Of the Btftorie of Plants. 
2 Matricaria dnplici flor:. 
Double Feuerfew. 
i CMatricaria. 
^ 3 Matricaria AlpinaClufij. 
Mountaine Feuerfew. 
fmall and fibrous roots; from which proceed 
Uender wood die ftalks,a foot high and fome- 
what more, befet or garnifired about with 
Ieaues like Camomill,deepely ragged or cut, 
of the fauour or fmell of Feuerfew, but not fo 
ilrongjin taftehot,butnotvnpleafant. At the 
top of the ftalks there come forth fmal white 
floures not like vnto the firft, but rather like 
vnto Abfynthium album , or White Worme- 
vvood. 
4 I haue growing in my Garden another 
fort, like vnto the firft kinde, but of a moil 
pleafant fweet fauour, in refpedt of any of the 
reft, f This feemes to be the Matricaria alt era 
ex Ilua, mentioned by Came ratios in his Hortm 
medicos. t 
The Place. 
The common fingle Feuerfew groweth in 
hedges, gardens, and about old wals^it ioyeth 
to grow among rubbifh . There is oftentimes 
found when it is digged vp a little colevnder 
the firings of the root, and neuer without it, 
whereof Cardane in his booke of Subtilties 
fetteth down diners vaine and trifling things, 
qt The Time. 
They floure for the moil part all the Som- 
mer long. 
The Names. 
Feuerfew is called in Greeke of Diofcoridcs 
OTfS.w.-of Galen, and Patilus one of his left, 
A W W.in Latine, Parthemum, Matricaria , and 
Febrifu- 
