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Show shhband ane a <r THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE s florealbo. ete . & L Obel#. : 3 Serpilluim maizs flore purpurco Clusy Ghee purple wilde'Time, #5 § 4. Serpilluimmain Great white wilde Time, ) i mp, x i ‘ 459 HISTORIE OF PLANTS. ; ve The defeription. 3 Thisgreat wilde Time creepeth notas the others do, but ftandeth vpright, and brin geth forth jieleflender branches full ofleaues like thofe of Rues yet narrower; longer,and harder. ‘The flowetsbeofa purplecolour, and of atwinging biting tafte: it groweth vpon rocks, and is hotter than any ofthe others , Thisothergreat one with white flowersdiffereth not from the precedent, hauing many knaps stheads,ofamilke white colour,whichfetteth foorth the difference. < Thiswilde Time creepeth vpon the ground, ferwith many leaues by couples like thofe ofMar. jerom,butleffer,ofthe fame {mell ; the flowers are ofa reddifh colour. The roote is verythreddie § Wilde Time of Candie is like vnto the other wilde Times, faving that his leaues are narrower andlonger. The fmell is more aromaticall than any of the others, whereinis the difference. Thereisakinde ofwilde Timd growing vpon the mountaines of Italie called Serpilluim Citratum, thatishauing the {mell ofa Pome Citron,or a Limon,which giuethit the difference from the other wilde Times. % Theplace. Thefirft groweth vponbarren hils,and vntoiled foiles,the fecond growethin gardens.The white inde] found at Southfeete in Kent, ina barrenfield belonging to one Mafter William Swat. %& The time. They flower from May to the end offommer. s The names. Wilde Timeis called in Latine Serpillum,2ferpendo,of creeping: in high and lowe Dutch Ques 5 Serpillumfoliis amarati. Time Maricrom. E girdles Cretan Wilde Time of Candie. delandwwifnen Chymus,and alfo Durfer 22outwen bewiiraa in Spanith Serpo/: in lealian Serpille: in French Prlloler :in Englith wilde Time,Poliall Mountaine,Pella mountaine, running Time,creeping Time Mother of Time,and our Ladies Bedftrawe. Yet there is anotherherbe hauing the fame ame,called alfo Gallium: itis doubles Serpillum veterum :of fome Apothecaries named Puleginm montium, notwithftanding it anfwereth not {fo well to the wilde Times, as to Dioftorides his aga :for ifit be diligently compared withthe defcription of Fime and Saxiffanga,it fhallbe d tobelittle like the wilde Times, but very muchlike to Saxiffanga, being none ofthe kindes peerions wilde Time, but Saxiffanga Diofcoridis: forfaithhe, Sas/fanga is anherbe Segon tocks where our common wilde Time is oftentimes found. Adlians inhis ninth booke ofhis fundrie hiftories, feemeth to number wilde Time among the f cts. Dionyius Junior faith he,comming into the citie Locrisin Italie,pofleffed moft ofthe hou*tthecitie, and did ftrewe them with rofes, wilde Time, and otherfuch kindes of flowers. Yet halo nthe fecond Eglog of his Bucolicks, doth moft manifeftly teftifie, that wilde Lime is an end not a fhrubbie plant,in thefe wordes, , Thestylis & rapidofe(is mefforibus eftu Alka,ferpillumqueherbas contundit olentes, Theftylis,to eafemen wearied with parching heate 5 Garlick,wild Time and. holfome herbes prouides to eate. which place it maybe gathered, thatcommonwilde Timeis the true and right Serpilim, or ewhich the Grecians callép7n@-- AZarcellusan olde ancient author among the French MMiitis called Gilarum,as Plinins Valerianus faithitis called ofthefame Laurio, Was. : % The temperature. okt Timeis of temperature hot and drie in thethird degree: it is of thinne and {ubtill partes, upg.and much biting. Itbtingeth dow we The vertues. poh wy ftige earn 2 vnethe defired ficknes, prouoketh vrine, applied in bathes and fomentations 1t A the ague, iteafeth the ftrangurie, itftaieth the aa, being boiled in wine, it helpeth reaketh the {tones inthe bladder, it helpeth the Lythargic,frenfic,andmadnes, and ftaiig of blood, ¢boiledin wine and drunke,is good againft the wambling and gripings of thebellic, B fe ; Shans inflammations of the liver, the bitings of any venemous beaft , either akenin drinke, or outwardly ap- C #gaint e AEtius |