386 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



Verbafcum mgrum, as any one but meanely exercifed in the knowledge of 

 plants, may difcerne. And although Plinie faith, that Moths doe moft fre- 

 quently haunt where Blattaria either groweth, or is laid, yet it is not ob- 

 ferued fufficiently in our Country fo to doe, notwithftanding the name of 

 Moth Mullein is generally giuen them. The laft is generally called with 

 vs Lamium Pannonicum, but certainely it is the Galeofis maxima Pannonica 

 of Clufius. 



The Vertues. 



Other qualities I haue not found hath been alloted vnto the Blattaria or 

 Moth Mullein, then thofe of Plinie, to engender Moths. Wee vfe none of 

 thefe plants in Phyficke in thefe daies. 



CHAP. XCIX. 

 Valeriana. Valerian. 



THe many forts of Valerian (or Set-wall as many doe call them) are fitter for 

 generall worke, or a generall Phyficall Garden of Simples, then this of de- 

 lightfull flowers. I will therefore feleft out a few, worthy of the place, and 

 offer them to your confiderations. 



i. Valeriana rubra Dodoncei. Red Valerian. 



This Valerian hath diuers hard, but brittle whitifh greene ftalkes, riling from the 

 roote, full of tuberous or fwelling ioynts, whereat ftand two leaues, on each fide one, 

 and now and then fome fmall leaues from betweene them, which are fomewhat long 

 and narrow, broadeft in the middle, and fmall at both ends, without either diuifion 

 or incifure on the edges, of a pale greene colour : the ftalkes are branched at the top 

 into diuers parts, at the ends whereof ftand many flowers together, as it were in an 

 vmbell or tuft, fomewhat like vnto the flowers of our ordinary Valerian, but with 

 longer neckes, and of a fine red colour, very pleafant to behold, but of no fent of any 

 Valerian: after thefe flowers haue ftood blowne a very great while, they fodainely 

 fall away, and the feede is ripe very quickly after, which is whitifh, ftanding vpon 

 the branches naked, as the Valerians doe, and very like vnto them, with a little white 

 doune at the end of euery one of them, whereby they are foone carried away with 

 the winde : the roote is great, thicke, and white, continuing long, and (hooting out 

 new branches euery yeare, and fmelling fomewhat like a Valerian. 



2. Nardus Montana tuber of a. Knobbed Mountaine Valerian. 



This kinde of Valerian or Spiknard, if you will fo call it, hath his firft leaues lying 

 on the ground, without any diuifion in them at all, being fmooth, and of a darke greene 

 colour, which fo abide all the winter ; but thofe that fpring vp after, and when it run- 

 neth vp to flower, are cut in on the edges, very like vnto the iagged leaues of the great 

 garden Valerian, and fo the elder they grow, the more cut and iagged they are : the 

 ftalke and flowers are very like the ftalke with flowers of the garden Valerian, but of a 

 darke or deepe red colour, and more ftore of them thruft together, by double the 

 number almoft : the feede is like the feede of the great Valerian : the root is tuberous, 

 or knobbed in many parts, round about, aboue and below alfo, with fome fibres (hoo- 

 ting from them, whereby it is encreafed, and fmelleth very like the roote of the garden 

 Setwall, or not altogether fo ftrong. 



3. Valeriana 



