The Theater of ^Plants* 
Ch a p. 2^* yi 
Tribe. l. _ 
—r. - ■ PnMiffi Kffidcmv with long leafedhcads. The fourth is called by Clufius Stachal crifiofo/io, 
St^hi folio ferratofofGerard and his Correflor Suchas rnultifida but the figure is that 
by voaon£usma ^riuLso ivethic for there are not two Sue hades with divided leaves. Lugdmenfis 
Bngliffi Caffidony with dented 
lettetn it aowne ror . , • , is called bv Baxhinus Stadia* vtndis capttulo ohlongo. Thefixth is cal- 
, butbecaufe it 'doth come nearer to Sucfias 
scat>y supirms w. y referred it thereunto. The ieventh is called Suchas 
r a < n - t0 hv°moft ry Aut n hor s y by Libel Chryfocome , and Coma aunt five Amaramhus luteus by Fuchfiut 
a ^To her .Tnd tateS thofe'o iMompe,J t0 bethe right Chryfocome of?*%*>. -cepttng an* final! 
ana otners, anu u». y Cafaloinus* and Bauhinus entittle it Ehchrjfttm, whereas Dtofcortdes 
w°rd wherein there m g chryfocome in having Southernewood like leaves, (and therefore I referre #<?//- 
S™ rather to the MilMes. as you (hall finde it there among them. The eighth is cal ed E/iocbryfnm b y 
■V I, i.^^Wfnrrthereof Flichryfum Oricntaleby 'Eauhims, and by Camerartus m Epitome, Suchas 
c like The tenth is tne Sttchou forma altera, mi altera odoraot Laid, by Clufius 
fh’ryfiLeperegrl primaryLugdltfis Ago*** -W 9 «»rW*»,and by Bauhinus SHchryfunsfylveftreaUguftL 
folium capi/uli, Lolobatis. The eleventh Lobel calleth Stachas C,« modern, and is Clufius hts Chryfocome 
pereorinatertia, which Lugdunenfis fetteth dowfiie , for Gnaphahum mar.num Balechamp,,. and i«i« calkth 
r ee£irm fylvefire flore obit™. The twelfth calleth El.chryfofylveflnfioreoblougo fimsl.s, in Engl,fir it 
;„ 3lnw CalTidnnv The thirteenth Alpimslsb. de exotic,, planti ,, calleth Santulma crettca , but 1 , as it 
^^.fate^ffinthedefaiption. Jhelaftwa, fentby fromAdW^ bythe 
irame of J tjha, purpurea odorata, who (aid it was to be referred to the Suchas C.tnna altera tnodora, becaufe, was 
io like it, but yet was a differing fort from it: thecaufes thatmakeme difeent from that opinion whereof I find 
fomething before in the defeription, I will here fet downe: by the: defer,pc,on yon finde it hath a fcaly head and 
thmmmes rifine in the midft of it, which is the flower (and fuch have the flowers of all the Meat) and the 
feed P ikewife inclofcdfo the heads among the downe, are like unto the feeds of the lull low Pine Thiftle, which 
are like the feeds of other Thiftles, that is flat, hard, and firming, and fuch are moft of the feedsof the Iaceas Cyauus, 
and fome others: but none of the Stachades have thrummes for theirflowers, and none of the other Suchades pur¬ 
purea or Citrina, have filch like feeds, and thefe two things cauffc me to thmke it fitter to be refereed to the Jaceas 
^hereunto it is like both inflower and feed. There is a controverfie betweene Mol,non, the Author of the great 
Herball named Lugdunenfis, and Pena and Lobe! which firould be the true Chryfocome oiD.ofcmdes. LcbeUnA Pena 
in their Adverfaria, driving to make Suchas Carina vulgar,s called Ccmaaurea, and of feme Tmeana and Amo- 
ranthus latent and taken of Dodonsus to be Fdiochrjfon of Theophrafius, and AgeratumotBtofcorAes, to bee the true 
Chryfocome of ‘Biofeorides :and Molinas, in folio 7 So. contradicting and tonfntmg them. Lobe / and Vena m the 
defeription of Suchas Citrina, fay that the golden yellow toppe or head of tufted flowers thereof hath caufed the 
name of Chryfocome which our age could not hitherto know, in wanting the knowledge ofthe true Hifope, unto 
whole tufted toppes it was by Biofeorides compared: but now that the true Hifope is declared and let forth(w hich 
they make to be the Winter or Por-Marjeromc of our Country, as I have Chewed you in the firft Chapter of this 
