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Show ‘B2 Cuar.28. 3. Tanacetam lanuginofam, ‘ Woolly Tanfic. Tbeatrum Botanicum, 4, Tanacetem minus fore alto. Smal! white Tanfie, RIBE, T RIBE 1, Ie he Theater ofPlantes. Ctap.2g, The Vertues. The decoétion of the common Tanfie (and fome ofthe reft come nearé in effet thereinto) or the jayte drinké in witté, isa fingular remedyfor all the griefes ofthe urine, to provokeit ftopped; to helpe thofe that have the ftrangury, and have weake reines and kidneies, and chat cannot make being their water but by drops. Ir is alfo very profitable to diflolve and expell winde, whetherin the fRtomack, belly, or bowels., and to procure women: monethly courfes, and to expell windineffe in the mother, Ifit be bruifed and {melled unto often, a8 alfo applyed to the lower part ofthe belly,it is affiiredly found to be profitable for {uch women as are given to mifearry in childbea< ring, to caufe them goeout 5. Tanacttum Alpinum Mountaine Tanfie, their full time, without danger orlofle ; itis ufed alfo againft the {tone in the reines with goodfuccefle, efpecially to men, It is muchafed both in Lent andin the beginning of the- Spring, while the hearbe is young and'tender, to make calres thereof with egges fried, whichare called Tanfies, and are very profitae ble for thofe tomackes,that are troubled with bad humours cleaving thereunto; both to helpe tg digelt them, and byclearing the ftomack ofthem; to carry them away downeward, The feedis much commended and very profitas bly given to children for the wormes} andthe juyce indrinkeis as effectuall ; being boyled in oyle,it is veryprofitably applyed to comfort the finewesthat are fhriinke by crampes, or are in paines through cvld: It is faid alo, that che rote preferved in Sugar; is a remedyfor them that have the gowt,if they take thereoffafting for a ¢erraing ‘time together, CuaP, XXIX, Matricaria. Featherfew, (eq Hereare divers forts of Featherfew to bee entreated ofhere,asfhall hereafter follow, e ) 1. Matricaria vulgarisfimplex. Common Feathetfew, BEY Common Featherfew hath many, large frefh greene leaves, very much tofne of cut onthe ftalkes are hard and round,fet with manyfuch like leaves, but fomewhat {maller, and at the toppesft edges : the and manyfin= gle flowers, upon feverall {mall foot-ftalkes, confifting of many {mall whiteleaves, ftanding round about a yellow thrammein the middle : the rootis fomewhathard and fhort, with many {trong fibresat ic : the Sent of the whole plantis very {trong andftutting, and the tate very bitter. 2. Matricariaflore pleao. Wouble Featherfew. This differech very little fromthe formerbut in the flowers, whichare very thicke and double,with white leaves, fo that onelya little yellow {pot isto be feene in the middle. : < 1.3. Matricaria vulgaris finjlex e& bullatis 2. Flore pleno, floribus aureis Otdinary & naked Featherfew. Double Featherfevy . 3. Méatricaria bullatts floribus auret. Naked Featherfew, tcnus calleth the ordinary Tanfie, Arthemifia Diofcoridis; and the double Tanfie Arthemifia fativa 4Auglica, The fgcond hath no other name then is inthe tilie, except that fome doe cail it white Tanfie, becanfe many of the leaves will bee white. The third is called Lanace= tum Lanuginofum of Lugdunenfis 3. Banhinus in. his Pinax would referre it to the Stratiotes Afille. folia flavo flore of Clufius, and Milefolinm luteum of Lo- Sel,but Ithinke heistherein miftaken, for the leaves of Stratiores being much {maller,and having no {cent declare itfo, Itmay bealfo the Heliochry/um Iralicum of Matthie elas, but not any Achillea , whofe deferiptions yee fhall havein anotherpart hereafter. The fourth is called by Dedonaus Tanacetum minus flore albo, of Lobel 7;‘andacetam minus candides floribus: (butit is not likely tobe the Achyf. Tea ot Matthiolus, Caftor Durantes and others, whofo} . lowthe defcription of Diofcorides and Matthiolas » the flowers of whofe Achyllea are ofa whitith purple, with fome yellow {pots in them) forthat it hath both the forme and the {mell of Tanfie, but fomewhat weaker. The fife by Luedunenfis is called Tanatetum parvum Alpinum, and faith that the people in the Mountaines wherei t gtoweth, call it IvaMofchata,and fome e4uthemis Alpina: Gefner in hort, calieth it Tanaceto cognata herbula, in Englith Mountaine Tanfie. The twolaftare called Tanacets ns in odorum ofmolt, yet fome doeadde Bellidis, majore flore,and fome Bells Tanaceti folio: fome have thought it to.bee Sideritis Italorum, but Pena contradiG@erh it, (/4fizs {heweth the differences ofthe greater and the lefler. Wee call itin Englifh according to the Latine, Vnfavor y Tanfie, and I place it here among the reft of the {weet 1 anfies, for the namesfake,ray{ed from thelikenefle of the leaves, thoughithath no fcent. ‘The Italians call it Tanaceto, aland Daneda: the French Tansifie , and Athanafie : the manes Reinfarn, becaufe the leaves refemble Ferne,Gerand the Dutch thereafter Reyn vaer, wee in Englith Tanfie. The This Kinde differeth not from thé former, but that it hack his flowers,without any ofthe pale or border ofwhite leaves aboutit, and therefore being naked and without thofe leaves, Ihave named it naked Featherfew,as an efpecialldifference from the former. 4. Matricaria grati odoyis. Sweet Featherfew. This other Featherfew differeth not from the firft > ei= therin roote,leafe, or flower, being inall things folike, that there can be no difference perceived betweene them, untill you fmell thereunto, and theniris {oone found to bee of a morepleafant fofter {mell, which fo abidethin the kind, and is not fo made byart,or degenerated by any cafualty, but the workeof nature onely, 5+ (Matricaria inodora, Vnfavory Feathetfew. The Vnfavory Featherféw is a {mall low plant, rather fpreading than rifing high into many branches, whereon are manyleavesfet, here and there without order, every onebe- ing {maller, fhorter and thicker than the leaves ofthe com- mon Featherfew, but cut in on bothfides, fomewhatlike un= to it, ofto {mell at all : the fowersare white with a yellow thrumme in the middle like the other, which have a certairte heavie dull {cent, but very weake,the roote is bufhy like the former. 6. Matricaria five Parthenium tenuifolium, Fine-lealed 3 Featherfew. 4 This Featherfew hatha fewleaves below, rifing from thé foote,as fmalland fine as Fennell, andverylike unto Sothern Wood,but {melling folike Featherfew , and bitcer withall, , NE <==] VU NV AeA NAY SS NAY x N Ra \ oy) BFAWNO ey) [i " Y ZNZ \rR AS : N that even thereby it may éafily be knowne,to whatftocke or tribe it doth belong, from among which rife divers brow- nith round and hardftalkes, to the height of halfe a yard or more, whereon grow difperfedlyfuch like leaves : at the toppes ofthe ftalkes hand war {mall white sates an ambell, thicke fet, or clofe together very like unto the fow. tes ers of Yarrow, that they iehee deceive him that heedfully doth not marke them + the roote is {mall, white, and Wooddy, w ri fore finall mall fibres fibres atir, i with 4, Masricatid 83 |