¶ The Names.
It is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: the Latines and Apothecaries keepe the same name Abrotanum: the Italians and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Spaniards call it Abrotano: and other Spaniards, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 lombriguera: in high Dutch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉: in low-Dutch, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the French, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Auroesme: the English men, Sothernwood: it hath diuers bastard names in Dioscorides; the greater kinde is Dioscorides his Faemina, or female Sothernwood; and Pliny his Montanum, or mountaine Sotherne∣wood: the mountaine Sothernwood we take for the female, and the champion for the male. There be notwithstanding some that take Lauander Cotton to be the female Sothernwood; grounding thereupon, because it bringeth forth yellow floures in the top of the sprigs like cluster buttons: but if they had more diligently pondered Dioscorides his words, they would not haue been of this opinion: the lesser Sothernwood is Mas, the male, and is also Plinies champion Sothernwood; in Latine, Campestre. The third, as we haue said, is likewise the female, and is commonly called sweet Sothernwood, because it is of a sweeter sent than the rest. Dioscorides seemeth to call this kind Si∣culum, Sicilian Sothernwood.