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Show (oHAP.100, The Theater ofPlants. Tats t Re Trissz.s, Theatrum Botanicum. Cuario. 6 89 fandry hatd, round (talkeshalfe a yard high,fomewhatthicke{et unorderly with narrow, long greene leaves 8, Chryfocomefive Stechas Citrina C ctics. Candy golden Tufts. upto the toppes,where they branch forth into divers fmall {prigs, with {maller and fhorter, leaves thereon thei below, and bearing round heads of flowers compofed ofgold yellowthreddsrifing from the middle of a few greene leaves which are as a huske to each of them, and abiding along timein flower, andsin their beauty, but Columna {4ithnot a monethtillin the end they turne into downe, which with the{mall-yellow feede; ‘grayith faith Columna, flyeth away inthe winde :the'roote is hard and wooddy at the head fhooting ‘therehencetiany, blackith bres into the ground: the ftalkes die downe yearely, and newiones rife againe-in tht Spring. The figuresiof thefe three following were overflipped to be inferted in their due place,which isthe 23. Ghap.of the firlt Claflis in this booke,and therefore Ithoughtit fitter to give you them here,and teferre each of them by . their numberwhere snto they doe belong then quite to neglect themand Jeave them out, 8. Chry[ocome five Stechas Gitrina Cretica. Candy golden Caffidony or Goldilocks. The figure-of this pertaineth to the eighth defcription and number in the faid 23. Chapter of StethatCitrine in the farft Tribe of this Bookes ; : 9 Chryfocome peregrina fecunda Clufis,fue Ciretica altera, Spanifo or C.andy Caffidony or Tufts, Thefiguré of this belongeth to the ninth nnmberin the faid Chapter, for the ninth there is miffet for che tenth and eleventh, 43, °Stechas Citrina[ylueftrior, Wilde yellow Caffidonie, Let this be referredalfo to tlic fame place,and to be the twelfth in Number. , os _ The Place and Time, This fit groweth in diversplaces of Germany,in the moilt fandy borders of tinmanuredfieldsas Tragv faith, : in'‘Warbone alfo as Lobel faith,and in Naples as (¢os pe flowreth in /#/y and Axgnff or later. , \ : The Names. , . Tragus makethit his third kind ofLinaria and {uppofeth it to be the Heliocry/os ofDiofcerides, calling it in his owne Language Grof{'Rheinblumen,id ef, Amaranthus luteus major, and is called by many other writers fince Linaria aurea Tragi, by Camerarius Linaria Auftriaca, by Clufius Ofyris Anffriaca: by Lobel Linofyris nuperorum, but Guilandirins and Colma take ittobeChry/ocome of Diofcorides and Pliny, as you {ee do here;for comparing all the parts,I cannotfinde any other authors plant to come fo neare to the tight as this,& two fo famous 8-worthy judicious Herbariftsbeing my guides,make me. the more.confident in my opinion. Let who:will compare Diofcorides his Text and the delineaments thereof, with (olumna’ his Animadverfaria and amendit if he can : GuiJandiays alfo tookeit to be the Hyfope Of Diofeorides, and, therefore called it Hyffops nmmbellifera, bur erronioufly, for he faith the leafe of Origanumislike unto Hyflope, but Origanum leaves are {mall andround like Marjerome, and not long and narrowasthis. The Vertues, . . g Thisfaith Z obelis fharpe in tafte, gluttinous or clammy, and: foméwhatbitter like unto’ Ses and nearé unto Thymelea, Trages writeth thus ofit : the herbe with the flowers boiled in wine and drunkeexpelleth loves en12. Wilde yellow chantments andall other poifons,and helpeth Crampesand Ruptures, asalfoto difcuffe congealed blood in the body: it procureth womenscourfes and expelleth the afterbirth : two dramsofthe dryed flowers in ponder taken in wine fafting,{tayeththe cold Catarrhes or Diftillations from the head: a bathe made of the flowers to : fweate therewith, orco fit over the warme fumes,giveth much eafe to thofe that are. troubled with the ftone in. SAQ eS , the Kidneis,with painesof the mother,orthe Sciatica it is alfo laydin Chefts and Wardrobes:to preferve Veltments,&c, from Moaths, s Cuar, CL y S& S RIK aha LOTS SS Yi SA Pilofellafive AuricalatMurizs. Moufeare! INTyer {WY a AO)Dion S Ts & pl oO 63d = Havealfo in my former booke given you the knowledge of fome of the Moufearés, as they may bé moft properly called.under the name of Gnuaphalinms montanam album and purpurenm,white & parple Catsfoore, ‘and Gnaphalium Rofeum, the Cotton Rofe, both which fhall not againe bee defcribed here,although I will fhew you the figures ofthem. : 1. Pildfellaminor vulgaris repens, The common {mall creeping Moufeare. The common Monfearethat is more hairy then the other, is a low herbe creeping upon the ground by {mall ftrings like the Strawberry plant, whercby it fhooteth forth {mall rootes, whereat grow upon the gronnd many {mall and fomewhatfhort leaves fet ina round forme together, hollowith in the middle,where they are broa- deft, of a hoary colourall over as well above as below, and very hairy,.which being broken doe give a white milke : from amongthefe leaves {pring up two or three {mall hoary. flatkes about a {panne high, witha few fmaller leaves thereon: at the toppes whereof {tandeth ufually but one flower, confifting of manypale yellow leaves, broad at the points, and little dented in, fetin three or fourerowes, the greater outermoft, and the {maller inward,very likea Dandelion flower,and alittle reddifh underneath about the cdges,efpecially ifir grow inadry and not moift ground, which after they have {tood long in flower, doe turné into downe, which with the feede is carried away with the winde. d 2, Pilofela Indica odorata Sweete Indian Monfeare. : This Moufeare hath a flefhy roote creeping underground, not growing deepe, with manyfibres thereto, from whence fhoote divers fomewhatlongleaves, fet with very long haires: the hairy talke that rifeth from them, growethto be halfe a foote high,at the toppe whereofftand 7.or 8. faite flowerslike the ordinary Moufeare,but of a deeper yellow or Orenge colour;finelling very fweete liké Muske. oe . : _ Pilofella media vulgaris eretla, Common upright Mon{eate. ‘ : This other Moufeare is very like the former,thedifference betweene them confifeth in this, that the leaves are longer and greener on the upperfide, and fomewhat hoary underneath, fofterin handling, and not fo much Nnn 3 hairy, |