beene called Herbatmpat, that is, the wicked Herbe,or Herbe Impious. 
, -V 1 hc elcucnth plant comprehended vnder the title of Gmphdium, (being without doubt a 
El™ 
like vnto the other kxndes of Cotton-weed) is an handfull high or thereabouts , befet with leaues 
like 
6 J r l Of the Hiltorie of Plants. L 1 b. z. 
fundry final] heads ofa pale yellow colour, like vnto the other of this kinde. ^Th^rooth blacke 
and lomevvhatnorous. 
8 There is a kinde of Cotton-weed, being of greater beauty than the reli, that hath ftrait and 
vpright (talks 3 foothighormore,coueredwithamoft foft and fine wooll, and in fuch plentifull 
manner, that a man may with his hands take it from the ftalke in great quantitie - which ftalke is 
befet with many (mall long and narrow leaues, greene vpon the inner fide, and hoary on the other 
fide rafhioned iomewhat like the leaues ofRofemary, but greater. The floures do grow at the ton 
o the ftalkes in bundles or tufts, confiding of many fmall Homes of a white colour, and very dou 
ble,compa.d,or as it were confiding of little filuct fcales thrud clofe together, which doe make 
the fame very double. \ v hen the floure hath long flouriflred,and is waxen old, then comes there 
in the mtddeft o, the floure a certaine browne yellow thrumme, fuch as is in the midd of the Dai- 
(ie : which floure being gathered when it is young, may be kept in fuch manner as it was gathered 
(Irneane m (rich frdhncfle and well liking) by the f P ace of a whole yeare after, in your chert or 
eliewhere: wherefore our Englifh women hatieca 11 "^ T ' <■. 
doth aptly anfiver his effeds. } Clufiut receiued UI „,„ 
by the name of Gnuphditm Amcr 'tcMum , or ArgyrjfcQmc&'X 
9 This plant hath three or foure fmall grayifh colony or woolly dalkes, growing draitfrom 
the root and common y dimcfed into many little branches : the leaues be long, narrow, whitifh 
(oft, and woolly, like the other of bis kinde : the floures be round like buttons, growing verv manv 
together at the top ot the dalkes but noting fo yellow as Moufe-eare, which turne into downe 
and are caried away with the wmde. I 5 
: calle^jjjfiue-long, or Line for euer, which name 
ed this plant out of England, and fird fet it forth 
To Filugo, flue fferb/t impia. 
Herbe impious, or wicked Cudweed. 
a, y\t Cdi'vvx.- 
11 Leontopodium, (hie Pes Leonirms. 
Lions Cudweed. 
