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Show 44. Cuar. 17. Theatrum Botanicum. Tripet, The hearbeis often put into oyles or falves to heale greene wounds, anditis very probable the name of Baulme, was givento this hearbe, fromthe knowledge ofthe healing properties ofthe true andnaturall Bavlme. It is alfo an hearbe wherein Bees doe muchdelight, bothto have their Hives rubbed therewithto keepe them together,and drawothers, and for themto fuck and feed upon; and is a remedy againft the flinging of them, The Turkey Baulme is ofas good effect toall the purpofes aforefaid, as the ordinary. The Affirian Baulme is of excellent vertue to expell anypoifon or venome, as alfo againft the plagueorpeftilence ufed inwardly and outwardly, it killeth the wormes, and helpeth the jaundife, and the paines of the Mother, for it openeth obftructions, warmeth the cold parts, rarifyeth and clenfeth. Motherwortis held ofthe later Writers, to bee ofmuch ufe for the trembling of the heart,and in faintings and fwvounings,from, whence it tooke the name Cardiaca:the powderthereof to the quantity of a {poonefull drunke in wine, isa wonderfull helpeto women in their fore travels, as alfo for the fuffocationsor rifings ofthe Mother, and fronrthefe effectsit is likelyit tooke the name of Motherwort with us, tal(6 provokethurine, and procureththe feminine courfes, clenfeth the cheft ofcold flegme oppreffing it, and killeth the wormes ofthe belly. It is ofgood ufe to warmeand dry up the cold humours, to digeft anddifperfe themthatare fettled im the veines, joynts, and finewesofthe body, andtohelpe crampes and convulfions, &c. The ¥heater of Plants. Tripe.t. ; 3+ Marrubium Creticum, Sweet Candy Horchound, ‘Acifh and rugged on the upperfide: the flowers ftand waite the shee© of the branches, ofa pale purplifh cooo a9 lonr,in the like rough huskes, 6. Marrubium album Crifpum, (Marrubium, 16 Sh ( ae : UY Curld White Hore noun ‘i pi Cuirld Horehound hath hard round white woolly ftalkes; the leaves are {maller than thelaft, a little crumpled and sued aie edges, anda little dented alfo, of a grayith colour on bothfi ee butnot fo woolly asthelaft : the Aowers ftand in the sme manner asthe reft, in prickly huskes, but whiter than any of the former, 7. Marrubinm nigrum Hifpanicum, vel Ocimaftrum Valentiaum Clusi, eens Ho ee ae Mi? AE, re cwo other forts of hearbs, which although they b sipHons ,yet for their likeneffe are referred by others Cuar. XVII, Cuart} LEE therunto,as not knowing better unto what other Tribeor Pami- Horehound. RELI TY Orchound is divided into twoforts by Dio/cor ides, Theophraftus, and hound,which theycall Ballore, our ftinking black Horehound,and Pliny » thatis, into black Horeinto white, which is the ordinary Horehound thatis in ufe in our Apothecaries fhops, & withal l others : but there are fome other forts ® found out,whichdoe well agree withthemin the outwardface, and peradventure in the vertues al; . fo, whereofmeaneto entreateinthis place, referring fome of the other hearbs unto that C laffiis,thar is,proper for them,wheretheyfhall beremembred. ly they fhould be joyned. Thefirft of themrifeth up with fquare hairy ftalkes a foote high, the leaves grow by couples at the joynts, fomewhat long and roundpointed, thinner and fuller of veines than the wild blacke Horehound; like unto the middle kinde of Bafill faith Cis, but Lobe/{aith like unto black ee hound,but longer, and ofno fcentat all (faith C/fies, but Lobel faith ofthe {mell of Stachades or Caffidony.) The flowers grow at the toppes ofthe ftalkesin wharles or rondels, ofa white colour faith Clufixs,ftanding Danieparteoa - aoahea i 1. Marrubium album vulgare. Common Ho if f Lobel be the fame with this o i 5 aneeae oeatvdebe in regard both the fmell of the leaves, and the colont of the flowers, which 1. Marrubinmalbum valeare. Common Horehound. Common Horehound groweth up with{quare hoary ftalkes, halfe a yard or two foot high, fet at the joynts withtwo round crumpled, are two efpeciall parts ofthe plant, are fo differing one from another) the feed is black like the other, aud Bod ing inthe like prickly haskes ; the roote is fimall, and withlong ftrings like unto the wild Nettle, or the white Archangell. or as it were roughleaves, ofa fallen hoary greene colour, of a reafonable good {cent, but ofa very bitter tafte , the flowers are fall, white, and gaping, fet in rough huskes,round about the joynts withthe leaves, from hard prickly the ftalkes upwards, wherein afterwards is foundthe middle of {mall round dlackifh feed : the rootis blackifh,hard and wooddy, with many ftings thereat, which dyeth not,but abideth manyyeares, 2. Marrubium Hifpanicum Candidum White Spanifh Horehound, This Spanifh Horehound hath divers foure-{quare ftalkes,more white and hoary than the ordinary Horehound, whereon are fer the leaves by couples, which are fomewhat longer, thicker, whiter, & more woolly alfo thanit, & a little dented about the edges: the flowers growtowards the toppes of the ftalkes in the feverall joynts with the leaves, which are of a palerundles, at colourlike the common fort, ftanding in the like rough purplifh huskes: the feed is blacke like it alfo, and fo are the rootes: the whole plant is of a (tronger andbetter fcent than ours, Gerard hath fet forth this Horehound, and is the fecond withhim {criptian doth wholly anfwere to his fourth, which: but his deis the Hore. iscsidorspse atcmehak Spanith black Horehound, 8. Marrubium nigrum loogifolian , ecBlack French Horehound wich loneleaves, HV WY. Wy WZ A RH hound of C,andy, 3- Marrubium Creticum, Sweet Candy Horehound. Candy Horehound hath more crooked and flenderer ftalkes thanthe laft, being round and not {quare, whereon doe grow fometimes broader, and at other times and places, fmaller, longer and narrower Jeaves than it, for thefe are accounted but one Kinde,more dented about the edges, fet by couples, more white or hoary than the former Horehounds, as the ftalkes are alfo, whichbranch 4. Marrubium Creticum an uftifolinm good {mell. ‘ : 5. Marrubinm album villofumn, um. French Hor eh ound, m e >oe a foothigh, with his wooddy round,white, hoary ftalke 1Nisin aili8 ed ar che85 cdies s {preading et thick leaves in the fame mann is 1 er as the {mall er and rounder, a the edges, and fo white, fmooth and woolly underneath the {former, but but {mall , asno Cotton weedis more, but fome- what — SS ; inodorum Vnfavory Candy Horehound. This Candiot differeth from the lait onel yee in thefe particuare’ lars :: it hath fhorter,narrower, and rounder pointe leaves than the former, and is with d out any SS < Set forth into many flender branches, at fpaces like the former, but’ fmaller andfet in having fowers {maller and fhare per huskes, which are purplith alfo like jt ; the feed is like it alfo, much better than ours, and equall, if not beyond The i bufhethforth with many fibres: the {cent of thisis 8. Marrubium nigrum lngifolium,five Herba Venti Rondelety & Monfpelienfum. Blacke French Horehound, withlong leaves. This other plant that is referred by fome to the black Horehounds, hath manyfquare rough ftalkes, rifing . 11g a 45 |