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Of the Hiltorie of Plants. 
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zen floures more or lefle, not much vnlike in fhape, colour, ami fmc-ll,ro tholh of the common laco- 
btafi r Ragwoort. The root is fomcvvbat thicke, and puts forth many long white fibres. It floures 
in Iuly and Auguft,and growes vponthe Alpes of Stiria. Clufui calls it Chryftmthemum esllpi- 
num. r . 
4 The fecond ofhis defcription hath many leaues at the root, like to the leaues of the male 
Sothernwood,butofa lighter and brighter greene, and ofnovnpleafant fmell, though the taftebe 
bitteriih and vngratefull : in the middeft of the leaues grow vp ftalkes fome foot high, diuided at 
their tops into fiindry branches, which carry each of them two or three floures bigger than, yet like 
thofe of the common Cammomill,but without fmel ,and wholly yellow : the root is fibrous,blac- 
kifh,and much fpreading.lt floures ill Auguft,and growes in the like places as the former. Buuhine 
iudges rhis tobe the AchHUnmont ana Artemi fit tenuifolia facie of the Aducrf. and the Agcratumferu- 
Uceum in the HiJl.Lugd. But I cannotbe of thatopinion^ yet I iudge the Achiltaa montanapmd Age - 
ratumfcniUceum to be but of the fame plant. But different from this, & thatchiefely in that it hath 
many more, and thofe much lefle floures than thofe of the plant here figured and defcribed. 
5 Now fhould I haue giuen you the hiftorie of the Chryfmtbemum Creticum of the fame Au- 
thour,but thatmy friend M r . Goodyer hath faued me the labour', by fending an exadi defcription 
thereof, togetherwith one or two others of this kinde, which I thinke fit here to giue you. 
Chryfainhemum Creticum primum Clnfij,pag.^ j 4. 
The ftalkesare round, ftraked, branched, hard, ofa whitifh greene, with avery little pith within ; 
lreere three foot high : the leaues grow out of order, diuided into many parts, and thofe again fnipc 
or diuided, of the colour of the ftalkes :at the tops of the ftalkes and branches grow great floures, 
bigger than any of the reft of the Corne-floiires,forth of fcaly heads, confiding of twelue or more 
broad leaues apeece, notched at the top, ofa fhining golden colour at the firft, which after turne to 
a pale, whitifh, or very light yellow, and grow round about a large yellow ball, of finell fomewhat 
fweet. The floures paft, there commcth abundance of feed clo fely compadi or thruft together, and 
it is fhort, blunt at both ends,ftraked,of a falue colour, fomwhat flat,& of a reafonable bignes. The 
. root 
