84 Chap. zp. !Theatrnm Botanicum . Tribe, i. 
7 .VHairicurta five Far then in m Alpinum Clusij. 8. maritmum. 
Mountaine Featherfew of Clufiiu. $ ttnuifolium. 
7. CMatricaria Jive Tarthenium Alpinum Clufj. Mountaine 
Featherfew o ffluput. 
Mountaine Featherfew hath many flender weakc greene 
branches trayling on the ground, and taking roote as they 
creepe thereon, very like unto Camomill, and not rifing a- 
bove a foote high, about which are let many leaves, almoftas 
fine as Camomill, but cut in after the manner of Mayweed 
or Featherfew, and very neare of the famefmell as Feather- 
few, being of a hot tafie, but not unpleafant: at thetoppesof 
the ftalkes (land many flowers together, very like unto the 
former, but that the middle thrumme is fmaller and paler, 
and the circling leaves not altogether fo white, but as large, 
and fomewhat rounder orclofer let, of the fame feent with 
the hearbe : the roote is compofed of many finall fibres (hoo¬ 
ting downe from a fmall head. 
8. Tarthenium maritinum minimum, Small Sea 
Featherfew. 
I have thought fit to place this Sea plant, with the reft of the 
fame tribe, as 1 meare to doe with as many as will abide the 
culture and manuring, to profper in this garden, entending 
to fhew you the reft in their convenient places : The roote is 
fmall fpreading abroad many long fibres, from whence rife 
up flender weakebr nches lying upon the ground, diverfly 
fet without order, with many fmall whitifh greene leaves, 
cut in or dented on the edges, very like in forme, unto the 
leaves of the great white Daifie, but much lefler and more 
full and flefhy. or thicker, of a ftrong fierce feent, fomewhat 
like unto Featherfcw,or rather unto ftinking Maithes or May¬ 
weed rat the toppe of every branch ftand one or two flowers 
fomewhat like unto thofe of Featherfew or Mayweed, but 
fmaller, and the bordering leaves alfo fmaller, having a whi¬ 
tifh greene head or huske of leaves under them. 
The Place, 
The firft is found wilde in fome places of this Land,as well 
as in others, yet forthemoft part it is nourifhed in "ardens 
as well as the fecond, which as Clupus thinketh, is peculiar to us: the third grew in FJfex, and was there found by 
a Gentleman called Mafter William Coys. 1 he fourth grew in an Hand called llva in the Levant Seas, as Camera- 
rius faith, but it hath beene found wild in our ownc < ountry, as it hath beene affirmed unto mee, as well as the o- 
ther naked kinde. The fift groweth in Egypt y as Proffer Alpinus faith, and is onely naturall to that Country. The 
fixth was found in Spain?, by Myconus a learned Phyfitian Baranova, and lent to Molmaus who compofed the 
great Herball called Lugduxcnps , T he feventh Clupus found upon the Mountainesof Stina, which are part of the 
Alpes. The laft Pena faith grew plentifully neare the Fifhermcns Cottages, at the foote of Mons (f&tius in Narbone 
in Prance . 
The Time. 
They all flower in Iune and Inly, but the Sea plant is the Iateft. 
The Names, 
Ttis called inGreeke wfSsr/oi'. Parthenium qttap virginalis quia mu Tier urn rmrhis uterinis medetur , & inds vulgo 
Matricaria. ? tis called alfo febrifuga from whence 1 thinkeour Englifh name Featherfew, or Feaverfew is de¬ 
rived, it being good to expell fcavers or agues. It is held by molt of the later Writers to be the true Parthenium of 
T>iofcoridcs , yet Lobel and Pena(even as 'Brafavolus and Fttchpus before them, whom CM.it thiolus doth confute) by 
many reafons alleadged doe fhew, that both the face or forme of the leaves, compared by Diofcoridcs to Coriander 
bur lefTer, as alfo the properties given to Parthenium^ can by no meanes be found in this Matricaria : but may all 
moft truely and plainely be founa in Cotulafatida , or ftinking Mayweed : the difeourfe is too long here to recite, I 
therefore referre you to the place where you may read it a large, in the defeription of Parthenium in their Adver- 
faria, as alfo in Lugdunenps in the Chapter of CMatricaria. Parthenium , as Galen faith was called in his time Anthe - 
mis , Helxine, Linozofits and Amaracus • and "Phny affirmeth, that Helxine was called Perdicium and Parthenium , 
and in another place he faith,that it was called Leucanthemum and Tamnacum, and that Celfus called it Perdicium 
and Muralium, fo that hereby it may be feene, that Parthenium was a word applyed to many hearbes. Fuchfus 
would make Matricaria to be the fecond kinde of Diofcoridcs his Arthemipa , called Leptophyllos , that is tenutfolia 
and Parthenium to be Co t u la fatida, which as I laid before. CMatthiolus difproveth : the fecond is fo ca led by divers 
Authors as it is in the title, and by Tabermontanus Arthemipa tenuifolia flore plcno : the third is a fpecies not fpoken 
of by any Author before, as 1 take it. The fourth fort Camerarius calleth Matricaria altera exllva , ohTabermon- 
tanus Arthemipatenuifolia odor at a, and Bauhmus Matricaria odor at a ; and we ATatricariagrati odoris, becaufe it is 
of fo good a feent. the fifth Profper Alpinus faith is called in Egypt Achaovan, and he thereupon called it Parthe- 
vium imdorum: in Englii! V nfavory Featherfew. The fixth was judged by Myconus that lent it out of Spaine , (as is 
before laid) to be another Parthenium , Tur^btvrKot. and it may be that of Hippocrates, which n iany judge to bee Co- 
tulafatida , Bauhtnu calleth it CMatricariafolijS Abrotani. The feventh Clupus calleth Parthenium Alpinum Ca - 
merarius Matricaria five Parthenium Alpinum , and Bauhinus CMatricaria Alpina (hamxmeli folijs, The laft Label 
and Pena call Cotulapve Parthenpim ntetrinum minimum, and Lttgdnmnpt fmbjnium maritimun? ■minimum and is 
likewif^ 
