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8: Cbamxmlum Alpinum inodontm. 
VnfavoryMeuncaine Gamomill, 
9. Coiulafxtida & non ftfida. 
tyayweed with a ftrong and no fccnt. 
Camomill, yet very like,but of a paler grcene colour, the one fort fmelling ftrong and unpleafant, the other having 
no (cent at all: the flowers of them both are very like unto Camomill, but larger both the white border and the 
middle yellow thrum, whereby and by the fcent thereof they are onely to be difcerned from Camomill for many 
doe gather the flowers ofthat which fmelleth notjinftead of Camomill flowers, either of ignorance or wilfulnes, 
and fo fell them promifcuoufly to the Apothecaries, that know not this note of diftinftion. 
Of this kinde there hath beene found oftentimes, and in divers places of this Land, a fort with double flowers 
almoft as large as double Camomill flowers. 
The Place, * ’ 
Small Camomill groweth familiarly wilde in many places (on greenes as they are cabled) of this Land, and with 
the Mayweed oftentimes that flinketh not, which groweth alfo among come, as the (linking fort doth * the naked 
and double fort grow onely in gardens : the fourth was found by Cjuitlame Boel in Africa by Turns : the fifth, fix th, 
and feventh in divers places in Spaine: the eighth in fundry places of the Alpes: tire raft plentifully in our ©wnc 
Land. 
The Time. 
They all flower in the Summer, yet fome earlier 'than others. 
The Names, 
Camomill is called in Greeke Anthemis of ‘Diofcoridcs , and AVhwoyof Theophraftus, and this for a di- 
ftinflion Asi ntdrisjus of the whiteneffe of the flowers: and :. % ua.iy.i\c,v quod mail odorem habeat y of the fcent of an Ap¬ 
ple or Qujnee. It is called by fome in Latine Lcucanthemum, and Anthemis, but moft generally Cham<emtlum y and 
of fome Chamomilla y as it is alfo in the Apothecaries Shops Some call the garden Camomill, both Angle and dou* 
bl t Chanumelum Romanum & odoratim & w^i/^thinking them to be fwceter kinde-. than the wilde, when as that 
which groweth wild is ufually brought into gardens, and will by manuring become of as good a Icent, or any other 
before in the garden. The reft have their names in their titles, both in Latine and Englifh, as much as is convenient, 
and that others have called thenv.but Mayweed as is beforefaid in the laft Chapter, is more truly taken to be Farther 
nium of Diofcorides ,yet generally called Cotula ,taken as it is thought from the Thufcdns Cauta ^the diminutive bein'* 
Cautula, corruptly called Cotila : by the Greekes kv/Hihuis (S' y.vvo'hrdvni Cynanthemls & (fynobotane, that is, Ca- 
momilla canina & Canimaherba : the Germanes Krottendill : the Arabians call CamomillT)ebo>ngi oft Babunegi . t h c 
Italians call it Camamilla: the Spaniards CMannanilU : the French Chamomille : the Germanes Chatnilkn } and 
the Mayweed Krottendill ; the Dutch Camille : and we in Englifh Camomill. 
The Vertues, 
A deco'ftion made of Camomill, and drunke, taketh away all paincs and flitches in the fides. The flowers onely 
of Camomill beaten, and made up into balls with oyle, driveth away all forts of agues, if the party grieved bee an- 
noynted with that oyle taken from the flowers, from the crowne of the head, to the foies of the feete, and after 
laid to fweat in their bed, with fuffleient coverings upon them, and that they fweat well: this is Niche for an 
Egyptians medicine; which Galen feemeth to confirme, for he faith that the Sophi of the Egyptians confecrated 
this hearbe to the Sunne, as a remedy for all forts ofagues ; but therein faith Galen they were deceived, for it hea- 
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