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Show 754 ~~OFthe Hiftory ofPlants. tena Liz. a — ascoec — on oe nourifhed veterly rot and perith away ) though the ftalkes and rootes by the which they were of May,feldome fooner. beginning andwill beginne to {pring vp againe at the @ The Place, Where this plant groweth naturally I know not, in c4yno 1617 I received two final] roots thereof from Matter Franqueuill of London, no bigger than hens egges: the one I planted, and the other I gaue toa friend, mine brought meea pecke of roots, wherewithI ftored Hamp. fhire, q The vertues. Thefe rootes are dreffed divers waies; fome boile them in water,and after ftew them with facke L 13.2, patente Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 5 he Gq] The Defeription. Odiftinguith the kindes of Cammomils with fuhdry defcriptions would be but to enlarge the volume, and fmall profit would thereby redound to the Reader, confidering they are fo well knowne to all: notwithftanding it fhall not be amiffe to fay fomething ofthem, to keepe the order and method of the booke, hitherto obferued. The common Cammomil! hath many weake andfeeble branches trailing vpon the ground,taking holdvp- én the top of the earth, as it runneth, whereby it greatly encreafeth. The leaues are vetyfine, and much iagged ot deepely cut,ofa ftrong feet {mell :among whichcomeforththe fldures like vntothe field Daifie,bordered about the edge witha pale ofwhite leaues : the middle partis yellow. compofed of fuch thrums clofe thruft together, as is that ofthe Daific. The tootis very{mall and threddy. 2 Thefecond kinde of Cammomill hath leaues, roots, ftalks, and creeping branches like the and butter,adding alittle Ginger : others bake them in pies,putting Marrow, Dates,Ginger, Raifons ofthe Sun,Sacke,&c. Others fome other way,asthey are led by their skill in Cookerie, But in myiudgement, whichway foeuerthey bedreft and eaten theyftirre and caufea filthie loath- precedent : the floures growat the tops of {mall tender ftems,whichare nothing elfe but fach yellow thrummie mattcras is in the midft of the reft of the Cammomils, without any pale orborder ofwhite floutes,as the others haue: the wholeplant is of a pleafing fweet {mell , whereupon fome fome ftinking windewithin the bodie, thereby caufing the belly to bee pained and tormented, hauegiuen it this addition, Odoratum, and area meat more fitfor fwine,than men yet fome fay they haue vfually eaten them, andhaie much doubled with white leaues,infomuck that the yellow thrum in the middle is but little feen found nofuch windie qualitie inthem. 17.O0@ob.1621. IohmGoodyer. $ 3 This third Cammomil differeth not from the former, fauing that the leaues hereofare very and the other very fingle, wherein confifteth the difference, 3 Chimemelim Anglicumflore : multiplici. 4. Chamemelum Romanum: Double floured Cammomill, Romane Cammomil, CowaPs 261. OfCammomill, 1 Chananstlum, Cammomill. 3 Chamamelum nudunn odoratit Sweet naked Cammomill. 4 Ro mane Camimomill hath many flender ftalkes, yet ftiffer and ftronger than arty of the Others by re Wo. ¢. The leaues are of a more whitifhi colour, tending to thecolourof the leaues of p ‘ othent teafon whereofit ftandeth more vpright,and doth not creepe vpon the earth as the 2 nego floures be likewife yellow in the middie, and paled about with a border of fimall Thefep| ‘ The Place. plants ate fer in gardensbothfor pleafure andalfo profit. They 4, «| The Time: Y Houremoft part ofall the Sommer. ; |
