1158 Salmon ’ s Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
CHAP. DCXCVIII. 
Of THYME-WILD: 
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MOTHER-THEME. 
I. 'Tp H E Names. It is called by the Arabians 
JL Hemen : in Greek am r* k 7r -‘ v > 
a Serpendo dittum) in Latine, Serpillum, and Ser- 
pyllum , Thy mum Sylvefire : and in Englifh, Wild 
'Thyme] Mother Thyme , or Mother of Thyme. 
II. The Kinds. There are many Kinds of this 
Plant, but vve (hall treat only of the five follow- 
ing, viz. 1. Serpillum majus flore purpureo , If 
flore albo , vcl Candida , The greater Wild Thyme, 
or Mother Thyme, both with a purple and white 
Flower. 2. Serpyllum Sylvefire Clitjij •, Serpyllum 
Narbonenfe Lobelij ; Uuflius his Wild Thyme. 
3. Serpyllum vulgar c minus, "E?™*;.©- ape*©-, Ser- 
fyCum Sylvejlre minus, Our Common Wild Thyme, 
or Mother Thyme. 4. Serpyllum Mof chat urn , 
Musked Mother Thyme. 5. Serpyllum aureum , 
five verficolorum , Gilded or changeable Coloured 
Wild Thyme. 
T be Descriptions, 
III . The firft, or greater Wild Thyme, ar Mo- 
ther Thyme. Its Root is bujhy and fibrous , almofi 
like that of Our Common Garden Thyme. It 
grow more upright than other Wild Thyme does, 
with two Leaves for the moft part at a Joint like 
the other, but greater, and not of fo dark a green 
Mother of Thyme. 
color. The blowers grow at the tops of the Stalks , 
not much unlike to the Garden Thyme, of a reddifi? 
purple color , but fomewhat larger , as the whole 
Riant is : Its Smell is not vehemently fir ong, but 
Thym e-like fweet , and of a hot Tafte. There is 
another fort of this Species , differing only in theje 
things , that its Leaves are of a frejher green , 
and its blowers of a white color. 
IV. The fecond, or Clufius his Wild Thyme. 
Its Root is woody , and it fprings up with many 
hard or woody B? anches , ft ending in a manner up- 
right , or but a little inclining , fet with many Leaves 
together at f faces , fomewhat longer than in any 
other fort of Thyme. The flowers grow in Run 
dies by f paces towards the tops of the Stalks , 
with fome few Leaves at them , being of a pur- 
plifl) color , very like to Garden Thyme j which 
Leaves , as alfo the Stalks , are of a whitifh hoari- 
nefs , and abide all Winter. It is of a Jlrong heady 
Aromatick Smell , a little like to Southernwood. 
V. The third, or our common Wild Thyme, or 
Mother-Thyme. Its Root runs feveral ways under 
the upper Surface of the Ground , with many fmall 
fibres fpringing from it which fpreading Root 
Thyme Wild, Small 
fprings up in feveral places , fo that the Plant 
Jcrms to be a roundifh bufth or heap of Thyme laid 
and fpread about the fame. It fprings up with 
many hard brownifh Branches round about the fa id 
Root , all of them lying as it were upon the Ground , 
which alfo take Root again as they lye , and fo fpread 
the mf elves every way. The Leaves are fmall and 
of a Jad green color , fuelling like unto Thyme, but 
not altogether fo acute or quick , nor yet of altoge- 
ther fo hot or quick a Tafie. The flowers grew 
at the tops of the Branches of a purple color. There 
, is another fort of this Species , differing nothing at 
' all therefrom , but only in the color of the flower 
which is white. 
VI. The fourth, or Musked Mother - Thyme. 
| It hen a running fmall fibrous Root , which jer.ds 
j forth Branches , growing as it were upright , but 
with fewer Stalks , and thinner f t zcith Leaves 
' which are feme what longer than ihofe of the Com- 
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