1572 
Cm a p.22 • 
Tbeatram 'Botanieum . 
Tribe 15J 
1 j. Bufbibalmumperefrinum Alpiieo. 
Shrubby Oxe cvc. 
14 , Buphthabium African tenui/otiunBoglij % 
Tliinne leafed Oic eye of Barbary. 
purplifh in the mkidle : the (Talke iflfo which in the other is greeners more reddish in this. 
15, Bttphtbalmtimpcreprinttm Alpino, Shrubby Oxeeye. 
This ftrange Oxe eye ril'eth up with divers flreight, round, flender, darke greenc ftalkes, three cubits high, 
branching forth into diver •>.parts,whereou are many frnail frefb greene leaves,much divided, and lomcwhat like 
ro thofe of! ennell, the flowers are twice as large as thole ol Camomill, ar) d wholly of a fhining gold yellow 
colour, fet in greeuc heads or hu->kes, wherein afterwards the fmall long white leede is contained : the roote 
is long flender and bi .v.kiib, abiding ffefh and not perifhing after leede time. Alpmtu misliketh that q\ Matt fa¬ 
ct uecaufc the leaves we e not like Fennell,nor the flowers bigger then Camomill. 
14. BaphthaJmnm Af> icd>ium tcnuifoltuw Boelij, Thin leafed Oxe eyeof Baibaty. 
Although Alpinm fuppofed 'hat ie had let forth the trueft Oxe eye of ‘Diofcorides , yctasyoumay fee both by 
the figure and de c'iption of this I here give. His is in fome things defective, and this in my opinion is the nee- 
refl: in all things thereunto, it rileth up with one flender ftalke, with divers long thinne leaves divcrfly parted, 
ermmiog merer unto Fci-nell then any before, bearing a large yellow flower atthetoppe, whereit brancheth 
forth, andbcarith leaves and flowers on them iikewife ; the roote lull of Brings, and periii.cch after feede 
time. 
The Place and Time . 
The Come Marigolds grow for the moft pare in the Cornc fields, and about the borders of them, or where 
Come Inch beere fowne formerly,either in our ownc land or in others,as by their titles are to be knowne. The 
Oxc eyes «:nerally gro w in the moifter grounds, bv wacerccurfes and the like, in other Countries, but in Gar¬ 
dens onely with us,where they are fowne,and carefully kept,and doeflower in the end ofSummer* 
The Names , 
XpjrK:'^f//o^in CjTtcVc^Chrjfayjthemum inLatine : ah aureo florucolorefie dittnm : there is much controver- 
fie amon" divers,concerning ^Diofcorides his Chryfantbemum y which he laith fome called alfo Bupbthalvium, be- 
caufe wliatfoever he had laid of (fhryfantbemtim y he laid the lame in the Chapter of Buphtbalmum, thereby fufpe- 
fting the Chapter of Cbryfambemum to be thruft into the worke of Diofcorides t by fome others, and they are the 
moreenduced hereunto.becaufe neither Plfaj i Galen i nor vSgineta, make any mention of Chrysanthemum, but of 
Bapbtbalmttm onely, as though they knew no other {bryfantbemum: but Mattbiolw evidently clecreth the mat¬ 
ter, fhc wing how Dio/coride 1 bv their feverall markes,doth diftmguifh them, laying Bupbtbalmum hath Fennell 
like leaves, which he faith in Cbryfanthemstm are onely cut or jagged : againe the ftalke of Chryfanthemum , arc 
eaten as other herbes, which he doth not fay of Bupbtbalmum ; and laftly,the flowers of Chryfantbemum he faith 
are much fhining, but he faith of Bttphthaltnum, that they are greater then of Camomill, belides the flowers of 
Bupbtbalmum made up with waxe.is a falve to dilfolve fwellings and knots,but of Chryfanthemum he faith, lim¬ 
ply it difeuftetbthat lmpofthume that hath like fat in ic. There is no lefle doubt about his Buphthalmum, what 
herbe knowne to us (hould be the right, fome raking the great white Daifie and Tucbfitu and Lonicertu, the May 
wcede to be tfye right .neither of which can be fo,in that they are not all yellow,as Dio(cor t dcs faith Bupfaltalmum 
flowers are AUtthiolm therefore hath let forth one, which is moft commonly received by moft to be the trueft, 
although both LibelfDodoneui and Ddecbampiw have fet forth othcrs,which they tookc to be righteft. The firft 
