Chap. 699. TLnglijh Herbs . 1 1 -9 
mon Thyme, 0/ /> fad a green color : 
Its Flowers grow in r undies towards the tops of the 
Stalks and Branches , and the Smell of the whole 
Plant is very near to that of Musk , from which it 
took its Name. 
VII. The fifth, or Gilded , or Changeable 
colored Wild Thyme. The difference of this 
Species from the common Wild kind , confifts chiejiy 
in the variable mixture of Green and Fellow, in the 
Leaves of this Thyme •, for the green Leaves thereof 
are in fome firiped , and in others edged with a Gold 
yellow color , which has given occafion to its Gilded 
or Changeable cplored Name . 
VIII. The Places. In many Forreign Countries 
where the Climates are warm, as Syria, Greece , 
Creet, Spain , Italy, &c. they are faid to grow 
Wild, whence they are called Wild Thyme ■, but 
with us in England , they are all Nurft up in Gar- 
dens : However the third Species I have found 
growing in many Counties of our Land * as in 
Norfolk , Cambridge/hire , Effex, Kent, Surry, &c. 
That with white Flowers which is the more rare, 
has been found growing on huffy Heath, in Digwcl- 
Meadows by Hatfield. 
IX. The Times. They Flourifh all the Summer 
long, but their Flowering rime is chiefly in June 
and July. 
X. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues of thele Mother-Thyme Plants, are al- 
together the fame with thofe fpecified of Garden- 
Thyme in the former Chapter -, nor is there any 
manifeft difference between them as to their Force, 
Strength and Effe&s, fo that we need fay no more 
thereof in this place. 
TOAD-FLAX, fee Flaxweed, Chap. 269, 270. 
TOAD- STOOL, /^Mufhroom,C 7 ;<?/>. 707, 508. 
TONGUE-BLADE,/^ Horfe-Tongue, Cap. 382. 
TORCHES, fee Mullein, Chap. 507, $ 08, 5:09. 
CHAP. DCXCIX. 
Of TOBACCO Englijb . 
I. 'TpLT E Names. It has no Arabick nor Greek 
Jl Name that we know of, being a Plant un- 
known to the Antients but our Moderns have cal- 
led it in Latine Pctum (which is faid to be the pro- 
per Indian Name) and Nicotiana, (from one Nicot 
a French- Man, Refident in Portugal, who firft fent 
it to the Queen of France, from whence it was alfo 
called Herba Regina : ) It was alfo called Tobacco, 
as firlt coming to us from an Ifland of that Name in 
the Wefi-Indies : Lobel accounts it a kind of Hyof- 
cyamus or Henbane, and therefore called it Hy of cy- 
an; us Luteus, and Hyofcyamus dubius, as being a 
yellow or doubtful kind of Henbane. We in 
Englifh call it Tobacco. 
11 . The Kinds. It is either 1. Englifh, called 
Petum Anglic um, Nicotiana Anglica, Englifh To- 
bacco, of which in this Chapter. 2. Or Petum 
Indie um, Petum Americanum, Petum H f panic um , 
Nicotiana Mexicana vel Peruviana, Nicotiana 
Virginiana, Indian or American Tobacco, of which 
in the lecond Book of this Work, 
1 he Defcriptions. 
III. Its Root is neither fo great nor woody as that 
°J thc Indian Kinds , and perijhes every Tear wih 
the broils in Winter , but generally comes up aeain 
0) the Seed, which is ffed of its own acco>df It 
rijes up with a thick round Stalk, about two Feet 
high, on which do grow thick, fit, andfiejhy green 
Leaves, nothing Jo large as the other Indian Kinds 
neither for length nor breadth , a little round iff 
pointed, and fmooth on the edges. The Stalk is 
branched out varioufly, bearing at the tops of each 
Branch J ever al Flowers, fet in green Hf^sks like the 
others, but nothing Jo large, fcarcely gWwing above 
Tobacco Englijb. 
the brims of t he Husks, round pointed alfo , and of 
a gt eeniff yellow color. The Seed which follows is 
not fo bright as the Spanifh or Virginian, but lar- 
ger than it, and contained in the like large Heads. 
IV. Gerard deferibes it thus,. Its Root is fmall 
and thready , it grows to the height- of two Cubits : 
the Stalk is thick , fat and great , full of a fpongy 
Pith and is J'pread out into fever al Branches, fet 
with fmooth and even Leaves , thick, and full of 
Juice. The Flowers grow at the tops of the Branch- 
es, orderly placed, oj a pale yellow color , fome- 
thwg leffer than thofe of the Black Henbane. The 
Lups in which the Flowers do JIand, are like, but 
leper tenderer, and without ffarp points, in which 
fiends the Husk or Head, fomethmg round , full of 
very fmall Seed, not much unlike the Seed of 
Marjoram. 
- o’ F^ ac ? s ’ This was brought into Europe 
in Seed by Nicot, with the Seed alfo of the true 
Indian or American Tobacco , of which this our pre- 
lent Plant is certainly a Species. Lobel thought it 
to' 
