¶ The Names.
Lysimachia, as Dioscorides and Pliny write tooke his name of a speciall vertue that it hath in ap∣peasing the strife and vnrulinesse which falleth out among oxen at the plough, if it bee put about their yokes: but it rather retaineth and keepeth the name Lysimachia, of King Lysimachus the sonne of Agathocles, the first finder out of the nature and vertues of this herb, as Pliny saith in his 25. book chap. 7. which retaineth the name of him vnto this day, and was made famous by Erasistratus. Ru∣ellius writeth, that it is called in French Cornelle and Corneola: in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: of the Latines, Ly∣simachium: of Pliny, Lysimachia: of the later Writers, Salicaria: in high Dutch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉: in En∣glish, Willow herbe, or herbe Willow, and Loose strife.
Chamaenerium is called of Gesner, Epilobton: in English, Bay Willow, or bay yellow herbe.