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Show Theatrum Botanicum. Frese. 2— Culcxta. - © Fhe Theater ofPlantes. rome, laced Nettles, laced Brambles: but wee call thofe ftrings generally by the name of Dodder, efpecially that Dodder, which groweth on Flaxe and Tares, which are red and moft frequent with uss The Vertues. K AX X\ Ny Uh yy i A Iss ON i y IRA t fee Epithymum by Dioftorides,Paulss,tins, Atuarius, Me[ues, and all others, is ees the anh ponayee and powerfull Dodder growing uponany herbe, ( and that uponSavory or arene to en oem: "8 = melancholicke difeafes, and to purge blacke or burnt choller, whichis the caufe of many difea es of the hea La braines,as alfo for the trembling of the heart, faintings and {wounings: it is helpefull in all the difcafes or grie +e ofthe {pleene,and ofthat melancholy that rifeth fromthe windinesofthe pelae which oe art of = belly under the {hort ribbes wherethe {pleene lyeth,& byflying up to the braine caufetha a tenfy o ee nes: it purgeth alfo the reines and kidneys by Vrine; it profiteththem that have the Jaundife in eeeea he {truStions ofthe gall: Galen faith, it hath the properties ofTyme being hot anddry inthe third degree,8 as Ruellins boferveth ftom the Arabian authors,thatit hath by the aftriction or drying quality,a ftrengthning property befids the purging,as itis alfo found in Rwbarbe, and that it isa fafe medicine for the ob{tructionsas es - athe! as {pleene,purging the veines of flegmaticke & cholericke humours, & likewife as ( Ade/ues faith, it ois - . rens agues ifalittlewormefeedbeput to it, The Dodderofall otherplants & herbes inlike maner pertaket a on ture ofthem whereon they grow, be they hotor cold,and is thought to worke more effectually for tho 4 - es wheruntothe herbeit felfe is applyed: Label faith, thatin the welt parts ofthis kingdom where he ones ee aces 2A a ——~> no effectuall quality ore to Epithymum : for as Galen faith, Tares are hard ofdige ton and binde the be Yes and that the nourifhment of themengendereth thicke blood, apt toturne into melancholie, which gualities are cleane contraryto thofe ofEpithymum, Epithymbra, or ofother good herbes. A'S ESSE KE ZS IESZB > ex. 3) Ze SeLIL SS <I SR Gi LA FeFa Ga eX Ss upon Netles, the people had good experience, that it wasa foveraigne remedy to procure pay of See it was {toppedor hindred, & my felfe alfo have underftoodit from thofe parts; But that. Dodder w fa prawet oo Tares,being the moft frequent about London,and wherewithour markets are onely ina manner pete ane our Apothecaries fhoppes {tored from thence, takethhis propertie from the Tares whereon qerowes lb ae a . finer,as the propertyof the plants whéreon it gtowet h,and . the climate doth {uffer, (although Afatthiolus have thoughtit to growwithout roote) creepi and others, ng and {prea- ding onthat plant whereonit fafteneth, beeir highor low, clafpi ng the verygraffe ifit meete with none elfe. (altkhough Rwelliws faith it groweth not on thne ground hearbes ) as upon fome vinesalfo in Nerboneas , burofi Pen 4 faithhe obferved: thefe ftring hav e no leaves at all upon them, but winde and enterlace them({elves fo (as one would thinke ofthe Sun from it,and thicke oftentimes upon a {mall plant,tharit rake: th awayall comfort ready to choake orftran gleit; afterthefe ftrings are height, that they maydraw nourifhment fromth e plant, you fhall { carfe fee any appearance rifen up to that ground, they being broken off,cither by the offt ftrength oftheir rifing sor withered bythehe: ate oft tings fromthe they meete with no herbe or plant he Sunne, ( and if whereon to fpreade,they will foone perifh ofthemfelves, as I hav felfe,by fowing the feedes in avot by themfelve 8, & fo obferved their fpringing ) from wt nence divers etryed my gined, that it might grow as Moffe upontr have jmae€s,o r like Miflelto; but I think rather as infenfibly fromthe plants whercon it gtowe Ivie,b y drawing nourifhment ftrings of bothforts.