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fide, for the vpper fides are of a darke mining greenc colour : the ftalkes arc diuidcd at 

 the toppe into many fmall branches, each whereof haue many fcaly tufted heads fet 

 together, couered ouer with cotton before their opening, and then difleuering one 

 trom another, abiding very white on the outfide, when they are fully growne, but 

 with a fmall yellow thrume in the midde of euery flower, which in time turne into 

 yellow dount, apt to be blowne away with euery winde: the roots are long and black 

 on the outfide, creeping vnder ground very much. 



6. Gnaphalium montanum fare albo & Jiore purpureo. 

 White and purple Cats foote. 



This fmall Cudweede or Cottonweede, hath many fmall white woolly leaues 

 growing from the roote, which is compofed of a few fmall blackifh threds, and lying 

 vpon the ground fomewhat like vnto the leaues of a fmall Moufe eare, but fmaller; 

 from among which rifeth vp a fmall ftalke of halfc a foote high or thereabouts, befct 

 here and there with fome few leaues, at the top whereof commeth forth a tuft of fmall 

 flowers, fet clofe together, in fome of a pure white, in others of a purple or reddifh 

 colour, in fome ot a pale red or blu(h, and in others of a white and purple mixt toge- 

 ther, which for the beauty is much commended and defired, but will hardly abide to 

 be kept in Gardens, fo vnwilling they are to leaue their natural! abiding. 



7. Gnaphalium Rojeum. The Cotton Rofe. 



This little role Cotton weede hath many fuch like woolly leaues, growing as the 

 former from the roote vpon fmall fhprt branches, not full an hand breadth high, in fa- 

 (hion fomewhat like vnto Dayfie leaues, but lefler, and round pointed : at the toppe of 

 euery ftalke or branch, ftandeth one flower, compofed of two rowes of fmall white 

 leaues, layd open like a Starre or a Rofe, as it beareth the name, hailing a round head 

 in the middle made of many yellow threds or thrumes, which falling away, there ri- 

 feth vp a fmall round head, full of fmall feedes : the root is fmall, long and threddy. 



The Place. 



The foure firft plants doe grow naturally in many of the hot Countries 

 ot Europe, as Spaine, Italic, and Prouince in France; as alfo in Candy, 

 Barbary, and other places, and mull be carefully kept with vs in the winter 

 time. The Liue long was brought out of the Weft Indies, and groweth 

 plentifully in our gardens. The two laft doe grow as well in the colder 

 Countries of Germany, as in France and other places. 



The Time. 



They all flower in the end of September, if they will (hew out their beauty 

 at all with vs, for fometimes it is fo late, that they haue no faire colour at all, 

 efpecially the foure firft forts. 



The Names. 



Variable and many are the names that feuerall Writers do call thefe foure 

 firft forts of plants, as Helichryfum, Heliochryfum, or Elichrvfum, Eliochryju/n, 

 Chryfocome, Coma aarea, Amaranthus /uteus, Stoechas Citrina, and Aurelia, with 

 others, needlefle here to be recited : it is fufficient for this worke, to giue 

 you knowledge that their names are fufficient as they are exprefled in their 

 titles : The fift is called Gnaphalium by Carolus Clufius, from the likenefle 

 of the vmbels or tufts of heads, though greater and white : for as I faid be- 

 fore, the Cotton weedes are of kindred with the golden tufts: It hath been 

 called by our Englifh Gentlewomen, Liue long, and Life euerlafting, be- 

 caufe of the durabilitie of the flowers in their beautie. The two laft are cal- 

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