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56h Ptietes Narutaleitore 
A kinds likewife of it,snamely,the male & the fem ale. And thefe differ onely in the leaves.For thofe 
of the female Conyza be thinner, {maller narrower, and growing clofer together than the other 
of the male,which indeed braunchand {pread abroad more, lapping one over another in man« 
nerof crefttiles. The flowers alfo of the male Conyza is more bright and lively : howbeit, both 
the one and the other flower late,and not before the rifing or apparition of the ftarre ArCturus. 
The m@y carietha ftrong fent: but that of che female is more penetrant; in which regardthe fe- 
male is better for the bite and {ting of venomous beafts. The leaves of the female, {fmell of Ho- 
ney. The root of the male, is by fome called Libanotis whereof we have alreadie writen. 
Astouching thefe hearbes following, *Dios Anthos,Majoran,the day Lillie Hemerocalles, 
Sothernwood, Elecampane, water Mints,and wild running Thyme,asalfo all whieh doe branch 
and put forth fhoots as Rofes doe,fuch ferve onely in leafe for Guirlands.As for the {aid /upiters. 
flower or Dios Anthos, particularly, there is nothing in it but the colourto commendit; fot {a= 
vour it hath none,no more than another hearbe which the Greekes call Phlox, As fortlie reft, 
their flowers and braunches both be odoriferous,except the running wild Thyme. | 
Elecampane, named in Greeke Helenium, {prang firft (as men fay) from the teares of adie 
Helena; and therefore the beft Elecampaneis that which groweth in che Ifland of Helena. The 
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* or Zouis Flos, 
which {fotne 
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rake to be the 
Columbines. 
*Heleaium: 
here defcribed 
agreeth not 
plantis leafed like unto wild Thyme, {preading and running low by the ground with little braun- with our Ele. 
ches,nineinches or a{pan long. ‘ 
Sothernwood doth flourifh in Summer, and carieth a {weet and pleafant favour, howbeit.the 
head it {omewhat ftutieth and offendeth. The flower is of a golden colour.And fay,thatit carieth 
neitherfeed nor Hower, yetcommeth it up of it felfe in voidand vacant places altogether negle- 
&ed and without any culture, for it doth propagat and éncreafe by the tops and tips of the bran- 
_ ches lying upon the ground, and fo taking root.And therefore it groweth the bercer if icbe fet of 
root orflip,than fowed of feed. For ot feed,much adoe there is to make it come up.And when it 
is above ground,the young plants are removed.and fet,as it were in Adonis gardens; within pots 
of earth;andthatin Summer time, after the manner of the hearbe and flower Adonium. For as 
well the one as the other be very tender,and can abide no cold : and yet.as chill as they bee, they; 
may not away with oyer-much heat of the Sunne,for taking harme. But when they have gorten 
head once and be {trong ynough, they grow and branch as*Rue doth, | es 
Much like unto Sothernwood in {ent and{mell,is Camomile :the flower is white,confifting 
of anumber of pretic fine leaves fet round about the yellow within, } 
‘ Cuar. x1. sae Lane 
2& Of Marjoram the greater and the lef called in Latine Amaracus or Samp[ichumof. 
Nyéhygretum,Mellete,the white Violet: 0f Codiaminum,and wild Bulbes: of He- 
lochry{um,and Lychuis er Rofe Campian. And of many other bearbs 
growing on this fide the fea. 5393" 
_ Campane, 
* Rute vite, 
Tocles the Phyfician, and thewhole nation in manner of the Sicilians, have called that 
heatbe Amaracus,which in Aigyptand Syria iscommonly named Sampfuchum.ltcoms 
meth up both waies,as well of {ced as of a {lip and braunch. It liveth and continueth lon- 
ger than the hearbes beforenamed, and hath a more pleafant and odoriferousfent, Marjoram is 
as plentifull in feed, as Sothernwood: but whereas Sothernwood hath but onetap-root and the 
fame running deep into the ground, the reft have their roots creeping lightly aloft and eb with- 
in the earth. As forall the other hearbes, they are for the moft part fer and fowne in the begin: 
ning of the Autumne :fome of them alfo in the Spring, & namely in places which f{tand much 
in the fhade,which love to be well watered alfo and enriched withdung.. § 5,0 tt 
Astouching Ny&ygretum[or Lunatia | Democritws held it to. be a wonderfull hearb,and-few 
like unto it; faying that it refembleth the colour of fire,that the leayes be prickie likea thorn,that 
it creeperh along the ground: he reporteth moreover, Thatthe beftkind thereof, growethinthe 
land Gedrofia, That ifit bee plucked out of the ground root and all after the Spring: Equinox, 
and beJaid to drie in the Moonfhine for three daies rogether,it will give light and fhineallnighe 
_ long:alfo,That theMagi or Sages of Perfia,as alfo the Parthian kings ufe this hearbe ordinarily 
in their folemne vowes that they make to the gods: laft of all, Thatfome call it Chenomychos, 
becaufe Geefe are afraid of it when they {ee it firft; others name it NyCtilops, becaufe in the 
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