¶ The Names.
They are called of the learned men of our time, Verbasca Syluestria: the first is called of the Gre∣cians 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Elychnium, or after others, Elychinium, because of the Cottonie sub∣stance thereof, matches, or weeks were made to keep light in lamps: Verbascum Lychnitis, as Diosco∣rides himselfe testifieth, is named also Thryallis or Rose Campion; but the floure of Thryallis is red of colour, as Nicander in his Counterpoisons doth shew, but the floures of these are yellow: there∣fore they are neither Thryallis nor Lychnitis, but Syluestre Verbascum, or wilde Mullein, as we haue al∣ready taught in the Chapter of Rose Campion, that Thryallis is Lychnitis satiua, or Rose Campi∣on. There is nothing to the contrary, but that there may be many plants with soft downie leaues fit to make Candle weeke of: in English it is generally called French Sage: wee may call it Sage Mulleine.