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Show 108 Bey Ofthe Hiftory of Plants; pene he Ofthe Hiftro y of Plants. Lis. 2 alaaee q| The Names, OkeofIerufalem is called in Grecke sémer : in Latine Botrys + In Italian; Botré : in Spanith,Bien Crap, Ay$: grnida: inhigh-Dutch, Craubenbraut, and $rottenbraut ; in French and low-Dutch,Pyment « inEnglith, Oke of Ierufalem ; andof fome, OkeofParadife. OfOkeofFerufalem, and Oke of Cappadocia. Oke of Cappadociais called in Greeke ‘apeeoie: in Latine,Ambrofia ; neither hath it any orher I Botrys . Oke ofIerufalem. 2. Ambrofia, Oke of Cappadocia, knownename. Pliny faith that Ambrofia is a wandering name, and is given vnto other herbes : for poirys (Oke of Ierufalem, as we haue written)is of divers alfo. called Ambrofia: In Englith it is called Oke of Cappadocia. | The Temperature. Thee plants are hot and dry in the fecond degree, and confift of fubrill parts. q TheVertues. Thefe plants be good tobe boyled inwine, and minifired vnto fuch as haue their brefts opt, andre fhort winded, and cannoteafily draw their breath , for they cut and wafte graffe humours andtoughflegme, The leaues are ofthe fame force ; being made vp with fugar they commonly callitaconferue. Itgitteth a pleafant tafte to flefh that is fodden withit, and eaten with the broth. Itisdried and layd among garments, notonely to make themfmell fweet, butalfo to prefetue them ftom moths and other vermine; which thing ic doth alfo performe. Therewereformerly two moredeferiptions in this chapter, both which sere made by looking vpon the figures in Lobels Teons; the formerbeing of his AméreSupafrzofior,which isnothing elfe bur the (oronepms Ruehiz, or Swines Crefies. The later was of his Ambrofia temafolia, which our Avthor in the la!t chap~ trlefontiby thhename ofAbrosanum campeltese * Cuar. 456. Of Lauander Cotton. 1 Chamacypariff[us. ©] The Defeription. Lauander Cottons Auan@er Cotton bringeth forth eluftred buttons of a golden colour,and of a {weer {mell, and is often vfed in garlands , and decking vp of gardens and houfes. it hath a wooddy ftocke, out of which grow forth brancheslike little boughes,flender,very ma- ny, a cubit long, fet about withlittle leanes, lJong,narrow,purled,or crumpled ; on the tops ofthe branchesftand vpfloures, one alone on euery branch, made vp with fhort threds thruft clofe together, liketo the floures of Tanfie, and to the middle buttons of the floures of Cammomill , but yet fomething | The Defiription. z QO -iaN or Botrys, hath fandry fmall tems a footan d ahalfe high, dividing & = i de {mall branches,befet with {mall leaues deeply cut or lagged, callit Oke Rien ae lingthe leafe ofan Oke,which hathcaufed our Englifh women to fairy bie = 3thevpper fide ofthe leafeis of a deepe greene, and fomewhat rough and broader, of colour yellow, which be chang ed ack os ‘aia hit ts of a darke reddifh or purple colour; the feedie foures grow cluftering ho afica: aie Cer a or blowings ofthe Vine: the roor is {mall and threddy: : > into feed of an obfeure colour. Therootis of a wooddy fubftance. The fhrubit felfe is white bothin branches and leaties, and hatha a pleatfant fmel! and fauour a aingkis yellowi: th colour, and thehole » and ofa feint plantdieth whenthe {eedis ripe. ftrong {weet fmelf. ~The f that this kind 3 a32ee e fmell of Ambrofia or Oke of Cappadocia yeeldeth, hath moued + ines ice that this pike was meate andfoodfor the gods : Diofcorides faith irgroweth 1: inmy og; =A reid ¢, ss ws es = rotanumfamina,and fo call it,and bythe fame crooked and fireaked br ite in alieohen to the height of twa cubits, yeelding many ae from top thereof tl iuicing themfel into fandrie other a ; uesyellowi ; the middeftto the € top many moffie not{mall muchbranches yalike ,comme th floures nameour Authour gaue the figure thereof if the laft chapter faue one, though the defeription did not belongthereto, as I haue formetly noted. Another fort thereofour Authout, cour der; and the whole plant isas itwere like vntoT; b Apis ee, , ge into {mall prickly cornered buttons, mm fmel] ahs oe ue 3 wherein is contained blacke round feed, not vnpleafant in rafte 4 and more tender: at t, but thinner ii. tanss of Mugwor is beey, ander wholeplant ae tie yeeldetha ple, aa tee ne ne ree approch of Winter: following Tabernamontanus and Lobel,fet forthe 2 little before by the name ofAbfinthinm mari Pleafant fauior ; the whole plant petithed with meat 4hele plants are ;brar phtvntnous & “| The Place, ‘a ight vnto vs from beyond the feas, efpecially from Spaine andItaly Thefe a | The Time. They HOUrei; in Augui _ey v flotire Ausuttt, t. and and the the feedt feed t jc ripe inesin Sept I r, s embe There ate fomevaricties of this plant, which Matthiolws,Lobel,and others refer to Ab= veake “2UC$ 5 for his thi f num Abrotani feminefacie, that Dodonens calls Santolinaprima, and this here figured,Savtgling altera. Healfo mentioneth.three other diffex fences thereof,whichchiefely confift in the Abeta ae hird hath very thort and {mall leaues like thofe of Heath ; whence Bawhine calls it feminafolijs Erice, The fourthhath the leauesleffe toothed,and morelike to Cypreffe, faagaé hence |
