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Chap. LXXXVII. 
CarduM 'T-.tah.ij* Amencanorttm The blood red ball Tlilfl'c, 
HisThidly fruit isdefcribcd by 0w;«fw ; growing in the Iflandof HiftanioU which is round, ar,d 
*as bigge as ones fill, and fomewhac 
long, havinga (hew of, (calcs on the 
outlide : the barke or rinde whereof 
is thick but may eafily be cut or pared, 
under which the pulpe or meate is like 
unto a Figge with graines or kernells among it, as it 
hath,but ot a pleafantdeepe crimfan colour,which co- 
loureth their fingers like Mulberries chat cate them, 
and after two or three houres that they have eaten 
them their urine will looke whitifh, the fruite hath 
neither Ieafe nor branch, but rifeth up in the middle of 
many great fourefquarearmes of fix foot longapeece 
channeld in the middle,and both there and at the edges 
fet full ofmoft fijarpe but fmall prickes,three at a place 
together at certaine difiancesone from another, the 
whole plant and fruit is of a pale greene afli co¬ 
lour. 
Car i’ll'.'! Pilab ya Amcricanmltn. 
The blood red ball Thifilcs. 
Chap. LXXXVIII. 
CcrtwffimfM Amcrkar.w. The Torch Thiftle of Amcr.ca. 
Tlx Torch Thiftle of Averted 
[His fmall plant feemethfomewhat like fhelaft, but cliac it rifeth up with divers (hlkc6i?, or:o? 
• cnbics high, with lome outward ribbes 
all the length of them, and fet at feve- CtrtutjpinDfkt AmttUanu. 
rail fpaces with fmall fliorc thornes 
[landing like fmall ftarres, the forme 
of them very like iinro the Melon Thi- 
flle, thefe (hikes have fomc fhort branches, and at 
the toppes flowers like the parple Fox|love,and fruite 
following of a bright crimfon colour like i Figge, lit 
wichout tafic, the flalkes are wooddy of the bigneffe 
of ones wrilf of a griftly lubftance,and of a bitter gum¬ 
my tafil ike Aloc«, 
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