ng6 Salmon 
Thyme true of Diofcorides • 
Ant \cnt Authors fay * hut the produce of thofe 
i he. ids being Sown , give a new increafc of the 
Plant , which is a per fed Demonftration that it is 
not without its proper Seed. 
Thyme Hoary. 
VI. The third, or Hoary Thyme. Its Root is 
woody, brittle , fmall, fibrous, and pei ennial. It is 
in term almojt like the Jirft DcfcrJrd, faving that 
‘Herbal. Lib. I. 
it grmos not Jo high, its Leaves are longer or lar- 
ger , and withal Winter , or a little Hoary , and a 
little more thinly or difperfedly Jet : Its Branches 
are at fo f mailer, but its Blowers and Seeds grow in 
r undies towards the tops like that, and not unlike 
them for Form -, but more acute or quick in its 
Smell and Tajle , than Our Common Garden 
Thyme. 
VII. The fourth, or Limon Thyme. It is a 
tender but Noble Plant, not much differing in its 
Root , Stalks , Branches, Leaves , Form and manner 
oj Growing, from our Common Thyme, faving 
that it grows more upright , bufhing or fpreading it 
felf out thick with Branches. The Leaves are 
/mall, and of a green color, which with its Heads 
or Run dies of Flowers and Seed, have the perfetl 
Smell of a Citron or Limon, but more acute and 
Aromatick •, and the Flowers are aljo whiter than 
thofe oj the Common fort. 
VIII. The fifth, or Maftich Thyme. Its Root is 
woody , fibrous and perennial. It grows not fo up- 
right as the former kinds , but rather lyes nr jpreads 
upon the Ground with fm all Branches, but many 
more in number, and nothing near Jo woody >, the 
Loaves alfo are not fo hard, but J 'cj ter and broader. 
1 he Flowers grow in r undies at the tops of the Stalks 
and Branches of a purplijb white color , like thofe 
of the Jijft and third forts aforegoing. This bet- 
ter endures the Winter, and longer, but gives no 
Seed with us, and is therefore propagated by Slip- 
ping. It has an Aromatick, Odoriferous pi enfant 
Smell and Tajle , yet fcarcely fo quick as the Com- 
mon Kind. 
IX. The Places. The fecond grows plentifully 
about Sevil in Spain, (where they know no other 
Thyme) as alfo in Italy , Syria, Candia, and feveral 
parts of Greece -, but that, with all the reft, are 
Nurft up with us in Gardens. The fourth Kind 
Gerard fays, he found growing Wild in a Barren 
Field at Southfleet in Kent -, but it is truly with us 
a Garden Plant $ yet it is found in many places in 
Kent , between Southfleet and L nigfield - Downes, 
and between Rochefler and Sittingbourn , even in 
the High- way, where, by its very Smell, it may be 
known Irom the Common. 
X. The Times. They Flower with us about the 
latter end of June, and thro’ all July -, but the fe- 
cond Species Flowers later, viz. fcarcely till Augufi. 
XL The Qualities. They are hot and dry in 
the third Degree at leaft; Aperitive, Abfterfive, 
Aftringent, Diuretick, Stomatick, Cephalick, Neu- 
rotick, Hyfterickj Nephritick, Alexipharmick,and 
Emmenagogick. 
XII. I he Specification. Thyme is ufed chiefly 
for Difeafes of the Head, Brain and Nerves, as Le- 
thargies, Vertigo’s, Palfies, Convul lions, Apoplex- 
ies-, alfo for Sicknefs at Heart or Stomach, Fail- 
ings, Swoonings, Palpitation of the Heart, Ob- 
ftruftionsof the Lungs, and the Strangury. It pro- 
vokes the Terms in Women, expels both Birth and 
After- birth, and helps fuch as ate dull Sighted, 
and have a bad Memory. 
XIII. The Preparations. You may make there- 
from, i. A J /quid Juice, i. An Effcnce. 3. A 
T ecottion in Water and Wine. 4. A Deccfl d Oil. 
A Pouder. 6. A Cataplafm. 7. A 1 . tiled 
Water. 8. A Spirit. 9. A Di filled Oil. 10. Po- 
tt flares or Powers, n. A Spirituous TirMure. 
12. An Acid TirMure. 1 3. An Oi/y Tinttute. 
The Virtues. 
XIV. The Liquid Juice. Bathed upon Warts 
it takes them away ; it diftuftes cold Tumors, and 
eafes 
