542 Chap.33’ 
Theatrum Botanicum . 
r r i b e, 5, 
though ieMfeemeth to invert the name, h^fofrench, /.' Dorn, herba Dcr «, aHafi a«rea herba and , 
thinketh it may be the fW.v Cfer««>» of Theophraft *,,which he defcribeth in the . 2. Chapter of his 9. Booke 
whole forme and properties there related, doe very fitly anfwer hereunto (yet home doe rather referre thd 
,if curon arcs care unto it) or die (as he faith J is oneofthofe Panaces of Theophraftw, which 7/;„7 j n l,; s 
2 ; IJooke, and 4, Chapter (peaketh of, found by Chiron, and called Ccntaurium, and called alio Pharnaeenm 
oi the King Pharnaces w ho is faid alio tofinde it. Gefne* in horti, German,*, faith it was called of fome, 
uj C hror.uun m aberr/imanw _al(o calleth it, Panax Chirer.iuTnTheophrtifti, it is that Liman'wmahud. that 
Lugdunenfis faith was fo called of fome Herbarifts, fetting it forth in the Chapter of Limcnium, and yec is the 
fame that he»« forth for th eft™ Narbonenfian, of Pen* and Lob,l, in the Chapter of Viroaaurca, although 
it feemeth he did not know fo much, which kinde of error is very frequent in him. Banhinm calleth it S 
a^ren major za ona, The lecond came to me under the fame name that is in the title, which becaufe it can be 
waies e ere , I thmke not fit to alter. 'Hie lafi Pena and Lobel, doe onely make tnention of in their Ad-i\ 
bytl ' £ nameob a '" ca ™™rum Limon,, foli,,, and Bauhinm calleth it, j Virga anrea ma& „. 
_ The Venues. 
,, ITT™* ° f u e c llnS §r l enc r vv ° u . nds ’ and old <ores is P r °P cr hereunto, being accounted as a meane in the -I 
f m-fler r ^ eflmfounds, and 'he golden rods that follow, and therefore it needeth not any . 
urther repetition, or amplification ofthe fame things : but if it be the Panax Chironium of TheophraSlm as a- ■ 
jorelaidit fhouldthen be availeable againftthflbitingsof the viper, and the Pha/an r ,nm, and other venemous • 
Creatures, being given in wine inwardly, and annointed therewith, and the oyle outwardly; as alfo for - 
moths ofiarme^ts u ‘ ed W1 ; h "'! n “ ndo y^ and with hony for excrcfcences in the flefh, and^o deftroy the : 
“mdthatofS AnnS properties, both the lmell andtafie fo aromaticall in leaves and rootes, like . 
in F^cc dL mih l '''^, .Tf V P w , el ‘ c0 . ndu « belecve, for many both Phyfitions and Chirurgions , 
tients.and to good eftefl lr " thtre ° f ’ and w.eitbothmwardly and outwardly, in many medicines for their Pa- 
C hap. XXXIII. 
Vir%a attren, Golden Rod. 
si ^ort Wit ver'knou °* ^ ods > that are knowne and fet forth by many writers, we have another 
Kb lortnotyetknownepubhkely, whofeorigmallwasin America 
n,|, r „u pnB „c The ordinary Golden Rod. 
* *» *—» f “” ”" d 
flalkes, halfe a yard or two foote high, but high¬ 
er if it grow in a fat foile, or in a Garden,having thereon ma- 
ny narrow and long darke greene leaves, very feldome with 
any mckes or dents about the edges, and as feldome with 
any drakes or white fpots therein, and yet fometimes and in 
fome places, they are fo to be found, divided at the tops into 
many fmall branches, with divers fmall yellow flowers on 
every one of them, which are turned one way, not looking 
iundry waies, as all the flowers of the former kindes doe, 
which likewife being ripe, doe turne into downe, and are ca- 
ried away with the winde, the rootc confifleth of many fmall 
fibres, which gro w not deepe into the ground, but abidetli all 
'ie Winter therein,(hooting forth new branches every yeare, 
the old ones dying downe to rfie ground. 
2. Virga aurea ferrati, folijs. 
Golden Rod with dented leaves. 
The [bikes of this Golden Rod, rife not up fo high as the 
former, but are as great, tearing larger, but fhorter leaves 
thereon, and dentedabout theedges, the branches beare fucii 
hkeflowers, facing one fide of their flalkes as the former doth 
and are turned into downe, flying away in the fame manner! 
the roote is like the other. 
3. Virga aurea Americana. Golden Rod of America, 
1 he leaves of this Golden Rod,before it runneup to (hike, 
art as great as the laft, being but narrow and long, yet broa- 
delt in the middle, and very fharpe pointed at the ends.fome- 
what dented alfo about the edges, but leffe then the former 
and of a darke greene colour, 'the [hike is a little hairy, rifing 
higher then the lad, or about a foote and a halfe high at the 
molt, bearing yellow flowers all on one fide, like the former, 
and nyc in the winde,with the downe as the red, the roote is 
not much unlixe the other, and abideth under ground in win¬ 
ter m the fame manner, lofing all the old flalkes. I have given 
; “ c ° ne fi § u ,7 3,1 Ch f e pl^ts, they are all fo like that 
ticedlefle to multiply more figures, the place and the 
Elated leaves making the whale difference, ' “ 
-k Virga aurcafervatii foliji. 
Golden Rod with den ted leaves. 
The 
