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plilh color, fomewhac like the Red Archangel , or 
De,iJ Kettle , glowing in greenifh Husks , and en- 
compalkng the Stalk, as the others do-, the Seed al- 
io is black and round, four fee together, as in the 
other : This Plant ParkinJ'cn fiys he has found fome- 
times with white flowers. 
V. The third , or Hairy Marfa or Water. Hore- 
hound. It has fquare hoary Stalks, a little hairy and 
rough, on which grow Leaves by pairs or couples , as 
in the jointer, which are hairy, hard, and hoary, 
much more cut in on the edges than the firft at Sea:. 
3. above, cut in fo deep, as to reach iometimes even 
to the middle Rib, making them feem like the 
Leaves of the Great Mountain Scabious , the ends 
being pointed and (harp-, the flowers are fmall and 
vvhitifh , handing in rough green Husks, encompaf 
ling the Stalk about, which being palt away the Seed 
follows, which is blackifh and round at the bottom 
of the Husk. 
VI. The fourth , or Candy Black Horehound, has 
a fibrous or jlringy Root, which fends forth its fir fi 
Leaves fomewhat like to thoj'e of a Primrofe, being 
many, larger and longer than thofe of the While 
H rebound, dented about the edges, and lharp point- 
ed , as large as thofe of Bawm, and of fo black a 
color , as ic may lean to be lo colored or dyed by 
Art ^ irom among thefe Leaves fprings up a fquare 
Stalk, or Stalks, upon which, as it were at Joints, 
grow many fuch like Leaves together, but lefler, up 
to the- tops, Where the Flowers hand encompafling 
them, being in form like to thofe of Horehound, but 
blackifh alio, the Plant being wholly without fmell 
or talte. 
VII. The Places. They all grow in moift and 
wet Grounds, the two firft in feveral places of Eng- 
land, the lecond has been found in the way to Roche- 
Jlcr, about half a Mile from Gravcfend, the third 
grows in Aullria, the fourth in Candy, but the two 
ldit not with us, unlefs planted in Gardens. 
\ 111 . The Times. They all Flower in the Sum- 
mer Months, as in the latter end of June, in July, 
and Augufi, and give their Seed foon after. 
IX. The Vitalities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues of the three lalt are the fame with thofe of 
White Horehound in Chap. 974. aforegoing, and the 
fecond of thefe are laid to have the Virtues of the 
Black Horehounds in Chap. 375. Sett. 9. being ufed 
and applied in the fame manner. 
X. As to the Qualities and Virtues of the firft of 
thefe in this Chapter Authors have faid nothing, but 
this l have found by experience, that ic is an excel- 
lent Vulnerary , whether inwardly taken in Juice, 
Effence, DecoHion, Wine, or Tin&ure, or outward- 
ly applied in Oil, Balfam, Ointment, Cerate, or 
Cataplafm, be. 
England, we (hall only treat of the three following. 
viz. 1 . St achy s Gerardi , Dodonai , Lugdanenfis, Ta- 
bernamontam , Matthioli , St achy s minor Camerarij, 
St achy s Eloribus gratioris odoris Gefneri, St achy s 
Lychnitis , St achy s Spuria Elandronm Lobelij , St a - 
chys Jtalica minor Bauhini , Salvia Sylvefiris tertia 
Cafalpini, Wild Horehound, Bale Horehound, Leffer 
Horehound, and Italian Horehound. 2. Stachys Eucb- 
fij , Stachys Germanica Gefneri , Stachys Germanica 
major Camerarij, PJe udofi achy s Matthioli, & Lugdu- 
nenfis, Stachys minor Germanica Bauhini , Marrubi- 
um Montanum Album Thalij, Sideritis Heraclea Co- 
lumn. a, Fabij, Salvia Sylvefiris Cafalpini, Great Wild 
Horehound, or Great Bafe Horehound. 3. Stachys 
Palufiris Gefneri & Camerarij, Marrubium Aquati- 
cum acutum Gerardi , Betonica feetida Gefneri , in 
Collatione Stirpium, Sideritis prima gravis odoris Da- 
lechampij b Thalij , Clymcnum minus Lugdunenfis , 
Terziola Cafalpini, (becaufe it cures Tertian Agues) 
Lyfimachia Galericulata Adu/terina Befleri in his 
Hortus Eyfietenfis, Marfh Wild Horehound, or Bafe 
Horehound. 
CHAP. CCCLXXVII. 
Of HOREHOUND Wild, 
o r, 
STACHYS. 
i: T - - H E Names. It is called in Greek Era in 
I Latine alio Stachys, and in Eng/ijb Will 
Horehound, Bafe Horehound, and Stachys. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make about feven Kinds, 
but bv reafon the moll of them are- not to be had in 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Wild Hore- 
hound, which is thought to be the Stachys veia Di- 
ofcoridis, has a Root which is woody and durable, 
made of divers blackifh Strings, which ferifhes not 
after it has given Seed ; from this Root rife up feveral 
loft, woolly, green Leaves, lying upon the Ground, 
and abiding all the Winter, fomewhat broad and 
long, of about two Inches in breadth, and three in 
length, fmooth, and not dented at all, or very little 
about the edges ; from the middle of thefe Leaves 
arifes fometimes but one Stalk, and fometimes di- 
vers Stalks, bearing divers fuch like Leaves thereon, 
but leffer , and fet by pairs or couples one oppofite 
to another at the Joints, fomewhat hard, and a lit- 
tle longer and whiter than thofe of Common Hore- 
hound, (to which the whole Plant is very like) the 
Stalks alfo are high and jointed , and fet with foft 
hairs ; from the middle of the Stalks, and fo up- 
wards, come forth feveral Flowers, of a yellow co- 
lor, as Lobe l, Camerarius , and Gerard lay, but of 
a purplilh color as Parkinfon fays, (he having never 
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