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into many (mall points, with a fhort fqote ftalke, comparting the ttaikc at the lower end, at the toppes grow 
fingle fcaly, greene and prickly heads, from the middle whereof thrufteth a number of long threads, which in 
fome plants are purplilh, mothers whitifh, and in other very red, or of a bright crimfon colour, the feede that 
f olloweth is fmall, fmooth, and reddifh the roote is white and thicke, and groweth not very deepe. 
g. Cardans Lanceatm latifo/im five major. The greater broad fpcareThilllc. 
The (Talk of this fpeare Thiflle is armed with prickles like many other wilde Thiflles, and the leaves fet thereon 
are very long, cut in or divided on the edges in two or three places, fet at diflanccs one 3gain(l another, and the 
feverall parts cut into five or fixe points or corners, fliarpely armed, the end being long and narrow, pointed like 
the head of a Iaveline or Pike, whereof it tookc the name, the flowers ate purplifh in fcaly and prickly heads. 
IO. Cardans Lanceatus anguftifolim. The narrow Speare ThifUe. 
The narrow fpeare Thiftle is like unto the lafl in the skinny prickly ftalkes, being ftrong and (landing uprioht 
two cubits high, ftored with few leaves, but jagged, prickly, and narrower than the faff, yet the end isfomewhat 
broader than the other, of a darke greene colour on the upperfide, and hoary gray underneath, the heads are many 
fmall and fcaly fet at the toppes of the flalkes as prickly as they, with purplifh, and fometimes white flowers of 
threads rifingout of themiddle ofthem.asinother Thirties. 
ii. fordwib Cbondrilloides, The jagged Succory-like leaves. 
The leaves of this',Thiftle are long and very much j’agged very like- unto the j’agged, Cumrre- 
Succory leaves, and prickly at the corners, the ftalke rifeth up a foote high, with fuch leaves on them up 
to the toppe, but fhorter, broader and leffe jagged, where it brancheth forth in two or three parts, each bearing 
a huske but no Thiftle like fcaly head, out ofwhich groweth a yellow flower made of many leaves, fet incorn- 
paffelikea ftarre, which pairing away the huske containeth within it much downe wherein the fmall feede lieeb, 
and is carried away with the winde: therooteis white, long, (lender, and wooddy, fet with lome fibres, and 
pcrifliing after feede time. 
I a. farditaspaluftris. The Marfh Thiftle. 
The Marfh Thiftle hath a prickly round ftalke, two or three cubits high, with fome branches towards the 
toppe, fet with long and narrow darkegreene leaves, fomewhat jagged about the edges, with a few prickes on 
them ■■ at the toppes of the ftalke and branches Hand manyThiftle-like heads with purple threads, as in other 
Tbiftles. 
The ‘Place. 
The five firft forts are found in divers places of our owne countrey, upon ditch bankes,about hedges and wayee 
f dcs ■■ the fixt groweth in the fields of CMichelfieldby Bn fit: the feventh not farre from the fea, in the Mar fie 
countrey i n Italy : the eight in come fieldes, as well of oates as other grains : the ninth, tenth, and twelth, ncerg 
me fa and Michclfield marfhes about Tdafil : the eleventh in craggy and ftony places about Lyons in France. 
The Time. ■ , 
They doe all flower and feede much about the time that other I hiftles doe. 
The Names, 
o'llmZoi inGreeke, and O-nopyxus in Latine qssafiafinisss haxus, and fo Gar.a rendereth it out of Theopbrajhss 
qtsodfit afinis cihm aratiffimns, <$■ fummopere e xpetitus ; yet fome thinke it (houldbe rather quod ad eum 
pa/cendum a firm perpettio defigatur elr hareat O’, £ rrp.J'.r Onopordon ; the fignification thereof is rendred by Pliny, 
quodft comederint afini crepitus reddere dicuntur, which Greeke name, faith V alechampists 3 they about Paris keepe 
to this day, calling the faid Thiftle Pet d'afne, I all thereabouts conftantly affirming, that when Affes feede there¬ 
on, they will be more fubj’eft to cracking, and breaking winde backwaeds, than at other times when they doe 
not feede on them, toix-xs Drypisexits hyvpm diPltsmpatent a lancinandoqaodaculeijfuis at trail antes cc- aolligere 
uolentes vulnerttt, no Kvdv4.v$& Polyacantbos. qtsafiJpina multa* tranflatcth Acalcofa, and nrjxyXqa.Sx, Voly- 
cephalos, quafi pi nr a capjtayjh the many heads, as the other of the many thornes or prickles: the derivations and 
fignifications of the reft are eafie enough to be underftood. The names likewife are moft of them, as other Au- 
thers call themjonly the Ossopyxus is called Cardntss fylvefiris by Dodonaiss and Cardnm afininus by Cjefner iaborts, 
and the Polyacanthos Tbeophrafli of Lubdanersfis and Tabermontansss, is by Ruellms called Agriacantha 3 try Libel 
Cardans jpimfijjlmus 0j- Onopordon by Gerard , and the Cardans Cbondrilloides, doth in my opinion better referable 
an Hieratium or Chondrula than a s. 
The Virtues. 
The chiefeft properties attributed to any of thefe Tbiftles, arc to the moft common way Thirties that are hot and 
drie in the fecond degree, and the rootes boyled in wine anddrunke, are good to expert ftincking urine, and to 
amend the ranke fmell of the armeholes and whole body, as alfo good-againft a (linking breath, if the Joyce 
thereof, faith VFny.be taken before it flowreth; and if the place be bathed therewith where the haire is gone, it 
helpeth to bring it againe. 
Chap. XII. 
I) ip focusfive (farduw fullonttm. The Teafell or T ullers Thiftle. 
'F the Teafell there arc twokindes, the tame or manured and the wilde : of the tame or manured 
there is no varietie or differing fort, but of the wilde there are two or three forts,as (hall be fhew-. 
edin this Chapter. 
I. Dipfacus/ativm. The garden or manured Teafell, 
_ The manured Teafell hath the lower leaves for the firft yearevery large and long, fafhioned 
fomewhat like unto I.etice, of a pale greene colour, more gentle or not fo hard, as thofe that are fet on the ftalkes,’ 
but dented about the edges, and the middle ribbe on the backeor underfide.fet very thicke with fhort prickles, 
among which rife up the ftalkes, three or f ourc foote high, armed from the bottomc to the toppe.with hard fhort 
and fharpe prickles ioymed in feverall Places, and two inch leaves fet thereat, both of them fo joyned together at 
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