66 Chap, zz 
Theatrum Botanicum, 
Tribe j, 
The place. 
The firft, third, and fift Torts have beene found in feverall places ofour Land, as well in Kent on Black z heath i and 
neare T)etford, as in other places : the other 3. of the firft fixe Torts arc onely nurfed up with us in gardens , their 
naturall place being not knowne, but the other Torts that follow, except the ninth, doe grow' in C? n *b an dfrom 
tht nee have beene Tent by Honorius'Bcllus, an Italian Phyfition, in his time abiding in Candy , to divers perfons in 
Italy t as to Iohannes Ponaof Verona, and others there, and to Clufiut , and Plauteau in the Low-countrier, and to 
Bauhinus and others : The ninth Bauhinus faith he onely found in his Apothecaries garden in Baftl. 
The Time. 
They all flower in Summer, and give their Teed preTently after. 
The Names. 
The name Blattaria in Latine hath beene impofed hereon from Tlattis in fe contrahentibus , as Tliny faith ("for it 
hath no Greeke name.) The fii ft fixe or fev cn forts have their names in their titles, as moft Authors call them, but 
the feventh being the firft Candy kind, Honor ius Bellas firft wrote of, and called it AUturus , or Arclurus , and fakh 
he is bold fo to doe, not knowing better whereunto to referre it, (although it doth not throughly agree to the Au- 
turus , or Artturus of Diofcoridcs ) which he lent to Clupus, I finding it tetter to agree with Blattaria , than any 0- 
ther plant,have put it under that tribe,and have given it an Englifh name, according to the reft of the BUnarms 9 
Hoary Candy Moth Mullein with round pointed leaves. Bauhinus in his Pina. r calleth it Verbafcum humils freti- 
eum lac ini at um, and the Italian Bona,Verbafcum fiuticofum auric ulatum. Columma faith it was Tent unto him with 
the name of Marum Creticum, but he calleth it Verbafcum Traffic* folio , and referreth it to that Verbafcum of T)i- 
ofcorides, that hath the leafe of a Cole wort. The eighth Pena in his Italian Baldus calleth Artun fecunda Jpecies. 1 he 
ninth Bauhinus calleth Verbafcumfolijsfubrotundiiflore Blattari* ,and I in Englifh Round leafed Moth Mullein. The 
laft is called in Candy Galafitvida eyuap laBca flivida t as Honorius Bellas faith, that Tent it to Clupus (but Bauhinus 
calleth it Glaflivida) who thereupon finding the leaves to be like unto Sea Stockgilloflower, called it Lcucoium fpi- 
nofumCreticum , but withall faith it is in flower differing from them, becaufe all the kindes of Stockgilloflowers 
have but foure leaves in every flower, and this hath five. Some others therefore would give it a more proper name 
as they thinke, and call it' Verbafcum futefeensfpinofum Creticum incanum, from the hoar ineffe of the leaves and 
ftalkes, but I thinke it may more fitly be raunged with the Blattarius , as I faid before, for the reafons there expref- 
fed,in Englifh Thorny Moth Mullein of Candy . 
The Vertues. 
I can finde no Author hath fpoken of any other properties belonging to any of thefe Blattaries, then thofc T liny 
doth aferibe to the ordinary fort, that is, to gather Mothes unto it, wherefoever it is layed. 
Chap. 
