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Show Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 688 Lissa Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lire 2 q@ The Place. Cuar.229. owy and grauelly fides thereof: itis found It delightethto growin mountaines,and inthe fhad countries: It is brought into gardens , where it in many places ofItaly and France,and in other e found thefe plants growing vp. hit felfe. Ihau profpereth maruellous well,and very eafily fowet efend vnto Canturbury, in moft places, on the chalkie grounds and highwayes leading from Grau wilde with ys in h to grow oralmofteuerywhere. ¢ I hauconely obferued the third and fourt t England. + q The Time. eth forth floutes and feed It flourifheth in Sommer, and almoft all the yeare thorow:it bring : from Iune to Autumne. q The Names. Elegans ant utilis Mentha,a gallant or Iris called in Greeke xaiquivas though you fhouldfay, : Apuleius alfo namethit.amifle, ements. intha Calam name the keepe es Latin : the Mint table profi ecariescall it Montana Calamin. ftram,and confoundeth the names one with another: the Apoth ent : in Englifh,Mountain anum ; in French, (ulam tha, Calamentum, and fometime Calamentum mont mint of Dzofcorides, and the true Nepets of Calamint. + The fourthis certainly the fecond Cala the Antients. ¢ @ The Temperature. nt tafte, and biting, hot.andofa thin This Calamint which growethin mountaines is of a ferue faith: itdigefteth oriwafteth away thin Galen e,as degre third the in fort a after dry and ance, {ubft humors, it cutteth, and maketh thicke humors thin. s. q The Vertue Of Bawme. a The Defiription. Piaftrum,or Meli{Ja,1s our common beft knowne Balme or Bawme,hauing many {quate falkes and blackith leaues like to Ballote, or blacke Hore-hound, but larger, of a pleafant {mell, drawing necrein fmell and fauour vnto a Citron : the floures are of a Carnation colour , the root of a wooddy fubftance. 2 The fecond kinde of Bawmewasbrought into my garden andothers, by his feed from the parts of Turky, wherefore we hauecalled it Furky Balme: it excelleththe reft of the kinds, if you refped thefiveet fauour and goodly beauty thereof, and deferuetha moreliuely defeription than myrude pen candeliuer. This rare plant hath fundry {mallweake andbrittle {quateftalkes and branches, mounting to the height of a cubit and fomewhat more, befet with leaues like to Ger- manderor Scordium, indented or toothedverybluntly about the edges,but fomewhat fharpe pointedatthetop. The flourés grow in {mall coronets, ofa purplifh blewcolour: the root is {mall f and threddy, and dieth at the firft apptoch of Winter,and muft be fowne anewin thebegi May, in goodand fertill ground, 1 Meliffa. Bawme. . 2 Meliffa Turcica. Turky Bawme, ith meade, or honied water, itdoth mantTherefore being inwardly takenby it felfe,andalfow humorsof the body ; it takethawaythe fluons thfuper confume feftly heate, prouoketh fweat, and A fhiuerings of Agues that come by fits. boyled, ifthe body be anointed and The famealfois performedbythefallet oyle inwhich it is well rubbed and chafed therewith. the monethly fickneffe,andexThe decodionthereof drunke prouoketh vrine, bringeth downe C . applied onely but being doth it alfo elleth the childe, which s and convulfions,and that _Ithelpeth thofe thatare bruifed, fuch as are troubled with crampe D ng ofthe lungs,faith 6« wheefi the haue (that vpright necks cannotbreathe vnleffe theyholdtheir the Felony, i len) and it isa remediefaith Drofcorides for acholericke paffion, otherwife called s of We —Itis good for themthat hauetheyellowjaundice, for that it remoueth the ftopping E bell, B and in Wine,it keepeth a man from uer and gall, and withall clenfeth : being taken afore-h arc bitten ofS poyfoned: being inwardly taken,or outwardly applied it cureth themthat and blew fpors thatco Y being burned or firewed itdriues ferpents away: it takes away black fuch things (faith Galen)itis betblowes ordry beatings,making the skin faire andwhite; but for FE G H_ ae terto be laid to greenethandry. honey : theiuye ry It killetha!] manner ofwormesof thebelly, if it be drunk withfalt and the : ped into the eares dothin like manner kill the wormes thereof. hthe bleeding ait Pliny faith, that ifthe iuyce be conucyedvp into the nofthrils it ftanchet nothing) helpeth the Squincrs nofe, and the root (which Dioftorides writeth tobe goodfor nd Myrtle feed withall. a be gargarifed, or the throat wafhed therewith, being vfed in Cute,a Itisapplied tothofe that haue the Sciatica or ache in the huckle bone, for it drawes the faith thewhole ioynt: Paulus Aina” from the very bottome,and bringeth a comfortable heatto ; kewhay al that for the paine of the haunches or hucklebones it is to be vfed in Clyfters. Being much eaten it is good forthemthat hauethe leprofie, fothat the patient drin ge ter it, as Diofcorides witneffeth. e remedy a Apuleius affirmeth,that ifthe leaues be often eaten, they are a {ure and certa in G0 che ; the leprofie. booke a ‘ioeh , There is made ofthis an Antidote or compofition, which Galen in his fourth uernmentof health deferibes by the nameof Diacalaminthos, that doth not onely notablyOi that want theit coun ery seer? wafte away crudities, but alfo is maruellous goodfor young maidens their bodies befirft well purged ; for in continuanceof timeit bringeth them downe § ax beforerhe Fall Ret PA Oa {°° floures are commonly yet fOmetimes u oS en erand otherwhiles narrower :alfo the hiles r are otherwhiles of diuiers colours: the leaues ate alfo fometimes biades that of Lobel, that yonmay fee eon rerefore Thaue giuen youone of the figures of Clufius, and it to C HAT ? andthe later »447”” felhigaai Mel ch-angell :andthe formercalls it Lamsium Pawnonicum without force. ae + Th Mint. fetteth forth a kinde of Bawme hauing a fquare ftalke, with leaues like vnto com- ‘Rote ete and blacker, and ofan euill fauour; the floures white » and muchgreater varies with ae fosskea te ei root hard, and ofawooddy fubftance. + This purple, Tauerwo, ure which formerly wasin the fecondplace belonged to the fourth defeription 5 and the figure that Ibelonged the reno ‘ the rit place of the eit chaprer aver" ood-Sage, As allothat which thould haue bene putin the fourth place was put in cacy poe oe after him Bauhine, referre iti. vs Aic ae expreffions of this plant. Clufius, and Hiffe folio. + Tetrahit,that 4 Theteisa kindeof Bawmecalled Herba Indaica,which Lobel calles Mmm hathmany weake |
