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Cony^a majormontana Germanica. 
Great Mouncaine Fleabane of Germany, 
5 . Cony \a He/enitis mclh- a incana. 
Hoary fwcct Flcibanc Mullet. 
downe,and is carried away with the winde as all the reft are: 
therooteis blackifh without, but white within, hard, dry 
andwooddy, of an harfh tafte, aftringent or binding ; the 
whole plant elfe is fomewhat bitter, with a little acrimony 
alfo to be tailed therein- 
6 . ConyzA odorata c&rulea. Sweet purple Fleabane. 
From a fhort whitilh root with many fibres thereat,fpring- 
eth up many finall fhort leaves, fomewhat like unto the 
leaves of the garden Daifie,but fomewhat writhed : among 
which rifeth upaftalketwo foot high fometimes, brownifh 
at the bottome, fet here and there up to the toppe with lon¬ 
ger and narrower leaves, where it is divided into fmall and 
ftiort branches; whereon (land many dowers, one above an¬ 
other, in fmall skaly greene heads or huskes, compofed of 
many fmall and narrow bluifh purple leaves , fomewhat 
white at the ends or tippes, with a fmall yellow fiat thrum in 
the middle, and in the middle thereof, there rifeth up divers 
white threads, whereby each flower confiding of three co¬ 
lours, white,purple, and yellow, maketh itfeeme the more 
dcleftable to the Spectators : after thefe flowers are paft, 
there commeth in thofe huskes or heads that held them, fmall 
long feed lying in the downe, each having fome thereof at 
the head, which together therewith is blowne abroad with 
the winde, if it be not gathered and kept: the whole plant is 
of a fharpe tafte, but the roote much more, almoft as much as 
pepper, and of a ftrong but not unpleafant feent. 
7. Coryza carulea Alpina major. Great blue Mountaine 
Fleabane. 
The roote of this Fleabane is fmall, woddy, and reddiTb, 
from whence rifeth a thicke hairy (hike, about a foote high, 
divided at the halfe way into three fmall branches, each 
whereof hath other fmall ftalkes, and one flower at the head 
ofthem. which is of a purplifb blue colour, like unto the 
laft. 
