III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Vulgar or 
Common Ironwort. It ha* a Root which is white 
VI. The third , or Creeping Branched Ironwort, 
called alfo Jews Ironwort. It has a Root which is 
and i vo'ody, continuing dll Winter , and Jhooting forth j mall and woody , yet living all Winter , and Jhooting 
C’ . / 1 . .. ' .. — ,-,^1 U i rrlin. r . 7 . if- 1C O In'! 'ill 1/M.r 
fffal 5 V<///cj Tdar •, it grows greater and higher 
than rhe other ' Ironwort s , as Clufius lays, with lar- 
ger hairy rough pointed Leaves fet by couples one 
again!! another at the joints of the fquare hairy 
Stalks, dented about the edges, but fet at fomewhat 
farther diftances, which branching themfelves forth 
are fet from the middle upwards with many Wharls 
of gaping white Flowers at the joints with the 
Leaves, fpotted with Blood red fpots in the upper 
parrs of them-, ending in a long Spike-, the Seed 
which lollows is lmall, uneven and black, contain- 
ed in fine fquare Heads. 
IV. A ota. This our firft Sideritis I take to be 
truly the Side r it is fecunda Matthioli , which very 
much appears from his defeription of it, tho’ it is< 
very fiiort, in his Epitome, and is in thefe Words, 
Exit in btcc Cau/e quadrate , dodrantali , nut majori , 
R’antofoque , Folijs marrubio longioribus , ad Salvice 
Jdpiem accede ntib us , • erf pis , albic antibus , (Jf per am- 
bition laciniatisfapdre baud ingrato , hloribus verticil- 
latim in Caule , is' Ramis prodcuntibus Marrubij 
tnodo. 
Y. The fecond , or Meadow Ironwort with red 
Flowers. The Root of this Herb is very fibrous, or 
full of Threads , from whence rifes up a fquare brown 
Stalk , full of Branches, and thereon feveral narrow, 
long, and pointed, rough Leaves, fomewhat dented 
about the edges, fet by pairs or couples, at the tops 
of which ftand the Flowers, encompafting them, as 
the others do, of a dark red color, and fometimes 
of a white color j the whole Plant is of an auftere 
fort!) afrejh every Spring-, it is a fmall low Herb, 
neither wholly Handing upright, nor wholly leaning 
down to the Ground, but has feveral weak, rough, 
hoary, fquare Stalks, not much above a Foot high, 
full of joints, at the feveral diftances whereof grow 
two fmall Leaves, fomewhat long, rough, or as it 
were crumpled, hard and hairy, not half fo broad 
as Horchound Leaves, dented about the edges, fuel- 
ling and tailing fomewhat ftrong, which fpread a- 
broad into divers Branches, the upper parts whereof 
are replenilhed with many rough fmall Wharls of 
pale purplifh gaping Flowers, with hoary Leaves at 
the joints under them alfo, where after they are palt 
come fmall blackilh Seed, contained in thole Husks 
wherein the Flowers ftood before. 
VII. The fourth, or Small Creeping Ironwort not 
Branched, or Small Jews Ironwort. The Root of this 
Riant is fmall, and per ifhes every Tear-, the Herb is 
alfo fmall, and fomewhat like the former in the hairy 
fquare Branches, but more trailing or leaning \ the 
Leaves alfo are hairy, fomewhat larger, and lefs 
fnipt about the edges, that is, they are dented only 
from the middle to their ends j the Flowers grow 
in the bofoms of thofe Leaves, and encompafs the 
Stalks or Branches of the Plant in Rundles at certain 
diftances, as the others do, from their bottoms to 
their very tops, being of a whitifti color, and lhaped 
like the other Kinds. 
VIII. The fifth, or Other Small Jews Ironwort. 
The Root is much like the beforegoing, and penjhcs 
every Tear it is a fmall Ironwort, and has the mid- 
dle Stalk upright, fquare, and fomething hairy, 
Ipreading it felf into many linaller Branches, even 
from 