Bookef with whofe tufted toppes or umbell of flowers, they compared the flowers ofthe yel ow Caffidony, they 
are perfwaded that the Suchas Carina is the true Chryfocome of ‘Biofeorides but yet afterwards they fay that one 
word or two in defeription of Chryfocome doth hinder it, and that is that the rootes of Chryfocome 
((MhThofcorides)uz fmall like unto the rootes of Black Hellcbor, and the tafle thereof refembling Cyperus, of a 
i weet but auftere tafle,for which they think there may be fome fault in the text oCB,ofcondes.lbus you fee the fcope 
and drift of their reafons to be, that becaufe few did know what hearb was the true Chryfocome ofLhofcondesfwbo 
copared the tufted heads offlowers thereof unto Hifope)& that thereby it was mamfcfl,that our Hifope not having 
any tufted head or unbell offlowers, but a fpiked head was not the true Hifope oiLhofcondes, and therefore they 
haviiw (hewed what was the true Hifope, would alfo declare this yellow Caffidony, whofe tufted head of flow¬ 
ers is hke unto that of their Hifope, to be the true Chryfocome of Diofcorldes : v nto all which allegations Molimus 
thus anfwereth. That firft he would examine whether our ordinary Hifope be the true Hifope or Bwfcondes, and 
what part thereof is compared or referred to the (fhryfbcome, and then whether this Stachas C,tr,na bee the true or 
lio There are faith he, two forts of Hifope well knowne to us, the one tame,or ofthe garden, with a fpike of blue 
flowers, which is the more bitter : and the other wilde with a red fiower.which is leffe bitter. Now they that de¬ 
ny either of thefe to be the true Hifope of D iofeorides, are led by this reafon : that the leaves of each of them are 
long and narrow, not like unto any of the kindes of Origanum, which are round, and by Biofeorides compared to 
the leaves of Marjerome,Pennyroyal!, and Dittany. This faith he, hath troubled many that did not know a third 
kind, (which is the round leafed Hifope (declared in the firft Chapter of Hifope) fet forth by him, and like the o- 
thcr two forts, but that the leaves are round like unto Origanum or Marjerome. If this kinde of Hifope had beene 
knowne to them, they would not have called for an hearb out of England,to fupply the place of the right Hifope, 
leein" it hath a place of it o wne, even among the forts of wild Origanum or Marjerome, whereunto it is hke, but 
fbmewhat altered by manuring from that which is common. But this their Hifope or Pot-Marjerome hatlino 
corymb; tufts or umbells, they are rather a heape offlowers gathered together, as the wild Origanum or Marjerome 
hath, for no man did ever attribute any fuch heads or tufts as are called corymb,, unto any of them. This knot being 
untied, it followeth (faith he) that we try whether the Suchas Citrina be Chryfocome. In this their plant there is no 
likenefle of ltaves,of neither of the forts of Hifope to bee feene, to wit, either ofthe long or of the round leafed 
fort, befides the bufhy toppe ofleaves and (hikes offlowers of this Stachas Citrina,l oofely fet together,is not a clofc 
tuft ofheads,fuch as Corymbut (which is a clofe umbell or tuft of heads or feeds, fuch as thelvie hath) is ufually 
faid to bee ■ but are onely a few yellow golden round (hilling bullets, or heads at the toppes; the roote affer 
thereof hath no tliicke and fmall (brings as Helleborns niger hath ; nor is like to Cyperus, nor hath an auftere fweet 
tafte, all which Chryfocome hath : He therefore (I meane the forefaid Molina,is) faith that lice hath often in revol¬ 
ving thefe doubts,fuggefted to thofe Herbarifts that have knowledge in plants, that hearbe which the French call 
Targon,and fome in Latine Targun , Tarchonffragms, and Vracthortenfis, in Englilh Tarragon, and which Ac-- 
