Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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T he Names. 
Coftmarie is called in Latine Balfamita major ox mas : ofiom e,Cofiut fort arum : it is alfo called 
Mentha Graca : and Saracenica officittarum ■. o{Tragus,Alifma : of Mattbiolus,H.rba Grata of others 
Saluia Romana,3.ni.HerbaUjfuUta:oi Come, Hcrha D .Marta: : in Englifh,Coftmarie,and Ale-coall : in 
High Dutch, ^rautoenfetaut: in low Dutch, ^epDntfc!) toinhUtaat : in French ,Coq. 
Maudlein is withoutdoubt d*kinde of Coftmarie, called of the Italians HerhaGiulia: j oivaleri- 
u< Cor dm, ycnthaCorymbiferaminortan&Eupatorium Mefue; It is iudged to be Diofcorides his ra- 
tion, and it is the Coflus minor hortenfs of Gefner.-we call it in Englilh Maudlein. 
Thefe plants are very effe&uall, efpecially Maudlein, takeneither inwardly or elfe outward- A 
Iy to prouoke vrine^ and the fume thereof doth the fame, and mollifieth the hardneffe of the Ma- 
trix. 
Coftmarie is put into Ale to fteepe, as alfo into the barrels and Stands amongft thofeherbes £ 
wherewith they.doe make Sage Ale ; which drinke is very profitable for the difeafes before fpo. 
ken of. 
The leaues ofMaudleine and Adders tongue ftamped and boiled in Oile Oliue, adding thereto Q 
a little vvax,rofin,and a little turpentine, maketh an excellent healing vnguenr,or incarnatiue falue 
toraife or bring vp flefh from a deepe and hollow wound or vlcer, whereof Ihauehad long expe- 
rience. 
The Conferne made with the leaues of Coftmarie and Sugar, doth vvarme and drie the braine, D 
and openeth the ftoppings of the fame : ftoppeth all Catarrhes,rheumes and diftillations, taken in 
the quantitie ofa beane. 
The leaues of Coftmarie boiled in wine and drunken, cureth the griping paine of the bellie, the £ 
guts and bowels, and cureth the bloudie flix. 
It is good for them that haue the greene ficknefle,Or the dropfie, efpecially in the beginning-and p 
ithelpethallthat haueaweakeand cold liuer. 
The feed expelleth all manner cif wormes out of the belly, as worm feed doth. q 
1 1 | ''Anfie.groweth vpwith manyftalkes, bearing on the tops of them certaine cluttered 
1 tufts, with floures like the round buttons of yellow Romane Cammomill, or Feuer- 
few (without any leaues paled about them)as yellow as gold .The leaues be’ long made 
as it were of a great many fet together vpon one ftalke,like thofe of Agrimony, or rather wild Tan- 
fie,very like to the female Feme, but fofter and lefler,and euery one of them flafhed in the edges as 
are the leaues of Feme. Theroot is tough and ofa wooddie fubftance. The whole plant is bitter 
in tafte,and ofa ftrong fmell,but yet pleafant. 
2 The double Englifh Tanfie hath leaues infinitly iaggedand nicked^and curled withalflike 
vnto a plume of feathers : it is altogether like vnto the other, both in finell and tafte, as alfo in 
floures, but more plealantly fmelling by many degrees, wherein efpecially conlifteth the diffe- 
3 The third kinde ot Tanfie hath leaues, roots, ftalkes, and branches like the other, and diffe- 
reth from them,in that this hath no irnell or fauour at all, and the floures are like the common An- 
gle Fetherfew. 
t _ 4 Clufim hath deferibed another bigger kind of vnfauorie Tanfie, whofe figure here we giue 
you-it grows iomc cubit and haife high, with crefted ftalks,hauing leaues let vp6n fomwhat longer 
ftalks than thofe of the laft deferibed, otherwife much like them :the floures are much lamer, be- 
ing of the bignefle of the great Daifie,and of the fame colour the feede is long and black? : The 
root is of the thicknes of ones finger, running vpon the furface of the ground, & putting forth fame 
fibres, and it lafts diners yeares, fo that the plant may be encreafed thereby. This floures in May 
and Iune,and grows wilde vpon diuers hills in Hungary and Auftria. | 
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They are hot and drie in the fecond degree.' 
%The Nature. 
The Vertues. 
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