Tbe Tbeater of'Tlant-es . 
C H AP,2p« 
XlUBE I. 
Tne Verities. 
The decoftion of the common Ta-nfie (and fome of the reft come neare in effefl thereunto) or the Juyce drunke 
in wine, is a lingular remedy for all the griefes of the urine, to provoke it being (topped, to helpe thofe that have 
the ftrangury, and have weake retries and kidneies, and that cannot make their water butfcy drops. It is alfo very 
profitable to difl'olve and expell winde whether in the (tornack, belly, or bowels.-, and to procure women' moneth- 
lycourfes, andtoexpell windineffe in the mother. 1 fit be bruited and fmelled unto often, as alfo applyed to the 
lower part of the belly, it is afluredly found to be profitable for fuch women as are given to mifearry in childbea¬ 
ring, to caufe them goe out their full time, without danger or lode; itisufed alfo a'gainlt the hone in the reines 
widigoodfuccefl'e, elpecially to men. It is much ufed both in Lent and in the beginning of the-Spring, while the 
hearbe is young and tender, to makecakes thereof with egges fried, which are called Tanlies, apd are very profita¬ 
ble for thofe ftomackes,that are troubled with bad humours cleaving thereunto, both to helpe to digelt them, and 
by clearing the liomack of them, to carry them away downeward. The feed is much commended and very profita¬ 
bly given to children for the wormes, and rhe juyee in drinke is as cffeftuall ; being boyled in oyle, it is very pro- 
titably applyed to comfort the linewes that are fhrunke by crampes, or are in paine- through cold: It is (aid alfo, 
that the roote preferved in Sugar, is a remedy tor them that have the gowt,if they take thereof falling for a certains 
time together. 
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Chap. XXIX. 
CMatriCaria. Featherfew. 
divers forts of Featherfew to bee entreated of here,as (Fiall hereafter follow, 
i. Matri aria vtilgarisjimp lex. Common Featherfew, 
Common Featherfew hath many large frelh greene leaves, very much torne or cut on the edges: the 
(bailees are hard and round, let with many fuch like'leaves, but fomewhat (mailer, and at the toppes Hand many (in¬ 
gle flowers, upon feverall fnall foot-fhlke>, confiding of many fmall white leaves, (landing round about a yellow 
thrumme in the middle : the root is fomewhat hard and (hort, with many drong fibres at it ■ the dent of the whole 
plant is very drong and (luffing, and the tade very btcer. 
z. Matricaria flora p/cm. Double Featherfew. 
This differeth very little from the former but in the flowers, which are very thicke and double,with white leaves, 
fo that onely a little yellow fpot is to be feene in the middle. 
J.j -Matricaria vulgarii (im[\zx & buUatis z. Flore plcno. 
flonbus aurcis. Ordinary & naked Feathertew. Double Featherfew ? 
5. Adatricaria hullcitit jloribus tnureis. Naked Featherfew. 
This kinde differeth not from the former, bur that it hath 
his flowers,without any of the pale or border of white leaves 
about it, and therefore being naked,and without thofe leaves, 
I have named it naked Featherfew, as an elpcciall difference 
from the former. 
4. Adatricaria gratiodoris. Sweet Featherfew. 
This other Featherfew differeth not from the firft, ei¬ 
ther in roote, leafe, or flower, being in all things fo like, that 
there can be no difference perceived betweene them, untill 
you fmell thereunto, and then it is foonc found to bee of a 
more pleafant (offer fmell, which fo abideth in the kind, and 
is not fo made by art, or degenerated by any cafualty, but the 
worke of nature onely. 
5. CMatrtcaria inodor a. Vnfavory Featherfew. 
The Vnfavory Featherfew is a fmall low plant, rather 
fpreading than rifing high into many branches, whereon are 
many leaves (et, here and there v/ithout order, every one be¬ 
ing (mailer, (horter and thicker than the leaves of the com¬ 
mon Featherfew, but cut in on both (ides, fomewhat like un¬ 
to it, of no fmell at all: the flowers are white with a yellow 
thrumme in the middle like the other, which have a certairle 
heavie dull feent, but very weake, the roote is bufhy like the 
former. 
6 . Matricaria, five parthenium tenuifolinm. Fine-leafed 
Featherfew. 
This Featherfew hath a few leaves below, rifing from the 
rcote,as fmall and fine as Fennell, and very like unto Sothcri> 
wood, but fmelling (o like Featherfew , and bitter withall, 
that even thereby it may eafily be knowne,to wbat ftocke or 
tribe it doth belong, from among which rife divers brow- 
nifh round and hard ftalkes, to the height of balfe a yard or 
more whereon grow difperfedly fuch like leaves: at rhe 
toppes of the ftalkes (land many (mall white flowers, in an 
umbell, thicke fet, or clofe together, very like unto the flow- , .. • n 
ers of Yarrow, that they may foone deceive him that heedfully doth not mark® them - the ro 3 i 
and-wooddy, with fome fmall fibres at it* 
