292 The Tra£iical Kitchen Gardiner, 



SECT. VII. CHAP. LVI. 

 Of pot-herbs. 



Of thyme. 'TT^Hymc, the ferpillum of the Latin 

 \ botaiiifts, is and has long been 

 one of the principal pot herbs in ufe in 

 the kitchen, fo called from * ferpendoy 

 fignifying its repent or creeping quality, 

 becaufe if any part of the green herb 

 does but juft touch the ground, as it is 

 apt to do in its own nature^ it imme- 

 diately takes root. 



Our Herbals mention no lefs than 

 eight kinds of thyme, which I have fet 

 down in their refpedlive order, being all 

 of them of great ufe in the kitchen and 

 diftiilary, ferpillum vulgar ey G^r. 570. 

 or ferpillum vulgare minus^ Tark p. 8. 

 or, the wild or mother thyme 5 ferpillum 

 citratum, Ger. p,$7, or lemon thyme, 

 ferpillum mofchatum, Tark. p. 8. or broad 

 musk thyme , ferpillum vulgare flore albo^ 

 Ger. p, S70. or white flower'd thymes 

 ferpillum hirfutum latif Tark. p. S. or 



* A ferpendo di£l. quia aliqua ejus particula terram 

 tangente ab ea radices dimittantur. Cafa/. Hort. Botan, 

 Ox on. /. 169. 



broad 



