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Show Cwar.1od, 1, Tripe.5, Theatrum Botanicum. Mikefolium vulgare album vel rubrum, 5. Achillea Sideritis (utea. Comason Yarrow or Millfoileswith white orred flowers. Achiltes ycllow Woundwort, The Theater of Plants. Cuar.102. 695 the ground and taking roote as it créepeth, the hoaty teaves are long and mitich divided, bir fmaller and fofter then the common white kinde: the flowers at the toppesof the ftalkes are of a pale yellow colout; as well the outer leaves asinner thrum, ftanding many togetherin tufts, andrifing out from hoary white huskes : the rooté : is {mall and long with divers fibres thereat. ‘ . Mitefolinm incanntn Creticum, Yellow Candy Millfoile. The Candy Millfoile groweth with round Hoary ftalkes a foote high, whereon are fet long, narrow, hoary; dented leaves fomiewhatlike unto the leaves of Lavender cotton, the toppes of the ftalkes branch forth into many Zi clofe tufts of pale yellow flowers of a fine {mall fent ; the roote is ftringy and creepeth as thelaft. 8, Stratiotes millefolia Cretica, White candy Yarrow. This Millfoile rifeth up from a long white roote,with many long ftalkes,a little bending downe,covered with an hoary downe,having divers winged leaves fet at {paces, each whereof confift of {mall long leaves fet thicke tozether on both fides of theribbes, whichare hoary alfo,but not fo muchas che ftalkes, at the toppes whereof ftand {mall umbells of white howers fomewhat like to thofe of Tanfey, 9. Achillea Sideritis five nobilis odorata, Achilles {weete Woundwort. This woundwort (or Yarrow for thereunto itis moft like) hath manylarge thinne cut leaves hext the ground, more finely and deepely cutin unto the middle ribbe, and eachpart divided alfo, which maketh it to differ from the firlt, from whencerife up more and taller ftalkes with diversfiner leavesfer thereon, and at the toppes many. flowers in. tufts together,being both more in numberand larger chenthe firft or commonfort, of a whitith or reddifh colour and yellow in the middle : the wholeplant {melleth very {weetsthe roote perifheth every yeare after feedetimie,and requireth a good ground and.arichto profperin. 10. Mikefolium Alpinum incannm, Small mountaine Milfoile. This (mall Millfoile hath many {mall winged leaves, as finely cut in on the edgesas thelaft, and fomewhat hoary alfo, feconthe ftalkes that fpread on the ground, and there take roote againe, among which rife up fhore ftalkes notabove a foote high, with fome finer leaves on them to the toppe, where they beare many tufts of Ge SS 2), 4 {mall fowers thicke thruft together,of a pale reddith or fhining blufh colour ; the roote creepeth like the com- monfort, The Place, The firft with the varieties except that witha tuberous roote is very frequent in paftures médowes &c. The other : Pena third alfo but much morerare: the fecond Warthiolws faith groweth in Italy and fo doe manyof the faith the fift is found onely upon thehighhills in Marlyn, and Cdufivs {aith he found the laft on thehills in Stiria. The Time. wy . They doe ali Aowerin the end of Summer and in Azgu/t, The Name; Yarrowiscalledin Greeke semis 6 yanbqur@- Stratiotes Chiliophyllos, that is Stratiotes or Militaris millefoa Mill:folinm luteum. Yellow Millfoile. 8, Stratiotes millefolia cretisde White Gandy Yarrow. tia, and the eighthis called in Greeke A’ynaG@ adveins Achillea Sideritis : Stratiotes or Militaris becaufe it was of muchule inthe Campes ofSouldiers to heale their wounds, and Péiny faithin the third Chap. of his 25, Booke that Achillea tooke the namefrom Achilles the {choller or follower. of Ghiros who healed her with the wounds of Telephus zitis called Millefolivm in Latine a foliorum multitudine, Supercilinm Venern allo, Acrumand Acrum fyluaticum, The Arabianscall the Achillea Egilos, the Italians Achikeagnd the AMillefolium Millefoglio, the Spaviards Milboyos yerva, the French Millefuerlle and L’ herbe Militaire, the Germans Garb, Garben, Garwen and Schaffripp, the Dutch Gerwe, and we in Englifh Millfoile, Yarrow, and of fome Nofebleede from making the nofe bleedeit it be put intoit, but affuredly it will ftay the bleeding of it. Divers doe thinke that Achillea and Mildefolinm i8 but one herbe,becanfe divers authors have promifcuoufly talled them fo. The firftis called AZillefolj= am albumand vulgare by fone, and Stratiotes terreftris, Stratiotes dillefolia, Achillea and Militaris by others; the fecond is mentioned by AZatrhiols,Lugdunenfis and Bauhinus x the thitd is that of our Land and diftereth from the fourth which is greater and redder, fet forth by C/x/iws underthe name of AdiMefolinm rubro flore, and by Meatshiolus and others A4illefolinm maximumsthefift is called by Pena Achillea montana Arthemi(fe tensifoliafacie, by Atatthiolus ,Camerariue andothers,Helichry/um,and Elsochry/um by others,and in Candy Lagochimithiasthefixt is called by (lufins Stratiotes wmillefolraflavo flore, by Ge/ner and Camerarins Millefolinm floribus lureis, by Aatthious Helichry(um Italicum, and by Baxhinws Millefolium tomentofum luteum, who thinkethit to be the Tanacetum Januginof{um of Lugdunenfis, but as I fayd inthe Chapter of Tanfeyhe i$ therein\inuch deceived as I thinke : the feventh is called by Honorius Bells that fent it from Candy to Clufins Strastoves millefuliay aid faith it commeth neatelt ro the defcription of Dié/corides, called by the Candiots mieccovrdo Adiriophylio : the eighth is called by Tra- gus Millefolinm nobite and Stratiores vera, by Gefuner in hortis Stratiotesand Adillefolum Stratiotes, by Taber- montanus Achillea five Adillefolinm nobile, by Afatthiolus and Lacuna, Cordus on Diofcorides and in his hiNory,of Thalivs and Durantes,eAchillea,by Lugdunenfis eAchillea Sideritis,by Dalechampivs upon Pliny:Scopa regia Plinii; but Banhinus takethit to be the Zanacetum minus flore albo of Dodoneus calling it Tanacetum minus album odoye camphore, and Lobel before him Tanacetum minuscandidys floribws, but furely the feede that was {ent mee out of Italy by the name of Achillea nobilis odorata, and grew with me had no face or fent of Tanfey, and evide tly differing from Yarrow alfo : The laft is< Watehiolus his Millcfolium mings and Clufiis his A@illefoliam Alpinunm and Stratiores millefolia minor, The Vertues, As the face and formeofthefe two tUillefolium and Achillea and al\ theit,warieties are very neare in refemblance one unto another, fo their vertues even by Dio/corides and Galen are fetdowne tobee bothalike, and no doubt but either of chem that was next at hand,wasapplied for the fame purpofethat the other fhould : for Dio- fcorides {aith that his Achillea {oderethor clofeth bleeding wounds and prefetvéth them ftom inflammations, and ftayeth the flux of blood in women being applied ina peffary, asalfoit they fit over the decoction thereof while it is warme, and isdrankeagain{t the bloody flux, Millfoile or Yarrow hee faith is of excellent ufe to heale both old and greene wounds, to ftay bleedings andto heale Fiftulaes: the powder of the'dryed herbe taken with Comfrey or Plantaine water doth alfoftay inward bleedings, and put into the nofe as I faid before will doe the fame: the juice thereof put into'the eyes taketh away the bloed and rednefflethercin, the oyle made thereof —Ms hedding |
