having at the bottome of them fome fmali long and narrow leaves, like threds or peeces as it wEre torne off 
the nndeofthe lower part of theftalkeand fharpe pointed, fome greencand fome browne:thc reft of 
the italkes are naked unto the middle, which from thence to the toppes at farre diftanccs one from another have 
at every joynt two broader.rounder, and fhorter leaves then Betony, the middle ribbe being blackifh, and den¬ 
ted about the edges: above the two uppermoft leaves come forth a foft round fpiked flaort head made of a number 
of white haires, fome what rcfembling a white Fox taile, whereof it tooke the name. 
The Place. 
The firft two forts are frequent in woods and copfcs, and other fuch like fhadowie places throughout the 
land, but that with the white flower is more ufually found in the ftiffe clay grounds, then in any other mould, 
and in the woods by Brumley in Kent • the third grow on the Alpes of Helvetia or Swifter land; the fourth was 
brought xtomDcnmarkehy D r . Lobel , when he went thither with the Lord Edward Zoncbe Ambafladour from 
the Queene Elizabeth of famous memory, in the yeare 15 92. The laft as Lugdunenfis faith,groweth in the movft 
vallies that are fhadowed with trees of the high hills. 
The Time. 
They flower in lttly >and the feede ripeneth quickly after. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke *£fe? v CePlron^a remediorum copia & varietate , yet fome take it a flora fbicatd & macro - 
Mtaaattu verruculum preferrente, and Pfycotrophon,quodinfrioidU locis inveniaiur-.the word Cefiron hath 
divers mterpretaoons in Greeke as in Saidas for a kind of dart, in Sophocles for a pricke or pointed thine ■ others 
underhand hereby bookes conteming much variety of matter, and Pliny fpeaking of graving, faith anciently 
there were two wayee, the one in wax, the other in Shore Ceftrojdtft, viriculofitt downe for verncuhsm, which 
exprel.eth both in Greeke and Latine the fharpe pointed roole wherewith they did grave in Ivory. It is called in 
i.atine Betomca, and f etonica^ab inventoribm Vetonibta Hi/pame popu/ii as Pliny faith; but CJalen feemeth in his 
htt booke de[mutate tuenda, to make Setonica and Cefiron to be two herbes, in thefe words' trandated, ConMtur 
eufemir.vimimpetrofilinum^tque idfolnmarticularibw fatisfaciat ; ijs vero quicalculo Uborant, aliquid Betonict 
0 -Cefin quod in Gallijs nafcitur, vocent antemeam her bam Sarxiphagon : <s£tim alfo in his fourth booke and as. 
hap. reciting this place of Galen faith,£\v qnibjrs coUigitttr non folum latinorum Betonicam, fed etiam Gallorum 
Sarxtphagon y Cefironnominatumfuifie.paulw ^Egineta m his feventh Booke doth plainely fit downe two forts of 
Betony,the one with (lenderbranches (ike unto Pennyroyall.but fmaller,and almoff without fade, growing efpe- 
dolly m many places(& as I faid before in the Chapter of ZamiS is taken by Qnadramiui to be Zamium Scutellaria 
dtUum) which is ufed inthofe medecines that are for the reines: the other is the Romans Betony which Diofco- 
’ sues calleth Cefiron, and others Pfyctntropbonbcaule it j'oycth in cold places, and hath no likenelfeto thefor- 
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