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Show = eee, eee eet ee Ofthe HiftoryofPlants. 640 Lis. 2 The Defcription. the Hiftorie of Plants. F O Pi a + 7 Gnaphalinm Alpinun. Rocke Cotton-weéd: e yubens and. vpright ftalkes diuided into many bean; Cudiveed hath é fundry Nelith : flenderPe oD yan 6 Gnaphalium montanum[ Brightred mountaine Cotton-weed. ches, and groweth as high as common Wormwood, whofe colour and thapeit doth muchrefemble. The leaves fhoot fromthe bottome of the turfe ful of haires,in tha fomewhat like a Willowleafe below, but aboue theybe narrower, and like the Jeaues of Pilinn or Flea-wort :among which do grow {mall pale coloured floures like thofe ofthe final] ConiXa or Flea-bane. The wholeplant is of a bitter tafte. 2 The fecond being our common Graphalinm or Cudweedis a bafe or lowherbe, nine or ten inches long,hauing manyfmall {talks or tender branches,and little leaues,coueredall ouerwitha certain white cottonorfine wooll,and very thick : the floures be yellow,and growlike buttons ar the top of the ftalkes. 3, the third kinde of Cudweedor Cotton-weed, being of the fea, is like vnto the other Cud- weedlaft defcribed, buris altogether fmaller and lower, feldome growing muchaboue handfull high: the leaues grow thicke vponthe ftalkes, and are fhort,flat, andvery white, foft and woolly, The floures growat the top ofthe ftalkes in fmall round buttons, of colour andfafhion like the other Cudweed. 4 The fourth being the Cotton-weedof the hills and ftony mountains, is fo exceeding white and hoary, that one wouldthinkeit to bea plant made ofwooll, which mayvery eafily be knovn : byhis picture, without other defcription. 3 Gnaphalium marinum, Sea Cudweed. 4. 5 Gnaphalinmmontanum purpurenm & alia, White and purple mountaine Cotton-weed, + 8 Gnaphalinm Americanum. Line for euer. kindeaad® Ae no of Cotton-weed hathleaues and ftalkes like the other of his very ike beareth a buth or tuft ofpurple floures, otherwife it is 6 els The a z si this plant xceeding Dip” a ie n is like vato the laft recited, but greater: the floures‘are ofane oo . an aromaticall fweet fmell! mine srowes nine Beak ; r aifenenthyic ae ns Conohn eei of Graphalium or Cotton-weed of Clufius his defcription, pos HOMef ofa hot 7 leaues like the {mall Mouf-eare,woolly within,arn ratinglittle longin like mannerare very woolly,at the top whereo! eettwirf — Be on >) : noe, ie PETEfealkes 2 LN ain tre a re flourgand yxrtha the floure abot . < o i ceeening fuch woolly Jeaues. bordering is aeaiciahi v QtDinke 1 ¢ ae rel{a er so be nothingelfe butwooll it felfe: and in the middeft ofthe floure co" meth ‘ 9 Filago minor. i Small Cud-weed. |