The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 COrne Marigold or golden Corne floure hath a soft stalke, hollow, and of a greene co∣lour, wherupon do grow great leaues, much hackt and cut into diuers sections, and pla∣ced confusedly or out of order: vpon the top of the branches stand faire starlike floures, yellow in the middle, and such likewise is the pale or border of leaues that compasseth the soft bal in the middle, like that in the middle of Camomill floures, of a reasonable pleasant smel. The roots are full of strings.

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† 1.1 1 〈◊〉〈◊〉 segetum. Corne Marigold.

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2 Chrysanthemum Valentinum. Corne Marigold of Valentia.

2 The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 floure of Valentia hath a thicke fat stalk, rough, vneuen, and somewhat 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whereupon do grow long leaues, consisting of a long middle rib, with diuers little fetherlike leaues set thereon without order. The floures grow at the top of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, composed of a yellow thrum∣mie matter, such as in the middle of the Camomill floures, and is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 like the Corne Ma∣rygold last described, sauing it doth want that border or pale of little 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that do 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the ball or head: the root is thicke, tough, and disperseth it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 abroad.

‡ 3 To these may be added diuers other, as the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Alpina, of Clusius, & his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Creticum, & others. The first of these smal mountain Marigolds of Clusius 〈◊〉〈◊〉 description hath leaues like those of white Wormewood, but greener and thicker: the stalks grow some handfull 〈◊〉〈◊〉, set with few and much diuided leaues; and at the tops, as in an vmbell, they carry some do∣zen

floures more or lesse, not much vnlike in shape, colour, and smell, to those of the common Iaco∣baea, or Ragwoort. The root is somewhat thicke, and puts forth many long white fibres. It floures in Iuly and August, and growes vpon the Alpes of Stiria. Clusius calls it Chrysanthemum Alpi∣num. 1.

4 The second of his description hath many leaues at the root, like to the leaues of the male Sothernwood, but of a lighter and brighter greene, and of no vnpleasant smell, though the taste be bitterish and vngratefull: in the middest of the leaues grow vp stalkes some foot high, diuided at their tops into sundry branches, which carry each of them two or three floures bigger than, yet like those of the common Cammomill, but without smel, and wholly yellow: the root is fibrous, blac∣kish, and much spreading. It floures in August, and growes in the like places as the former. Bauhine iudges this to be the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 montana Artemissiae tenuifoliae facie of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉. and the Ageratum feru∣laceum in the Hist. Lugd. But I cannot be of that opinion; yet I iudge the Achillaea montana, and Age∣ratum ferulaceum to be but of the same plant. But different from this, & that chiefely in that it hath many more, and those much lesse floures than those of the plant here figured and described.

5 Now should I haue giuen you the historie of the Chrysanthemum Creticum of the same Au∣thour, but that my friend M^r. Goodyer hath saued me the labour, by sending an exact description thereof, together with one or two others of this kinde, which I thinke fit here to giue you.

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‡ 3 Chrysanthemum Alpinum 1. Clus. Small mountaine Marigold.

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‡ 4 Chrysanthemum Alpimum 2. Clus. The other Alpine Marigold.

Chrysanthemum Creticum primum Clusij, pag. 334.

The stalkes are round, straked, branched, hard, of a whitish greene, with a very little pith within; neere three foot high: the leaues grow out of order, diuided into many parts, and those again snipt or diuided, of the colour of the stalkes: at the tops of the stalkes and branches grow great floures, bigger than any of the rest of the Corne-floures, forth of scaly heads, consisting of twelue or more broad leaues apeece, notched at the top, of a shining golden colour at the first, which after turne to a pale, whitish, or very light yellow, and grow round about a large yellow ball, of smell somewhat sweet. The floures past, there commeth abundance of seed closely compact or thrust together, and it is short, blunt at both ends, straked, of a salue colour, somwhat flat, & of a reasonable bignes. The

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‡ 5 Chrysanthemum Creticum. Candy Corne Marigold.

root is whitish, neere a fingers bignesse, short, with many threds hanging thereat, and perish∣eth when the seede is ripe; and at the Spring groweth vp againe by the falling of the seed.

Chrysanthemum Baeticum Boelij, inscriptum.

The stalks are round, straked, reddish brown, diuided into branches, containing a spungious white pith within, a cubite high: the leaues grow out of order, without footstalkes, about three inches long, and an inch broad, notched about the edges, not at all diuided, of a darke greene colour: the floures grow at the tops of the stalkes and branches, forth of great scaly heads, containing twentie leaues a piece or more, notched at the top, of a shining yellow colour, growing about a round yellow ball, of a reasonable good smell, very like those of the common Chrysanthemum segetum: the seede groweth like the other, and is very small, long, round, crooked and whitish: the root is small, whitish, threddie, and perisheth also when the seed is ripe.

Chrysanthemum tenuifolium Baeticum Boelij.

The stalks are round, small, straked, reddish, somewhat hairie, branched, a cubit high, or higher: the leaues are small, much diuided, iag∣ged, and very like the leaues of Cotulafaetida: the floures are yellow, shining like gold, com∣posed of thirteene or fourteene leaues a piece, notched at the top, set about a yellow ball, also like the common Chrysanthemum segetum: the seed groweth amongst white flattish scales, which are closely compacted in a round head together, and are small, flat, grayish, and broad at the top: the root is small, whitish, with a few threds, and dyeth when the seed is ripe. Iuly 28. 1621. Iohn Goodyer. ‡

Notes

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  The figure that was in the first place was of the Chrysanthemum of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which is a stranger with 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of it are much like those of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the floure is somewhat like, but larger than that of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and wholly yellow.