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Show Cwarg8. Theatrum Botanicum. SV Being forfed he would fay: nothing, of it, a which fhouldbethe tight, fone ccounting one plant and fome Matrhiolus and Lob /{et forth theirs, which is the to be right: Leontopodium, Lyons foote, or Mountaine Cottonweede. Ecaufe the Leontopetalon was called Leontopodinm alfo by divers, I thinkeit fitteft to bring it next to con- more haity white underneath then above : the {talkes rife up about halfe a foote or more high feewith fu bik leaves thereon nnto the toppes, where ftandeth one great browne head apeece, compafied about with | diy woollyor hoary white leaves, reprefenting the hairy foote ofa Lyon,Hare or Dove,orfuchlike beaft whence it tooke chename; out of which head comeforth manyfhort threds,which make thé flowers {eeme to hav hole therein, wherein lyeth afterwards {mall brownith feede, wrapped in fo much downe, thatit is hardl ‘ shee found or feene = the roote is {mall and long and fomewhat wooddy, with divers {trings and fibrés thereat, ae eet : : - Leontopodium minus. Le leffer Lyons foote. P € lefler Lyons foote rifeth up with one {mall ftalke for the moft part, with di | longer but not broader then the former, at the toppes whereof Thand divers eeae aeroe them three or foure ormore heads of flowers, like unto the other fmall Cuadworts confilting of thram: sof : i yellow colour, with fomeblacke haires among sae the feede is likethe other,and {o is the rootssi poe The Place, : oe heuiane onthe is fs Alpes of Germany, and ‘Baldus of Italy : the fecond on divers i monntaines in Germany ; ‘They flowerin I#/y and fometimes in Angaft. The Time. Grecke Acovrmododor voy TC Leoutopodium Itis called in in Greek di aT and fo in Latineal} vhich ¢ os Lyonsfoote, for the cafes declared in adefcriptions, andniu Coe ave: oebee ae aoe givenit as Diofcorides faith; yet fomeaffitme thatthe title of Leontepodium is not fontidin fete age te Semebi Cemos or (amos fo that Cemos and Leontopodium be one thing,and therefore P/iny in his 2Be Sie “Chap. fpeaking of Catanance, which was onely ufed'about love matters,faith, that for the fame ns a ¥. Leontopodiam maju. i 2 L contopodium minus, . ~ Ly. The greater Lyons foote or mountaine Cottonweede, Theleflex Lyons foote, ing 2 ERE um tine irbuea kind of Gaaphalinms, or Cadweede, ¢ lling ic, Gnaphan : differing from Gnaphalium, that there wvere little orno likenef {o much ; lium, which is the Echinm Scorpioides p sluftre of Banhinws d d,whict none that are extant ws refufeth,accoun~ m (as though Leontopo yeene thera :) Loxscer, 77) Scorpici des of Lobel, Aprleius, was called Leontopodinm, hewed before in the Chapter of Leontoperafyn, that it j fideration, and becaufe itis a kind of Cottenweede or Cudwort, I will inthe next Chapter {peake of the other forts of Cudworts,Golden Tufts, and Moufeare, as being neare{t in forme and vertues one unto another, ; 1, Leontepodinm majus, The greater Lyons foote or Mountaine Cottenwéede. This greater (for fo Icallitintegard of the next whichis {maller then it) Lyons foote or Mountaine Cottons weede, hath divers {mall and fomewhat narrow leaves lying upon the ground, hoary or woolly all over, yet Thereis much cont 685 cific all among writers aboup Leyes bee Leontopodiam, which fhops beyond Sea called Pasa Leoms, to a, which’the ; wens Plants, deat him thasan errourinhim, Jofephus 4 le Cafabonaas Clafins {aith in-his Hiltory Of im, whichhee jadgeth rather to belong to ived out of Candy, Ly the name of contop odinm Creticu™ ; of (mall Plan which I antal(oas he ss, yet Clufivs himfelfe fer faith Gortu/m fent him, for Ca h it forth under the name of Leontop ce. Honorius Bellis as Clafias faith there alfo fent him calleth Leontopodium! Creticum fomeplants, and cheiignre alfo drawne of the fameor tk like herbe, which hée are here ali, which as the Oder he judgeth bac aiffiectes of the Ribwort Plan i¢, all which forts ofClefins . Banbinus ferreth downe n@herbe peculiar-for the grne Leonbefore exprefled inthe tweltt Chap. of this doth much differ ropodium of Diofcories,. but together with Lugdanenfis thinketh that P/ ay hits Leontopsdinm be bue/pecies of Gnafromthat of Diefcorides, and’maketh the Leontopodium of Matthiolus, Label and others, tonm of Dsofcorides, as Leontopodi unto belong properly phalium.s yet becaufe | cannot {ee but that thefirft may as eftoxthe {econd is the Leontounto Gnapbalinm, Ihave asyoufee fetit'downebyit felfc, /unm cuiquegudicinm andis Gerardhis Gnaphalium podium parvum of Lobeland others, which Dodonaus calleth Pilofela minor altera, ‘ Alpinsm, =e The Vertues. for Thetalte hereof being aftringent and drying with fomebitternfie in icalfo;. doch teftifie itis very availeable all Sixes of blood or humors, as alfo effectuall for all fores, eycher greene wounds orold ulcers, and conducible prethe expreffeth that for whatfoevercures, the other Cudweeds mayperforme ; but becaufe Fhaveno author I forbeare to playthe {perties, nor any experience of my owne or orhers,to what difeafe or grecfe itisa remedy, Phyfition;and appointthe practife any furtherspanca [apienti. Cuar. XCIX, Gnaphalinm. Cadweede or Cottonweede. Heére be divers forts of thefe Cudweedes or Cottonworts,fome of much beanty( whereof I have given you the knowledgeof in my former booke,as the Gnaphalium Americanum, Live long, or Life everla| fting. Graphaline montanum flore albo & purpureo, White and Purple Catsfoote; Gnaphalinm Rofed SI wm, the Cotton Rofe, which I joyned to other plants of like beauty, forme and quality, whereof I fhall not needeto make further mention ) others that are of more vertue then beauty I meane to entrea¢e in this Chapters onely the figures of fome ofthem I fhall here infer. 3. Gnaphalium minus feu berbs Impia, Theleffer Cudwort or herbe Impious. 1: Gnapkalinm Anghcum vulgare majus. Onrgréate Common'Cudweede. The common Cudweede that groweth every where almoft inthis Land, efpecially in dry fandy grounds, rifethup but with one ftalke fometimes,and fometimes two or three,thicke fet on all fides with {mall long and narrow whitifh or woolly leaves, fromthe middle ofthe ftalke almoft up to the toppe 5 with eve- ry leafeftandech a {mallflower, of.a dun or brownih yellow colour, or hot fo yellow as others; in which heads after the flowers aré fallen, come {mall feede wrapped up with che downe therein, and is carried away with the winde : the roore is {mall'and threddy. z, Guaphalium majas Germanitum. The greater Germate Cudweede, et Cuap. XCVIII. Cu PII= TheThegter of Plaits. Drape 5. fbi “684 3: Graphs |