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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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J 5 Siderttit Scerditides. 



Germander Ironworc, 





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~^w„„ Alpnn II jffopi folia. 



Hy flop .leaned Iron-wort. 



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fenbed by Fuchfus , the ftalkes hereof 1 

 riucke,foure fquar C> novv and then two or 

 three foot long : the Ieaues be broad, W 

 hoarie,nicked in the edges, hairie as area?' 

 to the ftalkes,and much broader than thofe' 

 of the common Horehound : the floures 

 the whorles which compafTe the ft a ] k e a 

 bout, are of a purple colour 5 the fade i< 

 round and blackilh : the root hard and fom 

 thing yellow. 



.J J This thorny Stacbjs hath Ieaues 

 before it comes to fend forth the (hike li 

 thofe of the lefTer Sage,but more whirJand 

 name, thofe that grow vpon the ftalkes afc 

 much narrower : the ftalkes are fquare feme 

 foot high : and at the parting of them into 

 branches grow alwaics two Ieaues one op- 

 pofit againit another i the tops of the bran- 

 ches end in long fharpe thornie prickles : 

 the floures grow about the tops of the bran 

 ches like thofe of Sage, but of fomewhat a 

 lighter colour. This growes naturally in 

 Candy,abouta Towne called Larda, where 

 Homrim Bellas firft obferucd it : there it i» 

 called Guidarothymofii AflesTim^though 

 it agree with Tyme in nothing but the 

 place of growth. Cluftm fets it forth by the 

 name oistachysjpinofa. 



4 Lobel hath giuen vs the figure and 

 firft defcription of this by the name oft. ~ 

 chys Luptanica. It hath creeping and downv 

 ftalkes fome handfull and halfe high, fa 

 with little Ieaues: a mongft which in run- 

 dies grow fmal I floures like thofe of the 

 other wilde Horchounds ; the whole plane 

 is of fomewhat a gratefull fmell. J 



There is another wilde HorehourJ 



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ftue Scordijfi 



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Horehound whicai* 

 like vnto Scordium ', or water Germander, 

 which groweth to the height of a handfull 

 and a halfe, with many fmall branches ri- 

 fing vpright, of a wooddy fubftancc , ba- 

 iling the tops and fpokie coronets oi Hyl- 

 fop 3 but the Ieaues doe referable Diofcwk* 

 his Scordium y faue that they be fomewkj 

 teller, ftiffer,rnore wrinkled and curled and 

 hairic,than T€trahit 3) ox the Iudaicall herbe : 

 the floures do refemble thofe of the com- 

 mon Sauorie,inrafte bitter, and of anaro- 

 maticall fmell. 



maucauimen. , 



Mountaine Sideritis being alfo of the kindesof Horehound, was firft found by nltr*** 



DoHrazjn the mountains 

 narrower, and like 



itains of Sauoy,refembIing very well the laft defcribed,but the Ieaues are much 

 . ... tnofe of Hyflbpe: the floures grow in fmall rough rundles or tufts, pale ot co- 



lour like MArrukum or Tttrtbit 5 the root long and bending, of a wooddy fubftancc, and purpleco- 

 Iour,bttrer in tafte,but not vnpleafant,whofe vertue is yet vnknowne. 



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? My kinde friend M r Buckntr an Apothecary of London 



