L i b. z. Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
The Names. 
Oke oflerufaj^m is called in Greeke sht„ in Latine Botrys ; In Italian, Botri .■ in Spanifh,S/V» 
granada .• in high-Dutch, 'CtaufeenfetflUt, and &r0ttenhtaut : in French and low-Dutch,Pjwz««f ; 
| in Englifli, Oke of Ierufalem ; and of fome, Oke of Paradife. 
Oke of Cappadocia is called in Greeke 'A^ew* = in Latin e,Ambrofia ; neither hath it any other 
| knowne name. Fling faith that Ambrofia is a wandering name, and is giuen vnto other herbes : for 
I Botrys (Oke of Ierufalem, as we haue written) is of diners alfo called Ambrofia In Englifh it is 
called Oke of Cappadocia. 
The Temperature. 
Thefe plants are hot and dry in the fecond degree, and confift of fubtill parts. 
TheVertues. 
Thefe plants be good to be boyled in wine, and miniftred vnto fuch as haue their brefts ftopt, a 
and are fhort winded, and cannot eaiily draw their breath •, for they cut and wafte groffe humours ' 
and tough flegme. The leaues are of the fame force : being made vp with fugar they commonly 
callitaconferue. 
It giueth a pleafimt tafte to flefh that is fodden with it, and eaten with the broth. 
It is dried and Iayd among garments, not onely to make them fmell fvveet,but alfo to preferue 
them from moths and other vermine ; which thing it doth alfo performe. 
There were formerly two moredeferiptions in this chapter, both which were made by looking vpon the figures in Lobels Jem ; the former being bf his >Anbrc-l. 
fiaffimaneajlrigofior, which is nothing clfc but the Corono^ Judith or Swines CrclVcs. The later was of his olmbiof.a tautifolui, which our Author in the Uft ebap, 
rcr fet forth by the name of ^ibrotanum ampeftto * • 
Of Lauander Qotton , 
«[ The Veficription, 
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L Auander Cotton bringeth forth cluftred 
buttons of a golden colour, and of a fweet 
fmell, and is often vfedin garlands , and 
decking vp of gardens and houies. It hath 3 
wooddy ftocke , out of which grow forth 
branches like little boughes,flender,very ma- 
ny, a cubit long, fet about with little leaues,' 
long, narrow, purled, or crumpled ; on the tops 
of the branches Hand vp flonres, one alone on 
euery branch, made vp with fhort threds 
thruft clofe together, like to the flonres of 
Tanfie, and to the middle buttons of the 
floures of Cammomill , but yet fomething 
broader, of colour yellow, which be chang ed 
into feed of an obfeure colour. The root is of 
a wooddy fubftance. The Ihrub it felfe is 
white both in branches and leaues, and hatha 
ilrong fweet fmell. 
$ There ate fome varieties of this plant,’ 
which Matthieliu,Lobel, and others refer to Ab- 
rotanum faminajmi fo call it ; and by the lame 
name our Authour gaue the figure thereof in 
the la ft chapter faue one, though the deferip- 
tion did not belong thereto, as I haue former- 
ly noted. Another fort thereof our Authour, 
following Tabernamontanus and Lcbel, fet forth 
a little before by the name of Abfinthium mars- 
num Abrotani feernina facie , that Dodonaiss calls 
Santolinaprima ; and this here figured, Santolina 
altera. He alfo mentioneth three other diffe- 
rences thereof^ which chiefely confift in the 
leaues ; for his third hath very fhort and fmall leaues like thofe of Heath ; whence Banhine calls it: 
Abrotanum feeminafotys Erica. The fourth hath the leaues leffe toothed, and more like to Cypreffe,. 
A '.Si H " hence 
C H A Pi 4 $6. 
t Chamacyparijfics. 
Lauander Cotton. 
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