Theatrum Botanicum. 
Tribe 9. 
fmall long and round leaves fet on each fide ofa middle ribbe, which abide on ali the whiter long and fall not eff, 
untill the fpring doe bring on frefli, and then fall away, at the toppes ot the branches ^nd among the leaves 
come forth the flowers which are of a whitifh reilow colcur, fafhionedfomewhat like unto the flowet ofaTrc- 
foilc, after which come Imall (hort upright white cods, wherein are concerned fmall whitifh cornered feeder 
the r'oote is very great and long,fpreading much and farrein the ground, which being broken or wounded yeel- 
deth a touch pure (hinig white gumme,in fmall crooked peeces talking fomewhat iweete. There is another fort 
Alien tm y, ereo f w hofeftaIkes and branches are blackifh and wooddy, having (mail thinne leaves all fet on one fide, and 
t ■j iMifera not oppofiteasin the former, the flowers and feede is fomewhat like, bur the rooteyeeldethnogumme. 
2. 7 'ragac&ntha alterafen miner Potericn forte Diofccr'idis . The fmall (Coates thorne. 
This other Goats thorne is fo hke ihe firft that it is often miflaken for ir,growing lower and fmaller then the for¬ 
mer a et fpreading and (hooting lorth pliant flexible [hikes, cov ered as it w ere with feales about a foot high, 
from whence fpringeth up a cottony or woolly head.whichbreaketh into lunary winged leaves in the fpring of 
the yearc.made of many fmall and almofl round leavesferngfct on both fidesoi a middle ribbe.whkhare very 
hoaty and as it were woolly at the firft budding forth, which the former hath not and fo continue hoary as long 
as they abide enthe rihbe, which proveth a thorne very cruell fharpe and prickly at the end when they are fal¬ 
len away, fo that all the winter long noleafeis feeneonany, andthe thornes that have caft their leaves never 
have any more growing on them, but abide bare and naked ihornesever after,the bufh feeming all the winter 
]on° nothing bur long fharpe white thornes: from the upper parts of theftalkes come forth two or three whitifh 
flowers {landing together, made of rwo leaves a peece an under and an upper, both formed (omewhat like 
hoods, each flower in a hoary huske orhofe; the pod that followetb is hoary, \vhite,thicke,fhort and fomewhat 
broad, ending in a point wherein is contained whitifh feede, fomewhat like unto a Aiediea feede: the room is 
great long and tough, blackifh on the outfide and white within, fome whatfweet and gummy, yetycel- 
ding but little gumme and that more yellowifh. There is another fort hereof whofe branches are very fharpe, 
Pwriora not riling much above the ground, but they are many and thicke growing together, the roote being wounded 
allied. yeeldeth a gumme like unto Tragacantha. 
3. Tragacantha Syriaca flaveferni . The yellow Syrian Goates thorne. 
This Syrian thorne differeth very little from the laft but in the flowers which are yellow, (landing in round 
yellowifh huskes, and that the whole plant groweth lower. 
4. Tragacantha Syriarapmpnrafccnt , Purple Syrian Gear s thorne. 
This other Syrian kinde is as low as the laft, having manybrowne thicke ftalkec, thicke fet with leaves and ma¬ 
ny white heads at the toppes, out of which come purple flowers like the former which are very bcaucifull. 
The Place. 
Both the former fortswith their varieties have beene found as well in Candy as about MarfeUes and (JMom* 
filer : the firft anciently knowne both there and in other places (udicient plentifully.but the other wss alfo found 
by Clnftnt in the kingdom of Granada.a more cxadl figure whereof was lenc unto him after his death from Aqnaf- 
fextiai which is not farre from Mampelier, and is publifhrd in his Cara foflerieres in quanta, fag. 113. the other 
two laft forts Raurralfim,mi Lugdxntnfis from him in his Appendix letteth forth to grow in Syria, 
i. Tragacantha vera. 
The true Goates thorne. 
1. Tragacantha altca feu wimr Poterionfvrte 'Diofioiidu. 
Small Goates thorne. 
The 
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