L-r i ii. z. 



Of the Hifiorie of Plants. 



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q The N Ames. 



Okcof Icrufalcm is called in Grceke **t»t : in Lnine,B*trys i in Itzlhn.Botri : in Spani/h Bie* 

 Grs*d* ; in high- Dutch.^tailtfcnfetanMnd ferottcnbrattt : in Frenchand lonr. Dutch, /w w . 

 ioEngIifh,Okeof IerufaIem,anJ o( fomc 5 Oke of Paradife. 



QkcofCappadocia is called in Grceke xu?er^- inLatine, Ambrofu, neither hath it any other 

 iiK*me name. Phnj faith, Ambroftd is a wandering name,and is giuen vnro other herbs : for Botrp 

 (Okcol lcrufalem,aswe haue writrcn)is ofdiuersalfo called Ambnfia.ln Englifh it iscallcdoke 



ofCappadocia. 



<r The Temperature. 



Thcfe plantsare hot and dry in the lecond dcgree,and confift of fubtill parts. 



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Thcfe plants begood to be boiled in wine,and miniftred to fitch as haue their brcfts ftopr and A 



feme. 



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and laid among 



ftc to fiefh that is fodden with it f and eaten with the broth 



them from moths and other vcrmin,which thing it doth alfo performe. - 



* There Mcr^fmcrlv two mort defcriptiom m this Chafter,hoth which were mtde e>? looking toon the fieure* in T **l.T*m>- rH*<U*t«. k* - f ». 



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Chap, d.56 



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f Chamnc-jfAriftui. 



Lavandcr Cottcn 



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fwect 



and is often vfed in garlands and houfes. It 

 hath a wooddy ftockc , out of which grow forth 

 branches like little boughes, (lender, very many, 

 a cubit long,fet about with little leaucs,long,nar! 

 row^purled or crumpled : on the tops of the bran- 

 ches ftand vp floures , one alone on eucry branch 

 madevpwirhfhortthreds ihruft clofe together! 

 like to the flours of Tanile^nd to the middle but- 

 tons of the flouresof Cammomil^butyet forae- 

 thing broader,of colour yellow, which be chan- 

 ged into feed of an obfeure colour : the root 

 isofawooddy fubftance ; the fhrub itfelfe is 

 white both in branches and leaucs , and hath 3 

 ftrong fwcet fmelL . 



* There are fome varieties of this pUnt,which 



Mattfuelm.LoUl^ad others refer to Ah ot amm fa •„ 



w/w^and fo cal it ; and by the fame name our Au- 

 thor gauc the figure thereof in the laft Chapter 

 faueone, though the defcription did not belong 

 thereto, as I haue formerly noted. Another fort 



tT?M? Aut ^; /^ing Tdtrn**m m 



lr u ,fet f ° rrh a ht ; !e bcfore b ? thc «ame of 



Abftmhium msnnum Abrotmi ftemin^fscie which 

 rec \S*n t ol, na alter* He alfo mentions three o her 



caues ; f f his third hath very rfcorr and fault 



femtaMs Er, ( * The fourth \™hX 1 , °£ of Heatb '> wh <*« B ^ 1 ' calli 

 called in IzCfditrr Ah^nl 1? h • 1CaUeS X ^ c toothed > ™* «"« &* $M* 



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