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Show Sa OFtheHlftorieof Plans Of the Hiftory of Planta, The ootis floures, andprickly rundles or feed-veffels fet abouttheftalks by certaine diftances, Sa : : : likewife threddy. dividing it felfe at the bottome Spanifh Horehoundhath a ftiffe hoarie and hairy ftalke, 3. eplaced into twowings OF morearmes,and likewife towardthe top into two others ; whereuponat likewilemore thereft,and anyof than round mote s, broadleaue faire {paces cettaine at by couples woolly and hairy.. The floures grow at the topo! the ftalkes, {pike fafhion, compofedof {mall ga. rs Wi Ide Hore-hound. Why the fauorof Steechados. ping floures ofa purple colour, The whole plant hath 4 Candy Horehound hatha thicke andhardroot, with many hairythreds faftnedthereunto, ahoarie from whichrife vp immediately rough {quareftalkes,fet confufedly with long leaues of in chaffie colour, ofa moftpleafant ftrong {mell, The floures grow toward the top ofthe ftalkes rundles,ofa whitith colour. @ The Place. of The firftof thefe Horchounds, being the commonkinde, growethplentifullyin all places It groweth imal England, neere vnto old walls, highwayes, and beatenpaths, in vntilled places. other countries likewife, whereit altereth according to the {cituation andnature of the countries, {weeter {inel, for commonly that which growesin Candyand in Hungary is much whiter,and ofa Notand the leaues oftentimes narrower and leffer than that which groweth in England and thefe therne Regions, - ‘ @ The Time. They floure in Tuly and Auguft, and thar in the fecondyeare after tlré fowing ofthem. : @ The Names. alfo Marre Horehound is called in Greeke ce¢ow : in Latine, Marrubium: in thops, Prafinm,and in Labconia, and Vlceraria: bium. Therebe cettaine baftard names found in Apuleius, as Melittena, Italian, Marrvbio: in Spanifh, Marrusio : in Dutch, MPalvones in French, Adarubin: in Engliih, Horehound. Clufiuscalls the third OcimaftrumValentinum : The Temperature. : the third,and ofa bitter Horehound (as Galen teacheth) is hot in the fecond degree, and dryin tafte, q The Vertues. A hy _ CommonHorehound boyledin water and drunke, openeth the liuer and fpleene, cleanfeth te : breftand lungs,and preuatles greatly againft an old cough,the paine of the fide,{pitting ofblou, the ptyficke, and vicerations ofthe lungs. The fame boyled inwine and drunke, bringeth downe the termes, expelleth the fecondine,after _ siig es : wr ~ abe n : = i birth, or eee alfo eafeth thofe that haue fore and hardlabour in childe-beating- Syrup made of the greenefreth leaues andfugar, is a moft fingular renfedie againft thecoug and wheefing ofthe lungs. ° The famefyrrap doth wonderfully and aboue credit eafe fuch as have lien longficke ot any D confuumption ofthe lungs, ashathbeene often proued by the learned Phyfitions of out London Coliedge. Iris likewifegood for themthat haye drunke poyfon, or that haue beene birrenof Serpe’ The leaves are applied with honey tocleanfe foule and filthy vicers. It ftayethand keepethbacs the pearle orwcb z K in the eyes. i f . ze ~ : i ngs. Theiuyce prefled forth ofthe leaues, and hardned in the Sun,is very goodfor the fame iced efpecially if it be mixed witha licrlewine and honey ; and dropped into the eyes, 1 helps tes andcleereth the 1 : : fight. : boo eth thet _ Being drawnevp into the nofthrils it cleanfeth the yellowneffe ofthe eyes, and ftayeth the ning andwatering of them. Prea aee neta Cuar. 231. Of wilde Horehound. | The Defcription. WV Horchoundis alfo like to common Horehound‘there rifeth from the _ of agreat number offtalkes high and ioynted, andout of euery joynt +OF leaues oppolite, or fet one againft another, fomewhathard alittle longer thanthof ©” oF I | rhe Horehound, and whiter, as alfo the flalkes are fet with fofthaites and ofa fivect Pe docompaffetheftalke about as thofe doe of common Horehound but they ap YO" om wharles be narrower : the rootis wooddy and durable. Befides ; +, 5 pecHor horny : at ftanicac + e Se Horehound: Portugall Wilde |