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Show i Lit. 2. mr Se re Of the Hiftory of Plants, 1 Valeriana porta2 bol: 2 eo per tne Ellow Yarrowis a {mall plant feldome abouea {pan high: the flalkes Wwhereofarec. uered with long leaues, veryfinely cut in the edgeslike feather s in the WINES OF lit; birds:the tufts or fpokie mmndles bring forth yellow floures ;.of the fameshape and formeofthe commonYarrow: the root confiftethof threddy ftrings, Garden Valerianjor Setwall. 2 Valeri nator fy tris, Great wil i 2 Achilles Yarrow, or noble Milfoile, hath athicke and tough root, with firings faftened thereto ; ftom which immediately rife vp diuers ftalkes, very greene and crefted whereupondoe grow long leaues compofed ofmanyfmall jagges,cut euento the middle rib : the floures ftand on the top of the ftalkes with {pokie vmbels or tufts,ofa whitith colout,and pleafant{m ell, 3 @ The Place. Thefe kinds ofYarroware feldomefound: they growin a fat and in medowes,and are ftrangers in England, Theyfloure from May vntill Auguft. fruirfull foile,and fometimes @| The Time, q The Names, Diofcorides. defcription doth fufficiently declare, that this herbe is Strariotes Millefolinm «in Greeke,sexnsnexencéguer : the heightof the herbe fhewethit, the formeofthe leaues agree ; thereis fome ambiguity or doubt in the colourofthe floutes,which Diofcorides defcribeth to bewhite,as the vulgar copies haue ; but Andreas Lacuna addethout ofthe old booke, ofa yellowcolo ur: itis namedofthe Jaterage, Millefelium minus,orlittle Yarrow, and Millefolinmluseam, yellow Yarrow, or Nofe-bleede the Apothecaries and commonpeople knowit not, | The Temperature. i Yarrow is meanely cold and fomewhatbinding. @ The Vertues, Tt is a principal] herbeforall kinde of bleedings, and to heale vp newandold vicers and greene wounds : there be fome,faith Galen, that vie it for fiftulaes, Thisplant 4chillea is thought to be thevery famewherewith CAchilles cuted the woundsofhis fouldiers,as before in the former chapter. T The plant here Gigured’anddeferibed in the fecond place, was alfo figured b beck and deftribed formerly in the fifth place ofthe 209- shapteral dibookeiy thetitle oF Taxacetion minus album, but the figure of Lcbels which is pur there being fomewhat imperfeé, 1 thought it not amiffe hereto giue shat of De whichis fomewhat moreexquifite, otherwife both the figure and hiftory mightin this place haue been omitted, 4 Valeridua Petred. feria Stone Valerian, Cuar. 440. Of Valerian, or Setwall. G The Defcription> * ground,of a pleafant fweet fmell when it is broken, R| 2 Thegreater wilde Valerian hath leaues diuided andjagged, as thofe ofthe former Wo about the ftalke hereofare alfo {mooth, hollow, and jointed,and aboue a cubit high : the ie ftand on {pokie rundleslike to thofe ofthe former, but ofa light purple colour : the roots 28" der, and full offtrings and {mall threds, not altogether without fmell. 3 The otherwilde one is much like in formeto the garden Valerian, bur farre lef ze leaues thereof be vndiuided, the other are parted and cut in funder : the ftalkesa! floures which ftand on {pokie rundlesare like to thofe of the others, of a light w big ‘ lour: the roots be flender,growing aflope,creeping., and full offine fmall threds,of litt 4 Thereis a {mall Valerian growing vpon rockes and ftony places,that is i {cribed,fauing it ts altogether leffe. + The ftalk is fome halfe foot high,and ftrait, into hole. rhe roe branches towatd the top,and thatalwaies by couples ; the botrome leaues ate WA") a aa , and fometimes withall ofalight red : the root is aninch growing aflope,'* i on the vpperpart of the earth by a multitude of ftrings, the moftthicke, part ofir ftanding out? ed Hetame or garden Valerian hath his firft leaues long, broad, uided ; and the leaues vpon the ftalkes greater, longer, and fmooth.green, and ne! deepely gathed omeith«s i fide, like the leaues of the greater Parfaep, but yetleffer : the ftalke 1s abous¢t high,fmooth,and hollow,with certaine joints farre diftantone from another: out of which ons growforth a coupleof leaues,and in the topsofthe ftalkes vpon fpokie rundles fioures DS* ped together, whichare fmall, opening themfeluesoutof a longlittle narrow ftand necke, of ¢ whitifh |