Of Sneese woort.

| 1 Ptarmica. | 2 Ptarmica duplici flore. | | :--- | :--- | | Sneesewoort. | Double flowred Sneese woort. |

The description.

1 The small Sneese woort hath many rounde and brittle braunches, beset with long and narrowe leaues, hackt about the edges like a sawe; at the top of the stalkes do grow smal single flowers like the wilde fielde Daisie. The roote is tender and full of strings, creeping farre abroade in the earth, and in short time occupieth very much grounde: the whole plant is sharpe, biting the toong and mouth like Pellitorie of Spaine, for which cause some haue called it wilde Pellitorie. The smell of this plant procureth sneezing, whereof it tooke the name Sternumentoria, that is the herbe which doth procure Sneesing, or Neesewoort. 2 Double flowred Sneesewoort, or Ptarmica, is like vnto the former in leaues, stalks, and rootes, so that vnlesse you behold the flower, you can not discerne the one from the other, and it is exceeding white, and double like vnto double Fetherfew. This plant is of great beautie, and if it be cut downe in the time of his flowring, there will come within a moneth after a supplie or crop of flowers fairer then the first. 3 Ptarmica Austriaca. Sneesewoort of Austrich. 3 There is also another kind hereof, of exceeding great beautie, hauing long leaues somewhat narrow like those of the Oliue tree: the stalkes are of a cubite high, on the top whereof do grow very beautiful flowers of the bignesse of a small single Marigold, consisting of fifteene or sixteene large leaues, of a bright shining red colour tending to purple; set about a ball of thrummie substance such as is in the middle of the Daisie, in manner of a pale, which flowers stand in scalie knops like those of Knapweede, or Matfellon. The roote is straight, and thrusteth deepe into the ground.

The place.

The first kinde of Sneesewoort groweth wilde in drie and barren pastures in many places, and in the three great fieldes next adioining to a village neere London called Kentish towne, and in sundry fieldes in Kent about Southfleete. The second groweth in my garden, and in some others also.

The time.

They flower from May to the ende of September.

The names.

Sneesewoort is called of some Ptarmica, and Pyrethrum syluestre, and also Draco syluestris, or Tarcon syluestris, of most Sternumentoria, take from his effect, bicause it procureth sneesing; of Tragus Tanacetum acutum album: in English Pellitorie of Spaine, taking that name from his sharp and biting taste; but it is altogither vnlike in proportion to the true Pellitorie.

The temperature.

They are hot and drie in the thirde degree.

The vertues.

The iuice mixed with vineger and holden in the mouth easeth the paine of the toothach. The herbe chewed and holden in the mouth, bringeth mightily from the braine slimie fleagme like Pellitorie of Spaine, and therefore from time to time it hath beene taken for a wilde kinde thereof.