Of the Hiftorie of PI 



577 



'V 



They 



% The Time, 

 ^r The Names. 



name in Latine than Thmb 



The Interpreters would haue it czlkdSaturea, wherein they are repugnant to Columella a Latine' 

 Writer who doth mew a manifeft difference betweene Thymbra and Satttreia, in his tenth booke 

 -w he vvritetb, that Sauorie hath the tafte of Tyroe, and of Thymbra or the Winter Sauorie. ' 



tferens Thymbrxque fap 



t 



Notwithftanding this affertion oiColumetta^ Pliny lib. 9 jcap&. makes Saturei^OT Sauorie to 



Mml Mature? 



^8lWne?J inlowUlItcn,(,iLCUlcn;wn icniiameas " leemetn is drawne of out CumU ■ in Italian 

 Smtrtgtd : in Spanifli ^Axedrea and Sagortda : in French, Sarriette : in Englifh, Sauorie Winter 

 Sauorie,and Summer Sauorie. ' 



^ The Temperature and Vertues. 



Winter Sauorie is of temperature hot and dry in the third degree, it maketh tbinne cutteth it 

 elenfeth the pafTages : to be briefest is altogether of like vertue with Tyme. * ' 



Summer Sauorie is not full fohot as Winter Sauorie,and therefore faith Diofcorides more fit to B 

 be vfed in medicine : it maketh thin and doth maruellouay preuaile againft winde : therefore it is 

 - : ,th good fucceffe boyled and eatenwith beanes,peafon,and other windie oulfes.VM if it fv» »™r; 



winde 



proo 



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HAP. 



ij6. 



OfDodder. 



Ctjcnuftve Cajfittbc. 



Dodder. 



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+* 



c^ 



J- • "ft* 



** 



f The Defection. 



Ffcuta i or Dodder,is a ftrange herbe, alto* 

 gecher without Ieaues or root, like vnto 

 thred s very much fnarled or wrapped to- 

 gether, confufedly winding it felfe about bu- 



g 



i 



The threds are fomewhat redde : vpon which 

 grow here & there little round heads or knops 

 bringing forth at the firft ilender white flourts* 

 afterward a fmall feed. ' 



11 



fuch 



Winter 



of 



the herbe whereupon it doth grow,as that vpon 



/I 











»/ ftmtw : and lo of others, zsDodontut fetceth 

 forth at large ytthath he forgotten one among 

 the reft which groweth very plentifully in 

 Summerfetflwevpon nettles .-neither is itthe 

 leaf* among many,either in beautie or opera- 

 tion but comparable to rbe beft Mfitbyinm , 

 folIowingrhereforetheexampleofD/,L^- 

 I haue thought good to call it BfmrtiLot ra- 

 ther, &*«*, and fo of the reft according to the 

 nerbes whereon they grew. 





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IT The Names. 



Tnegreateft a called in (hops euery wfiere 



»/«*<: and of diuers becaufe irgrowcrn vpon 



Flaxe 



