Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 2 Si 
therafeJues i but opened, ofa bright golden colour, and thofe are ingirt by fifteeneor more little 
ieaues, which ate ofa flame colour aboue,and red vndcrneath. The tloures fly away in dowoe and 
the feed is blackfill, and like that of the former. The roots are made of many firings like thole 
of the precedent. 
? 1 his broad leaned Rag-weed hath ftiffe crcfted fta^kes, which are fet with broad wrinckled 
fharpe pointed Ieaues, ofa grcene colour : the bottome Ieaues are the larger and rounder, the top 
Ieaues the lefle,and more duiided. The floures grow at the top of the ftalkes,in fhapeand colour 
like thofe of the common Rag-weed , but much bigger ; T hey alfo turne into Dpwnc as the for- 
mer. $ 
4 Sea Rag-wort groweth to the height of two cubits : the fialkes be not reddifh as the other, 
butconrrariwile Afh-coloured,gray and hoary : the Ieaues be greater and broader than the other : 
the floutes grow at the top, ofa pale yellow colour, couered on the cup orhuske ofthefloure, as 
alfo the Ieaues, with a certaine loft white Dovvne or freefe : the floures vanifh into Downe, and’fly 
away with the winde. ' 5 
«[T 7 he Thee. 
Land Rag-wort groweth' euery where invnulled paftures and fields, which are fomewhdtmoift 
efpecially,and neprevnto the borders of fields. 
-t ' 2 3 Thefe grow vpon the Auftrian and Heluetian Alpes. t 
Jhe fourth kinde of Rag-wort groweth neere the fea fide in fiindry places : I hatie feene it in the 
field by Margate, by Queakes houfc, and by Byrch triton in the Ifle of Tenet : likewife itgroweth 
neere the Kings ferry in the IfleofShepey,in the way leading to Sherland houfe, where S '.Edward 
Hobby dwelled! :and likewife at Qpeenborough ca file in the lame Iflc - and in other places. ^ I 
haue been at the former and later of thefe p'aces to finde out plants, vet could I not fee this plant. 
It growes in the garden of W .Ralph Tuggy but I tearc hardly wildc in this kingdotne. i 
" '«fl The Time. 
They floure in Inly and Auguft, at which time they are carried away with the Downe. 
The Names. 
The is called in Latine, Herb a S . Tacobi 7 or S . Jacobi flos, and Tacob&a : in high-DutcIi, 
3Iat0b3 b’oumcn : in low -Dutch, ^ant 'Jacobs Ctupt : m French, Finer deS. lacques ■. in Eng- 
iiili, S. lames his V\ ort: the countrey people do call it Stagger-wort, and Staner-wort, and alfb 
Rag-wort, f and Rag-weed. InHoldernefleinYorke-ihiretheycallitSeggrurn. 
The fecond is lacobaa Par.nomca >. of Clufius. 
7 he third is his lacobnalatifolU. Gejhcr calls it Coni^a montana. £ 
The fourth is named Cineraria, or A fh- coloured S. lames Wort : fome call it Erigcron inarlnuni, 
or Sea Groundfell :of dome, Arttmifiamarina. $ And by Proper Afpims, Artemifia alba. £ 
The Temperature. 
S. Tames wort is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and alfo cleanfing by realbn of the bitternefle 
which it hath. 
ty The Vert ms. 
It is commended by the later Phyfitions to be good for grcene wounds, and old filthy Vlcers x 
vi iicli are not fcoured, myndified , and made clcane ■, it alfo healeth them, with the iuyee here- 
of tempered with honey and May butter, and boyled together to the forme of an Vnguent or 
It is much commended, and not without catife, tohelpe oldaches and pains in the armes,hips, -o 
and legs, boyk-d in hogs greafe to the forme of an ointment. D 
. h'loreouer, the decoftion hereof gargarifed is much fet by as a remedie againft fwellings and q 
nnpofiumations of the throat, which it wafieth away and throughly healeth. 
K Ieaues ftamped s cry fmall, and boyled with fome hogs greafe vnto the confumption of the ry 
tur cc .a dmg thereto in the end of the boy ling a little Maftickeand 01ibanum,and then drained, 
taketh away the old ache in the huckle-bones called Sciatica. 
t- 1 he Egyptians (faith P , ofper Alpinus Jvfe the Sea Rag-wort,for many things : for they com- p 
n ?r n 1 e c ' ccfJ £fion made with the Ieaues thereof againft the ftone in thekidnies and bladder , as 
L° t0 . ,‘ c the old obftrutftions of the inward parts, but principally thofe of the vvonlbe; as alfo 
-c co A.nefic,ftrang(ilation,barrennefle, inflation thereof, and it alfo brings downe the interccp- 
ci comfes there i ore women troubled with the mother are much eafed by baths made of the 
Ieaues and floures hereof. $ • 
Chap. 
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