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Chap. 45. 133 
17- After minor anguftifolius* 
TIk French pu:ple Scarrevvorr. 
tte middle upwards it fhooteth very long branches, and they 
oftentimes branched againe, at each joynt whereof (land fingle 
leaves, but much fmaller and thicker let than below, the flowers 
(land flngly alfb at the joynts and toppes of every ftalke and 
branch, which are fmall and Starre falhion, of a pale white co¬ 
lour, wich a fingle purple thrum in the middle, rifing out of a 
fmall greene huskc which turne into downe like the former : 
the roote is compofed of fundry long white firings, which live 
long, and encreafeth much, lofing ail the flalkes in the W inter, 
and holding a tuft of greene leaves, untill it ilioot new flalkes 
the next yeare i this flowreth much later than the other, lome- 
times not untill the end of Oftober, or beginning of Novenber, 
yet a moneth fooner in a warme yeare. 
The Place. 
The firft kind ofStarwort groweth in Province and Narbone 
in France, in Lombardy aifo. 1 he fecond on the Mountaines in 
the Kingdome of Naples. The third in New Caftile in Spaine. 
The fourth at the fooce of the Alpes of Auftna and Stiria, and 
on Leytenberg , and other hills neare Vienna. The fifth in c JAPom 
ravia, and on the hills neare Vienna, The fixth like wife neare 
Vienna , at the foote of divers hills, and on the woods that were felled there. The leventh likewife in the fields 
neare Vienna , and in a fmall Wood neare the River c Donaw or Danubius. The eight hath beene many yeares grow¬ 
ing in England, fince it was firft brought out of Virginia, and fo hath the ninth alfo, but the tenth we have had fearfe 
time enough to obferve it thorowly fince we got it from Virginia, by the meanes of Mafter George Cjibbes Chirur- 
*\onoi Bathe, who brought in his returne from thence,a number of feeds and plants hee gathered there himfeife, 
and flowred full y only with IA.Trad e/cant. The eleventh groweth in many places of our owne land,in moift or lha~ 
dowy places. The twelfth Guillame Boel many yeares agoe brought out of Barbary with him. The thirteenth in 
many meejowes both in Italy and Prance. The fourteenth in many places of Hungaria, Auftria, and Moravia. 
The fifteenth in the gratify fields on the Alpes of oAuftria. The fixteenth groweth about Crenifum in Auftria, and 
other parts of the Alpes there, as alfo on the Mountaine Iura in Switzerland neare Geneva. The feventeenth on the 
dry Rocky hills and Olive yards about Montpelier and Caftrum novum. The eighteenth and laft were lent us from 
France growing firft in Canada. Some of them are hardly nourished up in gardens, efpecially the eighth and ninth* 
which are unwilling to change their naturail habitation. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower in the Summer moneths of Iune and Iuly, fome earlier or later than others. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greekc A Yify ifir.Qr fsr Mdvtav .* in Latine After Attictts , Bub on turn & Inguinalis ) both for that the 
flower is like a Starre, and that as it is likely, it grew plentifully about Athens , and of the effed to cure the lores 
that hapned inthe groyne, Herb a Stellar ia alio of fome. The firft is called by all After Atticus legitimus„ 
but Bauhinus to dillinguifh it, added foliolis ad jlore in riqidis. The z . is called by Eabius £olumna After (fernuus, be- 
caufe the flowers bend downe their heads, and by Bauhinus After Atticus folijs circa ftorem mollibus. The third is 
called by (ftlufius After fecundus fupinus , and fo doe Dodonaus , Lobel, and Lugdunenjis , and famerarius 9 After Atti - 
cus repens. The fourth is called by Cluftus After tertius , Auftriacus primus, or After Pannonicus tertius, of Bauhinus 
After Luteus major folijs Sued fa. The fifth is Cluftus his After Auftriacus fecundus • ofTabermontanus^B uboninm l:i~ 
teum : of Cjcrard After Italorum bur fallely, of Lugdunenjis B elite lute a : of Bauhinus After montauus luteus Salicis 
g/abro folio. The fixt is Clujius his After lanuginofofolio Jive quint us : of Tabarmontanus After lutco Jlore: of Gerard 
After hirfutus : of Bauhinus After luteus hirfutus Salicis folio. The feventh is Cluftus his Auftriacus quartus : of 
!Bauhinus After luteus linarU , rigidoglabro folio. The eighth came firft to us by the Virginian name Aquafcomenfe • 
Tome thinke that the Virginian name of the ninth is tvifancV-> butfalfcly : but the tenth and eleventh without 
names, and therefore we have given them fuch names as Teemed to usmeft convenient, and as are in their tides, 
untill fome ficter m ay be given by other. The eleventh Lobel in his obfervations calleth csffter Conyzoides, as I and 
all others doe, but the twelfth was fo entituled by Boelius, as it is here let downe. The thirteenth is called generally 
After Atticus Italorum purpureo or caruleo Jlore. The fourteenth is a fpecies of the laft Atticus Italorum ft'frc purpu - 
reo , whereof both Cluftus and Camerarius make mention. The fifteenth is Cluftus his After Anftriatus quintusj 
which he faith may be called Amellus Alpinus, in that it doth refemble the * Amellus of Virgil. Lugdunenfts calleth 
it After purpureus montantis. Bauhinus After montanus caruleus maqnoJlore folijs oblongis. The fixteenth Bauhinus 
onely remembrethby the name of After hirfutus -Auftriacus caruleus magno Jlore. The feventeenth Lobel calleth 
Aft or minor Narboncnfium Tripohj Jlore 9 lin aria folio medio purpureu?. The two laft have their names given by US, as 
1 we thinke fitted for them. There hath beene formerly Tome controvcrfie among Writers, what plant fhould bee 
After Atticus of 'D iofedr ides, divers allowing ofthat After Atticus Jlore luteo 9 which is fee forth in this &: my former 
Booke, whereof the 2. here let forth, as Ifaid, is a kind neaielt thereunto, others refilling it utterly, becaufe it 
hath no purple colour in the flower, which that of TJiofcorides hath, both in the defeription thereof by him, (as 
many doetranflate that part in the description of the flower, to b epdrpureum cf luteum, whereas the new Editions 
have P arpur cum lutcumve) and in the vertues, where he faith that divers fa y^ that the purple of the flower, or in 
the flower,is good to heale the fores of the groine • and father allowing of the 13 .kinde here fet forth,as likewife in 
my other Booke (whereof thofe with purple flowers here deferibed are fpecies) to be both the true After Atticus 
oFD iofc or ides y and the true Amellus of Virgil, which he delcribeth in the fourth Booke of his Georgicks , and that 
moftplainely in thefe Verfes. 
