6 z Chap.zi. 
Tkeatrum c Botanicum. 
Tribe, i. 
7. ycrbajcum laciniatvm, 
lagged Mullein. 
8. [Serbafeum Salvifohum exoticum Cifioides . 
Sage leafed Mullein. 
<9. Vcrhafculumfol'tjs Salvia ttnuifolia Sjtmum. 
Small Sage leafed Syrian Mullcin- 
yer icarfely to be met with, and indeed unleffe one well exercifed 
in the knowledge of plants, doe light upon it, and know it, it will 
fcarle beregarded ofa greatmany others. The feventh Lobel faith 
he found neare the ruincs of an old Church, by the Bathes at Bathe 
in England. The eight is a Granger to us, we have onely the know- 
ledgethatit groweth a<t Padoa , or thereabouts, in a garden ofa 
Signor CUriJfmo of called Contareni. And the laft is a greater 
Granger than it. 
7 he Time. 
All thefe Mulleins doe flower about Iuly, except the eighth and 
the lalt of whofe time we are as yet ignorant, but hope (hortly to 
be fo well informed that we may informe others. 
The Names. 
Verbafcum is called in Greek from vVyyo uro & <t>Vop 
flamma, for that it ferved as a weeke to put into lampes to burne ; 
and of the Latines Candela regia and Candelaria , becaufeihe elder 
age ufed the ftalkes dipped in Suet to burne, whether atFuneralls 
or otherwife, and fo likewife the Englifh name Higtaper, ^for 
Hightaper, the h being left out, ufed in the fame manner, as aTa- 
per or Torch. It hath alfo fome other names in Latine, as Thapfus 
Thlapfus ,and Tapfus barbatus,znd Lanaria, inEnglilh alfo fome 
call it Torches, fome Bullockes longwort, lome Hares beard, and 
fome Iupitcrs ftaffe: The firft is called Verbafcum mas, and Verbaf¬ 
cum mas latifolium oft mod Writers. The fecond hath no other 
name than is in the title. The third is called by fome Verbafcum mas 
and by fome Famina & e converfo , Lobel calleth it in bis oblerva- 
tions Verbafcum famina,and in his leones, he calleth it Phlomos alter , 
Verbafcum lychnite Matthioli ; of Fuchfttts it is called Verbafcum 
candtdum mas : of T>odon&us in French, of Turner and Gefner , in 
hort. it is called Verbafcum album famine*.: and of ‘Dodonaus in La- 
tine Verbafcum angufiius ; in Englilh, white Mullein with long 
leaves. The fourth is called by Lobel Tapfus barbatus maximus 
cdoratus mendionalium (and not Septentronalium as Bauhinus bath 
• - ' .. " it) 
