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2 Great Lavender Cotten. 3 French Lavender Cotten. 4 Fine Lavender 
‘Corten. 5 Rofemary Leafed Lavender Cotten. 6 Small Rofemary Leafed 
Lavender Cotten. 7 Small green Lavender Cotten. 8 Creeping Lavender 
Cotten. 9 Strange Lavender Coxten. 7 , 
= ~The Forme. me 
The ordinary Lavender Cotten hath many wooddy, ‘but brittle branches, 
hoary, or of a whitifh colour, whereon are fet many Leaves, which are little, © 
long, and four-{quare, dented or notched upon every edge, and whitith alfo ; ac 
_ the cops of the branches ftand naked Stalks, bearing on every one of them a yel- 
low head or Flower like unto Tanley, or Maudeline, bat greater then either of 
‘them, of a gold yellow colour, abiding foa long time upon the Stalkes, and 
being kept dry likewife, after which commieth {mall dark coloured feed; the 
‘Root is woody, and {preadeth abroad with many hard fibres. The whole 
“Plant is very comely to behold, efpecially if icbe artificially ordered, of a 
wok {weet {cent, but no way difpleafing, unleffe it be in the taft, which is 
DER ce ance ce en PRACT om nba d lt 
Though none of the forementioned Plants grow naturally with us, yet ma- 
ny of them are to be found in the Gardens of thofe'that are curious Confervers 
of rare Plants ; howbeit,it will not be amiffe to tell you, that the firftgroweth 
“of its owne accord in Germany. The fecend in divers places of Narbone in Frances 
“The fourth, fifth, and fixth about Salamanca in Spaine. The laftis fuppofedto — 
- come from Egypt, the places of the reft arenot yet knowne. They do all or 
moll of themflowerin dy and Aug | 
~The feed of Lavender Cotten, and fo likewife the herb is hot and dry in the 
 thirdDegree. = Bes bert ep 
: eet ne dibe Vertues. bass 
~ Every Woman alfocan tell, that Lavender Cotten ftamped andftrained with 
Milk, &taken fafting after it hath been a little warmed by the fire,is an excellent — 
expedient to kill and expell Wermes ont of the Stomacks and Bellies,both of 
children and elder perfonsalfo, but the feed is accounted of greateft forces nor- 
wa ding when that cannot be had, ‘the herb may be ufed.as aforefaid. — 
oles faith, that half a dram of Lavender Cotten, taken in a little of the 
ed Water of Fetherfew, every morning fafting for ten days together at the 
i very profitable Medicine for Women that are troubled with the Whites, 
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ently wich us, to be put amongft other hot Herbs, eicher in Bathe 
s, or other Me seinen nelipthorerhae are burften, or troubled: wi 
erally it worketh the fame effects, and may : app ll referce 
