¶ The Description.
LAuander Cotton bringeth forth clustred buttons of a golden colour, and of a sweet smell, and is often vsed in garlands, and decking vp of gardens and houses. It hath a wooddy stocke, out of which grow forth branches like little boughes, slender, very ma∣ny, a cubit long, set about with little leaues, long, narrow, purled, or crumpled; on the tops of the branches stand vp floures, one alone on euery branch, made vp with short threds thrust close together, like to the floures of Tansie, and to the middle buttons of the floures of Cammomill, but yet something broader, of colour yellow, which be changed into seed of an obseure colour. The root is of a wooddy substance. The shrub it selfe is white both in branches and leaues, and hath a strong sweet smell.
‡ There are some varieties of this plant, which Matthiolus, Lobel, and others refer to Ab∣rotanum foemina, and so call it; and by the same name our Authour gaue the figure thereof in the last chapter saue one, though the descrip∣tion did not belong thereto, as I haue former∣ly noted. Another sort thereof our Authour, following Tabernamontanus and Lobel, set forth a little before by the name of Absinthium 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Abrotani foeminae facie, that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 calls Santolina prima; and this here figured, Santolina altera. He also mentioneth three other diffe∣rences thereof, which chiefely consist in the leaues; for his third hath very short and small leaues like those of Heath; whence Bauhine calls it Abrotanum foemina folijs Erica. The fourth hath the leaues lesse toothed, and more like to Cypresse,