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Show 96 Cuar.3s. Tripke fk —Theatrum Botanicum. 3. Abrotanum femina Narbonen/fe magno fore. French Lavender Cotton, ‘ ey ‘ ther, but fomewhatfmaller,and more thinly ot {parfedly fer onthe branches,of a greenifh white colour, ngiher fo green asthe laft, nor fully fo white as the ordinate a ftrong {cent, fomewhat like the ordinarykind : the Howers ftand uponthe toppes of the {inallerfpr igges,cveryone byit felfe, uponabare or nakedftalke, without leaves fora good {pacé, which are ofapaler yellowcolourthanthey, and much lar ger, which give feed fomewhat of a darker colour than it: the roote isas greatand wooddy, and fpreadeth much in the ground, sore 4. Abrotanumfimina Erica folis. Fine Lavender Cotton, This Lavender Cotton growethnot fo great or high,as the Frenchkind,but hath manyfhort wooddy branches,whereon doe {parfedly grow finaller, fhorter, and finer whitifh greene leaves, very like to the leaves of common Heath; the flowers are yellowftandingin the like manner as the 0. thers doe : this hatha fine {mall {cent to commend it, fome- what refinous, not veryfaintifh or weake, _ 5- Abrotanumfamina folys Rerifmarini MAUS, Rofmary leafed LavenderCotton. This kinde of Lavender cotton, fhooteth forth from his wooddy roote, manyflender hoary ftalkes, little above a foote long, whereabout growmany verynarrow{mall and flat leaves , like unto the leaves of Rofmary, which while theyare young are more hoary white, and have buta {mall fhewof denting about the edges: bur whentheyare grown old, they are more greene, and the denting about the edges is more apparant, of a {weet fcent, and bitter tafte : from thefé ftalkes come forth divers fhort {prigges, with very fewleaveson them, onthe toppes whereof ftand feverail yellow flowers, like unto Lavendercotton, but much larger, which die downetothe ftalkes everyyeare, after it hath borne feed, as the other kindes doe. 6. Abrotanum femina folys Rorifmarini minus. Small Rofinary leafed Lavender cotton, Thereis no difference betweenethis andthe laft, in the leaves and fowers,butin the {malnefle thereof, being more fender, low and {mall inevery part, whichis not by reafon ofthe place (as being more dry and barren) where je groweth, but growingin the fameplace, with the former, is fmaller, and the feed being fowne,reta ineth ftil] the fameformeit had, in the naturall place. 7. Abrotanum famina virides minor, Small greene Lavendercotton. This {mall kinde of Lavender cottonis verylike unto thelaft {mall Kinde, but that it eroweth fomewhar greater and higher, having greene and not hoaryftalkes at all, as the leaves alfo are, and little longer, being as bitter in tafte as it, but not offo fweeta feent : the flowers ftand in the fame manner fafhion, but ofa paler yellowcolour: the rocte is wooddy like it, and full ofupon flenderfalkes, and of the fame {mall fibres. 8, Abrotanum famina repens. Creeping Lavender cotton. This creeping Lavender cottonalfo, is a {mall low hearbe, whofe branches ftand not upright, butlie downe, or as it were, creepe upon the ground, and areas white and hoary , ot rather more than the ordinary, and foare the {mall dented leaves alfo, but they are fomewhat thicker andfuller : the fowersl ikewife are yellow like thereunto but fomewhat {maller jand the {mell is not much unlike untoitalfo . R 9. Abrotanum peregrinum Lobeliy Cupreffifolits, Strange Lavender cotton. This ftrange plant I have here inferted amongthereft of the Lavender cottons, prefuming it to be his right place although Lobe/ giveth it the name of Sothernwood, with the face of Cypreffe: buthee maketh no mention of any’ flowers,whether they are anfwerable thereunto, which might affure us of the truth,and put the reft ont ofall doubt: butas he fetteth it downe, fo doe I giveit you here, the defcription thereof, untill I fee the face thereof to contrary or confirme the title. From a {mall my felfe, rooterif foote anda halfe high, bearing many long, narrow, eth