The 'Theater of Plants, 
Chap, 84, 657 
TR ibe. 
yellow flowers at the toppes of them, like unto the former, after which come (mall heads that (well out in the 
middle are ftraked and yellowilh, & containe within them fmall round leede like Millet, hut greater: the roote 
is fomewhat long,hard and wooddy, blackifh on the outfide with divers long fibres thereat, 
8 . chamaciftusSerpilli folio florr/sttee. Yellow DwarfeCiltus with wilde Time leaves. 
’ This Dwarfe Cifluscreepeth upon the ground, like unto wild Time, with fuch like fmall leaves fet upon the 
reddifh branches very thicke.or as it were in a double row,of a darkegreene colour, and a little hairy withall, 
but a little longer and whiter next unto the flowers, which Hand three or foure together, every one on a pretty 
long hairy footeftalke j confifting of five fmall yellow leaves like unto the other and fomewhat fweece: the 
roote is very fibrous or much fpread underground. 
0, Cham.eciflu, SerpUli folio jlore cameo. The great Dwarfe Curas with wilde Time leaves. 
This other” wilde Time leafed Ciflus hath creeeping blackifh branches, farther extended upon the ground 
then the other- being about a footein length, and taking roote as they creepe, having fuch like but fmallleaves 
fet thereon by couples, of a fad greene colour on the upper fide,and grayifh underneath ; at the ends of the bran* 
ches (land three 01 foure flowers'together, made of five leaves a peecc, of a kind of blufh colour: the heads 
that beare the feede are five fquare, and open themfelves at the toppes {hewing very fmall feede ; the roote is 
fmall and wooddy : all thefe lorts of Dwarfe Ciflus or Sunflowers are durable,not periling in the Winter. 
The Place. 
The firfl and fecond grow in divers places of this land, but efpecially in Kent . in every traeff thereof through¬ 
out which in Come places is greater then in others, yet that with the white flower is more rare to firdethen the 
others: the third according "to the title in Savoy the fourth Clufius faith he found on the hills about the Bathes 
of 'Baden: the fift he likewife faith groweth plentifully on the Alpes of Attfiria and Hungary : the fist alfo up¬ 
on the fnowy hills of the Alpes : the'feaventh on the open funny fandy hills in divers places of France, Spaiue, 
and Italy ■ the eighth Clujius faith hec never found bur upon the higheft Alpes of Arsflria and Stiria ; and as 
fome thinke is that fort is mod ufuall with us here in England : the laid allb on the fnowy hills of the Alpes. 
v The Time. 
All thefe forts of Dwarfe Ciflus doe-flower in the Summer, feme earlier and later then other by amoneth.yet 
moft of them are fo foone fading.that their flowers endure but a day or two, and perfedl their feede foone 
after. 
The Names. i- 
I am verily perfwaded that 'Liofcorides hath made mention of this herbe in two fundry places of his worke, the 
one in the Chapter of which he faith Cratevat called Warn Mynrfm Helenium ^Egyptium, and grew 
like Serpyllum,unto which Pliny alfo in his aP.Bookeand lo. Chap, confenteth,faying Helenium isfayd to grow 
of He liens tcares, and the bed to grow in the IOand Helena : it is a fmall fluubbe lying on the ground, with 
leaves like unto Jcrp/fow or mother of Time, and in the it. Chap, of the fameBookehee remembreth it againe 
rand giveth the vertues thereof, which are differing from the other Helenium or Elecampane; for he there faith, 
that the juice thereof is fweete,and being drunke in wine is a furtherer of mirth, and may be held to be the iVc- 
pfHf/ue,whereof Homer fpeaketh, that putteth away all forrowes: but fome thinke that this diftereth from the 
Helenium of fheophraftm, becaufe he numbreth it dill among fweete lierbes that were nfed in Garlands, as 
Serpyllum,Si(ymbrium, and Abrotanum , and therefore j'udge it to be Offarum,ot herbe Madicke : the other place 
in'Diofcoridcs is in his Chapter of Tanax, and called n*iw.sc Pan ax, and Panaces Chironium, whichhee 
there faith hath leaves like unto Amaracus or Mar jerome and yellow flowers, and a fmall roote; all know the 
leaves of Marj'erome doe not much differ from Serpyllum in the forme,but in the Iargeneffe and hoary whiteneffer 
and therefore divers Authors doe call it diverflyj fome, as / ssgdstnenfir calleth it Helenium minus Diofcorides, 
and others Helenium alterum, five lAigyptium, and fome Panax ,and Panaces Chironium as Matthiolsu and others 
that follow him, or C/nrenia zsCa/alpimu : fome alfo take it to be Helianthe of Pliny, which Cordui calleth He. 
