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Show 656Guar. 84> Trips5- Theatrum Botanicum. 3. Helianthemum Sabcudtoum, Reedeng Dare Hee 1. Helianthemum vulgare. Theordinary dyvarfe Ciftus or {mall Sunflower. Tk 1pe.5, The Theater of Plants. Cuar. 84; 659 vellow flowers atthetoppes of them, like unto the former, after which come {mall heads that fwell out inthe raldale are ftraked and scitenvithy & containe within them {mall round feede like Millet, but ereatet : the roote is fomewhat long,hard and wooddy, blackifh on the outfide with divers long. fibres therear; 8. Chameciftus Serpilli folioflore luteo, Yellow Dwarfe Ciftas with wilde Time leaves, This Dwarfe Ciftus creepeth upon the ground, like unto wild Time, with {uch like {mall leaves fet upon the reddifh branches verythicke,or as ic were ina double row,ofa darke greene colour, and little hairy withall, baa little longer and whiter next unto the flowers, which ftand three or foure together; every-one on a pretty long hairy footeftalke ; confifting of five {mall yellow leaves like unto the other and fomewhat {weete : the LOK : ; roote is very fibrous or much {pread.uanderground, 9, Chameciftus Serpili folio florecarneo, Thegreat Dwarfe Ciftus with wilde Timeleaves, This other wilde Time leafed Ciflus hath creeping blackith branches, farcher extended upon the gtound then the other. being about a'footein length, and taking roote as they creepe, having fuchlike bur {mall leaves fet thereon bycouples, of a fad greene colour on the upper fide,and grayifh undetneath + at the ends. of the branthe heads ches ftand three orfoure flowers together, made of fiveleaves a peece; of a kind of bluth colour: that beare the feede arefive fquare, and open themfelves at the toppes fhewing very {mall feede ;- the roote is {mall and wooddy: all thef¢ forts of Dwarfe Ciltus egsiufowent are durable,not perifhing in the Winter, le ACE. The firft and fecond gtowin divers places of this land, butefpeciallyin Kent, in every wa thereot throughout, whichin fome placesis greater then in others, yet that with the white flower is more rare to finde then the others: the third according’ to thetitle in Savoy : the fourth Clu/ns faith he found onthe hills about-thealfo Bathes oe the fixt of Baden: the fifthe likewife faith groweth plentifilly on the Alpes of A#/fria and Hyngarys places of France, Spaize, onthe {nowyhills of the Alpes. the feaventh.on the open {funnyfandy bills in divers and Italy : the eighth C/ufus faith hee never found but upon the higheft Alpes of Axfiria and Stiriay andas fome thinke is that fort is moft ufuall with us herein Zxg/and: the lalt alfo onthe {nowy hills of the Alpes. The Time, Allthefe forts. of Dwarfe Ciftusdoefowerin the Summer, {omeearlier and Iater then other by a moneth; yer moft of them are fo foone fading;that their flowersendure buta day or two, and perfec their feede foone after, . Lhe Names, : T amverily perfwaded that Dio/corides hath made mention ofthis herbe intwo fundry places of his worké, the onein the Chapterof Helesins whichhe faith Cratevas called Bintsor Alu nrian Helenium e-Egyptidim, and erew like Serpyllum,unto which Pliny alfo in his 39, Booke and10. Chap. confenteth,faying Heleninm is fayd to grow ofHelens teares, and the befttogrow inthe Iland Helena : it isa {mall (hrubbe lying onthe’ ground, with leaveslike unto Serpyllzms or mother of Time, and in the 22. Chap. of the fame Booke:hee remembreth jt-againe and giveth the vertues thereof, which are differing fromthe other Heleninrs or Elecampane 3" for hethere faith, : 3 a ‘ enthe ground, but the leaves are fomewhat broader then inany of the former, neareft in forme unto fmall Mirtle leaves, and pointed at the ends:above the leaves on a {mall ftalke ftand foure orfive {mall yellow flowerslike the reft + f \ py §.. Chameciftus arifolime, Broad leafed finall SunGhamseiffa Frifieus. The Dwarfe Ciftus of Freeeland, flower or Dwarfe Ciftus, The {mall branches of this low or Dwarfe Ciftus doe lye w Y the heads for feede are three {quare, and the feede within Theftalkes of this low Ciftus grow more upright then the former, more blacke alfo and more woddy, abont halfea foote in length,having fo many {mall,rough and hairy darke < reft abiding long, 6. Chamaciftibirfutus. Dwarfe Ciftus with rough leaves. Nee them fomewhat rough and reddifh ; the roote is like the that the juice thereofis fwere being span in ae isa Siaeee at ie ngage: ee to be the Ne~ enthe ,whereat Homer {peaketh, that putteth awayall forrowes: but fome thinite thar this differeth from the Fielenom of Theophraften, becaufe he numbreth