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Show : Cuar.i2. rs = . $$$ $y Theatrum Botanicum. Trise t SSSEEEEEEeeeeee 4. Pulegium was flove albo. White flowred Penny-royalk, a §« Pulegiam angu/tifoliam five Cerviaum, French or Harts Penny“toyall; TRIBE.1. The Theater of Plants. Cu AP13, with honeyand(altithelpeth tht toothach it helpeth the cold grietes of thejoynts, taking away the paines, and warming the cold parts, being falt boundto the placeafter a bathing, or having beene in a hor houfe, Pliny addeth hereunto that Mints and Penny-royall agree very well together in helping faintings or fWonings being put into vineger, andpit to the noftrils to be {melled unto, or a little thereof put into the mouth, Ir eafeth the headach,andthe paines of the breaft and belly, ftayeth the gnawing of the ftomack, and the inward painesof the bowels, being drunke in wine provoketh vrine,and womens courfes, and expelleth the after-birth and dead child: it helpeth thefalling-fickneffe being givenin wine: put alfo into un wholfome and pening ree men mutt drinke (as-at Sea in Ion: voyages jit maketh them the lefle hurtful ; it lefneth the fatne eof the y being given with wine,(but here Pliny is fappofed to have mif- interpreted the G reeke word,tranflating it Salftudines corporis for tii thought tobe ava? thar is anxietates, which Hippocrate s tn Aphorifi.5 6 lib.7. faith,is taken awayby drinkingitinan equal proportion of wine and water)it helpeth cr ampesor the convulfions of the finewes being applyed with honey, falt, and Vineger. Itis very effeAuall for the cough; boyledin milke, and drunke, and for the ulcers ordbresof the mouth. Thus faith Pliny, Galen saith that being fharpe and fomewhat bitter, it heateth much, and exfenuateth alfo, And in tharit heateth,much maybe knowne by this, thatie maketh the place-red where it is applyed, and raifeth blifters if it be {uffered to lie long uponit : And that it doth extenuate;- is {utficiently feene by this,that it dothcaufe thick and tough flegme to be avoyded forthof the lungs and cheft, and that with eafe: as alfo that it procureththe feminine courfes 3 Matthiolus faith (and {o doth Caftor Durantes alfo) that the’decoGtion thereof hath beene alfo found in fome places of our Land, and brought into Gardens . The fourth Pena, faith he found not onely upona plaine drunke helpeth the jaundife and dropfie, andall paines of the head and finewes that come OF acold caufe, and that it helpetlrto cleare and quicken the eye-fight, Je was uledas Durantes faith, in ftead of Diffamus Eretenfis (forit fhould feeme inhis time alfo the true Dittamus was not knowne, which was in Ano 4 585.) whofaith,that bruifed, and with vinegerapplyedto the noftrils of thofe that have the falling-fickneffe, or the lethargie, or put into the month, helpeththem much, and applyed with barly mealeit helpeth burnings by fire ; it bringeth the loofned matrix to its place,anddiffolveth the w indinefle and hardneffe thereof, eafeth all paines and inflamations of the eyes, and comforteth and quickneth the eye-fight being pat therein, as alfo Put intothe eares eafeth the paines ofthem, . Ay. 5 in Piemont,on the borders of the highwaybetweene Riolio and Tanrixnm ; but in divers other places alfo. Thefift groweth in abundance in the wet fields and-moorifh grounds about AZompelier, where they ufe almoft no otherfort, although they have them in plenty alfo. Thelaft erewin the Gardenof Padoa, but where’na- turally,we have not underftood, Cuar. XIE Mentha, Mintes; SAAN Here are manyforts ofMints,fome'chieQy nourifhed up in Gardens, ophers Stowing Wildeeiehér on tha 41259 mounraines (whichfortheir rarity and diverfitie are broughta lfo ings Gardels) or the wet and overLe flownemarifhes,or the Waterit felfe, The Time. They doeall flower inthe later end of the moncthofAuguft and fometimes later.Summer; about The Names, * Tt is called in Greek yafinay ed Batnoy « Bach balatu,quoniam dumfloret,a pecore e capris guftatum balatum Concitet, velut feribit Pena, Plinio & Dioftoride anthoribas, quodpulmonibus pituitam craffam farttamqne extundat, tharis, from bleating,becaufe it caufeth Sheepe and Goats to the effec ofcaufing thick flegme;to be expelled out bleat when theyare eating of it; but Pena faith,rather from s Whi : in Latine Pulegium and Pua Lejum allo, quodflos recentis herbe incenfus pulices necat odore; becaufe it killeth fleas being burned. The firttis well knowne every where’: but the fecond being not that whichis fet downe