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Show - sett nn —onnaad 642 _ Of the Hiftorie.of Plants, ae {undry{imal heads. ofa pale yellowcolour, like vntothe other of this kinde, The rootisblacie and fomewhatfibrous. “ 8 There is a kinde of Cotton-weed, be ing ofgreaterbeautythanthe reft, that hath trait and Li. 2 643 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. i i2 Leontapadium parvuns. ~ $mall Lyons Cudweed. $13 Gnaphalinm oblongofolio. Long leaued Cudweed, vpright ftalks 3, foot high or more, couered witha moft foftandfine wooll, and in fuch plentiful! manner,that a man maywith his hands take it from the ftalke in great quantities which falke is befer with many {mall long andnarrowleaues, greene vpon theinner fide, andhoary onthe other fide, fathioned fomewhat like the leaues ofRofemary, but greater. Thefloures do gtowatthe v0 of the ftalkes in bundles ortufts, confifting of manyfinall floures of a white colour, and very dou. ble,compa., or as itwere confifting oflittle filuer {eales thruft clofe together, whichdoe make the fame very double. Whenthe floure hath long flourifhed, and is waxenold, then comes there in the middeft of the floureacertaine browne yellow thrumme, fuch as is in the midft oftheDai- fie :whichfloure being gathered whenit is young, maybe kept in {uch manneras it was gathered (I meanein fuchfreflaneffe and well liking) by the {paceof a wholeyeare after, in yourchef or WY Ai elfewhere : wherefore our Englifh women haue calledit Liue-long, or Liue for euer, whichname dothaptlyanfiver his effets. + Clufius received this plant out of England, andfirft fet it forth \Wy ¥ by the name of Gaaphalium Ameri um, OY Areyroc + : 9 This plant haththree or foure final! grayifh cottony or woollyftalkes, growingftrait fom the roor,and commonly diuided into manylittle branches : the leaues be long, narrow, whitith, foft, and woolly, likethe other ofhis kinde : the floures be roundlike buttons, growingvery many together atthe top of the ftalkes, but nothing {0 yellowas Moufe-eare, whichturne into dome, and are caried awaywith the winde, cei to Filago, es fine Herba impia. é Herbeimpious, or wicked Cudweed. 11 Leontopodium, fine Pes Leoninus. Lions Cudweed. $ 14 Guaphalinum minus latiore folie; eevee Small broad leaued Cudweed, lo. and Theae tenthisapeaihe likey 1at3 \ larger, laft before mentioned, in flalkes, leaues, and floures, but muct are ouertopt byother Bice. esHouten whichappeare firft are the loweft and bafeft, and a king to ouerstome, pass which come on youngerbranches > and grow higher, as childsen' 4 d Herb beenecalle parents, (asmany wicked children do) forwhich caufe it bat i &rea a tmpi imp;a,emp thattheir pe wij e. that is,is, thethe wick tr TheeleuenthP¥4, plan t com orehended is thereof,: as mayappeare y “IDE. Pt - without shout dount a y vnder inde fe ended the title of Graphalium, (being e eae mats e ees snap the fhape of ftaiksycouered ouerwith asith fof Jeaues25 like vnto the biindesof C Otton-wee ahis flouresand 2¢ oother kKinde 2s . Oll-Weed) is an handfull high or thereabouts, befet with!¢ ne like Gnaphalium Anglicum , but fomewhat broader. Atthetopofthe-ftalke groweth a floure ofa blackifh brown violet colour, befet about with rough and woolly hairie leaves, which make the whole floure to < femble the roughhaired foot ofa Lyon,of a Hare,ora Beare, or rather in mine opinionof arough footed Doue. The heads of thefe floures when theyare fpred abroad carry a greater citcumicrence than is Tequiredin fo fmall a plant ;andwhen the floureis faded, thefeed is wrappedin fuch a deale of wooll that it is fearfely to be foundout. opodum 12 This fmall kinde of being likewife a kind of Cotton-w eed,nei+ or any other antient ther by Dioft writer once remembred, hath one fingle ftalke nine inches in height, andthe leaues and of Gnaphalinm montanum whichlea ftalkes are white,witha thicke hoaty woo'lineffe, bearing av the toppale yellow floures like Gaapbalinm montanum: the root ; is flender and wooddy. 13. This, which Clufius calls Gaa$ phalium Plateas 2. hath Guall ftalkesate tome handfull high or {omewhat more, o:W ae |
