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i .cbimxmxlum nudum. Naked Camomill. 
We haue another fort of Camomill in fome Gardens, but very rare , like vnto the 
former, butthatitis whiter, finer, andfmallcr, and raifeth it fdfevp a little higher, 
and beareth naked flowers ; that is, without that border of white leaues that is in the 
former, andconfiftethonely of a yellow round thrummic head, finelling almoft as 
fweetc as the former. 1 v 
l. cbxmxmxlum flore pleno. Double flowred Camomill. 
The double Camomill groweth with his leaues vpon the ground , as the other An- 
gle kindedoth, but of a little frelher greene colour, and larger withall : the ftalkcs with 
the flowers on them, doe raife themfelues vp alittle higher then the ordinary , and 
bearing one or two flowers vponaftalk,which are compofed ofmany white leaues fet 
together in diuers rowesfwhich make a fine double flower, with a little yellow fpot in 
the middle for the mod paftt of cuery one, and are much larger then any Angle kinde, 
fmelling better , and more pleafingthen the ordinary : this dothcreepe vpon the 
ground as the other, but is more tender to be kept in the Winter. Yet if you faue the 
flowers hereof (and fo will the double Featherfew alfo) when they haue flood long, 
and ready to fade, andkeepe them dry vntill the Spring, and then breaking them or 
pulling them to peeces, fowe them , there will fpringvp from them Camomill, and 
alfo Featherfew, that will againc bcare double flowers. 
The Place. 
Our ordinary Camomill groweth wilde in many places of our Country, 
and as well neare London as in other places. The others are onely found in 
our Gardens , where they are cheriflied. Bauhinus faith , that the double 
flowred Camomill is found wilde about Orleance in France. 
The Time. 
The double kinde is vfually in flower in Iune, before the ordinary kindc, 
and moft commonly paft before it flowreth, which is not vntill July or Au- 
guft. The naked Camomill flowreth betweene them both, or later. 
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The Names, 
Camomill is called AntbemU, Leucunthemu , and Leucantbemum , of the 
whitenefTe of the flowers; and Cbamxmxlum of the corrupted Italian name 
Ctmtmiit. Some call the naked Camomill, chry/antbemum ciortt .m. The 
double Camomill is called by forne Cbumxmxlum Romtmm flore multiflui. 
ThcVertucs. 
Camomill is put to diuers and fundryvfes, both for pleafure and profir, 
both for inward and outward difeafes, both for the ficke and the found, in 
bathings to comfort and ftrengthen the found, and to eafe paines in the dif- 
cafed, as alfo in many other formes applyed outwardly. The flowers boy- 
led in Pofletdrinkcprouokethfweat, and helpeth to expell colds, aches, 
and other griefes. A Syrupemadeof theiuiceof the double Camomill, 
with the flowers and white wine, as Bauhinus faith, is vfed by fome againft 
the laundife and Dropfie, caufed by the euill difpofition of the fplene. 
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