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lienee it is called in the Aduerf. Abrotanumperegrinum atprejfi folijs. The fifth hath not the ftalkes 
growing vpright, but creeping: the leaues are toothed, more thicke and hoary ^pan the reft jin 
other refpevTs alike. Pauhine calls it Abrotanum famina repens canefcens . t 
The Place. 
Latiander Cotton groweth in gardens almoft eucry where. 
The Time, 
They floure in Inly and Auguft. 
The Names. 
They are called by one name Santelina, or Lauander Cotton : of moik,Chamacypari flat .But Pliny 
concerning chamxcyparijfus is fo fhort and briefe, that by him their Qpinions can neither be reie J 
died nor receiued. 
They are doubtlefle much deceiued that would haue Lauander Cotton to be Abrotrwumfoemi. 
va or the female Sothernwood : and likewife they are in the wrong who take it to beSeriphiitmfca 
Wormewood; and they who firft fet it abroch to be a kinde of Sothernwood we leaue to their er- 
' rors ■ becaufe it is not abfolutely to be referred to one, but a plant participating of Wormewood 
and Sothernwood.- 
«[f The Temperature. 
The feed of Lauander Cotton hath a bitter tafte, being hot and dry in the third degree. 
The Virtues. 
^ Pliny faith, That the herbe Chamacypariffus being drunke in wine is a good medicine againft the 
poy fons ofall ferpents and venomous beafts. 
t> 1 1 killeth wormes either giuen greene or dry,and the feed hath the fame vertue againft vvormes, 
P bnt auoideth them with greater force. It is thought to be equall with the vfuall worme-feed. 
f The figure which formerly was in this place w« of a kinde of Moffo, which T ragtt fee forth by the na me of Seuina filueJltH : Tumi and Ttbtmmmtm cal- 
led it Cbamurjptrijfku See more' thercofin the Moflcs. 
C h a p. 457. Of Sperage , or dAfyaragw, 
