 
This woolly Thiflle hath divers largeand long leaves all covered over with a wool! or downe, cut in very 
deepely on the edges at certainediftances into (everall parts or leaves even to the middle ribbe aimed, making 
eachleafefeeme winged with fmall and long leaves on each fide, and let m divers places with long fharpe 
prickes: the woolly If alke rifeth up to the height of two or three cubits, with few leaves let thereon, and with 
but few branches, bearing at their toppes a large round hoary head fomewhat flat, ccwered over as ir werewith 
fine woolly threads like unto a net, not very prickly, with many purplilh threads in the middle like unto thole 
of the Artichoke, after which fucceedcThiftle-like feedes.grcater and rounder then thofc of the fiiflithe root is 
great and thicke, brownifh on the outfidc and white within, notunpleafant to the taite. 
4* Cfircluui tomentoftts minor* The leffer woolly i hiLtie. 
This leffer woolly Thiftle hath many wbitifh woolly ot hoary long leaves,much cut in on the edges into many 
parts, and each part alfo divided and fet with fmall prickes - the ftalke is not very great, nor much abm two 
foote high branched towards the toppe, white and woolly alfo, bearing on them fmall prickly rounds head* 
having many purple threads rilingout of the middle, and fmallThilUe-hke feede after them. 
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