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of the branches have white flowers with yellow 

 thrums in the middle, very like unto the Featherfew, 

 but somewhat greater not so hard but more soft and 

 gentle in handling and the whole herb is to be of a 

 very sweet scent. 



"Camomill is called Anthemis Leucanthemis and 

 Leucanthemum of the whiteness of the flowers; and 

 Chamcemcelum of the corrupted Italian name Camo- 

 milla. Some call the naked Camomill Chrysanthe- 

 mum odoratum. The double Camomill is called by 

 some Chamcemczlum Romanum flore multiplici. 



"Camomill is put to divers and sundry uses both 

 for pleasure and profit; both for inward and out- 

 ward diseases, both for the sick and the sound, in 

 bathings to comfort and strengthen the sound and 

 to ease pains in the diseased. The flowers boiled 

 in posset drink provoketh sweat and helpeth to expel 

 colds, aches and other griefs. A syrup made of 

 the juice of the double Camomill with the flowers 

 and white wine is used by some against jaundice 

 and dropsy." 



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Dian's Bud and Monk's-hood Blue 



DIAN'S BUD (Artemesia). This plant is noth- 

 ing more nor less than absinthe, or wormwood. It is 



