Tbeatrum Botantcum 
892 Chap, ix. 
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J. FyittbrumatobeUil'TWnfrmm. 
The firft Pelletory of Spaine. 
2 . PyrethritmumheUifcrumitlterum, 
The other Pelletory of Spain, 
This other Pelletory groweth fomewhat lower, the 
leaves arc fomewhat longer and finer, relembling Dill; the 
ftalkes areflenderer and full of leaves,the umbells of flowers 
are whire, bat not fo great: the roots is (Tenderer aud Angle, 
and herein conliftech the chiefeft difference. 
The Place mi Time, 
The firtl groweth more ufually in the hotter countries, of 
Italy, Spain See. the other on fome mountaines in Germa¬ 
ny, and often among the rockes whereon there is but a cruft 
of earth, fo that the rootes grow in the chinkes •• they floWer 
andfeedc toward the end of Summer. 
The Names, 
Iris called in Greeke mi pe 5 f»:>, oh radiciiigr.etm fervrnm, 
and Pyrethram in I.atine, as alfo Sxlivarii, from the quality 
ro dra w fp ttie into the mouth: the firll is the Pyrethrxm ve- 
rnm of CMattbtohfi , and ahertim of Lube land others, Came- 
rarius caliech it PyrethrumfOiojcoridisfiafalpiriw doubted to 
call it Pyrethrum, for untill it was well examined by the 
learned, they were loath to admit it as Vodcnaw, who 
wouid rather find .1 fault in the defeription of Viefcorides, 
and fuppofe it tobeakindeof Saxifrage, than admit it for 
true ryrcthrtim. The other is called by Lttgdnrenfiu Pyre- 
thrum Gcfneri, becaufe Gefncr feet it to ‘Delechampm, and 
as l faid,is moft probable to be a differing fort from the for¬ 
mer ; for I rather thinke this to be it that Tragus found on 
the mountaines, and called Ftmiculum mentanum, than the 
former,as Bauhimu doth.who alfo noteth it in his Puuuqthat 
the Pyrethrnm , thatheefaw in the Thutra gardeD, varied in 
having yellow flowers from this, which hath growne with 
us and is white. 
The yertnes. 
This Pelietory is hot and drie in the third degree: the 
roote taken with hony iseffeffuallagainft all coiddifcafes 
ofthebraine, as the Apop'exie,falling ficknes,the twr/go,or - 
turning of the braine, and others of the like nature: it helpech alfo the defluxions of rbcumefrom the Uad to th 
teeth being brnifed and heated in tome vineger, and the mouth gargled therewith, or the roote it lelfe chewed 
in the mouth, doth often eaie thefurious paints of the tooth-ach if it ppoceede from r. eume ; it is effeftually put 
alfo into all thole oyles or oyntments that aieufed to warme andheate any part of the body, or the (inewesthac 
are benummed with cold, or the dead or (bakin g pal fie : for which pui pole, lome doc much commend anoyle 
dratvne from the greene rootes, to be anointed, yea though the parts be drawing to a gatigrecne: alluredly, it 
much hclpeth all cold griefes either inward or outward. 
Chap. XI. 
Kttctila terrains five Bulbccafianvm. Earth Chefnut. 
E the Earth Chefnut there is two forts, a greater and a leffer in each part. 
I. Nttcalaterrefirie major. The greater Eirth Cbelrut. 
The great plant brirgeth fuuh divers long ftalkesof leave, rimediatly from the rootewhichate 
finely cut in and divided,fomewhat iike unrothe leaves of Parity,that grow on the middle or top of 
thellalke, as ‘D:a oriv compareth them, ,'et larger ti an the next or {mail Earth-nut among which 
rifethup aflender llalke about a foote high, hearing at the toppes many fmall white flowers in an umbell, which 
turne into blackiih fmall long let be, fmeHing lo.newhat 1 weet 1 the roote is not fully round or lmooth, hut 
bunching out in one place or other, and Somewhat rough, of ablaikifti browne colour on the outfide, and white 
within, of a p'eafant taffe, betweene a Chefnut and a Parlnjppe, which is often eaten by women and children, af- 
they have roafled them by the fire c r under the embers. 
2. NucttUterreflritmmor. The i, fler Earth-nut or Chefnut, 
This finaller Earth-nut hatha (null round,(hbroivne route like the former, but leffer, from whenceriffcth up 
a longflender whitifh firing or Dalke, whetherfoevei you will call it, within the ground, not alwayes riling 
ftraight up from the roote, which groweth foure or five inches deepe in the earth, but foulding or crumpling it 
felfe to and fro unto the toppe of the 1 round, from whence it rifeth a little bigger naked or bare of leaves for art 
inch or two, and then fendeth fofth from the Tides of the fame (Hike, fundry linall ftalkesof very fine cut leaves, 
little bigger than haires, of a fad greene colour, and at the toppe whereof fundry branches of while flowery 
in umbells, and fuch like fmall long feede,as in the former, but leiler, on ’ fomewhat (harpe in tafte. 
The Place and 1 ime. 
The firft is as frequent in the upper and lower Cjermar.y, and in France and Italy, and the leffer more frequent 
in our country than theirs, although, as Camerarim faith, it groweth by the Ubeyne alfo, and flower in the begin¬ 
ning of Summer, feeding quickly after, -- --- - l> 
