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Show Tris ft Theatrum Botanicum. 9. 8. Polium angn/fifolium Creticum, Vpright narrow leafed Candy Polcy. TRispe L C Hartt. Cuarp, XI. Ditamnus, Dittany, & Pfendodittamnus, Baltard Dittanie. »p) Da a ¥ Havethought good in writing ofthe true Dittany,to make mentionof the Baftard kindes thereof, in the fame Chapter, both becaufe the face of them, that isthe forme and colour of the leaves are very like, and that other good Authors doe the like, reckoning them as kindes thereof, ; y SFWF 4 : 1. Dittamnu Creticusl 1. Dittamnus Creticus. Dittany ofCandy, t, Dittany of Candy, : Dittany of Candy hath divers hard-and brownifh , yer fomewhathoary ftalkes rifing from the roote, fer full of leaves, two {tanding together one againft another,all along the branches, which are broad and thick, and almoft round, fo hoary, white, and covered over with a woolly downe, that they have no fhewof greeneffe in them, as moft other hoary or woolly hearbes have, at the toppes ofthe branches come forth {caly heads,made as.it were of manythin leaves like unto fcales, purplifh on the outfide, and paleron the infide, from among which come forth gaping flowers, of a pale purplifh colour, and after them {mall brownifh feed : the rootconfifteth ofmany blackifh ftringsor fibres, froma harderlong root: the whole hearbis of'a quickorfiry {cent, efpecially if it be frefh, and likewife ofa hotter talte, being new,thenold,for it much decayethin keeping : this is very tender,and hardly tobe kept a winter in thefe colder Countries, fo that it feldome commeth to fhew any flower, but “uf 1 / ifyou doe tranfplant fome ofthe branches by flipping and fetting them in Anguft, they will bettet endure the following winter, with little coverture, and may happento give flowersthe yeare following. 2. Pfeudodittamnus, Baftard Dittany. Baftard Dittany rifethup much higher,than the former, the branches are a foote anda halfe long many times, as I / nm have obferved in mine owne Garden, whereon are fet fuch i feryations, for thefanfwer oneanother, {0 thatby the name of Lobel (where I name himalone uehaba all thiabpoke) I doe not drowne thename of Pena, nor the name of Lobel, when I name Pena alone: butfor brevi- ties fake namie one in {tead ofboth; It is the firft-afDedonens in his Hiftory or Pemptades in, Latine, which Iufe Onelyherealfo. ‘And thé third of Cle/xsin his Hiftory of more rare plants, which I chiefly meane, when I cite himheSaghalli worke, becaufe both his Spanifh and Pannonick obfervations are included therein; unleffe I recite his pattictlar obfervationseThefecondis the fecond kinde of Clufins,in his Spanifh obfervations, and the firft with Matthiolug, | The third is the firft with Clu/i#s, and thefecond with Dodonens called minus and medi terraneum of Lobel, xydvontaniimalbum of Baubinus in his Pinax, The fourth is the fift and fixt kindes with ( lufins,the ong-with a purple, the other with a white flower, and called of Label allo Venersm,of Bauhinus in his Pinax, Maritendp{upinimevenet nm, The fift is the eight fort with Clafixs,the fourth with Dodonans called repens; and{0 likewifeby yf avhinus and montanum (upinum minimum of Lobel. The fixtis the feventh with Clafins, and called Poliumrécentiorumfemina lavendulefolio ofLobel,and isthe fecond of Adatthiolas, and called Polium laven- dule folio of Bauhinus. Bauhiaus fir mentioned the feventh, and Pova in his Italian Baldws the eighth, and takethir tobe the fecond PolinmofDio/corides,the laft isnot mentioned by any Author before. Fabius \Colyin, 8 1 (newed youinthe firt Chapter, would faine make Polivmto be thetrue Hifepe of Diofconides, bur J knownot that any-doth confentuntothat opinion, for by the judgement of the beft, this hearbe is the true Poti~ umof all the ancients, as well in face as qualities, and therfore cannot be Hifope, befides, the tafte hereof is very loathfome to the ftomack, which Dio/corides alfo remembreth, but Hifopeas. he faith doth helpe to expeCtorate flegme,Sc. and no peCorall hearbe that I know doth trouble the ftomacksby the loathfomebitterneffe thereof, as this doth: The Wertues. ; ‘The decoétionof this hearhe drunke while itis warme, as D iofcorides faith, helpeth thofe that are) ftuns orbitten