The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 THe first of Clusius his Hawkeweeds haue great broad leaues spred vpon the ground, somewhat hairie about the edges, oftentimes a little iagged, also soft as is the leafe of Mullen, or Higtaper, and sometimes dasht here and there with some blacke spots, in shape like the garden Endiue, full of a milkie juice: among which riseth vp a thicke hollow stalke of a cubit high, diuiding it selfe at the top into two or three branches, whereupon do grow sweete smelling floures not vnlike to those of yellow Succorie, set or placed in a blacke hoarie and woollie cup or huske, of a pale bleake yellow colour, which turneth into a downie blowball that is caried away with the winde: the root entereth deepely into the ground, of the bignesse of a finger, full of milke, and couered with a thicke blacke barke.

2 The second sort of great Hawkeweed according to my computation, and the 5. of Clusius, hath leaues like the former, that is to say soft, and hoarie, and as it were couered with a kinde of

white woollinesse or hairinesse, bitter in taste, of an inche broad. The stalke is a foot high, at the top whereof doth grow one yellow floure like that of the great Hawkeweed, which is caried away with the winde when the seed is ripe. The root is blacke and full of milkie juice, and hath cer∣taine white strings annexed thereto.

3 This kinde of Hawkeweed hath blacke roots a finger thicke, full of milkie juice, deepely thrust into the ground, with some small fibers belonging thereto: from which come vp many long leaues halfe an inch or more broad, couered with a soft downe or hairinesse, of an ouerworne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 colour: and amongst the leaues come vp naked and hard stalkes, whereupon doe grow yellow floures set in a woollie cup or chalice, which is turned into downe, and caried away with his seed by the winde.

4 The fourth Hawkeweed hath a thicke root aboue a finger long, blackish, creeping vpon the top of the ground, and putting out some fibres, and it is diuided into some heads, each where∣of at the top of the earth putteth out some six or seuen longish leaues some halfe an inche broad, and somewhat hoarie, hairie, and soft as are the others precedent, and these leaues are snipt about the edges, but the deepest gashes are neerest the stalkes, where they are cut in euen to the mid∣dle rib, which is strong and large. The stalke is smooth, naked, and somewhat high: the floures be yellow and double as the other.

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3 Hieracium 6. Clusij. Clusius his 6. Hawkeweed.

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4 Hieracium 7. Clusij. Clusius his 7. Hawkeweed.

‡ 5 The same Author hath also set forth another Hieracium, vnder the name of Hieracium par∣vum Creticum, which he thus describes; this is an elegant little plant spreading some six, or more leaues vpon the top of the ground, being narrower at that part whereas they adhere to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and broader at the other end, and cut about the edges, hauing the middle rib of a purple colour; amongst these rise vp two or three little stalkes about a foot high, without knot vntill you come almost to the top, whereas they are diuided into two little branches, at which place 〈◊〉〈◊〉 forth leaues much diuided; the floures grow at the top of a sufficient bignesse, considering the magni∣tude of the plant, and they consist of many little leaues lying one vpon another, on the vpper side wholly white, and on the vnder side of a flesh colour. The root is single, longish, growing small

towards the end, and putting forth stringy fibres on the sides. Thus much Clusius, who receiued this figure and description from his friend Iaques Plateau of Tournay. I coniecture this to be the same plant that Bauhine hath somewhat more accurately figured and described in his Prod. pag. 68. vnder the title of Chondrilla purpurascens foetida: which plant being an annuall, I haue seen growing some yeares since with M^r. Tuggy at Westminster; and the last Summer with an honest and skil∣full Apothecarie one M^r. Nicholas Swayton of Feuersham in Kent: but I must confesse I did not compare it with Clusius; yet now I am of opinion, that both these figures and descriptions are of one and the same plant. It floures in Iuly and August, at the later end of which moneth the seeds also come to ripenesse.

6 This other (not described by Clusius, but by Lobel) hath long rough leaues cut in and too∣thed like to Dandelion, with naked hairy stalkes, bearing at their tops faire large and very double yellow floures, which fading fly away in downe. It growes in some medowes.

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‡ 5 Hieracium parvum Creticum. Small Candy Hawk-weed.

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‡ 6 Hieracium Dentis leonis folio hirsutum. Dandelion Hawk-weed.