Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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5 Abrotanumcamfcflrc. 
. , , Wilde Sothernwood. 
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4 Ahrotcimm inodorum. 
Vnfauorie Sothernwood. 
i The Idler Sothernwood groweth !ow,ful 
t>f little Tprigs of a woody fubftance: theleanes 
are long, and fmaller than thofc of the former, 
not fo white : it beareth cluttering buttons vpon i 
the tops of the italics : the root is made of many 1 * 3 4 5 
ltrings. 
3 Thethirdkindeisalfofhorteritheleaues i 
hereof are iaggedand deeply cut after the maner : 
ofthe greater Sothernwood, but they are not fo I 
white, yet more fweet,vvherein they are like vnto 1 
Lauander cotton. This kindeis very full of feed : 
the buttons Hand alongft on the fprigs, euen to 
thevery top, and be ofa glittering yellow. The 
root is like to the reft. 
4 The vnfauorie Sothernwood groweth flat ; 
vpon the ground, with broad leaues deepely cut i 
or iagged in the edges like thofe of the common | 
Mugwort : among which rifevpweake and fee- 
ble ftalkes trailing likewife vpon the ground, fet j 
confufedly here and there with the like leaues j 
that grow next the ground, of a gray ifh or hoary 1 
colour, altogether without fmell/ Thefloures 
grow alongft the ftalkes, ofa yellowifh colour, 
fmall and chaffie : the root is tough and wooddy, 
with fome firings anexed thereto. 
5 This vvilde Sothernwood hath a great i 
longthicke root, tough and wooddy, couered 
