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Wooddy Mullein or French Sage, hath diuers wooddy branches two or three foot high, very hoary or white, whereon at seuerall ioynts stand diuers thicke leaues, white also and hoary, long, somewhat broad, round pointed, and rough, somewhat resem∣bling the leaues of Sage in the forme and roughnesse, but not in the sent, whereof our
people gaue it the name of Sage, calling it French Sage (when as it is as great a stran∣ger in France as in England, yet they doe with this as with many other things, cal∣ling them French, which come from beyond the Seas; as for example, all or most of our bulbous flowers, they call French flowers, &c.) at the toppes of the stalkes and branches, at certaine distances, are placed round about them many gaping flowers, like vnto the flowers of Sage, but yellow: after which now and then come seede, somewhat bigger then the Moth Mulleins, and lesse then the next Mullein of Ethiopia: the roote is wooddy at the toppe, with diuers blackish strings growing from it, and en∣dureth as well aboue ground with his leaues, as vnder it with his rootes.