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Show Theatrum Botanicum. ; , orcimai At 6. Ageratum Ferulacenm, Fennell leafed Madeline, Thisrare hearbeis to be joyned with the Maudelines, for that the flowers decay not being gathered, and kepre fora longtime. Ithath many Fennell-like leaves lying uponthe ground, round about the roote, which fhooteth forth divers crefted or cornered {talkes, a foote and a halfe high, fide one above another; frchlike leaves compaffing theftalke whereon doe growat certaine diftances, on each atthe foote of them, as Fennell doth : at the toppes ofthe ftalkesftand large umbels Tepe t Lhe Theater ofPlantes. two forts, yet one defcription may ferve them both) they are many fmall ones fet one againft anotherall along a middle ribbeor ftalke, and fnipt abont the edges; in one fort the leaves {tand clofer and thicker, and fomewhar crumpled, which hath offlowers, {ome of the ftalkes rifing lower thanothers, yetall making a round compafied tuft of yellow flowers, verylike unto the flowers of Groundféll for the forme, but of 4more excellent gold yellowcolour, which being gathered before they growto full maturity, will abide a long time in their perfect beauty, which hath caufed the name, and to be joyned with them : the roote is fomewhat long,black and wooddy, tugged alfo, anda little writhed withdivers caufed it to be.calleddouble or curld Tanfie; in thétether fort thinner and more {parfedly fet? itrifeth up With many hard ftalkes, whereon grow, at the toppes ofthe branches gold yellowflowerslike buttons, which being gatheredin their priniej will hold the fref colour a long feaion : the feedis {mall; and fibres growing toite The Place, The firft three “ forts have beene foundnaturall in divers rough untilled places of Tushanie in Italy, and Narbone in France, but in gardens onely withus, The fourth groweth ondry grounds, and oftenout ofold mud and {tone walles. The fiftgroweth upon’ as it were chaffie: the'roore creepeth under ground, and fhoo- teth up againe in divers places : the whale hearbe both leaves and flowers are ofa fharpe ftrongbitter fell and tafte, but yet pleafant and well tobe endured, 2. Tanseetum verficolor. Party coloured Tanfie; The partycoloured Tanfieis inroote,leafe and flower; altogetherlike the other common garden Tanfie ; the onely. diffe' rence betweene them, confiftethinthis, char upon the firft the rockes in clifts, where it hath butafmall cruft of earth uponit, the roote growing fometimes into the chinkes, and moiftned onely the vapours of fome waters, paffing neare it, orthe dew and moifture fromthe rockes, Thelaft gtowethin bydry and hungry grounds, and among the Pine tree. Woods, : The Time. Theydoe all fowerin Tune andLulyin moft places where they are The Names, planted and prefper, fhooting up ofthe heads af leaves, they are almoft all.white, Coaftmaryor Alecoaft in Englith,is called in Latine by Co/Pus hortorum majorsand by others Balfamita Atentha Greca, Mentha Romana, (Mentha Corymbifera fome major, Mentha Saracenica » Ovaria by Gefner ix major hortis, Herba Marie by and after they are grownegreat, there will bee many leaves, remaining white , among the greene, which makethit the Cefalpinus, and Laffulata by others as the Italians doe, the ‘Germanes Frazmen muntz, the French Cog G Baxme,as the Dutch doe Balfome, But Ageratumiscalled A’ynoaerin Gretkesguafinon {enefeens, orfenetutem non (entiens, becanfeit (feilicet the flowers gathered im a fit a Waxe nerdld or decay by age: Matthiolus, Gefner, Lacwna, Caftor Durantes, Lugduncnfis, Camerarius, and Tabéemontanus doe call it Ageratum Dodoneus Ballamita fapina & misor,and (eftus hortenfis minor by Gefner, Mentha covymbifera minor by Cordus, by Ca/alpinus Camphorata, Herba Iulia by more delightful, {eeminglike untoa party coloured Feathcr, in regard of the fine