it ftill among fweeté herbes that were afed in Garlands, as Serpyllum,Sifymbrinm,and Abroranum, and therefore judge itto be (Marum,or herbe Matticke : the other place in Diofcorides is in his Chapter of Panax, and called Mevanis seigovior Panax, and Panaces Chironium, which hee there faith hath leaves like unto Amaracus or Marjerome and yellow flowers, and a fmall roote ; all know the leaves of Marjerome doe not much differ from Serpyllum in the forme, burin the Jargeneffe and hoary whiteneffe and therefore divers Authors doecall it diverfly ; fome, as / ugdunenfes, callethit Helenium minus Diofcorides, and others Helenium alterum, five eAgyptiam, and fome Panax,andVanaces Chironium as Matthiolus and others that followhim, or Céironia as Cafalpinus: fomealfo take it tobe Helianthe of Pliny, which Cordis calleth He~ leanthemum, oxflos Solis, and {o doe Lobel,Thatius, Tsabermontanus and divers others : Gefnerin hortis Germanie callethit Gratia Dei, ot Hyffopoides, for the likeneffe of the leaves, which deceived both him and Tragus, whe called it Hy(fopus campeftris, and Lonicerus who called it Hy{fopus montana,five fyloeftris, whoall follow the com= monappellations-oftheir countries. Cordys faith it was called by divers in his time,Confolida aurea & {0 faith Clim firs alfo, yer he would natherreferre all thefe forts to the family of the female Ciftus, and make them of his’ third order ofCiftus, calling them Chameciftus, becaufe they are like unto them, both in face and propertie, Lobel in his Adverfaria would rather referre it to the Centazrinm lutewm, whereunto.as he faith it is both in face and vertue not unlike : the firft which is as ufaall with us asin Germanyis called of the Germans Heyden Yffop, that is, greene leaves: fer thereon,fomewhatlike the laft, and fo ofthe ftalkes and branches for they are divided into {maller ones, ftandufually but one fomewhat large flower, and Heathen Hyffope we may call it in Eng4jh, and fo the reft, eyther fimall Sunflower or Dwarfe Ciftus the third is remembred by Tabermoutanus onder the fame title, it is expreffed here ; the fourth is the fixe Chamecifiss of Clan fus sche fiftis his third Chameciftus in his Hiftory of Plants,but are the firlt and {econd in his Pannonicke obfervati- fometimes two, confifting but of one leafe, yet cut in fo deepe that it {eemeth to be five round pointed leaves, ofa palepurple or light blufh colour, witha long purplithftile, or pointellin the middle, compaffed about with ten {mall chives, tipt with blackifh chives, after which come five {quare round heads,conteining {mall yellow feede : the root is wooddyand{preading, frus, and called by Tabermontanus Ciftus humilis Auftriaca,by Banbinys Chameciftwhirfuta ; the feventhis called by Lagdunenfis Erica Chryfanthemos, and by Bauhinus (hameciftus Ericefolio luteus, who judgethit to bee the Cori fimilimus frater in maritimis ofCefalpinus, and the Cori Diofeoridts of Guilandinus the eighth is the fecond Chameciftus of Clufiws, which Tabermontanus calleth Ciftus humilis Serpillifolia, and thinke may bee the Helianthes fhecies rara, inthe Adverfaria of Penaand Lobel, which Lobel afterwards in his Icones calleth Ciftus ma= jorane foliis sand Baubinws maketh tobe aCiffws femina, numbring ic among them the laft C/w/fus in his Pana thicke that they feemeto have foure ata joynts at the roppes felves upright, which are of two forts, the one with very fhort leaves,which is the lower, and in the other which rifeth higher much longer, fet both fo {mall that’ they aré moft like unto the leaves of Heath,or Tamariske, with {mall Ze AEA This Dwarfe Ciftus is likewife a {mall plant, having moft of the branches lying on the ground,and fome bearing them- fasa ) \) Dwarfe Ciftus. é) 7: Chameciftus Ericefolys, Heath leafed ons, and there called Angu/tifolius and Letifolius, as Baubinys doth alfo: the fixt is Claimhis eighth Chameci. nonicke obfervations, was not well refolved by what nameto call it,as partaking both with Creorum Mdarthioli,8c Chameciftus,and therefore lett ittheréas an Anonima, without name, but confideting afterwards better uponit, he ferteth ir forth in his hiftory of Plants for his feventh Chameciftus, Baubings calleth it Chamecifins Serpylli folia floribns carneje, and taketh it to be the Refs Alpina altera folijs minimis of Gefner in hort,and the Alpinaala tera of Label, The Vertues, All thefe forts are drying and bindingor aftringent, with fome bitterneffe joyneéd thereto, efpecially in fome more then in others, and not without fome {mall fent alfo ; the decoction of this herbe androote, is fingular oe Of |