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I B. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
527 
5[ TheT ime. 
They floure and feed from Iune to the end of Auguft. 
51 The Names. 
Garden Orach is called in Greeke, «?*>»£„ : in Latine, 4 triplex, and Auretim o!„< •„ n , t 
l©elD : m French, Arrouchcs ou bonnes dames: in Englifh Orach and Onw ■ r u' “ DutcI h 
tongue, Lehoda : Pliny hath made fome difference betvveene Atr-plex and chrNoUc 4 1 Boh , emia £ 
they differed one from another . for o( Ample* he 
lachanum in his twenty eighth booke, and eighth chapter -where heewri-eth thus C ' V ^°' 
3 T is wilde Orach hathbeene called of Label, Polyfpermon Calf mi Bath, 01 All feed. 
51 The Temper attire. 
Orach, faith Galen, ls of temperature moift in the fecond degree, and cold in the firft . 
•f The VerUics. 
Viofcorides mitexh, That the garden Orachis both moift and cold, andthatitis eaten btwUa a 
as Other fallad herbeSs are, and that itfoftnethand loofeth the belly. ° y d A 
It confuipech away the fwellings of the throat, whether it be laid on raw or fodden. 
The ieed being drunke with meade or honied water, is a remedie ao-at'nfl- fh/* 
liu^7 c ^ lat ^ or 'I^rcaufe it hacli a clmfing qu^rie.an^^yopen t^ft^puigs'oftj le 
fir^pUcc.^ UrC h ' 7l ' chwas ‘ n l ^ e ftcond place of Pri 2. of nJfr.The figure in the fourth place w« of the wild’GraU^tharlliauedclwibed inthc 
Chap. 4. 6 . 
Atriplex olida. 
StinkingOrach. 
o^xoL i 
Of Stinking Orach. 
•I TheVcfcription. 
S linking Orach growes flat vpon the ground 
and is a bafe and low plant with many weak 
and feeble branches , whereupon doe grow 
lrnall leaues of a grayifh colour, fprinkled ouer 
with a certame kinde of dufty mealinefTe in 
lhape like the leaues of Bafill .-amongft which 
leaues here and there confufedly be the feeds 
difperfed, as it were nothing but duff or afhes 
The whole plant is of a mod loathfome fauour 
or fine! •, vpon which plant if any fhould chance 
5° red and fleepe, he might very well report to 
his friends, that he hadrepofedhimfelfc among 
the chiefe of Scoggins heire s. a 
The Place. 
Itgrowethvpon dunghills, and in the mod 
nlthy places that may be found, as alfo about 
the common piffing places ofgreat princes and 
Noblemens houfes. Sometime it is found in 
places neere bricke-kilns and old walls, which 
doth fomewhat alter his fmell, which is like to- 
lled cheefe: but that which growethin his na- 
turall place fmells Iikelfinking falt-fifh, where- 
of it tooke his name Garofmus. 
r . . . H Tke Time. ' 
It is an herbe for a yeare, which fpringeth vp ' 
and when the feed is ripe it peri/heth, and reco- 
uereth it felfe againe of his owne feed ■ fo that 
if it be gotten into a ground, it cannot be de- 
ftroyed. 
c . r . , , 51 The Names. 
l mg Orach is called ot Cordw, Garofmus, becaufe it fmelleth like (linking fifh : it is likewife 
called 
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