iog6 Salmon/ 'Herbal . Lib. 3. 
IV. Gerard defcribes it after this manner. It 
his a Fibrous Root oj a biting and Jharp TaJJe. It 
has huge broad Leaves tike Verbafcutn Salvifolium, 
or the Great Conyza. Front among which rife s up 
a Stalk jour or jive handfuls high , hard, rough and 
hairy Jiefer with Leaves like Roje Campions oj a dark 
green color. At the Tops of the /aid Stalks , come 
forth flowers of a finning and glittering Golden color. 
And underneath about tbeje flowers grow jive or 
St amort yellow true. 
fix long Leaves, rough and Jharp pointed, not much 
tnjhape unlike the tilb called Stella marina ; which 
flowers turn into Doan, and ore carried away with 
the Wind. 
V The fecond or Purple Italian Starwort, or 
Purple Marigold. U has a Root compofed of many 
white firings, which perifh not as the former , but 
abide many years, with green Leaves on their 
heads, and Jpring frefh again every year. It has 
many woody, round, brittle Stalks nfmg from the 
Root fomething higher than the former, or about 
two feet in height , fometimes Jlanding ‘fP r ‘ght, 
and fometimes leaning downwards-, on which are 
fet without order up to the Tops, many fomething 
hard rough, and long Leaves, for the molt part 
round pointed ; near the lops they are divided in- 
to feveral Branches, at the lops of each of which 
grow flngle flowers , made like unto a jingle Mari- 
gold, the outward border of its Leaves being of 
a blewifh purple color, which are fet about a mid- 
dle Thrum of a browmfh yellow, breaking out of a 
green Scaly head, like to thofe of Knapweed, but 
leffer. Tbefe flowers abide long in their Beauty , 
and in the end wither and yield a f oft Down , in 
which lye [mall, black, and flat Seeds, not much 
Starwort purple Italian. 
unlike Lcttice Seed, which with the Down, art 
carried away with the Wind. 
VI. The third or Fleabane like Starwort. Its 
Root is a fmall bujh of Strings and j mall Fibres. 
It rifes up with brown Stalks , which are branched , a- 
bout afoot in height or more, on which grow long and 
Starwort Vleahane> 
