Lib. 2. 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



1 6 7 



Chap. \66. Of French Sage or wooddy zSMulIem. 



I Verb aft urn Matt bio It. 



French Sage. 



$ 2 Verba fcum angnftis SahUfoljjs. 



The Jefler French Sage* 





£3 thlomos Lycknites Syriaca. 



Syrian Sage-Icaued Mullein. 1 





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^f TkeDefcripion. 



Ild Mullein^wooddy Mullein, J/*/ - 

 thiolm his Mullein,or French Sage 

 groweth vp like afmall wooddie 



flirub,hauing many wooddy branches of a wool lie 

 and hoarie colour foft and downy : whereupon are 

 placed thicke hoarie leaues 3 ofa ftrong pontick fa- 

 uourjin fliape like theleauesof Sage, whereupon 

 the vulgar people call it French Sage : toward the 

 top of the branches are placed round les or crownets 

 of yellow gaping floures like thofe of dead Nettle, 

 but much greater.The root is thicke,tough,and of 

 a wooddy fubftance,as is all the reft of the plant. 

 t 2 There is another fort hereof that is very like 

 theotber,fauing that the leaues & euery other part 

 of this plant,hath a raoft fweet and pleafant fmell, 

 and the other more ftrong and offenfiuerthe leaues 

 alfo are much leflerand narrower, fom what re fern- 

 bling thofe of the leffer Sage. 



* 3 I thinke it not amiffe here to infert this 

 no Iefferare than beautifull plant, which differs 

 from the laft defcribed in the maner of growing & 

 fliape of the floures, which referable thofe of the 

 Lychnis Chalcedomca ,or None-fuch,but are of* yel- 

 low colour. The leaues are bairy,narro^and fliarp 



pointed:the ftalkes fquar^and toot 



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