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Show ——— 654, = Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. L1B."2. Lis. a Of the Hiftory of Plants. a @ The Defcription. Poleyof the mountain, is a little tender and fiveet Englith in t Polivm,o of kinde firft He I it tooke his name: for it is not onely hoaryin hereupon hoarie,w verie herbe, fmelling plant, tufts and all,beingno leffe hoarie than whole the h poffeffet part, but his hoarie flockineffe ls, or neerethe fanGnaphalinm, efpecially where it groweth neere the Seaat the bending ofthehi ae 4 Polinm montanum minimint, Creeping Poley. : + 5 Polinm Lavandulefotio, lore aloo. Lavandert leaued'Poley. t threddie root thooteth die fhores of the Mediterranean Sea : fromhis wooddie and fomewha di. certaine forth ftraight from the earth a numberof {mall round ftalkes nine inches long,andby elightnickesa. flances from the ftalke proceed fomewhat Jong leaues like Gnaphalinm whichhau ofthe ftalkes in the toppe bout the edges, that ftand one againft another, inclofing the ftalke: ftronger of fent or fauout is plant . This Serpillum like ofcolour ite ftand {pokie tufts of foureswh the nofe with his iveet. thananyof thereft following,whichfent is fomew hat fharp,andaffeGting neffe. floures ofthe laftbe> The tuftes of the fecond kinde of Polinm are longer than the tuftes or theyarevery fore mentioned,and theyare ofa yellowcolour; the leaues alfo are broader,otherwife : like. a great numberof fhootes 3 From thewooddie rootesof this third kinde of Polinm proceed {lender branches takehold hofe ground,w the vpon vptight flat lying , like vato the laft rebearfed other, but ofa purple like the vpon the vpper partof the earth where they crepe. The flouresare colour. good fonell,inall 4 Thelaftkinde of Polinm,an d ofall the reft the {mallett,is of an indifferentleaues not fhipt,& auing the pointslike vnto the commonPolivm,butthatit is foure times leffer,h the floures white. hor but many branches from one rootlike tothofe of the firft defcribed, ¢ 5 This fends vp couples at certain fpaces, ter and more fhrubbie, lying partly vponthe ground,the leaues growbyaboue, andwhitifh beneath, ,greene fomewhat like,but leffer than thofe of Rofemarie or Lauander thefloures grow not fnipt about their edges; their tafte isbitter,and fmell fomewhat pleafant: notvalike thofe oftheo- in fhape + plentifully vpon the tops of the branches,white of colour, and is blackith andconther Poleyes:they grow ona bunch together,and not Spike fafhion: the {eed 76 tained in{mall veffels: the rootis hard and wvooddie,with manyfibres, Clufiuscalls this Poltnrh folio ot Lealboflore At is the Polinm alterum of —Matthiolus,and Polinm recentiorumfamina Lavandula bel.Lhere giue you(as Clufivs alfo hath done) two figures to make one goodone : the formerfhews the — and their manner of growing ; the other,the feede veffels, andthe leaues growits y couples,together witha little better expreffion oftheroot. + : Anéther figure of the Lauanderleaued Poley. of his hoarin effejand in Latine alfo Pol#wm. Di- uers fulpec that Polium is Leucas,and that Dio/corides hath twife intreated of that herbe vader diuers names ; the kindes,the occafion of the name,arid likewife the faculties do agree. There bee twoof the Lewcades, onei: that is of the mountaine:the other, tens, which is that with the broader leafe: it is called Levees of the whitith colour,andPolion ofthe hoarine fle,becanfe it feemeth like to a mans hoarie ‘head ; for what- \ 3 Polinm montanum purpureum. Purple Poley. q The Names, Poley mountaineis called in Greeke =m foeucrwaxcth hoaric,is faid to be white. @] The Temperature. Poleyis of temperature driein the thirdde- gree, and hot inthe end ofthe fecond. @ The Vertues. Didfcorides faith, it isa remedie forthemthat A iaundice, 3 and that F a the yellow / haue the dropfie, are troubled withthe fpleene. B Ir Pp prouoketh vrine,&& 7X 1S is Fput into Mithridate, treacle, and counterpoifons. c er hott @L The. Place. * ° oth yello# _ Thefe4 plants¢ do grow4 naturally vpon the mountaines of France, Italie,Spaine,and wi"? of that Poley Theyare ftrangers in England, notwithftandinge I haueplants gions. bythegift ofZobe/. floures ; . @ The Time. They floure from the end of May,to the beginning of Auguft. ’ q™ < yLA \ y 4 \ \\ } \ the bitings of veIt profiteth much againft Si .O > venomous 4 . i: 2 a ae ee : ee 4t where place fromthe bealts good for is 00% . i. fiied © D 15 with vineger, The fame sdritnke Ae ae : : lii2 shes |