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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 2 $5 Sideritis Scordivides. Germander Ironwoort, Lissa] Befides this there is alfoanother de. {eribed by Fuchfins : the ftalkes hereof are thicke, foure {quare,nowand thentwo or three foot long : the leauesbe broad, long, hoarie,nickedin the edges,hairie asare alfo the ttalks, and much broaderthan thole of the common Horchound: thie foutes in the whorles which compaffe theftalke a- bout, are ofa purple colour the feedeis round andbl@ckith: the root hard & fomthing yellow. ¢ 3 This thorny Stachys hath leaues before it comes to fend forththe ftalk like thofe of the leffer Sage,but more white & hairie,thofe that growvponthe ftalkesate muchnarrower : the ftalks are fquare fone foot high: and at the parting oftheminto ‘ $ 6 Sideritis Alpina Hy(fopifolia, Hy flop-leaued Iron-wort. branches growalwaies two leaues oncop polit again{t another: the tops oftheb ches end in long tharpe thornie prickles: the floures grow about the toppesot the branches like thofe of Sage, but offomewhata lighter colour. This grows patutal- ly in Candy, about a Townecalled Latta, where Honorius Bellusfirftobferuedit,there it is called Guidarothymo,or Affes Tyme, though iragree with Tyme innothing but the placeof growth. Clufius fets it forth by the name ofStachys(pirofa. 4 Lobel hath given vs the figure and firft defcription of this bythename ot" chys Lufitanica. It hath creeping ane nie ftalkes fome handfull and hall fet withlittle leaves : among! 0! rundles grow{imal floures|like th other wilde Horehounds, thewhe 5 of Mountpelier,called 54 Scordividesfine Scordy folio: of Siderits or wilde Horehoun¢ like vnto Scordium, ox water Ge which groweth torhe height ot banda” anda halfe, with many! fing vprighr, ofawooddie fub ft + uing the tops and fpokie coroncts? fop, but the leanes dorefemble DM” his Scordium, {auc that they be ten leffer, tiffer,more wrinckled hs 6 hairie,than Terrabit,orche Tudaica the floures dor femble thofeof i ; mon Sauorie, intafte bitter,and of 28 matical] fmell. Sf Mountaine sideritis beein galfo of the kindes of Horchound, was firft foundby Pa" Donraz,in the mountains of Sauo y,tefembling very wel the laft defcribed, but theleaues ar Narrower, and like thofe of H yflope : the floures growin {mall rough rundlets or tures, | lourlike Marrubinm or Tetr ahit ; theroot long and bending,ofa wooddie fubftance,an lour,bitter in tafte,but not v npleafant,whofe vertue is yet ynknowne. The Place. Thefe herbesare forreiners,they ey growin rough andbarren places,notwith ftanding ~ Stowing in my garden. $ My Kinde friend M®. Buckner an Apothecaryof London the! Tt13. 2, a OFthe Hiftoryof Plates being 1632, found 697 ioyning to Wits the fecondof thefe growing wilde in Oxfordfhire in the field + ney Parkea mile from the Towne. q| The Time; root rethaineth alittle a cet. They floure in the Sommer moneths,and wither towards winter:the ine time. «| The Names. fi a ater is taken for the right Stachys,whichis called in Greeke set: it isknowne in fhoppes 1 Horehoond. ¢ Lobel calls it Dae swe nameit inEnglith yellow Horchound,and wilde i am 5 : Flandrorum. +it hath noname,is hus Lychnites ee pt(huria Horchound,feeing to be called Stachys(putia : for it is not the us hath made mention : it right,neither is it Sphucels(as moft haue fufpeéted) of which Theophraft Horehound. isealledin Englifh purple Horchound,baftard wild Horehound, & Fuchfins his wild + Fabius Columne proues the fecond tobe the Sideritis Heracliaof Diofcorides andthe Antients. $ bs ’ @] The Temperature. to Galen, Thefe herbes are of abiting andbittertafte, and are hor in the third degree according ¢ $ TheStachys Fuch{ij and Sideritides feem to be horanddrie in the firf degree. t The Vertues. as Diofiori- 4 The decoftion ofthe leaues drunk doth draw downe the menfes and the fecondine, ; T L A B des teacheth: infrom wounds keep to kindeare) this of herbes the of moft (as t 2) This is of fingularvfe flammation,and {peedily to heale them vp, asalfo to ftayall fluxes and defluGions,hauing a dry~ ing and moderate aftrictiue facultie. Fe Te 5 “Ath and eAigineta commendthevie ofit in medicinesvfed inthe cure of the bitingofamad ¢ Dog. 5 +¢ +Cuar. 232, OftheFronwoorts orelheales. t 1 Sideritis valearis, Ironwoort,or A lheale, $ 2 Sideritis Anguftifolia. Narrow leaued Alheale: |