Tbeatrum'Botanicum , 
Tribe, i, 
70 Chap. 23, 
13 . Stschas CitnnaCrtticaflore ample. 
Candy unfavory yellow Caflidony with large flowers. 
underfide, and very woolly, and a little dented about the 
edges: at the toppes of the branches come forth fometimes 
but one, but more often tw o long heads together, compo- 
fed of many kales, at the toppes whereof hand the flowers, 
which are nothing but long threads or thrums, of .an excel¬ 
lent purple colour, as fweet in feent, as pleafant to the light: 
f-after the flowers are paft,in thofe fca/y heads grow -the 
' feed wrapped indowne, which is fomewhat like unto the 
fcfmall Pine ThifUe feed. 
The place. 
The firft Caflidony or Stschas which isufed by Apothe¬ 
caries and others in Phyfick, groweth in Arabia, as well as 
in France or Spaine , or upon Mount Gar games in Italy f 
which is called in the Italian tongue tJWonte San bio Angelo. 
The fecond was found in c JMorcna, a place in Caflile or 
Spaine. The third is found in many places, both in France 
and Spaine promifeuoufly among the other common forts. 
The 4. Clufus faith is very rare to meet with, for that he 
onely found naturall on the toppe of the Calpe, The fifth 
- T) alee hampins only hath fet forth, without naming the place 
"\vfrcrc it grcw.The fixth as Lobel faith groweth in the 'Pro¬ 
vince of France , in Spaine alfo, and nigh the Rhine in Germa¬ 
ny, but lefle fweet: the feventh and eighth in Candy and 
Spaine likewife : the ninth and tenth Lobel fetteth forth to 
grow about c JWompelier in France, and Chi fins faith hee 
found them in Spaine and Portugal. The eleventh grew on 
the Hills neare Ttrracinum in Italy : the 12. was found a- 
mong the low Skarlct Okes and Strauberry trees in the 
Mountaine Catius neare Montpelier : the 13 .in Candy; and 
the laft in France. The Time. 
Although divers of thefe have beetle obferved to bee in 
flower in March and April!, according to the climate where 
they grow naturall,yet 
in our Gardens of thefe 
more Northerly coun¬ 
tries,the former three 
forts flower not untill 
May or Iune, and the 
reft flower not un¬ 
till Auguft for the mod 
part, if they doe abide, 
for they are all of them 
very tender, and muft 
bee kept with great 
care and looking to. 
The Names. 
It is called r oivJ< in 
Greeke, and St*chas in 
Latine, and moft com¬ 
monly Stichados by the 
Apothecaries, and Sta- r 
chat Arabic a , becaufe 
the beft was brought 
out of Arabia. D'tofco- 
rides faith it tookethc 
name Stetchas from the 
Hands called Stetchades where it groweth, which are over-againft Marfelles, yet MarfcHes is two dayes journey 
from the Sea, and thofe Hands doe lye neare unto the Country of Olbia■ Galen faith it groweth in evgry Country, 
and as well in Candy, as the Hands Stetchades, inEnglifhit is called Sticadove, Caflidony, and French Lavender, 
but the Stachas Citrina is fo called upon the correfpondency and likenefle of the properties and tcmperature,as we 11 
as of the forme of leaves and heads: it is alfo called Coma aurea,Chryfocomc, and Tinearia. Old Gerard was very 
confufed in the figures of the two chapters of Elicbryfum , and St etch as Citrina , or Chryfocome. For his Coma aurea, 
is CMatthiolits his Elichryfum verum, and his Stadias Citrina Matthiolm his Elichryfum Italicf*m, which is Citsf us 
his S[ratiotes Milhfoliaflore luteo \ his Cryfocome, or Amaranthns listens, is Stadias Citrina vulgaris •. his Amaran- 
thus Galcni,is Stetchas Citrina altera odorata of Lobel: the defeription of moft are according to Lobel: inEnglifh 
alfo they have divers names as golden Tufts,Goldilock$, Golden flower, gentle Golden flower of life, and yellow 
Caflidony, by which I rather entitle thefe plants, then by the others. The firft is called Stachas purpurea, and Ara- 
btea, or Stetchas by Alatthiolus, the fecond Bauhinus onely mentioneth, Clufus calleth the third Stetchas longiorihtis 
Hr Ah, and Lobel Stadias midis caulkulu Lugduaenfs Stetchas capitulisfoliar is } and Bauhinus Stetchas cau.l- 
cuhi 
J4. St*(bus purpurea odorata- 
Swcete purple Caflidony. 
