The (jar den of plea] ant Flowers. 
ytrbafcum nigrum, as any one but meanely exercifed in the knowledge of 
plants, may difcernc. Andalthough Pliniefairh, that Moths doe molt fre- 
quently haunt where Platt ana either groweth , or is laid, yet it isnotob- 
ferued lufficiendy in our Country fo to doe , notwithftanding the name of 
Moth Mullein is generally giuen them. Thelaftis generally called with 
vs Lamium Paonanicum, butcertainely it is the Galea fit maxima Pannanics 
of Clufius. 
The Venues. 
Other qualities I haue not found hath been allotted vnto the Blattaria or 
Moth Mullein, then thofeofPlinic,to engender Moths. Wccvfe none of 
thefe plants in Phy ficke in thefe daies. 
Chap. XCIX. 
y alert an a. Valerian. 
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v .-I. :m;i: -r;:oo % i 
T He many forts of Valerian (or Set- wall as many doe call them) are fitter for a 
generali worke, ora generali Phyficall Garden of Simples, then thisof dc- 
lightfull flowers. I will therefore feledt out a few, worthy of the place , and 
offer them to your confederations. 
r . y alert ax a rubra Dtdtnxi. Red Valerian. 
This Valerian hath diners hard , but brittle whiti/h grcenc ftalkes , rifing from the 
rootc, full of tuberous or fweiling ioynrs, whereat (land two Icaues , on each fide one, 
and now and then fome fmall leaues from betweene them , which arc fomewhat long 
and narrow, broadeftinthemiddlc, and fmall at both ends, without either diuifion 
orincifureontheedges,of a pale grecne colour : the ftalkes are branched at the top 
into diuers parts , at the ends whereof ftand many flowers together , as it were in an 
vrabellortuft, fomewhat like vnto the flowers of our ordinary Valerian , but with 
longer neckcs, and of a fine red colour, very pleafant to behold, but of nofenrof any 
Valerian : after thefe flowers haue ftood blownea very great while, they fodainely 
fall away, and the feede is ripe very quickly after, which is whitifh , (landing vpon 
the branches naked, as the Valerians doe, and very like vnto them , with a little white 
dounc at the end of cueryoneof them, whereby they are foone carried away with 
the winde : the roote is great, thicke.and white , continuing long , and (hooting out 
new branches cuery yeare,and fmelling fomewhat like a Valerian. 
a. N ardua MMana tuber ofa. Knobbed Mountaine Valerian. 
Thiskindeof 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 dark 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 Icaues of the great 
garden Valerian, and fo the elder they grow, the more cut and iagged they are : the 
ftalkc and flowers are vet y like the ftalke with flowers of the garden Valerian, but of a 
darke or deepe red colour, and more (lore of them thruft together, bydoublethe 
number almoft : thefeedeis 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 isencreafed,andfmellcth very like the roote of the garden 
Setwall, or not altogether fo ftrong. 
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