L IB. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Chap, zyz. Of Mullein of /Ethiopia. 
tMthiopis. 
/Ethiopian Mullein. 
The Description. 
M V Hein of /Ethiopia hath many very broad 
hoary leaues fpred vpon the ground, very 
foft and downy, or rather woolly, like to 
thofe of Hygtaper, but farre whiter, fofter, thic- 
ker, and fuller of woollinefle ; which wooll is fo 
long, that one may with his fingers pull the lame 
from the leaues, euen as wooll is pulled from a 
Sheeps skinne : among which leaues rifeth vp a 
ioure fquare downy ftalke , fet with the like 
leaues, but fmaller; which ftalke is diuided ac 
the top into other branches, let about and order- 
ly placed by certaine diftances , hauing many 
noures like thofe of Archangell, of a white co- 
lour tending to blewnefle: which being paft 
there fucceedeth a three fquare browne feedl the’ 
toot is blacke,hafd, and of a wooddy fubftance. 
The Place. 
It groweth naturally in Ethiopia, and in Tda, 
a hill hard by Troy, and in Mefleniaa prouince 
of Morea, as Pliny fheweth in his twenty feuenth 
booke,chap. 4. it al fo groweth in Meroe, an 
In and in the riuer Nilus : it likevvife groi-veth in 
nty garden. 
•[ The Time. 
It floureth and flouriiheth in Iune,and perfe- 
cteth his Iced toward the end of Auguft. 
«T The Names. 
It is called in Greek aisw* and in Latine 
°f the countrey * and for that caufe it is 
hkewife called CMmutes , ol Meroi, as Pliny Wnteth : of fome becaufe the Greeke word a;*, fiant- 
fieth in Latine Tnuil/aadnfla, or Cmcre ajjierfi , or couered with allies : in Englifh we may cal it Mul- 
lein of /Ethiopia, or woolly Mullein. 1 
The Nature. 
v Etkiopis is dry without any manifeft heate. 
91 T he Wert ties. 
ypjhiovis is good for thofe that haue the Pleurifie, and for thofe that haue their brefts charged A 
with corrupt and rotten matter, and for fuch as are grieued with the afperitie and roughneflb in 
the throat, and againft the Sciatica, if one drinke thedecoftionoftheroot thereof. 
For the difeafes of the brell and lungs it is good to licke oftentimes ofa confeAion made with B 
the root hereofand honey, and fo are the roots condited with fugar.in fuch manner as they condite 
the roots of Errngos. ' 1 
Chap. 275. Of Qmfhpu 
•f The Dcjcription. 
1 Hr ^°/ e ^ lcr ^ es which at this day are called Primroles, Covvflips, and Oxlips, are recko- 
I * 1 ° “ the kindes of Mulleins • notwithftanding for diftindlions lake I haue mar- 
r u 1 * . them in a chapter, coinming in the rcreward as next neighbors to the Mullens, 
- 0I 1 1 1 r named them f'erhafiali, that is to fay. Small Mullens. The firlLwhich 
is ca ed in Enghfh the field Cowllip, is as common as the reft, therefore I fhall hot need to fpend 
much time about the delcription.. 
The fecond is likewife well knovvne by the name of Oxlip, and differeth not from the other, 
if-f fine 
