Chap.4- 
Theatrum ! Botanicum , 
T R IB E 9. 
The Time. 
The fit ft and fecond flower in the end of Summer. and give ripe feede within a moneth after: the other flower 
later with ns, and therefore feldome doe their^feedenpen with us. 
e’cv-vhp five rittnm* diftvmnimis ftbHlofi'autttmant ^ fori thinkc 
It is called in Greeke*of 1 ’eTable It oneVoate copping a b-anch of Sea Holly cauleth the whole 
that P^tarks was the hrft » ine . or as others fay untill the Shepheard take it out of his 
flocke to follow him, unti P ^ P J fr-mcium. vet in many Apothecaries Ihoppes it is called Irirauf, and 
mouth : the _«r/»w keepet e am n £ "^andtaith tbaicfbme did rtferre Acmes tmto£ryn g ism,ov,dLohcl 
of lorn eCentum o it W as he faith ado : Ca/alpinw unto the 
doth thereofmake fomedoin > ana 0 a p ct h \ t Glycyrrbiza Jpinofa, all other authors generally call the 
Crocodilian oi Diofon tj- 0 n 'J* . <7 f /«<rr *# call it Erjnoium maritimum : the fecond is called 
i: ryngium vtuger uy * f aT r #* from the Sea fide where onely it is naturall s FuchJius^nquiUra^ 
T^cXXZ^fcendes, Lfafprms and T dhermontanns call it (imply Sryngium without other epithite, 
ZZm-lhelhicd U th 7 e n ’ 4 L puf.L planum Mmani of Label, Lssgduncnfu and CUefi», » hich *«<«*« cal- 
= the fourth is called by C/*/T« Aw- whom 
Tabermentansss and ftn^do followithe hit is called by LobelSc Pena CardmceUns mom*,Laps, and 
Luedmenjis Carduneetlus Perse five Card,si mini,ns Jjsecies, and Bauhsnus£ryng,«m mentanssm msmmnm caput, 
mato Alpmue lih.de exe.ici, as I take it mentioneth this, calling it Cordis £ryn g so,da:the\M is mentioned by 
T; The /«&* call the firft Irin g ,e marine, The Spaniard Cardocerredor, the French Char Jon a cent efies 
accord hie to the Latine C«<«» c.p.'M.and of fome alfo P—««*, the Germane, IV.Kend,(l,U Braked,fteU and 
A/rwj rrewc, the Dutch Mccre wmclc,£ndcl<soi and Crnqidijh l,mi we in EngUJbSn Holly.or Sea Hull er. 
7 T&* Venues . 
Both the Vpland and Sea Holly are temperate in heate fomewhat drying and cleaning, but our Sea Holly is 
more eft toll than the Vpland kinde in all things whereunto it may ferve, yet it is fo neare thereunto that jt u 
accepted in fhe deed thereof, and that to very good purpofes, being not much lnferjonr, what therefore I (hall 
fl ew vott of the Sea kinde, you may transfers to the other, as divers other good Authours doe. 1 he young and 
tender denotes are eaten of divers, cither raw or pickled : the decoffion of the roote in wire being drunke is ve¬ 
ry effeXall to open the oBflruflions of the fpleene and liver, and helpeth the yellow jaund.fe thedropfie, and 
he paines in the loyncs and winde collicke in the guts and bowelh, provoketh urine, and cxpelfeth the (tone,and 
procureth womens courfes s the lame alfo, or the powder of tl e roote to the quantum of a dramme at a time, 
with fome wilde Carrot feede drunke in wine, or as *s4poUodorus doth appoint in the broth of boyled Frcgges, 
or as Heractides faith, in the broth of a Goofc,is availeable anainft the fling or biting of Serpen^, and othervenc- 
mous creatures, the poyfon alio of the Aconite,and other poyfonotisherbes.- thecont-nuedufe of the decoction for 
fifeeene daecs takenMing, and next tobedwards, doth helpe the flraneurv. the mfling by droppo, the flopping 
of the urine and the (tone, and alldcfefts of the reinesand kidneyes, and rfth* (aid drinks be continued longer, ic 
is faid nerfeftlv to cure them that are troubled with the (tone, that the paines (hall never rcturne againe, the ex¬ 
perience on them that havebeene troubled along time therewith, declaring it robe true: it tsu.ually taken to 
helpe Venercous aftions, and is good againfl the French difeafetthe roote, bruilcd and applied outwardly h E -peth 
Scrophntds, or thekerncUs of the throate, called the Kings evil], or taken inwardly either, and applied rathe 
flung or bitten place of any Serpent, &c. healeth it fpeedily : if the roote be bruited and boyled m old dzur.es* 
or falted lard, and applied to broken bones, thornes, &c. remaining in the flefh, doth not one.y craw them forth, 
but healeth up the place againe, gathering new fit fti where it was confumed, or almoff fallen away : the juyee ot 
the leaves dropped into the eares helpeth impoflumes therein. The diftilled water of the whole lierbe when the 
leaves and [talkes are young, is profitably drunke for all the purpofes afotefaid, and doth helpe the melancholy of 
the heart, and is availcable'in quartaine and quotidian agues, as alfo for them that have their neckes drawnc awry, 
or cannot tame them, without they turne the whole body therewith alfo. The other lorrs are lane ,tfle c feffuall 
to be uled inPhyficke, but the two laft forts are much ufedbythe Natives to incite Venery both rootes and 
heads. 
Chap. XII II. 
Cdrduas Stellaris. The Starre Thiftlc. 
i F the Starre Thirties the re are two or three forts, fome whereof havebeene but lately *o«rid out, and 
Wr? §1 exhibited to be knowne ; die ocher of more ancient cegnifince, the Spina oYCarduw Soljhuahs being 
one ofthe number in that it doth fo mcerely refemble them, as (hall be prefently (hewed: but in my 
opinion thefc plants, but that enftome hath cndtulcd them Thirties, might as well De referred to the 
laceas or Knapweedes with prickly heads, as divers others there placed are, and even Clufius placing nis Iaeea 
flore Itiieo capitulisJj>ir>ofis J at the fiift among the Thirties, doth afterwards change his liunde, and let it among the 
Iace as . 
I. Car daw fiellaris vulgaris. The ordinary Starre Thiftle. 
The common Starre Thiftle, hath divers long and narrow leaves lying next unto the grouud, cut or tome on the 
edges, fomewhat deepely, into many, almoft even parts, fofc or a little woolly all ever the greenc, it ^ is 
fomewhat white, among which rile up divers wcake ftalkes parted into many branenes, a.l lying or er.mng 
downeto the ground, rather than much raifed up, that it feemeth a pretty bu(h fet with divers t e n e ^ *v 1 c 
leaves up to the toppes,where feverally doe ftand long and (mall whitifli greene heads, let with very LUarpeana 
