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Descript.'] Wild or Field Marjoram liafh a root which 

 crccpeth much under ground, whicli contiuueth a long 

 iiine, sending up sus>dry brownish, hard square stalks, 

 "with small dark green leaves, very like those of Sweet 

 Marjoram, but harder, and somewhat broader; at the 

 toj) of the stalks stand tufis of flowers, of a deep purplish 

 red colour. The seed is small and something blacker 

 than that of Sweet Marjoram. 



Place.'] It groweth plentifully in the borders of corn- 

 fields, and in some copses. 



Time."] \t flowereth towards the latter end of Summer, 

 Government and Virtues.'] This is under the domi- 

 nion of Mercury. It strengthctis the stomach and head 

 much, there being scarce a better remedy growiing for 

 such as are troubled with a sour humour in the stomach; 

 it restores the appetite being lost ; helps the cough and 

 consumption of the lungs; it cleanseth the body of 

 choler, expelleth poison, and remcdieth the infirmities of 

 ^he spleen ; helps the bitings of venomous beasts, and 

 helps such as have poisoned themselves by eating hem- 

 lock, henbane, or opium. It provoketh urine, and the 

 terms iu womeni helps the dropfy and the scurA'y, scabs, 

 itch, and jellow jaundice. The juice being dropped into 

 the cars, helps deafness, pain and noise in the ears. And 

 thus much for this herb, between Avhich and adders there 

 is a deadly antipathy. 



Sweet Marjoram. ^. in T. (h. d. 3.) 



Sweet Marjoram is so well known, being an inhabitant in 

 every garden, that it is needless to write any description 

 thereof, neither of the Winter Sweet Majoram, or Pot 

 Marjoram. 



Pluce.'\ They grow commonly in gardens ; some sort 

 there are that grow wild in the borders of corn-fields and 

 pastures, in sundry places of this land ; but it is not my 

 purpose to insist upon them ; the garden kinds being most 

 used and useful. 



Time.'] They flower in the end of Summer. 



Government and Virtues.] It is an herb of Mercury, 

 under Aries, and therefore is an excellent remedy for the 

 train, and other parts of the body and mind under the 



