59^ Chap.6o, 
‘Theat rum ‘Botanic urn. 
Tr i b e.^,; 
° ’ ? d(nt jf ; ( dl , ,™ e , p k ot > of-3-and4.inches long a peecc, and hade an inch broad or Idle 0 f ZB 1 
greene colour and foft.ful of branches from the middle at the leal! upwards and (mailer leaves on them , P -u' 
very many fmall moffie pale threds for flowers on every branch, out of fmall greene huskes or heads l '?•“!! 
w?! e leede almodinlenfible, is carried away with the wind, that one would thinkeir had no (cede ^ ! 
wh ch yet will fpnng very plentifully before winter of it owne (owing: the roote is a few hardforavt [ft ! 
imall fibres at them, and perifhingyeerely after it hath feeded. P ) ^ with > 
All C„ 7- Eupattrium ayuaticam dnorum generum. Water tyfgrimcmy of two forts. 
Although all the(e forts of Hempe-likc Agrimony doeufually grow by watery ditch Tides and thellk 
nfli places, yet becaufethey will alio grow well indifferent foifc.fi ch Je it not a miffe t7io™e them a« to”?' ' 
thcr, for the hkeneffeofname, forme, and qualities. Of this water Agrimony we have two Sorts of our C ? § ’ 
J-Jid, and another alfo outof America or New England, being in all other things very like one unto anorherT' 1 
onelyin the placing or fetting of the leaves upon the ftalkes; which in one fort hath divers leaves (eunoo t* ' 
dhd h .d fi h gCrS n t i an han f a '^1 meeting together at thebottome, let by diftances at the flalkes, every one n J ' 
divided, but whole, yet dented about the edges, and in forme and greeneneffe like unto the leaves ofnf 
"Z P VZ f le ( ° n ”- r but (ofer • apd ^ ^e other, every leafe is fomewhat d,coded three oTfive 
uponaffalkc.twoata joym: the flowers are ycilowifli browne, made of many leaves like aftarre r a h h 
middle thrum, with greene heades under them, divers (landing together, thrufting for h from the* 
the leaves, and at the toppes of thebranches, whichturne into long flat rugged feede, which will flkke m ‘ H 
garment it toucheth: the roote is made of many blacke firings and fibres, encreafing much thTwhde n “ r 7 
omewhat aromaticall fmelling (weete, and rafting fomewhat (harpe like Pepper, and fo doth the mom r“ 
We hwe another of this Iaft fort, brought us botaVirgmi ,, a „d New £^W, whofe meat hard Tolide hm ' 
*»• ft“ n t d ? al ^° f 3-4.andhve footc high, uwondetfull full of long branches from thlboton^e,fet withTovn. 
fpotterl red, on the younger greene ones, with large greene leaves on them, the lowed having ! Z 
and W Up u V n b v tbre = )' et ' ar § er than the former, as the flowers and feede is alfo, yet not roufh but fmnfh fl 
and blackifli: this hath no (harpeneffe of rafte in it. *> C taoth flat 
c . - The place. 
I he hrlt groweth m the borders of fieldes, by ditches and hedge fidcs throughout all the Land • rhe r. a ■ 
the foT t0 U d S ’ F 0WlnS With US one| y in chc d 3r dens of the cunous, but is namraU to Zly "L places both 
the former and this growing neere one to another,or not fan e diftantithe third Colnmna found liN.-pU Zj 
lent to Batihinw from many other parts of Jtalj Iikewife as he faith himftlfe • rhe fnnrth Zf a ' >and U as 
ecs that are wet, as the brinckes of ditches,ar,d water aaurfajand^nthe^phnd'grounds^ho'vvhereimvid'th^ 3 ' 
and endure as well sthe fife,fixe h.and lad came to us from New England VirZe ”th e wo foft^Fr^ '' 
ti j TbeTiim. 
^ They doe all flower in My m dAug„fi, and the feede isfoonc ripe after, yet the lad American fl owr eth 
firftfinder 
do, fbewethithat this was an ei tour in his time, in midaking Argemmla, (o?AZmZZ Somt aRo^airt'^'' 
tor mm quomam hepati pr£Ciptte medetnr : becauib it is a rhiVfr* h-iL. ^ "t • * • - * ~° me aI *° call it Hepa- 
divers : fome other names^are alfo given untoR, 1 ^ ^Aarmore/la^ Co^ordtZlltna ^ CaPe , d dgrimonia ot 
Arabian, call h,Cafal,Cafel, m & Cafe/: the Italians.AarZZZZd r T” r T\ L * f ?‘ ‘j m Z*" and terraria. The 
Supamre. The Germane, odermch^A BruelmurtZ- the Dnuh AotZlny- IT ’t* m® 4 3nd 
raon Agrimony. All the Apothecaries of our Land efneciallvo/ r r ,nd . we,n J"i / f ^n^orcom- 
Agrimeh] as the mod affured Eupatonnm of Diofioridei- howfoever i ( n °' W 3 - a ' es ’ doeide C ' 1IS hindeof 
the feas, aid ufually rake the eJya.orium CaZZnmX 'Z ‘"l thC >' b r>°T d 
and either of ignorance not knowing the right, or efwilfulncdes in note 1 ■ for the true kmde, 
old errours, but our age hath reformed very § be withdraweeTrom their 
doubtbutby the diligent fcarch of divers forthetruth-both the light rharharl^rir^H 10 ^ nu ^ U P 1 J l an ^ no 
nefle that remaines may be expelled, which time mud as irlnrhdnrJi thath " (ci l [la ' h ?PP ear <;d, and the dark- 
natious wilfulneffe of many being the caufe that it is not wholly performed at 
”<1 after him doemakethis£^rm* OTO f Dio/corides, t0 be thatof Avicon ,if„ l, j / g ‘, , “B 1 *’ 
becaufe he would not acknowledge the Ageratum of d ° C ° r" b ° th one ‘ J)odow,u 
felfe a ground, on the dangerous fhelfe of two hm ~ 
not differ, and the Enpatorium of Mefnes and Dio/corides bebothnne i, ‘ '■ ^'fues ind Aviccn, doe 
as we (hewedin the Chapter of them true; for 
much from this of ‘Diofioride, ■ fo doth that of Mefue, from that of AviT T °{ t 'c hlch di . ffer . et . 1 ' 
ous nowaday os, accounted robe the MEupatoriam Cannabimim, here fee downe and as'bef^e^f f'^ ,ud,C ‘' 
Susssssi teas si's t; r*i&^stfsssiss: 
‘D.ofconAcs, the error,r thereof being now reformed, both their deferiptions and Ln } A Eupaionam of 
you, yet ISxt not without very (pedal! properties, as you (hall heare b/and by thffeco d “ cdled" A™ 
ni Uh BrT rAr ‘ h 'r’m d ZP at ° r "‘ m ' -*«■»«, Aoralm, & .aromatic,L by cita'SK"" 
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