tber.but fomewhat fmaller .and move thinly or fparfedly fet 
on the branches,of a greenifh white colour, neither lo green 
as the lad, nor fully fo white as the ordinary, of a ftrong 
feent, fomewhat like the ordinary kind • the flowers (land 
upon the toppes of the fmaller fprigges,every one by it felfe, 
upon a bare or naked ftalke,without leaves for a good fpacc, 
which are ofa paler yellow colour than they, and much lar¬ 
ger, which give feed fomewhat of a darker colour than it: 
theroote is as great and wooddy , and fpreadeth much in 
the ground. 
4. Abrotanumftmina Erica foli/s. Fine Lavender Cotton. 
This Lavender Cotton groryeth not fo great or high,as the 
French kind,but hath many (hort wooddy branches,where- 
on doe fparfedly grow fmaller, fhortcr, and finer whitifh 
greeneleaves, very like to the leaves of common Heath: 
the flowers are yellow Handing in the like manner as the 0- 
thers doe 1 this hath a fine fmall feent to commend it, fome¬ 
what refinous, not very faintifli or weake. 
5. Abrotanumfamma fili/i Rmfmarimmajus. Rofmary 
leafed Lavender Cotton. 
T his kinde of Lavender cotton, fhooteth forth from his 
wooddy roote, many (lender hoary (hikes, little above a 
foote long, whereabout grow many very narrow fmall and 
flat leaves, like unto the leaves of Rofmary, which while 
they ate young arc more hoary white, and have but a (mail 
fhe w of denting about the edges: but when they are grown 
old, they arc more greene, and the denting about the edges 
is more apparent, of a fweet feent, and bitter tafte : from 
tlicfe [hikes come forth divers fliort fprigges, with very 
few leaves on them, on the toppes whereof (land fcvcrall 
yellow flowers, like unto Lavender cotton,but much larger, 
which die downe to the ftalkcs every yeare, after it hath 
borne feed, as the other kindcs doc. 
fame forme it had, in the naturall place. T , 
n Abrcrtammftmjinxvtridu minor. Small greene Lavendei cotton. 
This fmall kinde offender cotton is very like unto the laid fmall kinde, but that it groweth fomewhat greater 
and higher havin" greene and nothoaryftalkesatall, as the leaves alfo are, and a little longer, being as bitter in 
mile afir, but not ofTo fweet a feent: the flowers Hand in the fame manner upon flendet flalkes, and of the fame 
faflrion, but ofa paler yellow colour: the rocte is wooddy like it, and full of fmall fibres. 
8. Abrotannm famina repens . Creeping Lavender cotton. 
This creeping Lavender cotton alfo, is a fmall low hearbe, whole branches Hand not upright,.but Ik- downe, or 
as it were creepe upon the ground, and areas white and hoary, or rather more than the ordinary, and lo are the 
fln'alldeMedTraves'alfo,but they arc fomewhat thicker and fuller: the flowers hkewife are yellow like thereunto, 
but fomewhat fmaller; and the fmell is not much unlike unto it alfo. w n 
O Abrotanum peremnum Lobelij (^Kprejflfoliji. Strange Lavender cotton. 
This ftranve plant 1 have here inferred among the reft of the Lavender cottons prelumin" it to be his right place, 
although Lobl giveth it the name of Sothernwood, with the face of Cypreffe: but hce maketh no mention of any 
flowers whether they are anfwerable thereunto,which might aflure us of the truth,and put the reft out of all doubt, 
but as he fetteth it downe fo doe I give it you here, the delcription thereof, untill I fee the face thereof my felfe, 
.c~r^rmethetitle. From a fmall roote rifeth up many black hard flender flalkes, about a foote, or a 
foote and a halfe high, bearing many long, narrow, and flat leaves, interlaced or brayded like unto the leaves of ths 
Cypreffe or Savine Le, and dinted about the edges: the flowers as I Cud, he dothnot expreffe, nor can I give you 
any further knowledge hereof as yet. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth in Germany. The fecond in divers places in Narbone in France. The third is not knowne to us, 
whence it is naturall. The fourth , fifth, and fixth, Clnfim found about Salamanca in Spame. The feventh is un¬ 
known whence it is: and the laft it is likely by the title whereby it was fent, came out of Eg/pt, Many of them 
grow in the gardens ofthofe that are curious Conferver^of rare plants. 
They doe all, or mod of them flower in Iuly and Auguft. 
The Names. . 
There is Tome controverfie amone Writers concerning the true Abrotanumfomina of Diofcondcs , fome holding 
that which othersrefufe and confute ; but by and the mod judicious oftlie later Writers, this is taken 
to bee the true Abmmum famina of Diofttrifri, although Fnfkftui apd'ZWwwdoe deny it, unto whom 
