

Lib. i> 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



Winter 



~fo at the firft i'roft,as fweet Mar/erome dotn. 



. Engiirh wilde Marjerome is exceedingly well knowie to all, to haue long, ftiffe, and hard 

 ftalkesouvvocubitshigbjfetwithleauesIikethofeoffweetMarjerome, but broader and grearer 

 ofa rufletgreene colour,on the top of the branches ftand tufts of purple floures,compofed o many 



fraall ones 

 lading 



^ The Place. 



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and 



Tbelaft- 



England 



f 





They floureand flourifh in the Summer raoneths,afterward the feed is perfe#ed. 



^ The Names. 



Baftard Marjerome is called in Greeke, ; f «Wj and that which is furnamed Heracleoticitm, #*»•* 

 Nmi ofdiuers it is called Cunila:in fhops, Origanum Hijpanicum, Spanifti Organy : our Enghth 

 wilde Marjerome is called in GKeVcotDiofcoridestfaleti, and P//»y, otitis: of fome virnari?aimm 

 or Jj/«/» orfcaww* ; in Italian, o*g«w .• in Spanifh, Oregon i in French, CMariola m e t>aft*rd e • 

 in Engl i(h,Organe, baftard Marjerome : and that of ours, wilde Marierome. and nm. iu Jr ;„l 



rome. 



f 7** Temperature. 



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All the Organies do cut,attenuate,or make thin,dry,and heate, and that in the third degree , and 

 Cdtn teacheth,that wilde Marjerome is more forceable and of greater ftrength ; notwithftandins 

 Organy of Candy which is brought dry out of Spaine(wherof 1 haue a plant in my garden) is mor! 



bitin?rhananvnfrh(»r<»ft anrlnf<Tro-.f«»K-At.» r ' ° /«•«■»■« 



biting than any of the reft,and of greater heate. 



'""*■■ % The Venues, 



Organy giuen in wine is a remedy againft the bitings,and ftingings of venomous beafts,and cu- A 

 retn them that haue drunke opium, or the juyce of blacke Poppy, or hemlockes, efpecially if it be 

 giuen with wine and raifons of the funne. *"yintoe 



pedecodionofOrgany prouokethvriBe,bringeth downe the monethly courfe, and isgiuen R 

 with good fuccefle to thofe that haue the dropfie. 7 ' S B 



of the lings. 13517 Vfed ln 3 l0 ° Ch,Or 3 medicine to be Iickcd > a S ainft the °l d cough and the ftu ffing C 

 -SSS25fe taketh away the bad colour D 



Dtofcorides and P/**y 



\_. . — r- "'T«"«w auu r*/#y write. 



^ejuyce mixed with a little milke, being poured into the eares, mitigateth the paines F 



Tne fame mixed 



d "^evpin othenofthr ;u W 17 ,0rtbe ^otsofthe white Florentine floure-de- luce, and 

 *«h J^fi^S| Ulrlllj4w,rcth d0Wne water and fle § mc : the h «be ftrowed vpon the ground 



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lecoaionloofi 



•""'esofthe folepn/» „n^ j i " ' " ';T , uuxs '■> ana ar "nKe witn vinegre nelpetn the inhr- 



i$ I* into m ffi ^and r? nk f * *"* ^B" 1 * -8^^ a " mortall poy fonsfand for that caufe it 

 T^pE* te ! ndtr < ^prepared for that purpofe. 



^ m 'niftredvntofnth a t0 be tak f n in P otions ^nd therefore to good purpofe they may be vfed 



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^^Mfi^ reformer,, trMrporea . 



'£• 0/ (joates zfMarjerome, or Organj 



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He ftalfc 



% The Description 





1 onarefet lone uT VI & du y are »enaer,nara and wooddv,of a bl 



^ A fi»mrt «£& Th S f eater u tha ° th0fe of thc Wllde Ti ^e,fw J 



^ l thc 'op of the ft Ikes y teI5in.? reS ** ^^ § rOW ° uc of ^ «ov 



^iKes.tending to a purple colour. The root is fmall and 



ickilTi colour-where- 

 of fracll, rough, and 



crownes or wbzrlcs round 



K k k 2 " » Carolas 



