Lib. z. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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from Padua in Italy. Forwhichcaufe oflong lading, the imagesand earned gods were wont to 
weare garlands thereof: whereupon fomehaue called it Cods floure. For which purpofe Pt olomy 
King of Egypt did moft diligently obferue them, as Pliny writeth. 
1 '“jpHis yellow Euerlafting or Fioure-Gentle, called of the later Herbarifts Yellow Stce- 
cas, is a plant that hath ftalkes of a fpan long, and (lender, whereupon do grow narrow 
leaues white and downie, asarealfo the (talks. The floures (land on the tops of the (talks, confi- 
(ting of a fcattered or difordered fcaly tuft, of a reafonable good fmell,of a bright yellow colour ; 
which being gathered before they be ripe, do keep their colour and beauty a long time without wi- 
thering, as do moft of the Cottonweeds or Cudweeds, whereof this is a kinde. The root is blacke 
and (lender. ^ There is Come varietie in the heads of this plant, for they are fometimes very large 
and longilfi,as C timer Arms notes in his Epitome of M atthiolus^ otherwhiles they are very compact 
and round, and of the bigneffe of the ordinaric. 
2 This growes to fome foot or more high, and hath rough downie leaues like the former, but 
broader: the floures are longer, but of the fame yellow colour and long continuance as thole of the 
lalt deferibed. This varies fomthingin thebredthand length of the leaues, whence T ahernamon^ 
tarns gaue three figures thereof, and therein was followed by our Author, as you (hall finde more 
particularly fpecified at the end of the chapter. $ 
3 About Nemaufium and Montpelier there growes another kinde of Chyjoconte , or as Lolel 
termes it, Stcechas Citrinaaltera, but that as this plant is in all points like, fo in alt points it is let 
fer and flenderer,blacker, and not of fuch beauty as the former, growing more neere vnto an afh 
colour, confiding of many (mail twigs a foot long. The root is lefler, and hath fewer ((rings an- 
nexed thereto ; and it is feldome found but in the cliffes and crags, among rubbi(b,and onwalls of 
cities. This plant is browne, without fent or lauor like the other : euery branch hath his ownbunch 
of floures cotnming forth of a fcaly or round head, but not a number heaped together, as in the firft 
kinde. Itprofpereth well in our London Gardens, 
I Elyochry fon, fine Coma nurta. 
Golden Moth-wort. 
The Place, 
Itgrowes in moft vntilled places of Italy 
and Spaine, in medowes where the foile is bar- 
ren,and about the banks of riuers ■ it is a (han- 
ger in England. 
It floures in Auguft and September : not- 
withflanding Thcophraftus and P/my reckon it 
among the floures of the Spring. 
The Names. 
Golden Moth-wort is called of Viofcorides 
Elichryfin . P[iny and T heap hr aft tu call it Hcli- 
chryfon : Ga\a tranflates it Aurelia : in Englilh, 
Gold-floure, Golden Moth-wort. 
It is (faith Galen) of power to cutand make 
thinne. 
% The Venues. 
The branches and leaues laid amongft B 
cloathes keepeth them from moths, whereup- 
on it hath beene called of fome Moth-weed, 
or Mothwort. 
Tiofcorides teacheth, that the tops thereof A 
drunke in wine are good for them that can 
hardly make water ; againft Hangings of Ser- 
pents, paines of thehuckle bohes :and taken 
in fvveet wine it diffolueth congealed bloud. 
hardly make water; againft Hangings 
pents, paines of the huckle bones : an 
t H$rc formerly were two figure* and defc notions ofrhe fame Plant, 
Chap. 207. Of (f olden Floiire-Cfcntle. 
The Defcriplion. 
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