A name for Ground cypress (Santolina Chamæcyparissus); formerly confused with Artemisia Abrotanon or maritima.
1530. Palsgr., 237/2. Lavendre cotten, cipres.
1538. Turner, Libellus, Lavender cotton, Absinthium.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 66 b. Lavender cotten,… some call it … Santonia and female Sothernewood.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 349. Lauender cotton, or garden Cypers, drunke with wine, is good against all poyson & venom: it is the female kind of Sothernwood.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. i. 37. Lavender-Cotton,… Camomile, Lavender-tops … of each of these Herbs a small Handful.
1882. Garden, 17 June, 427/1. As edging plants … Lavender Cotton.
