T r ib £*5. The Theater of Plants, Chap c ioo. 6Sj 
•j, Gnaphalium minimum refens . Small creeping Cudweede. 
This little Cudweede (which is fometimes found not above two or thee inches high) hath a fmall hoary ftalke 
full ofbranches, about halfe a foote high or leffe, whereon grow fmaller leaves then in any of the former, even 
almoft as fmall as Southernwood leaves, but hoary as the reft are :the flowers are fruall and yellow in fmall 
ihoary heads. . 
S. Gnaphalitmmarintimfivc (fotonaria. Sea Cudweede or Co.ttonwcede. 
I The Sea Cottonwort rifeth up with divers fmall and very hoary white ftalkes, about halfe a foote high/et with 
sdivers fomewhatthicke.and fomewhat long leaves, but very foft and hoary, or woolly all over, as though they 
it were nothing but Cotton, bearing attheir toppes fome fmall hoary heads, with a yellow thrum breaking out of 
them, whofe feede within is fomewhat longer then the other; the rootc is fomewhat long and wooddy, but pe- 
rifheth not yearely as divers of the other forts doe. 
The Place, 
! The firft,the third, and fourth doe grow in barren dry fandy and gravelly grounds, in mod places generally of 
s the Land ; the reft are found in the like places beyond the Seas, onelytbelaft is found upon the weft Sea coafti 
of out Land in divers places, as well as in others, although (mailer, which maketh it foeme another fort. 
, The Time. 
[ They doe all flower about luly ,fome earlier and fome later,and their feede is ripe in Augufl. 
The Names . 
[ It is called in Greeke > ■taqiatov Gnaphalium, and fo likewife in Latine quod ills obryntiKorpm tomento muMHr} 
landj'i'kjev Ulieefl veUere carperevelanas. It hath alfo diversother Latine names, as Centunculsu and Centssncss- 
\laris, Tomentaria ft omentum and Tomentitia, Cottonaria five Tomb ax humilis, efpecially theSeakind, Filago and 
Herb* <>»/>/«,Hcrbc Impious,efpecially the third fort here fet forth, for that as Pliny faith, the branches and flow¬ 
ers thereon rife above the middleftalke, or elfeashe faith, becaufeno bcaft or other creature tafteth thereof: he 
alfo faith that it was alfo called Chamssoelonf as the copies have it)or rather Chamexylon, the low Bombafl or Cot¬ 
ton plant, and Albinitm from the whitenefle. The firft is called by Ullatthiolus Leontopoditim alterttmvulgare, 
and Pfessdoleontopodium, By Lob cl Gnaphalium Anglicum velBclgictsm folio longiore : by Tragus Heliochryfos fyl- 
vefiris, by Lugaunenjis Chryfocomelanssginofa,and ImpU jpecies, bylch.inr.es 7 haliits Gnaphalium vulgare ma'y.vt, 
by T)odens.w Fslaginis Jpecies altera : the fecond is called by Label, filagojaA Chryfocome (germanica,and by Su- 
rantes Chryfocome and Chryfstis : Irreceiveth alfo with the Germans the fame names that the former doth :thc 
third is generally called with us Herba lmpia and Filago,afoliorum inujitata fuptrbia ,and is the Grtaphalittm of luf- 
cbiw,and Adatthioltts (although he difprovc him for fo calling it) Lobe/, Lugdmenfts and others; of Anguillans 
Cartafiilago. The fourth is the Gnaphalium vulgare with Us, which Dodonen1 and Lobel call Filago minor, and Ta - 
lermontanM (gnaphalium medium-, the great Germane kind, which is the fccond here deferibed, is a Jpecies hereof) 
but growing fomewhat larger with them: the fife is the third Gnaphalium olClupw, or the fecond oiTtateau, 
which 'Batthinm calleth Gnaphalinm minus latioribus folijt ; the fixe is Clssfnts his fecond Gnaphalinm, or firft of 
plateau, called by Batthinm Gnaphalium majtts lato oblongo folio : the feventh is called by Lobel Gnaphalium mini¬ 
mum, by Tabermontanus Gnaphalium minus, and by Bauhimtt Gnaphalium mmus repens ; the lafl is generally cal¬ 
led (gnaphalium marinftm, and maritimum, and Legitimism ofClujtw ; by Lugdunenji< Gnaphalium marinstm tomenG, 
tofssm, becaufe hee hath another Gnaphalium maritimum Dalecbampif, which Bauhinus taketh to be the Stachae 
citrina altera inodora of Lobel, and he himfelfe calleth it Slichryfum fylveflre flore oblongo, as I fhe wed you before 
among the Stachades :the Italians call the Gnaphalitsm,GnapbaHo, Filago, and Curtafiilago ; the French Petit cottem 
the Germanes Rhurkpaut ,and Hijnfchkpattt, the 'Hutch Rtsrkruit and Roomelifceescruyt, 
The Tenues, 
Thefe Plants are all aftringenr, or binding and drying, and therefore arc profitable for defluxions of rheume" 
from the head into any other part, and to flay fluxes of blood wherefoever, eyther at thenofe or mouth, or by 
feige,which is the blooddy fiix, and eafeth the torments that come thereby, the deco&ion being made into red 
wine and drunke, or the powder taken therein: it ftayeth alfo the immoderate courfes of women, and is alfo 
good for inward or outward wounds,hurts and bruifes, as the Wefterne country people doe daily finde by expe¬ 
rience, and helpeth children both of burftings and the wormes, and the difeafe called Tenafmw, which is an of¬ 
ten provocation to the ftoole and doing nothing, to be either drunke or in jefled or orherwife: the greene leaves 
bruifed, andlayd or bound to any greene wound, ftayeth the bleeding and healethit up quickly •• the decoffion 
or juice thereof doth the fame, and doth helpe all old and filthy Vlcers quickly: mod of them alfo ferve fora 
weeke in Lampes,&c. to burne, but efpecially that which groweth by the Sea fide. Pliny faith that the juice of 
the herbe Impious taken in wine and milke, is a foveraigne remedy againft the Mumpes and Squinfie, andfur- 
ther faith, that it is mervailous what is reported of it,thar whofoever fhall take itfhall never bee troubled with 
that difeafe againe, and therefore they give it their fwine for the fame purpofe, and that which foever of them 
will nat take it,will affuredly die thereof. 
Chap. C. 
Chryfocome. Golden Tufts. 
