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A m inodorw 5 8; Chamemelum Alpinu n, Y \ } ay | AW Trise.t. sh) W239 SS him | Camomill, yet very like, but ofa paler greene colour, thé oné fort fmelling rong and unpleafant, um Hifbaui : the other having no {cent at all : the howers ofthem both are verylike unto 3 avage ae no oe — a and the i This great C ea eee coe anne‘tdi GreatSpanifh Camomill. mt i of a cubite high, forth into dd; manyea raed eas § 5, branching ca Si ae doth, with ts, nadae dee growfuc ftalkes, like leaves, and asgreene finely ftriped cutin or divi2 ends wnereot are blunter, and divi €¢ into twoparts , and not very thicke fet on the branches; at the whereof ftand the flowers, each being foure times tops larger than the fower of the ordinaryfort: confifting of about a a vr- en aes nay aHor e seine’ almoft white, for a pale or border, abouta pale yellike the Qedinar von? * = ec Gert te pa' f t . —ee in thefe heads, which is {mall and yellowifh ieee y} : the es conlilteth but of a fewfibres, which dye every yeare, the plant being but annuall, ne mult be new lowneinthe Spririg ; itisofa good fcent, fomewhat refembling the garden Camomil] } SChamamelum Eiifpanicum luteum odoratum, Sweet yellow Spanith Camomill, ah yellow Camomill is like unto the garden Camomill i in all things, faving the flowers which are wholly oes oth the bordering leaves, which are ofa fhining yelyellow colour, about foureteene in number, and the middle thrum, but the whole floweris at leaft twice as bigge asthe flower ofthe ordinary fort, and almoft as fweet, but leffer almoft by the halfe than the former, his & © 7. cbamamelum Fiifpanicum incanum parvum, Small hoary Spanifh Camomill, ae groweth a a not oo an hand breadth high, having fome few hoary whitith gréene Coceat ae ying a the ground, being, as {mall and fine as thofe of Southernwood,orfine Wormewood, foaiae Te Ls # ‘up abare Dae alke, without any leaves thereon, and one fomewhat large flower, a oppe, having many w ite leaves, ftanding abouta pale yellow middle thrum ; the whole plant and very part thereof, isas well without {cent as without tafte, velo ee 8. een Alpinum inoderuns, Vnfavory Mountaine Comom ill, danecat yA yunuce amomill hath many hoary ftalkes rifing from the roote, without leaves for a certaineé dieee aving manyfet together, {mall toward the bottome, feeming to bee but as ftalkes to the leaves, Ww a ee fomewhat natrow, and deepely cut in on both fides, as it were into deepe notches, being more thicke fearing otherforts are by much, among whichrife up divers other weake ftalkes, without any cut bea em, and one fomewh g nt of each, like unto a Camomill flower, but larger, the Dor er of leaves beingwhite, and the thrum yellow : and take roote in di4 ‘bi : the roote is compofed ofa few whitith in the mi ftrings, commend it, and is a ittle bitter in tofte, fie abet 9. Cotulafatida, G& nonfetida. Mayweed witha ftrong,and no {cent, oe Camomill, that I muft needs Joyne them together : but that which ftinketh groweth enth d with an either that which {melleth the common n the prs ground, the branches neither taking them and creepe rootenot,or or runne as Camomill doth :Camomill, the leaves and thereon are of longer greater than 7 Gate: middle yellow thrum, whereby and by the {cent'thereofthey are onely to be di cerned from Camomill for many - doe gather the flowers ofthat whic finelleth not;in ftead of Camomill flowers, either ofignorance or wilfulnes, and fo fellkinde them there promifctiouf ly tofound the Apen en Of this eplaces Tee hath beene OtSe e oftentimes, andin divers ‘of this Land, a fort almoft as large as double Camomill Aowers, The Place; with double flowers Flore plenas Small Camomill groweth familiarly wilde in many places (on greénés as they are called) ofthis Land, and with the Mayweed oftentimes that ftinketh not, which groweth alfo and double fort crow onely ingardens : the fourth was found améng corne, asthe ftinking fort doth: the naked by Guillame Boel in Africa by Tunis : the fifth,fixth, and feventhin divers places in Spaine : the eighthin fandrypla ces of the A/pes : the laft plencifully in our ewne Land, : The Time, They-all flower in the Summer, yet fome earlier ‘than others. ‘ The Names, .camomill is called in Greekea'yéuic, Anthemis of Diofcorides , and A'Viévov of Theophrafus, and this for a diftinGion Acundv§ vss of the whitenefle ofthe and Xayalusao quod mali odorem habeaty of the {cent of an Apple or Quince. Itis called by fome in Latineflowers: Leucanthemum, and Anthemis, but mot generally Chamamelum, and of fome Chamomilla,a3itis alfo in the Apothecaties Shops Somecall the garden Camomill, both fingle and double Chamemelum Romanum & odoratins & nobileshinking them to be fweeterkindes than the wilde, when’as that which growethwildis ufually broughtinto gardens, and will by manuring become of as good a{cent, or any other before inthe garden. Theret have their names in titles, bothin Latine and Englifh, as muchas is convenient, and that others have called them:but Mayweed as istheir beforefaid in the laft Chapter, is more truly taken tobe Parthe. ninm of D sofcorides,vet general y called Cots/a,taken as it is thought from the 77hufoans Canta,the diminutive being Cauinla, corruptly called Coula sby the Greekesicinarleuse ox nvvodindrs wmomilla canina & Canima herba: Cynanthemnis & (ynoboranc, that is, Cathe Germanes Krottendill « the Arabians call Camomill Debonigi & Babunegis the Tealians call it Camamilla: the Spaniards Maazanilla : the French Chamomile : thé Germanes Chamillen , and the May weed Krottendill : the Dutch Camite ; and we in Englifh Camomill. The Vertues, A deco@ion made of Camomill, and drunke, taketh awayall paines.and ftitches in the fides, The fowers onely ofCamomill beaten, and made up irito balls with oyle, driveth away all forts ofagues, ifthe party grieved bee annoynted with that oyle taken from the flowers, from the crowne of the head, tothe foles ofthe feete, and after laid tofweat intheir bed, with fufficiest coverings upon them, and that they fweat well: this is Nicheffor an Egyptians ; whicl Galen {cemeth to confirme, for he faith that the Sophi of the Egyptians confécrated this hearbemedicine to the Sunne, asa remedyfor all forts ofagues; bur therein faith Galen they were deceived, for it heaIT2 Ieth |