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(MAP. CXXIX. 



Ahr'jtanum /<///////./ ^/fiw Sant'ilma. Lauendcr Cotton. 



I 'I I: I. Bender Cotton hath many wooddy, but brittle branches hoary or of a 

 whitifh colour, whereon arc fet many leauet, which arc little, long, and foure 

 i<|u.irc, dented or notched on til edge*, and whitifh alfo : at the top* of thefe 

 :he (land naked ftalkes, bearing on euery one of them a larger yellow bead or 

 flower, then eyther Tanfic or Maudcline, whereunto they are fomewhat like, wherein 

 ntained final 1 darke coloured feede : the roote U hard, and fpreadeth abroad 

 with many fibres : the whole plant U of a ftrong rweete fent, but not vnpleafant, and 

 is in many places planted in Gardens, to border knots with, for which it will abide to 

 he cut into what forme you thinkc beft ; for it groweth thicke and bufhy, very fit for 

 fiith workes befides the comclv fhew the plant it felfe thus wrought doth yeeld, 

 alwayes greene, and of a fweet fent ; but becaufe it quickly groweth great, and 

 <jonc runne out of forme, it muft be cucry fecond or third yeare taken vp, and new 

 planted. 



The Place. 

 It is onely planted in Gardens with vt, for the vfei aforefaid efpecially. 



The Time. 



It rlowrcth in luly, and ftandrth long in the hot time of the yeare in his 

 colour, and fo will doe, if it be 'gathered before it haue flood ouer long. 



The Name*. 



Diuerc doe call it as Matthiolns doth, Akr^ianum famina, and Santolina ; 

 and fome call it Chanurcyparijfui, becaufe the leaues thereof, are fomewhat 

 like the leaues of the Cyprefle tree : Wee call it in EnglHh generally Lauen- 

 der Cotton. 



The Venues. 



This is vfually put among other hot herbes, eyther into bathes, oint- 

 ments or other things, that are vfed for cold caufes. The feede alfo is much 

 vfed for the wormes. 





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CHAP. CXXX. 

 Octmum. Baflill. 



11 is of two forts (befides other kindes) for this our Garden, the one whereof 

 is greater, the other lefle in euery pan thereof as (hall be fhewed. 



i . Ocimum Citratum. Common BaHill. 



Our ordinary Garden Baflill hath one flalke ruing from the root, dioerfly branched 

 out, whereon are fet two leaues alwayes at a ioynt, whkh are broad, fomewhat round, 

 and pointed, of a pale greene colour, but frefh, a little fnipt or dented about the edges, 

 and of a rtrong or heady fent, fomewhat like a Pomecitron, 

 it, and thcreot" call it Citratum : the flowers are fmall and 

 the branches, with two final leaues at enery ioynt voder them, in 



L 3 then 



