454 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



i. Thymum legitimum capitatum. The true Tyme. 



The true Tyme is a very tender plant, hauing hard and hoary brittle branches, 

 fpreading from a fmall wooddy ftemme, about a foote and a halfe high, whereon are 

 fet at feuerall ioynts, and by fpaces, many fmall, long, whitifh, or hoary greene leaues, 

 of a quicke fent and tafte : at the tops of the branches ftand fmall long whitifh greene 

 heads, fomewhat like vnto the heads of St&chas, made as it were of many leaues or 

 fcales, out of which flart forth fmall purplifh flowers (and in fome white, as Bellonius 

 faith) after which commeth fmall feede, that foone falleth out, and if it be not care- 

 fully gathered, is foone loft, which made (I thinke) Theophraftus to write, that this 

 Tyme was to be fowne of the flowers, as not hauing any other feede : the root is fmall 

 and wooddy. This holdeth not his leaues in Winter, no not about Seuill in Spaine, 

 where it groweth aboundantly, as Clufius recordeth, finding it there naked or fpoiled 

 of leaues. And will not abide our Winters, but perifheth wholly, roote and all. 



2. Serpillum hortenfe Jiue mains. Garden wilde Tyme. 



The wilde Tyme that is cherifhed in gardens groweth vpright, but yet is lowe, with 

 diuers (lender branches, and fmall round greene leaues, fomewhat like vnto fmall fine 

 Marierome, and fmelling fomewhat like vnto it : the flowers growe in roundels at the 

 toppes of the branches, of a purplim colour : And in another of this kinde they are 

 of a pure white colour. 



There is another alfo like hereunto, that fmelleth fomewhat like vnto Muske ; and 

 therefore called Muske Tyme, whofe greene leaues are not fo fmall as the former, 

 but larger and longer. 



3. Serpillum Citratum. Lemon Tyme. 



The wilde Tyme that fmelleth like vnto a Pomecitron or Lemon, hath many weake 

 branches trayling on the ground, like vnto the firft defcribed wilde Tyme, with fmall 

 darke greene leaues, thinly or fparfedly fet on them, and fmelling like vnto a Lemon, 

 with whitifh flowers at the toppes in roundels or fpikes. 



4. Serpillum aureum Jiue ixrfaolor. Guilded or embroidered Tyme. 



This kinde of wilde Tyme hath fmall hard branches lying or leaning to the ground, 

 with fmall party coloured leaues vpon them, diuided into ftripes or edges, of a gold 

 yellow colour, the reft of the leafe abiding greene, which for the variable mixture or 

 placing of the yellow, hath caufed it to be called embroidered or guilded Tyme. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth as is faid before, about Seuill in Spaine, in very great 

 aboundance as Clufius faith; and as Bellonius faith, very plentifully on the 

 mountaines through all Greece. The others growe fome in this Country, 

 and fome in others : but wee preferue them with all the care wee can in our 

 gardens, for the fweete and pleafant fents and varieties they yeeld. 



The Time. 

 The firft flowreth not vntill Auguft; the reft in lune and luly. 



The Names. 



Their names are feuerally fet downe in their titles, as is fufficient to 

 diftinguifh them ; and therefore I fhall not neede to trouble you any fur- 

 ther with them. 



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