by venemous¢reatures, yea as he faith the fumigation or {moke thereof driveth themaway, and fo doth the hearbebeing flrowedor layd inChainbers : and although it trouble the ftomack, and caufe {ome paines inthe head; yetit helpeth the Taundife,and thofe thatare hydropick,or:are troubled with the difeafes ofthe {pleene,, it moveththe belly, and bringeth downethe feminine courfes, and doth confolidateor foder,.or ¢lozethe lips ofcuts or wounds, Galen thusfaith of Polivm, in his eighth Bookevoffimples. Itis bitter intafte, and {harpe or quick on the tongue alfo, and therefore it freeththe inward parts from all obftructions, and provoketh both, urine and the feminine courfes : being greene andapplyedto great cuts or wounds, it clofeth them, efpeciallythat greater kinde’; and being dry, ir healeth grievous fores or ulcers, and this the leffer kinde doth belt performe.., The. leffer Polivmwhich we we in Antidotes, or Counter-poyfons (as Mithridatum, Henice Treaklé, and fach like) isthe morefliarpe and bitter, and is accounted to be dryin the third-degree, and hotinthe.fecond, Gua P- 27 es African dwarfe Poley, Q en Ys The Theater ofPlantes. Poliuns montanum pumilum tenuifolium Africum: like hoary and round leaves, asthe true hath, bur neither fo Z Oa ie SG A aca N\ Qy By x YW i eS) (\ ug ca ed) OS ‘ z ja (( WZ RAN thick in handling, nor fo thick fet on the branches, but more {parfedly, yet two alwayes together one againft another : from the middle of thefe branches to the toppes of them, comeforth the flowers round aboutthe ftalkes at the joynts withleaves, which are gapinglike the former (andas Penny-royall, Mints, Calamint,and divers thelike hearbs have) ofa delayed purplifh colour,ftanding in hoary huskes, after which comethe féed,whichis greater and blacker than the Lis, I, oH iT ee YY 5 former,the root hereof is notfo black, but more hard and wooddy, fhooting downe deepeinto the ground, with divers {prayes {preading from it:this hearbe is fomewhat hot and fharpe,but not by halfe fo much as the former = this doth well endure with us in our Gardens, ifthe Winterbe nottoo violent fharpe andlong,or if there be fome care takenof it at fuch atime; it groweth very well alfo ofthe flips being putinto the ground about the middle ofApril, and a little defended from the heate ofthe Sunne,fora time after the fetting,and now and thenwatered in the meanetime. 3. Pfleudodiftamnus alter Theophrafti Pona, Another Baftard Dittany. This other baftard Dittany rifethup with many f{quare hoary ftalkes more thana footehigh,fet with two léaves at a joyntlike the other, but fomewhatlarger and longer, toward the toppes whereofwith the leaves comeforth hoaryhuskes, like unto thofe of Meliffz Moluccalevis, the great Affirian Balme, but fhallower, out of which ftarte gaping flowers mixed of white and red : the foore {preadeth many fibres: this fmelleth reafonable fweet, and abideth the Winter as the other,and isin like manner encreafed by flipping, As for that hearbe whichis called by many Diftarmnus albus,and Dittamnum album, and by Matthiolus, Bauhin#s and others, placed with thefe kindeso f Dittany together, although they doeall acknowledge thatit hathno face or refemblance unto them,andis called Fraxinella, which hath fomédiverfitie therein, as I fhall fhew you in another place. The Place, The Ie ofCreete or Candy hath beene thought by the elder Writers,to be the onely place inthe whole world, where the true Dittanydid grow, and that not generallythrough the wholeIle, but in one corner ofMount Ida, called Dittea, which fupplyed thenfes of all parts, as Theophrastus at large hath fet downe,in his ninth Booke, andfixteenth Chapter, the knowledge whereof wasutterly loft, and perithed with our fore-fathers, and but rithin a {mall {pace of time, or few yeeresfince revived and reftored to us againe : for CMonardus of Ferrara writeth,that in his time it was not knowne, ashe fetteth it downe in his ninth Booke and third Epiftle = his Vords are thefe, Dittammno nifi rurfius Venus ab Ida fylua deportet omnino deficimus: buat Clufius faith in his i h is joyned with his bookes of Exoticks) that it was fignified unto him , that he He ofSardinia having leiler and whiter leaves than that of Candy , and exceeding a D 2 With |
