T r ib e 9 The Theater ofTlants. 
i. C a rauus jteUaru fre CaUitrafa vxl&m 
The ordinary ftarre Thiftle, 
Ch/ip. 14 9g9 
4. ferduus elfliiialu Dodoruto. 
S c . Bamabiet Thiftle by ’Dodonexi, 
long white prickes, no part of the plant being in any 
place elfe prickly, which are fomewhat ycllowifh, and 
as fharpe as in any other Thiftle; out of the middle 
whereof rifeththe flower compote d of many fmall red- 
difh purple threads, and in the heads after the flowers 
are pafl, come fmall whitifh round feede lying in downe 
as others doe: the roote is fmall, long, and wooddy pe¬ 
ri (king every yeare, and railing it felfc from it owne 
leede lowing. 
2 . CarduusfleHaris flare aloo. 
The white flowred Star re Thiftle. 
There is no difference in this Thiftle from the former s . 
butin the white greenefleof the leaves, and the white 
threads in the flowers. 
3 . Car daw fl ell atm latifoliw. 
The broade leafed Starre Thiftle. 
This Thiftle hath broader and fhorter leaves than the 
former, bur not much or fo deepely cut in on the edges, 
with a few prickes fet here and there at the corners j the 
ftalkc is but little divided, having few branches fet with 
the like leaves, and at the toppes (mail round thickc white 
heads, fee thickc with prickts, many fet together, in 
the fa (hi on ofa Starre, (even for the moft part fet fprea- 
ding in ever 4 v place, the longeft of them being middle- 
moft,and the other on each fide being fhorter; outofthe 
middle of the head rife reddifh purple threads like unto 
divers other Thirties: the roote is fmall and annuall. . 
4. Cardans Soljhtialis Ttodon&i . Dodorutus his Midfommer Thiftle or S. Barnabies Thiftle. 
This Thiftle of Tiodomus as hee faith hath long leaves lying next to the ground, deepely cut in on the 
Tides into many long and narrow parts, the lower part being fomewhat broad and ending in a long point, of a 
blew.ifti greene colour, from among which rife up divers upright ftalkestwo footehigh, with divers long and 
narrow leaves, fomewhat divided but the uppermoft without divifion, and all of them without any pi it kes up- 1 
on them; at the toppes ftand fundry fmall fharpe prickly heads, whole prickes are as white or rather more there 
