Lib.j. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1563 
made them hat-bands , girdles , and alio 
bands to tyc fuch things as they had before 
gathered, for the which pnrpofe it moll fitly 
lerued ; fome pieces whereof are lix or eight 
foot long, confifting as it were of many hai- 
rieleauesfet vpon a rough firing, very clofe 
couched and compact together, f rom which 
is alfo fent forth eertaine other branches like 
the firft :in fundry places there be fent down 
fine little firings , which feme in ftead of 
roots, wherewith it is fattened to thevpper 
part of the earth, and taketh hold likewife 
vpon fueh things as grow nexcvnto it. There 
fpring alfo from the branches bare and naked 
jftalkes, on which grow eertaine cares as it 
were like the catkins or blowings of the Ha- 
fell tree, in fbape like a little club or the 
reede Mace, failing that it is much leifer.and 
of a yellowifh white colour, very well refe'm- 
bling the claw of a Wolfe, whereof it tooke 
his name ; which knobby katkins are altoge- 
ther barren, and bring forth neither feed nor 
floure. 
X 14 CMrfcus parvus ftellaris. 
Small Heath Mode. 
13 M 11 feus ex cranio bumano , 
Moffe growing vpoivthe skull of a man. 
X 12 This, whofe figure in the former edition was by our Author vnfitly put for Lauandiw 
Cotton (hailing more regard to the title of ti e figure in Tabcrnamontanus, than to fee whether it 
were that which he there deferibed) is no other thanakindeof Mu fens clauatus, or Club-Mode. It 
is thought to be the 'Selago mentioned by Pliny, lib. 2 5 . cap. 1 1 . Tragus and fome others call it Sa- 
uina fylueftris : Turner and Taiernam/ititmis , Chamxcyparijfus .-but Bauhmc the mod fitly ftameth it 
Mufius clauatus folijs Cyprejs . and Turner not vnfitly in Englifb, Heath Cypreffe. This is a low 
plant, and keepesgreene Winter and Sommer: the leaues are like thofe of Cvprefle, bitter in 
tade, but without fmell : it carries fucheareS or catkins as the former, and thofe of a yellowifh co- 
lour : it is found growing in diners wooddy mountainous places of Germanic, where they call it 
l©alD^»CUenbamn,orwilde Sauine. x 
1 3 This kinde of Mode is found vpon the skulls or bare fealps of men and u-omen,!ying long 
in charnell houfes or other places, where the bones of men and women are kept together : it grow- 
eth very thicke, white, like vnto the fhort mode vpon the trunkes of old Okes : it is thought to be 
a lingular remedie againft the falling Euill and the Chin-cough in children, if it be pondered, and 
then giuen in fweet wine for certai ne dales together. 
+ "14 Vpon diners heathy places in the raoneth of May is to be found growings little (hart 
Mode not much in fhape different from the firft deferibed, but much le(fe,and parted at the top 
into ttar-fafhioned heads, lobd calls this, Mufius in EriceUsproueniens, X 
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