The Theater of ‘ Plants. 
CHAP.48. 569 
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,ing the branches) the rooteisfomc what great, thicke and wooddy, blackiih on the outfidc, with many fibres 
111,1 *' 1. Camphorata minor. ThelelTer(linkingGroundpine. 
The fmaller Camphorata, hath many flender and weak (talks lying or bending to the ground in acompafle.with 
■livers rundles of fmalllong leaves, fetatfpaces, asinthe former, of a yellow greene colour, efpecially to¬ 
wards winter,when the tops of the branches alfo will be reddifh with iome wollinelTe thereon,whereon divers 
■ lowers do (land together, as it were in a tuft, confiding of five fmall white leaves a peece ; after which rife 
i'mall hard feede veffels, of the bignes of two barley comes, wherein is endofed very fmall feede : the roote 
iS greater and longer then the proportion of the plant above ground may teeme to allow, of a reddifli yellow 
colour on the outfide, with many fibres thereat: the whole plant both leaves, flowers and feede, are of a (Irong 
2nd grievous fenr, and of a very fharpe and quicke tafle. 
° 5. Camphoratacongenerfive Anthyllis altera Italornm. Ground Fine not (linking. 
I The other Grotind Pine that fmelleth not fo (Irong as the former forts doc, groweth upright in the fame 
ifcnanner, with divers uprighc (lender (hikes, and many fmall leaves fet at the joynts, fome of them 
r icing longer and fome fliorter then others, all covered with a fmall woollinefle: the flowers are very fmall* 
.1 landing many together at the toppes of the branches, of a pale yellowifti colour, and of an aftnngent and dry- 
K tafte - ' The Place. 
f 1 The firfl groweth neare unto Mompelier, and Nemaufmm, efpecially out of the rifts and chinkes of the old 
1 walls of the 3 Amphitheater there, and feldome in any other part of JWr, or It alp as Pena faith ; yet Lssgdtsnenfu 
I: faith it profpereth better in fertile and moylt places, then in fuch as are barren and dry. The fecond groweth 
tbofh in fandy dry grounds, and in rotten moorilh grounds likewife •• The laft groweth in many places of Italy, 
but whether naturally of that country or no, is not (ignified, but they there kcepe tt in their gardens, where mod 
ufually it is to be feene. __ 
TheTtme. 
All thefe flower very late, or not at all with us, and are very hardly preferved in the winter, being tender, 
comming from fo hot and dry places. 
The Names. 
None of thele plants were knowne to the ancient writers, eytherGreekes, or Latines, by any the names of 
their herbes knowne to us now adayes; the name Camphorata, is taken from Camphors, becaufe the fenc is 
thought ro be fo like unto Camfire, as divers doe imagine , but furely then it fmelleth othcrwifc in the hotter 
countries then they doe in ours, for with us the former two have a grievous heady fent, yet nothing fo fierce, 
and quicke in my judgement as Camfre is: AngtsiUara firlt.and others afterwards, as alfo Venn and Lobel referre 
the former unto the [Lsmspeuce of Pliny, whereofhe maketh mention in his 24. Booke and 15. Chapter,faying 
that Chamspence hath leaves like unto the Larche tree; but Lugdtsnenfit faith, that divers did rather referre this 
totheie&roofthe fayd Pliny, mentioned in his 24. Booke and 11.Chapter, where he faith that Stingo j s like 
unto Savins : Divers alfo tooke it to bee the Cneorum nigrnm otDiofcorides, and Thcophraflus, but the learned of 
Mompclier, called it Camphorata major, and fo doth Lobel call it Campherata Monjpelicnftnm. r Bauhin W calleth it 
Camphorata hirfuta, when as according to his dfffcription, the roughneffe belongeth rather to the 
fecond in the llalkes and leaves, and not unto this firfl. Divers alfo tooke it to be eEriee pri us genus, a kind of 
Heath; others to be Hyjfopus nemorenfis, and fome alfo to be that Msifci terreftrisgenus that Tragus doth fet forth, 
by the name of Sabina fylveflris. Our London difpenfatone, or pharmacopeia Londjnenfit, in the defeription of Vn. 
qttentum Marciattsm, maketh Camphorata to be Abrotanssm, which is utterly untrue,yet I.think it may very well be 
the fubftitute or ftsecedanium tlereof for that oyntment: and Lagdanenfis alfo faith,that divers did referre the fe¬ 
cond which he calleth Champhorata minor Dalechampiy, to the Chamspeuce of Pliny aforefaid : but Batshims cal¬ 
leth it Camphorata glatsrit, as though this were fmooth, which as I fayd before is contrary : The laft is called An- 
thy Ills altera, by Anguillara and others: The learned in Italy, as Lobel in his obfervations faith, referre it to the 
fecond fort of AsthyHU aiDioJcortles- but becaufe as he there faith it is not fweet as that fecond Anthyllis of ‘Dio- 
fcorides (Kould be, hee doth rather Judge the Iva Mofchata Monfpelienfnm to be the truer Anthyllis altera, then 
this Anthyllis Italorssm. Gerard hath much erred in calling this Anthyllis lentifolia, and yet his figure doth exprefle 
this AnthyHis ltahrtsm, and not Anthyllis lentifolia, although his defeription doth. Eatshms calleth It, as Lobel 
and others before him have don efiamphorau coitgener, & T abetment anus C amphorata altera. 
The Verttte.r. 
Thefe herbes are all of them of a drying faculty,and are very profitably ufed inwardly to flay defluxions from 
the head, that fall into the eyes,and Upon the Lungs: and outwardly in bathes, to Hay running humours that reft 
in the j'oynts, as the ®oute,Crampes, Palfies, and Aches; itisnoleffeeffefluall for the Nerves and Sinewesto 
comfort and ftrengthen them, to be made into a falve or oyntment; and is available both in f refh w cunds, and 
old running ulcers and fort; and therefore divers doe account it of the fame propertie with Southernwood foe 
all the purpofes whereunto it is ufed. 
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