T he (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
Chap. LIX. 
Pyrethrum effic'murum. Pellctory of Spaine. 
I Muft needes adioyne vnto the Camomils this fine and tender plant, forfome neare 
refemblance it hath with them in face, though not in quality. It is a fmall and lowe 
plant, bearing many fine grecne leaucs vpon his {lender branches , which leane or 
lye down vpon the ground, diuided into many parts, yet fomewhat larger and broader 
then Camomill , the {hikes whereof arc bigger, and more iuicie then it : the flowers 
that ftand at the toppes of the ftalkes arc (ingle , but much larger then any Camom ill 
flower, hauing a pale or border of many leaucs , white on the vpperfidc, and reddifli 
vnderneath,fet about the yellow middle thrumme ; but not ftandingfo clofetogether 
aoyning at the bottome, as the Camomill flowers doe, but more feuered one from an- 
other : it beareth fmall whitifli feede , which is hardly found and difeerned from the 
chaffc : the roote is long, and growing downc right , of the bignefle of a mans finger 
or thumbe in our Countrcy , but not halfe fo great where it growerh naturally , with 
fome fibres and branches from thefides thereof, of a very hot, (harpe, and biting 
tafte, drawing much water into the mouth, after it hath been chewed a while: the plant 
with vs is very tender , and will hardly or not at all endure the hardneffe and extremi- 
ties of our Winters, vnlcflfe it be very carefully preferued. 
It groweth in Spaine wildein many places , and in other hot Countries 
where it may feele no frofts to caufe it perilh. 
It flowreth fo late with vs, that it is not vntill Auguft, that oftentimes we 
cannot gather ripe feedcs from it,before it perilh. 
The name Pyrethrum (taken from »i? f ,that is, if vis, fire) is giuen to this 
plant, becaufe of the heate thereof, and that the roote is fomewhat like in 
(hew, but fpecially in property vnto the true Pyrethrum of Diofcoridcs 
which is an vmbelliferous plant, whoferootes are greater, and more feruent 
a great deale, and hauc a hayricbulh ortoppeas Meum, andmanyorher 
vmbelliferous plants haue. It is alfo called in Latine,*//»*™, of the effed 
in drawing much moifture into the mouth, to be fpitout. Wcdoevfuallr 
CallitPclletory of Spaine. 7 
. If is in a manner wholly fpent to draw rheutne from the teeth, by chcwir 
it in the mouth, thereby to eafe the tooth-ach , and like wife from the heat 
in the paines thereof. 
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