cut leaves ofwhite and greene, 3. Lanacetumlanuginofum. Woolly Tanfie, Woolly Tanfie from a thick blackith {pteading roote, fens deth forth divers winged leaves, fomewhat like tnto the fore met Tanfie-and nea eunto the leaves of Yarrow, (whereof fome would makeit akinde) of a very {weet {cent: and with- Axuguillara, Gefnerin hortss Germania 3; and Eupatoriune: Me/nes by Tous Gefnerin hortis, Matthiolus and Eonicerus 3 in briefe moft of the beft later Writers, judge it‘to be ratum of Dio/corides, though {ome would difprove it : and likewife¢ the true Eupatorizm-of Dt the true idee. 2 Dodonaus denyeth boththe one andthe | Mdefnes; although other : For the Eupatorium of Mefnes and Avice nna (faith. he) differ not, and that of Avicen and Dio/corides, are both I ofthem { but one plant, int even1 thethe ordinary-Agri Mony,.but Adatth hath anfwered both thefe controverfies in iolus myjudgement fofufficiently, inhis anfwe re to Auded thing can be better ; And in conclufion theyare no Pra@titionersin Phyfické; that fhalk es Marinus as noofMefnes, tobe the Averatum of Diafcofaith, deny\ the Eupatorinn rides, The fecond Ageratum with white flowe r,ié the ‘fecond Ageratum with AZatthiolus and Lugdim enfis, andealled Ageratum floribus candidis by Lobel, Tabermowta nus and Ganarniees the third is the third Ageratum with Matthiclus and Lugdunenfis, and called Ageratum minus by Lobel and Tabermontanussand by Bauhiny, Agera Cape: tumfolijsnon venfis, which as he faith fome Germanes called ferrati¢: the fourth is the Ageratum purpu reum ofTgdae : Afo/chatella cernle Cordus, Bau a, yet is notthe CAlo/chatella of hinuscalleth it Ageratumferratum Alpinum : the lalt is called by Lugduu enfis 2“geratum ferulaceum referrethit to the Achillea montana Arthemifie tenuifolia facie ofLobel, tothe Achill but Behe ia montana of the fame Luodu venfis and abermontdnus, and to the Chryfanthemum Alpin Chry[anthemum of Clufizs, for we have um fecun ofClufius (butiin my opinion ies port he had it growing inour gardedum ns fromthe {eed, fent us by thena Jost tennifolinm) and therefore hee himfel me of Chr fe calleth it Chryfanshemmsina Alpinum foljs fas, Abrotan; sake The Vertue s, The ordinary Coftmary as well as Maudeline (as a fome ofthe otherare fure of the fame quality) abundantly,& mollifieth the hardnesof the proyoketh urine digefteth,and after a fort gentlydiffolveth mother. Galen faithit is hot in the firft degree, & dry inthe fecond thatit infldmations, it gently purgeth choler and which is grofle ;cutteth and-divideththat which is tough and glutinons,cleanfeththa flegme,thatit extenuateth that putrefaction or corruption, it diffol t which is foule,and hindereth veth without attraction,openeth obftru tions, and healeth their evill affect 1s a wonderfull helpe roall forts of day agues; s,and Itis aftringentto the ftomack,and ftreng other inward parts, and taken in whey thneththe liver and all the it profitable forthe paines in the head, that worketh the more effe@ually. Taken faftine in the morning, it is ver are continuall, andto ftay, dry up, and rheumesfrom the head into the ftomac confume all thin diftillations k, and 4s veryprofitably applyed to thofe that are helpeth muchto digeft raw humours that are gathered therein « it fallen into a continualeyill difpofition ofthe chexiataken efpeciallyin the beginn whole body, called Czing and cold livers, Thefeed is familiarly of the difeafe. In briefe itis an efpeciall friend and helpe to evill we be given to children for the wormes, and {0 is the white wine, and given to them tothe infufion of the despess in quantity of two ounces at a time. and hegle old ulcers, being boyle It makethan excellent lye-to d-with Oyle-olive and Adders cleat tongue withit, and after it is lirain te Waxe, Roffen,and Turpentine, to bring ed-to pur it into a convenient body. litsles Cuar. XXVIII, Tanacetum, Tanfie. other curd 4j Ordinary and curld 7 anfie , in. this Chapter. Ourgarden Tanfie hath many hard greene leaves, or rather Wings of leaves, for (although they -bee twe So s the roote is fimall and fhort,fomewhat thicke at the headjand fmalleg downewards, with divers {mall fibres thereat . 