¶ The Names.
The Africane or French Marigold is called in Dutch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉: in high Dutch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that is, the floure or Gil∣lofloure of India: in Latine, Cariophillus 〈◊〉〈◊〉; whereupon the French men call it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 d'Inde. Cordus calleth it Tanacetum 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of the likenesse the leaues haue with Tansie, and of Peru a Prouince of America, from whence hee thought, it may be, it was first brought into Europe. Gesner calleth it Caltha Aphricana, and saith that it is called in the Carthagenian tongue, Pedua: some would haue it to be Petilius flos Plinij, but not properly: for Petilius slos is an Autumne floure growing among 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and brambles. Andreas Lacuna calleth it Othonna, which is a certaine herbe of the Troglodyres, growing in that part of Arabia which lieth toward Aegypt, hauing leaues full of holes as though they were eaten with mothes. Galen in his first booke of the faculties of Simple medicines, maketh mention of an herbe called 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the juice whereof a certain Centurion did 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out of Bar∣barie all Aegypt ouer with so rancke a smell, and so lothsome, as Galen himselfe durst not so much as taste of it, but conjectured it to be deadly; yet that Centurion did vse it against the extreme paines of the joints, and it seemeth to the patients themselues, to be of a very cold temperature; but doubtlesse of a poisonsome quality, very neere to that of hemlockes.