The Names.
Camomill is called Anthemis, Leucanthemis, and Leucanthemum, of the whitenesse of the flowers; and Chamæmælum of the corrupted Italian name Camomilla. Some call the naked Camomill, Chrysanthemum odoratum. The double Camomill is called by some Chamæmælum Romanum flore multiplici.
The Vertues.
Camomill is put to diuers and sundry vses, both for pleasure and profit, both for inward and outward diseases, both for the sicke and the sound, in bathings to comfort and strengthen the sound, and to ease paines in the diseased, as also in many other formes applyed outwardly. The flowers boyled in Posset drinke prouoke sweat, and helpe to expell colds, aches, and other griefes. A Syrupe made of the iuice of the double Camomill, with the flowers and white wine, as Bauhinus saith, is vsed by some against the Iaundise and Dropsie, caused by the euill disposition of the splene.
| 1 | Parthenium flore pleno. Double Featherfew. |
| 2 | Chamæmælum nudum. Naked Camomill. |
| 3 | Chamæmælum flore pleno. Double Camomill. |
| 4 | Pyrethrum officinarum. Pelletory of Spaine. |
| 5 | Flos Adonis flore rubro & flore lutea. Adonis flower both red & yellow. |
| 6 | Helleborus niger ferulaceus siue Buphthalmum. The great Oxe eye or the great yellow Anemone. |
| 7 | Buphthalmum vulgare. The common yellow Oxe eye. |