3. To these may be added divers others, as the Chrysanthema alpina of Clusius, and his Chrysanthemum creticum, and others. The first of these small mountain Marigolds of Clusius his description hath leaves like those of White Wormwood, but greener and thicker: the stalks grow some handful high, set with few and much divided leaves; and at the tops, as in an umbel, they carry some dozen flowers more or less, not much unlike in shape, colour, and smell, to those of the common Iacobea, or Ragwort. The root is somewhat thick, and puts forth many long white fibres. It flowers in July and August, and grows upon the Alps of Styria. Clusius calls it Chrysanthemum alpinum 1.

            4. The second of his description hath many leaves at the root, like to the leaves of the male Southernwood, but of a lighter and brighter green, and of no unpleasant smell, though the taste be bitterish and ungrateful: in the midst of the leaves grow up stalks four foot high, divided at their tops into sundry branches, which carry each of them two or three flowers bigger than, yet like those of the common Camomile, but without smell, and wholly yellow; the root is fibrous, blackish, and much spreading. It flowers in August, and grows in the like places as the former. Bauhin judges this to be the Achillea montana artemisia tenuifolia facie of the Adversaria and the Ageratum ferulaceum in the Historia Lugdunensis. But I cannot be of that opinion; yet I judge the Achillea montana, and Ageratum ferulaceum to be but of the same plant. But different from this, & that chiefly in that it hath many more, and those much less flowers than those of the plant here figured and described.

Fig. 1106. Candy Corn Marigold (5)

            5. Now should I have given you the history of the Chrysanthemum creticum of the same author, but that my friend Mr. Goodyer hath saved me the labour, by sending an exact description thereof, together with one or two others of this kind; which I think fit here to give you.

Chrysanthemum creticum primum clusii, pag. 334.

            The stalks are round, streaked, branched, hard, of a whitish green, with a very little pith within; near three foot high: the leaves grow out of order, divided into many parts, and those again snipped or divided, of the colour of the stalks: at the tops of the stalks and branches grow great flowers, bigger than any of the rest of the Corn-flowers, forth of scaly heads, consisting of twelve or more broad leaves apiece, notched at the top, of a shining golden colour at the first, which after turn to a pale, whitish, or very light yellow, and grow round about a large yellow ball, of smell somewhat sweet. The flowers past, there cometh abundance of seed closely compact or thrust together, and it is short, blunt at both ends, streaked, of a salve colour, somewhat flat, & of a reasonable bigness. The root is whitish, near a finger's bigness, short, with many threads hanging thereat, and perisheth when the seed is ripe; and at the spring groweth up again by the falling of the seed.

Chrysanthemum Bœticum Boelii, inscriptum.

            The stalks are round, streaked, reddish brown; divided into branches, containing a spongeous white pith within, a cubit high: the leaves grow out of order, without footstalks, about three inches long, and an inch broad, notched about the edges, not at all divided, of a dark green colour: the flowers grow at the tops of the stalks and branches, forth of great scaly heads, containing twenty leaves apiece or more, notched at the top, of a shining yellow colour, growing about a round yellow ball, of a reasonable good smell, very like those of the common Chrysanthemum segetum: the seed groweth like the other, and is very small, long, round, crooked and whitish: the root is small, whitish, thready, and perisheth also when the seed is ripe.

Chrysanthemum tenuifolium Bœticum Boelii

            The stalks are round, small, streaked, reddish, somewhat hairy, branched, a cubit high or higher: the leaves are small, much divided, jagged, and very like the leaves of Cotula fœtida: the flowers are yellow, shining like gold, composed of thirteen or fourteen leaves apiece, notched at the top, set about a yellow ball, also like the common Chrysanthemum segetum: the seed groweth amongst white flattish scales, which are closely compacted in a round head together, and are small, flat, greyish, and broad at the top: the root is small, whitish, with a few threads, and dieth when the seed is ripe. July 28, 1621. John Goodyer.

The Place.

            The first groweth among corn, and where corn hath been growing: it is found in some places with leaves more jagged, and in others less.

            The second is a stranger in England.

The Time.

            They flower in July and August.

The Names.

            These plants are called by one name in Greek, of the golden glittering colour, Chrysanthemon: in High Dutch, Sant Johans Blum: in Low Dutch, Uokelaer: in English, Corn Marigold, Yellow Corn-flower, and Golden Corn-flower.

            There be divers other flowers called Chrysanthemum also, as Batrachion, a kind of yellow Crowfoot, Heliochryson, but these golden flowers differ from them.

The Temperature.

            They are thought to be of a mean temperature between heat and moisture.

The Virtues.

            A. The stalks and leaves of Corn Marigold, as Dioscorides saith, are eaten as other pot-herbs are.

            B. The flowers mixed with wax, oil, rosin, and frankincense, and made up into a cerecloth, wasteth away cold and hard swellings.

            C. The herb itself drunk, after the coming forth of the bath, of them that have the yellow jaundice, doth in short time make them well coloured.