Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
L I B. 2. 
«[f 7 he Dcfcription. 
1 T?Ngli(h Cudweed hath fundry (lender and vpright ftalkes diuided into many bran 
Cr ches, and groweth as high as common Wormwood, whofe colour and fhape it doth 
much refemble.The leaues (hoot from the bottome of the turfe ful of haires,in fhaoe 
fomevvhat like a W illow leafe below, but aboue they be narrower, and like the leaues of Pfiltmm 
or Flea-wort : among which do grow fmall pale coloured floures like thofe of the fmall ™ 
Flea-bane. The whole plant is of a bitter tafte. 
2 The fecond being our common Gnaphalium or Cudweed is a bafe or low herbe nine or ten 
inches long,hauing many fmall ftalks or tender branches, and little leaues, couered all ouer with a 
certain white cotton or fine wooll,and very thick : the floures be yellow, and grow like buttons at 
the top of the ftalkes. 
3 The third kinde of Cudweed or Cotton-weed, being of the fea, is like vnto the other Cud- 
weed laft deferibed, but is altogether fmaller and lower, feldome growing much aboue a handfull 
high : the leaues grow thicke vpon the ftalkes, and are fhort, flat, and very white, foft and woolly 
The floures grow at the top of the ftalkes in fmall round buttons, of colour and fafhion like the 
other Cudweed. , 
4 The fourth being the Cotton-weed of the hills and ftony mountains, is fo exceeding white 
and hoary, that one would thinke it to be a plant made of wooll, which may very eafily be known 
by his piifture, without other defeription. 7 7 
3 Gnaphalium mar mum. 4. 5. Gnaphalium montanum purpureum & album 
Sea Cudw eed. Wh.cc and purple mountaine Cotton-weed. 
5 The fifth kinde of Cotton-weed hath leaues and ftalkes like theotherofhis kinde, and dif- 
fereth in that, that this plant beareth a bufh or tuft of purple floures, otherwife it is very like. 
6 The fixth is like vnto the laft recited, but greater : the floures are of an exceeding bright red 
colour, and of an aromaticall fweet fmell. 
7 The feuenth kinde of Gnaphalium or Cotton-weed of Clufius his defeription, growes nine 
or ten inches high, hauing little long leSues like the fmall Mouf-eare, woolly within,and ofa hoa- 
rse colour on the outfide : the ftalkes in like manner are very woolly, at the top whereof commeth 
fo-rh a fane flourcand a ftrange,hauing fuch woolly leaues bordering the floureabout,that a man 
would thinke it to be nothing elfe but wooll it felfe : and in the middeft of the floure come forth 
fundry 
