the f 'loners are [ct under the Stalks, as Sage or 
Wild Clary are , and of the /ante form and. 
color. 
VI. The fourth, or Ethiopean Mullein, Jagged 
and not Jagged. T heir Roots are Woody, andperifb 
as /non as they have barn their Seed, which is ufu- 
ally the fecond rear after then- Sowing and Springing 
tup, for the firf rear they feidom run up to blower. 
Each of thefe have divers very large Leaves Spread 
upon the Ground, every one near a Foot long, and 
iflmofi half a Foot broad, ending in a point -, in the 
one i very much torn in on the edges on all fide s, and 
denied thereabouts, and w the other (mooth and 
not dented or jagged: both of them are of a 
whitifh, hoary, green color, with much white hoari- 
nefs or woolline/s upon them, far furpaffing any of 
the White Mulleins, which grow wild abroad in Our 
Country, or beyond Sea -, for they arc oj a yellow ijh 
white boarinefs , and are nothing fo pleajant to lock 
on as this. In the middle of theje Leaves rifes up 
a hoary , Square , ftrong Stalk Jour or five Feet high, 
fet full of fuch like Leaves as grow below , but much 
letter , and leffer f ill up to the lop, all hoary and 
wholly as the reft. This Stalk towards the top, k 
fb r ead out into feveral Branches, on which alfogrow 
divers Smaller Leaves like the former up to their 
lops, which Branches Spread far and take up a 
great coittpafs or room. On each of the Stalks and 
Branches at fet iiftances are fet two J mall Leaves, 
and with them round the Stalks feveral large white 
hooded or gaping Flowers, and fame fay they are of 
a pale black, blew, color: after which comes the 
Seed- ’ two Seeds always joined together in one Seed 
Vejfel, which are browmfh, and thofe of the jagged 
like thofe of the not jagged. 
VII. Gerard Defcribes the fmootli and not 
lagged Kind thus. It has a Root which is black 
and hard, and of a Woody Jubilance. From which 
Spring forth many very broad hoary Leaves, fpreai 
upon the Ground, very foft and downy, or rather 
woolly like thofe of our Common w hite Male Mul- 
lein hit far whiter, /of ter, thicker , and fuller of 
woollinefs , which Wool/ is fo long, that one may 
with his Fingers pull the fame from the Leaves, 
even as Wooll is pulled from a Sheeps Skin : from 
among which Leaves, rifes up a four Square downy 
Stalk fet with like Leaves but fmalier: which Stalk 
is divided at the top into feveral Branches , fet 
about and orderly placed at certain diftancet, with 
many Flowers like thofe of Arch- Angel, of a 
white color, tending to blewnefs: which being paft, 
there follows a three cornered brown Seed. 
VIII The Places. The firft grows in many places 
of Effex Kent, and Surry: The fecond is fome- 
tims alfo found growing Wild in our Country but 
not commonly to be met with, unlefs carefully 
lookt after The third Lobel fays he found near 
the Ruines of an old Church, by the Baths at Bath 
in England. The fourth Diofcondes fays, grew up- 
on Mount Ida in Fhrigia near Troy, and in Mejfe- 
nia a Province of the Mc-tea-, and has ot late been 
gathered upon fome Hills in Greece and Illyria 
which ate near the Sea : but it alfo grows natural- 
ly in /Ethiopia, from whence it took its Name : it 
alfo grows in Meroe , an Iiland in the Rirer Nt/us : 
from fome of thefe places it haf been brought to 
us, and grows here in our Gardens- Gerard fays, 
he had it growing in his Garden : I have alfo feen 
it grow Wild, upon fome oi the oouthern rarts 
of the Continent in Florida, where it is in abun- 
The Times. They all Flower in July and 
Auguft or latter end of Summer , as the other 
Mulleins do and their Seed is ripe in fome little 
time afteri 
X The Qualities, Specification, Preparations, 
and V or lues, of thefe Mulleins, are the fame with 
thofe of the Common Mullein in the former Chap- 
ter fo that no more need be Did of them here. 
XI. Observations. A Decottion of the Golden 
Flowers, of the Black Mullein in Lye, is faid to dye 
the Hair of the Head yellow, and to make it fait 
and fmootli. And a Decoffion of the Leaves in 
Wine with a little Honey., is good to wadi and 
cleanfe old and putrid Ulcers, and foul, rotten, and 
running Sores, and to induce their healing. A De- 
caff ion in Vinegar alfo , is very profitable to flop the 
bleeding of Green Wounds, and to heal them ; and 
it it is made with Rue, it is a Remedy againft the 
Stinging of Scorpions. The Decoffionof the Leaves 
rvc E lowers 111 Wine o/- Water, is good againft 
Uifeales ot the Brelt and Lungs , and tor fuch as 
Spit corrupt and rotten Matter. An Ointment tnade 
of the Leaves, is ufed with good Succefs againft 
bealdings and Burnings with fire or Water, yi 
Cataplafm of the Leaves made by boiling in Water 
and flumping them in a Mortar , See. being appli- 
ed, IS profitable againft an Oedema , and other cold 
Tumors : it cleanfes and cures Ulcers alfo, and is 
ot excellent ufe againlt a nOpbtbu/nna^ orlnfiamati- 
on of the Eyes. 
XII. The Virtues of the Ethiopian Mullein. The 
Lccoffion of the Root in Wine or Water , is good 
againft corrupt and rotten matter of the Lungs : 
helps the afperity or roughnefs in rhe Throat, and" 
'? a t0 be P rofirabIe againft the Sciatica. Art 
Electuary or hoboc, made of the Root with Hony 
has alfo the fame Vertues, and caufes an Expeao- 
ranon of the purulent or rotten Matter in a 
rleunfie. 
CHAP. DIX. 
Of MULLEIN Moth. 
I- 'T H E Names. It was unknown to the 
-L Greeks, and therefore has no Greek 
Name : but it is called in Latme , B/attarU 
from Blatta , a Moth: bac abjefla Blotto* in fe 
contrabit unde nomen accepit , as Pliny fays, lib. 25. 
cap. 9. And in Englifh, Moth Mullein. 
II- The Kinds. Authors have made twelve or 
thirteen Species of them, or more; but as many 
of them are perteftly Forreign to us, and not at all 
to be come by, we (hall here omit them, and give 
you only the Defcription of fuch, as either grow 
Wild in our Country, or are commonly Nurlt up 
in our Gardens ; and they are the following feven 
viz. 1 . B/attaria luted odorata , Sweet yellow Moth 
Mullein. 2. B/attaria lutea minor five vulgaris 
Our Common yellow Moth Mullein. 3. B/attaria 
Flore a/bo. White Moth Mullein. 4. B/attaria 
lutea major five hfpanica. The greater yellow 
Moth Mullein. 7 ■ Blatt aria Ylore luteo purpu - 
rafeente. Cloth of Gold Modi Mullein, or yellow- 
ifh purple flowered Moth Mullein. 6. B/attaria 
Flore purpurea, Purple Flowered Moth Mullein 
7. Blattana Flore Curuleo , Blew Flowered Moth 
Muliein. 
