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1074, 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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1 e. z. 
The Defer iption. 
1 "\7 Ellovv Y arrow is a fmall plant feldome abotie a fpan high : the ftalkes whereof are cf> 
1 tiered with long leaues, very finely cut in the edges like feathers in the wings of little 
birds: the tufts or fpokie rundles bring forth yellow floures, of the fame lhape and 
forme of the common Yarrow : the root confifteth of threddy firings. ^ 
2 Achilles Yarrow, or noble Milfoile, hath a thicke and tough” root, with firings fattened 
thereto : from which immediately rife vp diuers ftalkes, very greene and crcfted whereupon doe 
grow long leaues compofed of many fmall jagges.cut euen to the middle rib : the floures ftand ora 
the top of the ftalkes with fpokie vmbels or tufts, of a whitifh colour, and plcafant fmell 
The Place. 
. There kinds of Yarrow are feldome found : they grow in a fat and fruitfull foiIe,and fometimes 
in medowes,and are ftrangers in England. 
The Time. 
They floure from May vntill Auguft. 
«[ The Names. 
D itfc or ides defeription doth fufficiently declare, that this herbe is Stmiotes CMillehUum -in 
Greeke,^™*.^,.. the height of the herbe fheweth it, the forme of the leaues agree - there is 
fome ambiguity or doubt in the colour of the floures, which Diofcondcs deferibeth to be white as 
the vulgar copies haue 3 but Andreas Lacuna addeth out of the old booke, of a yellow co'our • itA 
r°[^ hC J late !' a§ f ,M f ejr ‘ ,//BW “> or little Yarrow, and Millefolium lute, cm, yellow Yarrow 
or Nofe-bleede: the Apothecaries and common people know it not. ' ’ 
If The Temperature. 
Yarrow is meanely cold and fomewhat binding. 
m The Vert ties. 
B is a principal! herbe for all kinde of bleedings, and to heale vp new and old vlcers and "reene , 
wounds : there be fome, faith Galen , that vfe it for fiftulaes. 0 
This plant Achillea is thought to be the very fame wherewith Achilles cured the wounds of his 
fouldiers,as before in the former chapter. 
*f The plant here figured anddeferibed 
the title of Tcmacnim 
,he p L a<r 't W” airoCgurta and dcrcribcd formerly inrkc fifth place of the chapter of tUs boolc h. 
..... , album, but the figure of Lcbels which is put there being fomewhat imperfedf I rheushe it not amiflV hrr^ V. u » - 
whictm fomewhat more exquifite, other wife both the figure and hiftory might in cb» place hauc been omitted. S h b that of Dodnixiu . 
• Chap. 440. Of Valerian , or Setivall. 
Ihe D efeription. 
j 'T' He tame or garden Valerian hath his firft leaues long, broad, fmooth °reen and vndi 
1 fill ift t ,CaUe c S 7° n thC ftalkC c S § teater > lo "Ier, and *«lS^S „ dS 
' . • , f ,[' de ’ ld ^ r the lc ?" es of the g reater Parfnep, but yet lefler : the ftalke is aboue a cubi 
higb,fmooth,a nd hollow, with certaine joints farre diftant one from another: out of which joini 
& r w forth a couple of leaues and in the tops of the ftalkes vpon fpokie rundles ftand floures he- 
pe together, which are fmall, opening themfelues out of a long little narrow necke of color 
tahmj, and fomccimes withal I ofa l|ht ted : the too, ts an i„c”h thiL ™„g afl™ 
2 and &S " ft" 7“/' !hc rfa^r^tpIccototirpisaSS 
der, and mu o firings and fmall th reds, not altogether without fmell 
leaues thereof heTtS'' for ™f° the garden Valerian, but farre lefler: thefirf 
floures wh ch ftand enf l’ ' °A Of cut in •’ the ftalkes a fpan long : th 
lorn the roots be Ind? ° n “ t0 thofe °J' the others ’ of a Ji S ht wbitifli purple co 
/ Th«e t isa e fman^Vp^J C '' VlnSa ^' 5pe ’ Creepin ?’ and j U ^ °f fine final! threds of little fmell. 
feribed i t ifaltoIS" r Tn an , d fton y P laces ’ that is like vnto the laft de 
, 5 , ^ I c fTc . ij: The ftalk is fome halfe foot hi^b and ftriir r) inirl ino- ir frftf 
mro branches coward die top, and that alwaies by couples : the boS’e 
