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Of the Hiftorie of Plants 
It is anvnprofitable weed among coine, and raifech blifters vpon the hands of the weeders and 
reapers . 
1 T^Trethruw, in Englifh, Pellitorie of Spaine (by the name whereof fome doe vnproperly 
call another plant, which is indeed the true Imperataria, or Mafter-wort,and not Pellil 
torie) hath great and fat leaues like vato Fennell, trailing vpon the ground : amon^ft 
which, immediately from the root rifethvp a fat great Item, bearing at the topa goodly floure 
fafhiqned like the great fingle white Dailie, whole bunch or knob in the midft rs yellow like that 
oftheDaifie, and bordered about with a pale of fmall leaues, exceeding white on the vpper fide, 
and vnderofafaire purple colour: the root is long, of the bignefie of a finger, very hot, and of a 
burning tafte. 
2 The wildc Pellitorie growethvp like vntowilde Cheruile, refembling the leaues of Cauca- 
/«>, ofaquicke and nipping tafte, like the leaues of Dittander, or Pepper-wort : the floures grow 
at the top of flender ftalkes,in fmall tufts or fpoky vmbels, of a white colour .-the root is tough, 
and ofthebignefifeofa little finger, with fome threds thereto belonging, and of a quicke biting 
l Pyrclhrnm off cinarttm. j Pyrethrum (yluepre. 
Pellitorie of Spaine. .'Wilde Pellitorie. 
; f The pl aC e, 
It groweth m my^garden very plentifully. 
* ’ «[ TheTime. 
It floureth and (eedeth in Inly and Auguft. 
Chap, z Of Tellitorie of Spaine. 
Pellitorie of Spaine ts called in Greeke * bv reafnn nFtii'c c — ^ 
^7 The Names. 
Alexandre, 