& upon what plants tl1, & therebypartaketh of the nature ofthe fameplants : of which{tart forth whitith flowers, or her be foever they grow sare found clufters of {mall heads or asbiggeas Poppye feede : thus nuich which a fterwards give {mall pale coloured feede, fom ewhat flat and twic onT have had thereof : yet after his I tho ught good tolet all othe rsunderftand,by that experience and obferyat e imine owneobfervation,I read muchtoth of Audroface oy Cu/cuta is purpofe in Tragus,in } : by hich I havetruely related Savory,or any other herbe,doethisw ‘app earepl ain ely to any,chatneit} naturally their owne fede, either fhed or {eatte of their owne feede red ofthemfelves u pon the ground€ ftringes or laces sbut that they{ hearbs that are fowne. Th ,or com ming amongthe {eedes € plantes whereon thefe laces doe grow, and others that have obferv are obfery ed by divers,to be Vines,of other b ed them in France as Pena f ,and in fo;me places of Turkey,upo things : 7 heophraftus n trees and tho inthe 23. chap. of his fecond booke of the caufes of plan ts 5 doth fet rnes,and fome other gtoweth on trees and buthes in Syria,which Pliny downe, that Cadytas altereth to Caffit Word no donbt they meant this plant, for it differet hnot much fromas in the lat chap. of his 16, booke, by which aS Itis generally called, the Caffita » aS manyother s have it OF Cufcuta Arabian name tdeing Chaffnth and Cufeu mander, Hyfope, Mothe th : the hearbs are r of T:yme, NMarjerome Poli ™, Dittamus, Ger» Stabe, Walbhyort, Rofem andalfovery plentifil| ary, and othersas Bau: hinus hath recorded yin many places ofour owne land upon NI ettles,andup lini, and Angina lini, on Line or Fla xe,andcalled P upon teaft maketh it much worfe, Tares alfo more aboundantly in fo here itdeftroy the pulfe,oratt andis called of the Cou ntry peopl {troy it;upon Fearne alfo e Hel-weede, becauf they‘kseth and 10Wnot howto debeing white, and upon the other hearbes upon Hampftead heath,as lately found e Staflelikewife o n Black-heat myfelfe,the {tr ings & flower h in Kent, on the ver high,being red, y ground,not rifing an inchor two The fplace,: Tyme, and Nam a es are i{ifficientlyy as as thinke expr farathinke Itto be the xpreffe re yet in particu lar, Tragus and Azgui Andro face of Niof orides, ,0but ti cL tins, Atwarius and others d : ;for fo Epithymum n as Matthi olus {heweth out of , isthe threads or lace flower thereof: we doe s growing up on Tyme, generallycall thatit €p pit although Dio ides calleth it the bymsmthat crow thymbra,laced Savory,an ethon Tyme, in Englifh ] aced Tyme; d {0 of Epi as the EpiPY? nbe,E Pimajorana,E piu Pp rtic 4,€pirubusand fo the reft;| aced Steebe, laced Maryje- Crap. V Majorase vuloares exotice. i Ad Common, and Strange 5 Marjeroms. Herearedivers forts of {weete garden Marjetoms, fome growing onely in the fammer 3 ae atading the winter, and one that groweth wilde : there are fome other forts called Marum, that Ihave inti; tuled {trange Marjerom,all which fhall be com prehendedin this chapter, 1, Majorana vulgaris aftiva, ‘The ordinary garden fweete Marjerome: Our common fweete Marjerome, that is commonly 1, Majorana vidgatit, Syecete Marjerome? foweninour countrey, isa finall low herbe, little above a foote high,fall ofbranches,and {mall whitifh and foft roun- dith leaves onthem, fimelling very fweete: at the toppes ofthe branches, ftand divers {mal long and round fcaly heads or knots (andtherefore offomecalled Knotted Marjerom) ofa whitith greene colour, out of which come here and there {mall white flowers, and after them fall reddith feede : the roote is compofed of divers fmall threads or itrings which perifheth with the whole plant every Majorana tennifolia, Marjerome gentle. } This Marjeromelikewife hath divers final branches gtow- ing low,andnothigherthen the former, but having finer and {mallerleaves, hoaryandfoft, but much {weeter ; the heads are like unto the former, and fo are the fowers and feede, the whole plant being more tender then the former,abiding but a Summer inlike manner. ne seas 3- Majorana. odorata perennisc , Marjerom, PQ WS} DSN ppt. Winter fweete Lf VEE I SES ® Wee have alfo another fweete Marjerom that abideth greeneall the winter, ifit bee not twoviolent, gtowing in the fame manner that the firlt doth, whofe leaves are little fmaller and greener then it, but with the like heads and on =BK SWS WS x MENG aN, iL SS SiGe I NB knots: yet fome take thisto be but the ordinary Summer Marjerom, which by tranfplanting is made the moreftrong, andableto abide the winter, 4. Majorana latifolia five major Anglica, Winter or pot Marjerom, ‘ The Winteror pot Marjerom, is afmalllow bufhing be growing nor much higher,butfpreading the branches » Whereon doe grow broader and greener leaves, fet ples with fome {maller leaves likewife at the feverall llalong the branches ; at the roppes whereof gtowe mall purplifh white flowers, er eogectia a h turne into {mall & round feede bigger then {weet farjerome fecde ahs: ‘ y the whole plantis ofa {mall andfine fent, but muchinferiour to the otherbeing alfo pocine |