but fmaller: after which come fmall round heads, containing fmall browne feed,both heads and feed being fmalief 
than thofeofthe other Blattaries: the root perifheth with us at the fitll approach of winter, and feldome giveth 
ripe feed, becaufe it flowreth fo late, whereby we aretofeeke of new feed every yeare. 
8. Blattaria Cretica incana lonoiore lacmiatofolio. Hoary Candy Mullein with long leaves. 
This other Candy Mullein is in manner o f geo wing, hoarineffe ofleaves, yellow colour of the flowers, and in o- 
ther things like unto the former, the onely difference, in this from the other is, in that the end leafs hereof upon c- 
very halite is more long than the former, (which is as broad as long, making it leeme a 1 molt round) and the heads 
offeed are fome what longer alfo. 
p. Blattaria altera folio rotmio fore lateo. Round leafed Moth Mullein. 
The firfl leaves of this Mullein are fomewhat long and pointed at the end, but thofe that are fet upon the (talkes, 
are all round pointed, and not fo long every one, compafling theftalke at thebottome of the leafe, and are of a 
dar kegreene colour on the upperfidc, and grayifh or hoary underneath : at the letting on of every leafe unto the 
{hike, come forth likewife two other fmaller leaves, and from the middle of them thoot forth two or three flow¬ 
ers upon fmall long foot-halites,which are yellow, with purple threads in the middle of them, like unto the other 
E-lattarias: the heads and feed are fmall like unto the other, and the roote perifbeth after feed time,as moll of them 
alfo doe, and often groweth by the fliedding of it ownefeed. 
io. Vtrbafeum jrutefeensfpitiofum.jive Blattaria Creticafinofa. Thorny MothMulleinof Candy, 
I was in fome doubt with my felfe whether this plant (hould belong to the Verbafca , as feme would have it, or 
to-the Blattaries, but finding itmoreagreeing with thefethan with them, although it bee wooddy or flarub'oie. I 
have here placed it in his proper place,as 1 tliinke. Itrifethup with many lmall hoary,hard and wooddy branches, 
{preading round about the roote. not above a foote and a halfe high, dividing it felfe into many (lender branches, 
which are tender and greene while they are young, but quickly after turne hard and hoary, every fprigge of the 
branches ending in a (harpe thorne; the leaves are many fet together at fpaccs of the ftalkesand branches, fome¬ 
what like unto the leaves of the Sea-hockgilloflowcr; but much fmaller and fhorter, a little tome about the 
edges, but towards the toppes fmaller and fmaller, and not cut in at all, and of an hoary colour: towards the tops 
of the branches alfo come forth many flowers, difperfedly fet thereon (and not as the 'Blattaries or Verbafcas doc, 
in a long fpike) but confifl offive round pointed yellowifla leaves, with fome purple threads in the middle of them, 
like unto the Blattaria : after which come fuch like round hard heads, containing fmall browne feed like unto 
them alfo : in Candy and other warme Countries, when it is growne.old,it bcareth a great bufhy and thorny head, 
as it is here expreffed : the roote is hard, long and wooddy, fpreading much under ground, and abideth many 
yeares in the naturall places ofthofe warme Countries where it growetn v but mull have fome coverture or defence 
with us againft the extremities of our Winters, elfe it will hardly endure. 
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