‘Tbeatrum Botanicum, 
1 KIBE 
64. Chap. i?. 
1. Blattaria luted odor at a. 
Sweet yellow Moth Mullein. 
F'ar* -ji- 
5. Blattaria (lore luteo. 
Yellow Moth Mullein. 
5. Flore a.io 
and White. 
2. 2 ?lattaria latea majorfive Hijpanica. The greater yellow 
Moth Mullein. 
This SpanilTi kinde hath longer and greener leaves than the 
fbrmer.rounder alfo at the ends than the next that follc*veth: 
the ftalke is (Ironger and higher than it alfo, whereon beiides 
the leaves grow toward the toppe many gold yellow flow¬ 
ers, confiding of five leaves apiece, as all the reft doe, notfo 
rhicke fet as the former, but a good deale larger, with fomc 
purphfh threads in the middle, formed fomewhat like untoa 
flye, after which come in their place round heads, two or 
three, or more fometimes together, but mod ulually one 
wherein lye imall dusky feed : the roote is not preat, or full 
of fibres, but pei illicch every yeare, after it hath given ieed 
except that it abide fomeriine in a milde winter. 
3. Blattaria lutea minor five vulgaris. The ordinary yellow 
Moth Mullein. 
This yellow Moth Mullein (that is modfrcqnent in our 
gardensJ hath fuch like long leaves as the lad, but narrower 
and roundly dented about the edges: the dalke is ulually An¬ 
gle, and without branches, whereon dand fuch like o 0 l d V el 
low flowers, but lefler, with the like purple threads in the 
middle : the <eed veflcls are fingle, and the feed fmall both 
io like the lad, that they cannot be didinguiflied : the’roote 
likewife periiherh every yeare after feed time. 
4, Blattaria fiore luteo purpurafeente, Cloth of Gold Moth 
Mullein. 
The greated notes of difference betweene this and the lad 
defenbed, conlid'eth fird in the flower, which is a yellowifh 
purple, or the ground yellow, overiliadowcd.with a bright 
cr ™ f °n colour, which is of much delight: the threads in the 
middle are not fo purple red as in the former, but neare unto 
the colour of the flower : fecondly, it feldome beareth feed : 
thirdly, it doth longer abide in the roote, although in a hard 
Winter it will perilh like the two ladithis our of doubt hath 
beene raifed trom the feed of the lad. Lobel fettetli forth a 
fort hereof with greene flowers which I never law. 
5, 'Blattaria fibre albo. White Moth Mullein. 
The leaves of this Moth M tillin are of a little frefber green 
colour, and (harper dented about the edges, in other things 
it differed! nor from the ordinary yellow, but that the flow¬ 
ers are pure white, and hath the like purple threads like flyes 
creeping up as it were in the middle of the flowers. 
6 . Blattaria fiorepurpuno. Purple Moth Mullein. 
The leaves of this purple Moth Mullein are broader', (Sor¬ 
ter, and of a grayer greene colour than the former, and with¬ 
out any denting for the mod part, yet pointed at the ends: 
the dalke rifeth not fohigh as the former, but fometimes 
branched,bearing fuch likeflowers: of a faire deepeblucor 
purple colour, tending to redneffe, the threads in the middle 
of the flower being yellow : the iced veffels hereof are fmal- 
ler than in the former: the roote is lon"thick,and blackith on 
theoutiide, abiding fundry yeares,and rifeth plentifully from 
the (bedding of it owne feed. 
The bine Moth Mullein diftereth in nothing from the lad, 
hut in the colour of the flower, which is of a paler bluib vio¬ 
let colour. 
7 ■ Blattaria Cretica ittcaua rotunda laciniato folio. Hoary 
Candy moth Mullein with round tome leaves. 
This Candy Mullein hath round hoary ftalkes,riling upto 
the height of a foot and a halfe. whereon are let divers leaves 
without order, which are long, and as it were tome into 
fmaller leaves, for every leafe hath l'mall pieces of leaves, fet 
on each fide of the middle ribbe thereof, feparated from the 
end leafe, which is fomewhat broad, round, and a little den¬ 
ted about the edges, the whole leafe is very hoary, covered as 
it were with a woolly downe fefpccially in the hot Country 
where it groweth, but here ic is hoary, white, and not fo 
woolly ) from the middle of the fialke upwards it breaketh 
forth fometimes into branches, whereon doe grow yellow 
flowers, very like unto the flowers of the yellow Blattaria , 
but 
