Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
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Cur that is, hailing the fmel ofa Pome Citron, or a limon, which giueth it the difference from 
the other wilde times, b It grovves in many gardens alfo,and(as I haue been toId)wi!dein diners 
places of Wales. 
8 This (whichis the Serpillum Pannonicum $.o(clufws) runnes or fpreds it felfe far vpon the 
ground. Tor chough it haue a hard and wooddy root like as the former kindes, yet the branches 
which lie fpred round about here and there take root, which in time become as hard and wooddy 
as the former. The leaues and ftalkes are like thofe of the laft defcribed,but rough and hoaric : 
the floures alfo are not vnlike thofe of the common kind. The whole plant hath a kinde ofrefinous 
fmell.lt floures in Iune with the reft, and growes vpon the like mountainous places ; bnt whether 
with vs in England or no I cannot yet affirme any thing of certaintie. % 
The Place. 
The firft groweth vpon barren hills and vntoiled places : the fecond groweth in gardens. The 
white kinde I found at Southflcct in Kent, in a barren field belonging to one M r . William Swan. 
TheTime. 
They floure from May to the end of Sommer. 
The Names. 
Wild Time is called in Latine Serf ilium, a ferpcndoyOtcKefmg : in high and low-Dutch^ucti’ 
Del, and lxnlDctl 'CtypmilSl, and alfo ©nftt m&OUtoet! bctifltoo t in Spanifh, Serf oil ■ in Italian, 
Scrpillo : in French, Pi/lolet : in Engliih, Wilde Time, Puliall Mountaine, Pella mountaine, run- 
ning Time, creeping Time, Mother of Time : in fhops it is called Serpyllum gyet fome call it Pu- 
legiummontanum : and it is euery where (faith Dedonaut) thought to be the Serpyllum of the Anti- 
ents. Notwithftanding it anfwereth not fo wel to the wilde T imes as to Diofcorides his Saxijranga ; 
for if it be diligently compared with thedefeription ofboth the Serpilla and the Saxifranga, it flhal 
be found to be little like the wilde Times, but very much like the Saxifranga: for (faith Diofcori- 
des) Saxifranga is anherbe like Time, growing on rockes, where our common wilde Time is often- 
times found. 
J&lianut in his ninth bookeof his fundry Hiftories feemeth to number wilde Time among the 
floures. Dionyfius lunior (faithhe) comming intothecity Locris in Italy, pofTefled mod of the 
houfes of the city, and did ftrew them with rofes, wild Time, and other fuch kindes offloures.Yet 
Virgil in the fccond Eclog of his Bucolicks doth moft manifeftly teftifie that wildeTime is an 
herbe, in thefe words : 
Thcflylis dp rapidofefis mejforibus eejlu 
Alliaferpillumque, herbas contimdit olentes. 
Thefrilis for mowers tyr’d with parching heate, 
Garlicke, wilde Time,ftrong fmelling herbes doth beate. 
Outofwhich place it may be gathered, that common wilde time is the true and right Serpillum, or 
wildeTime, which the Grecians calhf TO »©-- tMarcellus an old antient Author among the French- 
men faith it is called Gilarum ; as P limns Valeriamu faith it is called of the fam z,Launo. 
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The Temperature. 
WildeTimeis of temperature hot and dry in the third degree: it is of thinand fubtill parts. 
cutting and much biting 
The Vert ucs. 
It bringeth downe the defired fickneffe, prouoketh vrine, applied in bathes and fomentations it 
procureth fweat : being boy led in wine, it helpeth the ague, it eafeth the ftrangurie, it ftayeth the 
hteket, it breaketh the ftones in the bladder, it helpeth the Lethargic, frenfie, and madneffe , and 
ftayeth the vomiting of blond. 
Wilde Time boyled in wine and drunke, is good againft the wambling and gripings ofthebel- 
lie, ruptures, convul lions, and inflammations of the liuer. 
It helpeth againft the bitings of any venomous beaft, either taken in drinke,or outwardly ap- 
plied. 
Actius writeth,That Serpi/lum infufed well in Vineger, and then fodden and mingled with rofe 
w r ater, is a right Angular remedie to cure them that haue had a long phrenfie or lethargic. 
Galen preferibeth one dram of the iuyee to be giuen in vineger againft the vomiting of blond, 
andhelpeth fuch as are grieued with the fpleene. 
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