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ttower in ^ and UL/SC 
_... 1 t t /- ’ j^ - 7 ' /t//z 5 x reparations^ 
Urtwsjnd Ifes, are the fame with the Gmtow 
Cudweed in Chap. 180. aforegoing, to which I referr 
you 
CHAP. CLXXXII. 
0/ CUDWEED Sea. 
I.TT f/E dWr. It is called in Greek , i>* f «A W 
- 8a*«»iV : in Lrttra, Gnaphalium Marinum 
Elicbryfum Sylveftre Jiore oblcngo Bauhim : in Eng 
lijb , Sea Cudweed . 6 
II. The Kinds It is a fingular Plant of the Sea 
kind; and is called for the moil part, Cottonaria, or 
Cononweed : alio Gnaphalium iMaritmum. tomento- 
fum. 
JJ}' The Defcription. It has a long and woody 
Root which penjhes not yearly, as feveral of the o- 
ther forts do. from this Root rife up feveral fmall 
handful or half a foot high, fet thick with manyjhort, 
fat and very white, foft and hoary or woolly Leaves 
thP 1 ?o‘ b °r‘ h ?, T™ ” othi ” e but Cot, °”i bearing 
vJam Th PS m ary or cotton y Heads, with a 
yellow Thrum/, breaking out m their middle ; thefe 
are the Flowers, which, at the tops of the Stalks 
liL t'd't/c 111 roundB f tms i of Color and Fafihwn 
like to the Common Cudweeds. Within the/e Heads, 
-n a downy Bed, the Seed is contained, which is fame- 
TV ° n 4i r L han the Seei °f the Mere. J 
Sea Co ] c . ls J loulld upon the Weftern 
Etowinn i,ir f Englan d ’ m dlvers P laces - 11 is fo und 
S ?2 r g / j! f o at a place called Merezey, fix Miles 
th . e f!de - I( has alfo been 
gathered upon the Sea Coafts of Wales. 
of AuouR Jn/li c" dowers from June tv the end 
ot Augujt, and the Seed is ripe in September. 
. . • ^ vvnicu yuu are xererrea : 
yet it is thought by fome, who have madeTryal of 
n' ci i J $ ea Cudweed is the ftronger and more 
effectual Medicament to all the Purpofes for which 
the Comtnon is intended. 
CHAP. CLXXXIII. 
Of CUDWEED American. 
f-TT I f E Names ' This Plant > as far as I can 
X learn, was wholly unknown to the Greeks , 
yet modem Authors have given it this Greek Name 
’Asyyg/KifAn, Argyrocome, ( i. e. Silver-leav’d : ) in 
p ? A is called, Gnaphalium Americanum ; and in 
Enghjh, American Cudweed, alib Live-long, and 
Lije-everlajhng. ’ 
II. The Kinds. It is a lingular Plant of the kind : 
and is accounted one of the Species of Gnapbalium 
Carolus C/ufius ftom the Likenefs of the Umbles or 
i utTS i? til0 ' t * le F are S re ater and whiter 
than thofe of the other kinds of Cudweed all of 
which are of kin to the Golden Tufts. This Plant 
has been called by fome of our Engltjh, Live-long 
and Life -ever lafting, becaufe of the Durability or 
long Duration of their Flowers in their Beauty. 
rff- The Defcriptton. This Silver Tuft or Indian 
Lottonweed, has Roots which are long, and black on 
the out fide, creeping very much under Ground ■ from 
whence fpnng up many white Heads of Leaves co- 
vered with a hoary Woo/lmefs, like Cotton, which 
nfing into hard thick, round Stalks, contain ft ill the 
Jame Hoannefs upon them , as alfo upon the tong and 
narrow Leaves which grow thereon , more effect ally 
on the under fide -, for the upper fide s are of a da/k 
Jhtnwg green color. The Stalks are divided at the 
top into many fmall Branches, each of which have rna- 
fl c r y ,\ 1 ff d HyH fet together, covered over 
with Cotton before their opentng, and then parting 
one from another abiding very white on the outfide 
when they are fuUy grown, but with a fmall yellow 
Thrumb tn the mtidle of each f lower, which ,n time 
wnhTrgwtlf * U b ^‘^away 
IV. Gerard fays that this Plant is of greater 
Beauty than the ref, and has ftraight upright Stalks 
(I J eet f'&b or more, covered with a mod foft and 
fine Wool/, and in fuel i a plentiful manner , that a 
Man may with his Hands lake it from the Stalk in 
great quantity This Stalk is bejet with many long 
and nan ow Leaves, green on the inner fide and 
boon, on the other fide, fomewhat like in Form to 
Kolemary Leaves but greater. The Flowers do 
grow at the tops of the Stalks in Bundles or Tufts 
confifttng of many fmall Flowers of a white color, an i 
very double or oompaa or as it were confifttng of 
little Silver Scales thruft clofe together, which do 
make the fame very double. When the Flower has 
long flourijhed and is grown old, then comes there 
in the midft of the Flower, a certain brown yellow 
Thrumb fuch as is in the midft of the Daify : which 
Flowers bang gathered when they are young, may be 
'? f Mcb ma fttter as they were gathered, to wit 
itifuch frefiinefs and good Color , for the fpace of a 
■whole fear after , and that in a clofe Cheft or elfe - 
when : from this long keeping of their Frejhnefs and 
to/or, it was that our Englilh Gentlewomen called 
// Live-long, tic. to which, on this occafwn it very 
aptly anjwers. < 
V. The 
