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they are eaten ; as alfo mingled with other proper medicines, and applied as a plaif- 
ter to the ftomach. Being adminiftered inwardly or applied outwardly with medi- 
cines convenient, they ftrengthen the weaknefs of the liver and fpleen. The leaves 
and branches are good to heal green wounds, and refrefh and cool hot inflammations. 
There is a direction in the plaifter diacalcitheos, that ic be ftirred with a ftick of the 
palm tree, that it might be of the more virtue and efficacy, from whence alfo the 
fame plaifter ts called Hapalma. 
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WVI7 DICTAMNUM of CANDY. 
Kinpsand Names. IT is obferved by Diofcorides, that there are three kinds 
hereof ; the firft whereof is the right diftamnum, the fecond ts the baftard dittam- 
num, and the third is another kind, bearing both flowers and feed ; it is called alfo 
dittany of Crete, and in the thops diptamum. 
Description. The firft kind which is the right dictamnum, is a hot and fharp 
plant, much refembling penny-royal, except that this hath larger leaves, fomewhat 
hoary or moffy, with a certain fine down, or woolly white cotton ;* at the top of the 
ftalks or branches grow certain fmall fpiky tufts, hanging by fmall flems, greater 
and thicker than the ears or fpiky tufts of wild marjoram, and are fomewhat of a 
_ ted colour, in which there grow {mall flowers. 
The fecond kind, called baftard dictamnum, is very much like the firft, except in 
‘tafte, it does not bite or hurt the tongue, as does the former, neither is it fo hot. It 
hath round, foft, woolly ftalks, with knots and joints, at each of which joints there 
ftand two leaves, fomewhat round, foft, and woolly, not much unlike the leaves of 
Penny-royal, but that they are larger, all hoary and white, foft and woolly, without 
any fmell, but bitter in tafte; the fowers are of a light blue, compaffing the ftalk, 
Atcertain {paces like garlands, and like the flowers of penny-royal. and hoarhound ; 
the root is of a woody fubftance. | 
The third kind is like the fecond in figure, faving that its leave$ are greener and 
more hoary ; covered with a fine, white, foft hair, almoft like the leaves of water- 
mint, the whole plant hath a good and pleafant fmell, as it were exe the fcent of 
Water-mint and fage, as faith Diofcorides. 
Prace. The firtt kind, or the right di€@amnum, cometh from Crete, now called 
_ Candia, an ifland in the Mediterranean fea, formerly belonging to the Venetians, but 
ROW in poffeffion of the Turks. ee 
The other two kinds are not confined to Candia only, but grow alfo in. many other eo 
hot countries, | 
Goverxment and em The right di@amnum is hot and dry, and of. oA 
Parts ; the other two kinds are alfo hot and dry, but not quite fo hot as the fi firft 
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