Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
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Chap. i66- Of French Sage or wooddie z5\dullein. 
7 Ik Definition, 
I T 7(1 TUd Mullein, wooddieMu!leia,i/tf- 
V V thielus his Mullein, or Frei ch Sage 
groiveth vp like a final! wooddie 
thrub, hailing many wood die branches of a woo! lie 
and hoarie colcur/oftand doivnie : whereupon are 
placed thicke hoarie leaues, of a ftrong ponticke fa 
nour, in fhape like the leaues of Sage, whereupon 
the vulgar people call it French Sage: toward the 
top of the branches are placed round les orcrownets 
of yellow gaping floures likethofeo'f dead Mettle, 
but much greater. The root is thicke,to igh.andof 
a wooddie fubftance,a$ is all the reft of the plant. 
t 2 There is another fort hereof that is very like 
the other, failing that the leaues 6t euery other pare 
ofthis plantJiathaTioft fweetand p’eafant fmell, 
and the other more ftrong and oifenfiue : the leaues 
alfoare much lefler and narrower, fomewhatrefem- 
bling thofe of the lefler Sage, 
T t I rhinke it not amiflehere to infert this 
nolefterare than beautifull plant, which differs 
from the laft deferibed in the manner of growing Sc 
fhape of the floures, which refemble thofeof the 
Lychnis Chdcedmicafn None-fuch, but are ofa yel- 
low colour. The leaues are hairy, narrow.and fhirp 
pointed-the ftalkes fquare ; and root wooddie. Lob el 
(tef 
I Vevhitfcum Matthioli. 
Trench Sage, 
t 2 retbafienm imgiifiis StUnUfo'ijs, 
The lefler French Saa:e. 
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