leanthemum, or ps Solis, and fo doc Lobel,Thalius, Tabermontamu and divers others: Gcfmr in hortis Cjermanie 
calleth it Gratia Dei, or Hyffopoides, for the likeneffe of the leaves, which deceived both him and Tragus, who 
called it Hyjfopus campejlris , and Loniccrus who called it Hyjfopm rnontanafve fylvejlris, who all follow the com¬ 
mon appellations of their countries. Cordui faith it was called by divers in his time,C«»/c&£i aurea & fo faith Clts- 
fnu alio, yet he would rather referre all thefe forts to the family of the female Ciflus, and make them of his third 
order of Ciflus, calling them Chamacifisu, becaufe they are like unto them, both in face and propertie. lobe/ 
in his Adverfaria would rather referred to theCentauriumluteum, whereunta as he faith it is both in face and 
vertuenot unlike : the firfl which is as ufuall with us as in Germany is called of the Germans Heyien Tjfop, that is. 
Heathen Hyffope we may call it in Enalijh, and fo the red, eyther fmall Sunflower or Dwarfe Ciflus: the third is 
remembred by Tabermontamu under the fame title, it is expreffed here : the fourth is the fixt Chamacifius of Clu. 
Jim ;tbe fift is his third Chamacijhis in his Hiftory of Plants,but are the firfl and fecond in his Pannonicke obfervati- 
ons, and there called Angufiifoliut and Lstifohus, as Bauhinui doth alfo: the fixt is Cits fits his eighth Chamaci- 
/hit, and called by Tabermontamu Ciflus humili, Aujlriaca,by BauhinmChamaciflu, hirfuta : the feventh is called 
by Lugdunenfis Erica Chryfanthemos, and by Bauhinus fhamaciflw Erica folio luteus , who j'udgeth it to bee the 
Cert fimi/immfrntex in maritimU of Cefa/pimu, and tbtCorisTHofeoridis of quilandinm : the eighth is the fecond 
Chamecifim of Clufius, which Tabermontamu calleth Cijlm humili, Serpi/lifolia, and I thinke may bee the Hch- 
anthes Jpecies rara, in the Adverfaria of Pena and Label, which Lobel afterwards in his leones callpth Ciflus ma¬ 
jor ant folds ; ynd Bauhinm makethtobszCiflusfamina, nutpbring it among them : the lad Clufius in his Pan¬ 
nonicke observations,was not well refolved by what name to call it,as partaking both with Cneorum Matthioli,Sc 
Chamsciflsss,and therefore left irthere as an Anonima, without name, but confidering afterwards better upon it, 
he fecteth ir forth in his hidory of Plants for his feventh Chamociflus. Banimus calleth it Chamecifisss Serpylli 
foliafloribus carnets, and taketh it to be the Rofa Alpina altera folijt minimi, of Gefner in hurt, and the Alpina al¬ 
tera of Lobel . 
All thefe forts arc 
more then in others, 
The Vertues, 
drying and binding or affringent,with fome bitterneffe j'oyned thereto, efpecially in fome 
and not without fome fmall fent alfo ; the decoftion of this herbe and roote,is fingular good 
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