Of the Hiftroy of Plants, 
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ouer with a fcaly barke like the fcaly backe of an adder, and of the fame colour : from wli ich rife 
very many Ieaues like thofe of Fennell, of an ouerworne greene colour: among which grow fmall 
twiggy branches on the tops, and alongft the ftalkes do grow fmall cluttering floures of a yellow 
colour : the whole plant is of a darke colour, as well Ieaues as ftalkes,and ofaftrong vnfauourie 
fmell. 
The Place. 
T heophrajl us faith that Sothernwood delighteth to grow in places open to the Sun : Diofcorides 
affirmeth that itgrowethin Cappadocia, and Galatia a countrey in Alia, and iti Hierapolis a city 
I in Syria : it is planted in gardens alnioft euery where:that of Sicilia and Galatia is molt commen- 
•ded of Pliny. 
j The Time. 
! The buttons of Sothernwood do flourifh and be in their prime in Auguft, and now and then in 
September. 
fj The Names. 
Ir is called in Greeke ■- the Latines and Apothecaries keepe the fame name Abrotanum „■ 
the Italians and diners Spaniards call it Abrotaao : and other Spaniards, Tenia lombriguera : in high 
Dutch, igitabtourtj : in low- Dutch, SBuetOOtK, and 5(iUEtCtUt|t i the French, Attrw, and Auroejme: 
the Englilh men, Sothernwood : it hath diuers baftard names in Diofcorides ; the greater kinde is 
Diofcorides his Fcemina , or female Sothernwood ; and Pliny his Montanum , or mountaine Sotherne- 
wood : the mountaine Sothernwood we take for the female, and the champion for the male. There 
be notwithftanding fome that take Lauander Cotton to be the female Sothernwood •, grounding 
thereupon, becaufe it bringeth forth yellow floures in the top of the fprigs like clutter buttons: 
but if they had more diligently pondered Diofcorides his words, they would not haue been of this 
opinion : the leffer Sothernwood is Mm, the male, and is alio P limes champion Sothernwood ; in 
Latine,Caw/>e/?rf,The third,as we haue faid,is likevvife the female, and is commonly called fweet 
Sothernwood, becaufe it is ofa Tweeter fent than the reft. Diofcorides feemeth to call this kind Si- 
cultim, Sicilian Sothernwood. 
The Temperature. 
Sothernwood is hot and dry in the end 5f the third degree : it hath alfo force to diftributc and 
torarifie. 
The Vertues. 
The tops, floures, or feed boyled, and ftamped raw with water and drunke, helpeth them that A 
cannot take their breaths without holding their neckes ftraight vp and is a remedie for the cramp, 
and for finewes fhrunke and drawne together ; for the fciatica alfo, and for them that can hardly 
make water ; and it is good to bring downe the cermes. 
It killeth wormes, and driueth them out : if it be drunke with wine it is a remedie againft dead- g 
ly poyfons. 
A Ifo it helpeth againft the Hinging of fcorpions and field fpiders,but it hurts the ftomack'e. C 
Stamped and mixed with oyle it taketh away the fhiuering cold that commeth by the ague fits, D 
and it heateth the body if it be anointed therewitli before the fits do come. 
Ifit be pounhd with barley meale and laid to putties it taketh them away. 
It is good for inflammations of the eyes,with the pulpe of a rotted Quince, or with crummes of 
bread^andapplied pultis wife. 
The afhes of burnt Sothernwood, with fome kinde of oyle that is of thi n parts, as of Palma chri - G 
Jli, Radifh oyle, oyle of fweet Marierome,or Organie,cureth the pilling of the haire off the head, 
and maketh the beard to grow quickly : being ftrewed about the bed, or a fume made of it vpon 
hot embers, it driueth away lerpents : if but a branch be layd vnder the beds head they fay it pro- 
uokethvenerie. 
The feed of Sothernwood made into ponder, or boyled in wine and drunke, is good againft the yy 
difficultie and (lopping of vrine ; it expelleth,wafteth, confunicth, and digefteth all cold humors, 
tough flime and flegme, which do vfually ftop thefpleene,kidneyes,and bladder. 
Sothernwood drunke in wine is good againftall venome and poyfon. I 
The ieaues of Sothernwood boyled in water vntill they be foft, and ftamped with bailey meale 
and barrowes greafe vnto the forme of a plaifter-, diffoiue and wafte all cold tumors and fwellings, 
being applied or laid thereto. 
+ The defaiption here in the fir ft place is that of the dtboiefc^r.s ofU odor tin, being the very fhft in his Perr.pt eats- ihe figure which our - 
thor put rhcreco was of the Lauander Cotton, which (houldhaue becnein the next chapter faue one .• Now the figure thathecfhould haue put here was put tw 
chapters before, by the name of ^bjinthium atborefeeni, by which name Label alfo calls it : but l haue thought it fitter to put it here, becaalc here was h 
defeription, and the plant is the better referred to this kinde, 
