¶ The Description.
1 THe leaues of Carline are very full of prickles, cut on both edges with a multitude of deepe gashes, and set along the corners with stiffe and very sharpe prickles; the middle ribs whereof are sometimes red: the stalke is a span high or higher, bringing forth for the most part onely one head or knap being full of prickles, on the outward circumference or compasse like the Vrchin huske of a chesnut: and when this openeth at the top, there groweth forth a broad floure, made vp in the middle like a flat 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of a great number of threds, which is compassed a∣bout with little long leaues, oftentimes somewhat white, very seldome red: the seed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is slender and narrow, the root is long; a finger thicke, something blacke, so chinked as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it were split in sunder, sweete of smell, and in taste somewhat bitter.
2 There is also another hereof without a stalke, with leaues also very full of prickles, like al∣most to those of the other, lying flat on the ground on euery side: among which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 groweth forth in the middle a round head or knap, set with prickles without after the same maner, but grea∣ter: the floure whereof in the middle is of strings, and paled round about with red leaues, and some∣times with white, in faire and calme weather the floures both of this and also of the other laie