up many black hard flender ftalkes, about a foote, are and flat ~. TRripe 1. Lhe Theater ofPlantes. “G HAPs36. Clufius doth agree, fayingthat it cannot be thatof Diofcorides, which hath as hee faith, divided leaves like unto Sea W ormewood; and.yet {etteth downe botlvit andthe reft of that kinde, under the name of Abrotanum femina, which I thinke he would not doe, if he thought they hadnot fome neare refemblante ; butMatthiolas doth thew again Fuchfms, that the plant which he ferteth forth for Abrotannmfamina,is farreunlike it (being the AbjfnthiumPonticumot Dodonans and others, whereof |ifhall {peake in the next Chapter) and that although*Fuchfixs doth fet forth the true Abretanumfamina of Dinfcorides; yet it is under the name of Chimacypariffus , not knowing it to be the right ; Dodonaus allo (whom.Gerard followeth in tranflating his words, and his Corrector legteth them paile as currant) contefteth that this Lavender cotton cannot bee Diofcoridey Abrotaniimfemina y but wohld make his greateft andhis {malleft Sothernwoods tobe it: whichasall may well obferve, differ verylittle’ either or flowers, from the ordinary mas ; and-therefore Ithe moremervaile that hee fhould reftife this, for the in leaves flowers fake onely, {eeing his mas andfaminaare fo like in flowers : but Dioforides in deferibing ‘his Abroranupfamina faith,floribus refertaeft, comantibus infummofulgore auri,which doth moltlively.expreffe the flowers hereof, and cannotbe referred to either of his Sothernwoods, and. therefore he fetteth forth this plant, and the diverskindes thereof, under the name ofSaxtolina, which he would referre to E luchryfum, and Stechas Citrina, but hoy truely let others judge. The firftis the Abrotanumfamina vulgare By Marviiolizs and divers others3 and Santolina by Ata grillara,as they callitin fomeplaces ofItaly, and Crefpolinaby Ca/alpinus, as they call it in, other places of Italy, Someof the later Writers would makeit to be the Chameacypar iffus herba of Pliny, which may well be doubted of, feeing he is fo briefe therein, giving onely the bare name, and a few properties ; the fecond is called by Camerari- us Abrotanumfamina folis. magis viridibus ; whereunto Clufins feemeth toagree, making it his fecond Abvoranum femina, Fabius Columaa makethitto bean otherfort of Polinm, butnot fo hoary as our ordinary Lavendercotton, in Englifh great Lavender cottons The thirdis called by (ordus Santonicum mains, by Tabermontanus Abjinthium marinum primum: by Penaand Lobel itistaken to bee the true Seriphizm of Diofcorides , yerfay it hath the face of Abrotanumfamina. Dodonaus calleth it his firft Sastolina : iris Clufiushis third Abrotanumfamina, which he calleth Narbonenfe : Columnahis Poly alterafpecies major, and Baubinus his Abrotum faminaflore majore : in Englifh French Lavender cotton, The fourth is Dodoneus his third Santolina and Bauhinus hig _AbrotanumFemi nafoligs erice, and called by fome Vaguentaria Lutetianorum, Banhinus judgethitto be Chamecyparif[us Dalechampy , asit-is fet downein Lugdwnenfis, but by the comparifon of the defcription thereof, I Ande that that Chameacypariffes doth better agree withthe fecond Spanith Abrotannumfensina of Clufius,called Salmanticenfis fecunda, in his Spanith obfere vations, The fift is (Uefivs his fourth kinde of Lavender cotton, and the firttof his Spanith kindes, and called by Bauhinus Abrotanumfaminafolys Rofmarini majus s the fixth is thefecond Spanith Abrotanumf amiva of Clufius, which Bawhinus calleth Abrotantmfamina Rofmarinifolijs minus :the feventh is the third Abrotanumfamina Salma- ticenfis of Clufius, called by Bauhinus Abrotanumfamina viridis. The eighth is Dedonaxs his fifth Santolina, which Bewhinus calleth Abrotanumfamina repens canefcens,in Englith Creeping Lavender cotton, The latt Peraand Lobel in their Adverfaria fay, they received both the plant and {eed from Bolowia, under the name of Szbina eALgyptia, and referring it hereunto,call it Abrotanum peregrinum Cupreffi