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The Theater of Tlartfs. 
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AP.ij. 985 
4, Virgapafioru. The Shepherds ftaffe. 
The Shepherds fhaffc is a kindc of Teafell alfo', but differeth therefrom in many notab'e parts forth I 
hereof being large are of a ladder greene coloured not fo prickly on the backe ribbe, but finely dented abonrTk,! 
edges:theftalkesgrow higher and not Co .prickly, yet having home thereon, and leaves fet by couples at the 
joyntsbnt not compaffing theftalke to hold water in manner like the former .-the feverall branches helm r n 
heads not much bigger then Wallnuts, with foft prickles thereon and blulh flowers like the wilde Teafell ™ aU 
The Place. 
The firftis onely manured and fowen in gardens or fields for the Clothworkers ufe, bv ravfin„ w n 
of cloth with the crooked prickles of the heads, make it fit for their fheeres to cut it lmooth and X therehvl ° 
fine nappe thereon pleafing to all: the other forts except the third grow in moift places neare ditches W m % 
water m many places of this Land; the third fort in fome places of German] and the laft in i'undry places" f ° 
The Time. 
They flower in July and are ripe in the end oiAugufi. 
The Names 
It is called di-.Uyn; T)ipfacui in^cctVt^uaJifitibundWjquod nomen A contraries invenit (fay divers air hors 1 
am concavoalarumf,nuroremvelimbremrcc,piat, quo veluti adabigendo, frtu injurw abutitm-. but I 
fo.for the water conteined in thefe leaves groweth bitter by (landing in them, & therefore not fit to cuienrh ll„r ? C 
encreale third rathenthe Latines alfo call it ‘Dipfacui and after the Greeke a ?fiJirm tatlreft \ e „ er ■ „ ° 
nomenclature, a carinate foliorum habits, contraxit , qua fe ambage anfiaUuofa fmuantia peluis (beciem cnttin 
unt,&mrafe humorem retinent : but I am of a different opinion that it tooke the name of Venus lj ps f rom , 7 
lefts of a whores hppes, which as the leaves the raine,(o they are ready to receive all mens offers,and as the head, 
or T eaiells, fo they ready to carde and teare all mens skins that have to doe with them, untill they leave them 
bare and thin : pardon I pray this extravagancie who follow Camerarius and otl er good authors herein tb-r ; 
the midft of their naturall phylolophiedoefomctimesmix a little moralitie : it is called alfo Carduus fe'neri, and 
Lavacrum Veneris it may be upon the like infinuation ; it is thoughtalfo to be the CaUidragon Xenocratis 0 f Pliny « 
CarduusfuUonum alfo, and fome Virgapaflori, t but that is more ufually given unto the lalt fort, and fo called he- 
caufe the dryed flalke denied from the prickes, for fo much as might be held in ones hand ferved the Slrtiheard" 
to guide their Iheepe withall, transferring the name ohVsrga pafioris to the Dipfacm jylveftris, calJitwut Vi 
paftoris major and this other minor as Bauhinus doth. Some,faith Lugdunenfis, take it to be Plumbago Plini, rTr 
rnaketh doubt whether it fhould bee the Spina SeleSnitis Theophrafii Guilandino, Camerarius calletli it Dithf 
fatuus,sndDalechampius upon Pliny taketh it to be Molybdena Pliny fThe Arabians call it Chir and Moleta f 
Italians Dijfaoc and Cards, the Spaniard; Cardo penteador .mACardencha • the French Chardon do fouUon ardv ^ 
abergier, the Cjermanes Kartcndijlcll BubenJlraU and tVeherkarten the Vutcb Caerden and Vodder Cacrder "J'a 
we tn Englijb Teafell or the Fullers Thiffle. J and 
The Vertues. 
Thofcondcs faith that the roote bruited and boyled in wine untill it be thicke, andkept in a brafen vcfiell n- 
pot, and after fpread as a falve and applied to the Fundament doth heale the clefts thereof, as alfo Cankers and 
Fiuulaes therein : the fame alfo faith he,taketh away warts and wennes Calen faith it is drying in the fccond de¬ 
gree,and hath withall fome elenfing facultie: others hold it to be cold and dry, and therefore they fay the leave* 
applyed to the forehead and temples qualifieth the frenzie or madneffe; the juice of the leaves dropped into the 
earcs killeth the Wormes in thems the diftilled water of the leaves is good to bee dropped into the eves to take 
away the redneffe in them and filch mills as darken the fight: the faid water is often ufed by women ro nrefervr 
their faces in beauty,and to take away all rednefle and inflammations, and all other heate or difcolourinns The 
Shepherds flaffe is held profitable for no difeafe that wee know of. 0 ’ 
Chap. XIII. 
Eryngium. Sea Holly. 
S mmLthough Dio/iorides hath made mention but of one fort of Eryngium (which is fufpefted by many to 
be appropriate rather to the Mediterraneum or campeftre becaule he faith that it groweth in fields and 
rough places and nor at the Sea fide, when as his defeription may as fitly be referred to the one a, the 
other) yet Pliny maketh mention of the Sea kinde alfo, and this later age hath added divers others 
which for fome refemblance in leafe, head or roote, they have fo termed. The Eryngium Pannoni. 
cumflore ceruleo &florc albo, I have exhibited in my former booke, which is affuredly the Eryngium GcncvenFe 
of Lobel, and E.yngium planum of Matthiolws, although Bauhinus doth make them different; the reft lhall bee 
fbewed in this Chapter. 
I. Eryngium marinum. Oar ordinany Sea Holly.’ 
The firftleavesof our ordinary Sea Holly are gentle or nothing fo hard and prickly as when they grow older 
being almoft round,and deeply dented about the’ edges,hard, fharpe prbiuted and a little crumpled alfo.ofa blew- 
llh greene colour, every one upon a long footeftalke.bnt thofe that grow up higher with the ttalke doc as it were 
compaffeitatthetottome, theftalke it fclfeis round and ftrong yet fomewhat crefted with joynrs and leaves 
let thereat but mote divided, fharpe and prickly, and branches rifing from thence which have like wife other 
lmaller branches, each of them bearing feverall blewifli round prickly heads, with many fmall jagged prickly 
leaves under them Handing like aftarre,and are fometimes found greenifh or whitilh : the roote groweth won¬ 
drous long even to eight or ten foote in length, fet with rings or circles towards the upper part but fmooth and 
without j'oyntsdowne lower brownifh on the outfide and very white within, witha pith in the middle, ofsi 
pleafawtafte but much more delicate being artificially prefervedand candid with Sugar. 
F PPP i a. Eryngitm, 
