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Lib.*. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 677 



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hi f c > hos ot D 1 ofcorides -.now the vertues attributed by Diofcorides 



if nd of the chaprer,vnder the letter B . 



UCC This which c7*/7/# hath alfo fet forth by the hamtotctiifopodium, Or Acims Auftriacum ,&\fc. 



»th not much from the Jaft defcribed,for it hath tender fquare hard ftalks like thofe of the laft de- 



bed fet alfo with two leaucs at each joint,here and there a little fniptf which is omitted in the 

 SJeUbe floures grow onely at the tops of the ftalkes, and thefe pretty large and of a violet eo- 

 'our'vet they are fomtimes found white:) they hang commonly forward, and as it were with their 

 mJff parts turned downe. The feed vefTels arc like thofe of the firft defcribed.and con 



ofthem foure littleblack feeds:This floures in May,*" J •»- r -~ J •'- -••--•— * * 



ihebathcs of Badon,and in diucrs places of Auftria. 



ntaine each 



t 



6 tm alio hath giuen vs knowledge of another, that from a fibrous root fends vp many qua- 

 dtingular rough branches , of the height of the two former,fet alfo with two leaues at each joint, 





lialksofa dark red colour.and infhapelikc thofe of the mountain Calamint. It floures in the be- 

 ginning of Iuly,and growes vpon mount Baldus in 1 taly ; Porta fets it forth by the name of clinofo- 

 amAlfmrn. 



- To thefe I thinkc fit to adde another, whofe defcription was fent me by W. Goody er t and I 

 >jue(lion whether it may not be the plant which F abi us Columna Phytobafani,pag. 2 3 .fets for th by the 



imc oUcitics Diofcoridisfox he makes his to be endured odorefiagrantipmo : but to the purpofe. 



Minos odoratipmumi 



This hcrbehath foure,fiue,or more,foure fquare hard wooddy ftalks growing from one root, dL 

 uided into many branches, couered ty th a foft white hoarinefle, two or three foot long, or longer, 

 not graving vpright, but trailing vpon the ground } the leaues grow on little fhort footftalkes'by 

 couples of a light greenc colour,fomewhat like the leaues of Bafill , very like the Ieauesof /f<r/*w 



«%but fmaller,about three quarters of an inch broad,and not fully an inch long,fomwhat fharp 

 pointed, hghtly notched about the edges,aIfo couered witha light foft hoary hairineiTe,of a very 

 fireet fme|],littlc inferiour to garden Marjerome,of a hot biting taft:out of their bofomes grow tf. 

 iter fmaller Jeaucs,or elfe branches 5 the floures alfo grow forth of the bofomes of the leaues to- 

 ward the tops of the ftalkes and branches, not in whorleslike the faid Acinos\ but hauing one little 

 lhoit footftalke growing forth of the bofome of each leafe,on which is placed three, foure,or more 

 wnau flourcsjgapmg open, and diuided into foure vnequall parts at the top, like the floures of Ba- 

 w,ffld very neerof the likenes and bignes of the flours of garden Marjerome,but of a pale blewirti 

 colour tending towards a purple. The feed I neuer obferued by reafon it floured late. This plant I 

 mit Jound growing in the garden of WMl.rdden in Sheeteneer Petersfield in Hampfhire, Anno 

 mnr/ m j ng u Mar J«o«e,and which by chance they bought with the feeds therof. 1 1 is to be 



ordered whether the feeds of fweet Marjerome degenerate and fend forth this herbe 

 l tvaobtr i j62i.IoI>»Goodyer. $ 



or not, 



«U" The Place. 



%called s n P y a ° h ° ufe in Kent » two milcs f rom Dartford, called Saint Iones in a vil- 



*ot tOnTu *' ^ nd fW^* w,I/ «^^groweth in great plentie vpon Longfield downes in 

 ^oftheX ""eelaftofour Authors defcription is omitted,as you may find noted at the 

 wildc in f S- te 7 et ca . no i be P« fua ded that euer he found any of the foure he deicribed euet 



Autumne almoft by euery 



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Ttn Places in fanA. I r S l."^. de \ cn P tion g rowes ncere Dartford,and in many fuch dry bar- 



>»i lunary parts of this kingdome. $ 



Thefe herbes floure in Iune and My. 



Vofitable Bafil j0 r wild Bafill is called by iomTcllmpodium, ' 



Tq c feed of *U~c l . IT The Temperature, 



1 tllelc he *« are of complexion h6t and dry. 

 ) Vi « Bafill m„n a -u - % The Vtriues. 



^°ftendron^L" y f r ltnneire ' alt cata ™esand fl 



•opped 



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f The 



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