folys, which Bazhinus thinketh to bee Dadenews his fourth Sautolina : but there is fome doubt thereof,as I {aid before inthe defcription,for Dodoness giveth flowers to his fourth Savtolina, with the leaves ofCiprefle : but Baxbinus maketh two forts of this plant of Lode/, the one he calleth Abrotanumfamina folys Cupreffisand the other Abrotanum Sabinefolio, and qnoteth Lobel for both, when as Lobel doth acknowledge but one plant, althonghit be fetdowne in twofeverall places of the e4dverfaria, but not in his obfervations,as Banhinus faith: Gerard his figure of Chamacypariffws, which he calleth Lavender cotton 7 utterly falfe, being thefigure of (Wu(cus terredris clavatus,and his whole Cliaptera meere tranfcript of Dodoneus in moft thingsthereof, The {talians call itin fome places Santolina, and Crefpolina in others, as is before faid, the Spaniards Yerva lombriguera : the FrenchPetit Cyprex, and Cyprez de jardin, and Guarde robbe : the Germanes Gar= ten Ciprex.: the Dutch Cipres, and we in Englifh Lavender cotton, ! The Vertues, tafcorides, and fo all other Writers doe generally fay, that the vertues hereofand of the formér Sothernewood are alike, working the fameeffets, and applyed to all the difeafesic is appropriate unto : but fetved by <Matthiolus, that halfe a dramme of the pouderofthe dryed leaves of Lavender particularly it is obCotton, taken in a little of the diftilled water ofFetherfew, every morningfalting, for ten dayes together at the leaft, and afterwards every otherday, is a very profitable medicine for womentroubled with the whites to ftaythem. Péiny faith that his Chamacypariffus (which as | faid before, is by fometobe this Lavendercotton) is good againft the poifon ofall yenemous Serpents and Scorpions beingtaken taken in wine. The feedis the wormes, eitherin childrenorelder perfons, and accounted to be of asgenerally in all our Country giventokill great force as Wormefeed : the leaves alfo are good whenfeed cannot be had, but are notof fo great vertue, Clufws faith, thacin Spaine they,nfe the decoctionof the Spanith kindes, to take awaythe ich and {cabbes, in whomfoever have them, but he adyifech, there fhould be caution ufed in givingit, leaves, interlaced or brayded like unto the leaves ofthe C yprefle or Savinetree, and dented aboutthe edges the flowers asI faid, he dothnot expreffe, nor any further knowledge hereof as yet. can I give you ; y The firlt growethin Germany. The fecond in The Place, divers places in Narbone in France. Thethird whence it is naturall. The fourth, fifth, is not knowné to us and fixth, Clufius found about Salamanca Knowne whence itis : and thelaft itis likely in Spaine. The feventh is une Cuar, XXXVI. eAbfinthium. WWormewood. growinthe gardens ofthofe that are curious by thetitle whereby it was fent, came out of Egypt. Many of the Confervers of rare plants, 3 ; aN Theydoeall, or moftof them flower in Iuly The Time, and Auguft, Lthough Disftorides (and Galen alfo) make mention butofthree forts ofWormewood, the one a com= $9] Monfort, well knowne as he faith, the beft growing in Paxtus j Woodor Seriphiwm, and the third Santonicum of the Countryand Cappadocia, The other Sea Wormebeyond the Alpes in France, yet there } hathfince beene found out many hearbes, accounted Diefcerides , although Fashfivs and Dodonans doe deny it, unto whomalfo knowne have many large whitifh greene leaves, fomewhat Cerneatti, muchdivided or cut into manyparto more hoary un ts, from among whichrife up divers hard and wooddy hoary ftalkes, 2 ‘ah ‘ The Names. rere is tome controverfie among Writer ing i s ‘ that whichothe v * rsrefiufe andd confate » but ‘i Deatibiol co “ieee ; butby aae ece poGra’ fome holding iolws,and the moft judicious oftheslater _ to bee thetrne brorarinws famina of Writers, this is taken Clufine to be kindes or forts ofthem, for fome likenefle of face, or vertues, or both, as (hall be declared hereafter. 1. eAbfinthiumvulgare, Common Wormewood, : Common Wormewood is well K twe 9F |