in thetitle, The third isknowne inother Countries, as I think@hathno other name then as I¢tle knowne out of our Country I thinke The fourthis the Puleginm mas Pliny, which as the former. he faith hath white flowers, as he calleth the ordinary femina. The fift is called by them of (Mompelier and by Gefner Pulegium Cervinum, and of Dodoneus Pulegium alterum folis oblongis, of Label Anguftifolinm five Cervinum Monfpelienfe, Baubinus calleth it Puleginum anguftifolium s the lat Baubinus onely maketh mention ofin his Pinax and Prodronus, The Arabians call it Anam Pulegio, the Spaniards Poleo, the French Pouliet, & Alnegan,the Italians the Germanes in Englifh Penny-royall,Pudding graffe,and Polioll-royall,and Poley and Hartz Poley, the Dutch Poley, and wee in the Welt parts,as about Exeter Organs, Diofcorides faith that Penny-royall rarifieth The Vertues. whereuntoit is applied and digefteth raw or or maketh thin thick flegme, it warmeth the coldneffe of any pare corrupt matter,being boyled & drunk,ir provoketh ly courfes, expelleth the dead child and after-birth, and ftayeth the difpofition to vomis,taken womens monthe ter and vineger mingled sit allayeth the in poffet,that is wadranke, it canferh flegme tobe avoyded gnawing of the ftomack; being mingled with Honey and Aloes and forth ofthe lungs, and helpeth crampes, narizsin his third Booke, and 31. (which place is obferved by Cora Embleme to be erroneous,for who ever ufed Aloes in any medicine that wasto aains it fhould be Written ula dad, 14, Hepaticis cummelle &fale bibendum and fo Pliny exprefleth ir in ih, 20. cap. datur, pulmonum vitia excreabilia expectorate flegme, bur in ftead ofxéld and good medicin facit, with honey and falt, ftoole : drunke with wineit helpeth itis a fafe bitten or {tung with fuch as are ith vi founding : being dryed and burntitftrengehneth it reviveth the eums:itis helpfull to thofe that thofe that are fainting or applyedofiit felfeto the place tntillit are troubled with the gowr, waxred: applyedin a‘cerot or a plaifter, the face it much profiteth thofe j that are ff i i eththofe that haveitches, if the places i a therein, ithelpet ig pucinto bathes for women tofit . that ifthe greene hearbe be bruifed isoutofits place. Some copies and Putinto doe. adde vineger, it clenfeth foule ulcers, and caufeth it taketh away the markes orbruifes the matter to digeft, lonringsofthe face bythe fire, yea ofblowes about the eyes, which wecall blacke and. blue eyes, and and the leprofie, being drunke and applyed outwardly : being boyled all difcoin wing with 1. Mentha Romana anguftifoliofive Cardi aca, Bare Mint, or Speare Mint, : : This Mint hath divers round ftalkes, and longe tower leaves fet thereon , than the next r and.nar= Mint > and groweth fomewhat lower and {maller, and of greene colour thanit; the fowers fland in {pike a darker d heads at the tops ofthe branches, being of a pale bluth colour, the {mellot {cent hereof is fomewhatneere unto Bafill creafeth by the root underground,asall the other , It ens doe, 2. Afentha (ruciata, Croffe Mint. The Croffe Mint hath his {quareftalkes fomewhat hoary , and the leaves thereon hairy alfo,rougher,broader ,and rounder thanthe former, which {tand onall fides thereof one againtt another,two at a joynt,fo that they reprefenta therebygiving it the name: the flowers ftand in fpiky croffe, heads, ofa purplith colour, fomewhat deepe r thanit. 3- Menthafufca five vulearis, Redo r Brow : ne Mints, This Minthath {quare brownith ftalkes, with fome longand round pointed leaves, nicked about the edges what , ofa darke greene, and fometimes reddith colou r, fet by couples at the joynts, and ofa reafonable good {cent : the flowers are reddi(h;{tanding by {paces about the tops ofthe the rootsrunnecreeping in the gtound asthe reft ftalkes ; doe, and will as hard ly be extirpedas thereft, 4. Mentha Crifpa. Crifpe or Curld Mint. The greateft difference in this kinde of Mint from the laft, confiftethfirft in the leaves, which are almoftas round as the laft, but more rough or crumpled, or asit were amrld in the flowers which are purplifh ftanding in rundj : then the toppes of ftalkes: and in the {mell hereof whices about h commeth neereft unto Balme. 5. Mentha Crifpa Danica aut Germanica fpecio fa, The 7 great Curld Mint of Germ This brave Mint creepeth with his any, rootes as the others doe, havin g divers high ftalkes tifing from them , which 3. Meatha Romana auguftifalio five Candia Hagt Mint, or Spcare Miat. ca: 31 |