6. Tanacetuminodorum. Vufavory Tanfie. Vnfavory Tanfie hathhis large wingedlzaves, very neare refembl ing Tanfie, lying upon the gtound, and among themround hardgreeneftalkes, with very few and fhorter leaves thereon , at the tappes whereof ftand divers flowers, uipon hort foote-ft alkes, verylike unto the flowers, ofthe great white Daify, and as large, confifting of foureteene or fixteene leaves, as 4 pale or border, about a yellow thrumme inthe middle: the raote {preade sh uner the upper part of the earth, an¢ goeth not farre downe : the wholeis altoget her without ‘any {cent therein at all, yet the leaves are of a hot and tharpetafte, quickly piercin g the tongue. Thereis anotherof this kinde of unfavory Tanfie, whofe leavesa re more loofelyf pread, although as much divided, and the Aowers being white, are as final! as Feverfew, , The Place, ‘The ordinary Tanfie groweth in fome places beyond Seaby the hedges andditches fides, and in the borders fields, the curld Tanfie is peculiar to our owne of Land, and {ois the fecond, and likely tobea degeneration from ordinary fort by accident,and nurfed upin our owne the Country, where theflips doe often loofeand fometi their kinde, The third groweth about Afompel mes keepe ier in France, and in other places, The fourth groweth as well in Germany as in Italy, in divers places. The fift growet hon the high and fnowy Hills on the Alpes, among _ The laf gtoweth in Haxgar the Swity, Axffria, Germany, and about Valentia , and in’ the Country of Daulphine in The Time. called ordinary or common Tanfi or double Fanfie: but there are fomeo e,.and the thers alfo to be fpoken ofhere 1. Fanacetum vulgare & crifp um, all very woolly,fet clofe together abour ‘the roote » among which pring up divers woolly ftalkes, having a few {uch like leaves upon them, and at-the toppes many tufts of yellow flowers. ‘ 4.. Tandcetum mintsflorealbo. Small white Tanfie, Smail white Tanfie hath divers winged leaves lying upon the ground;round aboutthe'toppes of the roate , very much cut or divided into parts, fomewhat refembling both Tanfie and Yarrow, ofa pale greene colour, being both leffe bitter im tafte, ahd leffe hot, or (trong in {mell than Tanfie : from among whichleaves rife divers lowftalkes, befet With {mallet leaves up to the toppes, where the Aowers (land in middle thrumyellow , the roote is long and wooddy, fhooting tufts, the borders being ofa whité colour, and the divers wayes, 5+ Tenacetum Alpiaum, Mountaine Tanfie, The Mouintaine Tanfie hath many Wingedleaves lying uponthe ground, compaffing the toppe ofthe tooté, véry like unto the ordinary Tanfie, in the divifion ofthe leaves, and deepe greene colour, as bitter in talte, but more pleafant in fcent than it: from whencerife up the ftalkes, littleofa abovea foote high, here and there fet with the like leaves, but {maller ; the lowers at the toppesare like unto Camomill flowers, with a border or pale of white leaves, anda yellow thrumme in the middle : rance, - are of forts of Garden Tanfi es, whereof the one is ; Car.38, I. Tanacetim walgare & crifpum, Ordinaty and curld Tanfie, They doe all ower in the Summer Monethes of Iune and Iuly, Tanfie is called Tanace The Names tum, corruptly taken, as Fuchfius Tragantes, and Arhanafia peradventure of Athanatos thinketh » from Tagetes, or Aphleins his Arthenifia fine morte. or nox moriens y becaufe the yellow flowers Sathered in due time, dye notofa long time after; like as divers ofghe othe; hearbes laft remeémbred : Tabermona tans |