980 Chap. 10. Theatrum Botanic um . _ Tribb 9. 
5. Carduus tomentofius capitulii min'ime acttleatis five 3. carduus tomentofiu u 4 ng!icus. 
Ar£ophy!los Dalechampij Lugdunenfi, Our Englijh woolly Thiftle. 
The fine Cottony Thiftle without prickly heads. 
This fine Cotton Ihiftle hath long and fomewhat narrow 
whitiih or hoary leaves, larger at the lower end of the fmall 
ftalke,which is about a foote high then they are above, fome¬ 
what cut in on the edges,but much & thick let with fmall fhorc 
and loft prickes in fome places: from the middle of the ftalke 
up to thetoppe at every leafecommeth forth a fmall whitifh 
fcaly head fomewhat rough, but not prickly, and at the toppe 
likewife th ee or fourc luch like heads, out of which rifeput- 
plifh flowers made of threads as in other Thirties whereunto 
the leedeis likealfo. I doe thinke this doth rather rclemblea 
Iacea then a Car duns but that I have not feene the plane, and 
therefore doe follow mine author. 
6, Carduus tomentofw capitnlbs fpinofisfive 
Leucacantha ALonfrelienfium. 
The French fuppofed white Thiftle. 
This fuppofed Leucacantha of the Aiompclier Herbarifts, fen- 
deth forth froth a thicke fappic roote mcanely fetwith fibres, 
many ftalkes about a cubit high,branched from the middle up¬ 
wards, fetwith many long hoary or woolly leaves, much cut 
in or torne on the edges, and armed with divers fharpe prickes: 
the heads that grow at the toppes are fmall, fomewhat long 
and prickly, fending forth many bright red purplifh threads 
from the middle, after which come the leede which are fome¬ 
what long and round like unto the other Thifi.les feeaes. 
The Place, 
The firft groweth on divers ditches, bankes and in the Corne 
fields and high wayes generally every where throughout the 
Laid, it is alfo often found growing in Gardens: the fecondas is faid was brought out of Illyria: the third 
groweth in divers barren fields in Sommerfietfihiere as Label noteth it, and in divers other places: the fourth Dodo- 
nans lairh he onely law in fome Gardens in the Low Countries,and Matthiolm faith it was fent him by 
the fift groweth in France in dry and fandy grounds, the laft about Mompelier where fome young ftudents tooke 
it to be Leucacantha of Dio/corides. 
The Time. 
They all flower and beare their leede about the end of Sommer,when other Thirties doe flower and feede. 
The Names. 
The firft is taken by mod of cur moderne writers to be A'rjv^or Acanthium of Diofcorides which name the Li- 
tinc.s k. epe alfo, no other being found that better agrecth thereunto,a8 Adatthioltts fDodon<tus y Dur antes garner a- 
rius .Lcbe^Tabermontaxus and Lugdunenfis doe all agree, yet Tragus taketh it to bee the tsfehantha lessee Spina 
«iba ADtofcorides , ana Fuchfius callcth it Spina alba[jive(Iris, Angutlara and Gefiner in hortii Onopordon Athtnci, 
as aHo Onogyros Nicandri^Cafialpinus cdWtthk Car duns [y Ivefir ifywd Lttgdunenfis by his figure maketh it to be.S 7 - 
lybum five Leucacantha Lonicert, and Buuhir. w Spina alba tomentofia latifelia fflvcfirisythckcond is the Acanthium 
lllyricum of Label ,& peradventure may be the Acanos BellonijfiBauhinw doth certainely fet it downe for the Ono¬ 
pordon ofDodcruwfiamerariui and Lugdunenfis ) and as certainly for che third Onopyxus Dalechampij ofLuodmen - 
P> aild ^ith alfo it is th zCarduw viarum of Gerard ^nd others, in all which I am perfwaded he is much miflaken 
for however the fcverall Thirties of thefe authors may be in fome things like it,yet they are not idem the fame.Of 
the third, LobelCw ft made mention in his Adverfiana^rid called it Cardans tomentofius Anglicns, Bauhinus doubt- 
eth whether it he the Spina Arabia of Anguilara , but faith it is the Spina tArabica DiofcoridU & Phr.ij of Mat. 
1 builtt m his laft corrected edition, as alio Spina Arabia of Ccfalpinus, and he himfelfe calleth it Carduus toma. 
to]its capnulo rrajoreiX.be fourth is th cCardnus Sphsrocepha/us quintas of Dodonaus, who faith that fome referred it 
to the Spina aiba of Matthiolus and Lugdunenfis and others.ro the S pitta alba a’tcra of Mattbiolus and Cafalpmus ■ 
hauhmns calleth it Cardaas tomentofis capitulo minors: the fift is called by Lugduuenfis Carduus AaophjUot Dale'. 
ctjnnrpj, and by Btmhmtt Cardaas tomemofis capitulis minims aculsatit : the laft is the Leucacantha C^'lonffrslisn. 
fturn C J 'a/tebampij as Lugdunenjit faith and called by'Bauhinu; Carduus tommtefus capitali, schinatu: The Italians 
c:.H the firft Acambio,the PrsnchCardonargsm, the Csrmanes treitf weosdilltll, the Dutch mttc tosch didell and 
we in Lnglifl; The white Cotton Thiftle, £ J 1 1 
The Vert ties. 
r>;,,f c oridrs and Pliny i n the fame manner write,that the leaves and rootes of Acanthium the common Cotton 
Ihnde taken rd, mke, doth helpe thole that have a cncke in their necke.whereby they cannot turne their necltc 
nut the vvhoie body turne lmewifc. gala latch that the roote and leaves hereof are o( an heating qualicic 
ana good for men pet ons that have their bodies drawen together by fome Spafme or Cor.vulfion, orbyfome 
Other mhrmme, Woichdifeafe is truel; to be called the Rickets, which happening fometimes to children doth 
° b , [he , m ,n ' htlr Nerve-, Ligaments and whole ftruflure of their body.that it fuffereth them not to grow or 
prolper ey ther in height ftrength or alacritie. b 
