JLib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 577 
The Time. 
They flourein Inly and Auguft. 
^y The Names. 
Sauorie is called in Greeke neither hath it any other true name in Latine than Thymbra. 
The Interpreters would haue it called Saturcia, wherein they are repugnant to Columella a Latine 
Writer,whodoth Chew amanifeft difference betweene T hymbra and Satureia , in his tenth booke 
where hee writeth, that Sauorie hath thetafte of Tyme, and of Thymbra or the Winter Sa- 
uorie. 
Et SaturciaTbymi refer cm Thymbrxq-,[aporcm. 
t Notwithftanding this affertion of Columella, Pliny lib. 19 .cap. S. makes Saturcia,o r Sauorie to 
be that T hymbra which is called alfo Cunila. Sauorie in High Dutch is called 
and £j\ahatiej> J in Low Dutch, CctllCtt : which name, as it feemeth,is dravvne out CrniU .• in Itali- 
an ,Sauonggia ■ m Spani (\i,/Ixcdrea find Sagan da : in French, Sawf/fe in Englilh, Sauorie, Winter 
Sauorie, and Sommer Sauorie. 
«[y 1 be T emperature nnd Veriucs. 
Winter Sauorie is of temperature hot and drie in thethird degree, it makeththin,cutteth it a 
clenfeth thepalfages:tobebriefe, itisaltogetheroflikevertuewithTime. 5 5 A 
Sommer Sauorie is not full fo hot as winter Sauorie, and therefore faith Diofcorides, more fit to r 
bevfed in medicine : it maketh thin,and doth maruelloudy preuaileagainft tvinde : therefore it is 
with good fucceffe boiled and eaten with beanes,peafon,and other windie pulfies,yea if'it be appli- 
ed to the belly in a fomentation, it forthwith helpeth the affeds of the mother ’proceeding from 
vvinde. 13 
C h a p. 1 7 6 . Of Dodder . 
Cufcuta five Cajfutha. 
Dodders , , 
Cu-sd-tLa- tJ 
The Defription. 
C Vfcutd , or Dodder,isaftrange herbe, alto- 
gether without leaues or root, likevnto 
threds very much fnarled or wrapped to- 
gether, confufedly winding it felfe about bu- 
fhes and hedges, and fundry kindes of herbes. 
The threds are fomewhat red : vpon which 
grow herc& there little round heads or knops, 
bringing fprth at the fitfl flendervvhitefloures 5 
afterward a frnall feed. 
«J The Place. 
This herbe groweth vpon fundry kindes of 
herbes,as vpon Tyme, Winter Sauorie, Ger- 
mander, and fuch like, taking his name from 
the herbe whereupon it doth grow, as that vpon 
T yme is called Epithymum , vpon Line or flaxe 
Epilintim: and fo of others, as Dodonaus fettetli 
forth at largeiyet hath he forgotten one among 
the reft, which groweth very plentifully in 
Sommerfetfhire vpon nettles : neither is it the 
leaft among many, either inbeautieor opera- 
tion, but comparable to the bed Epithymum ■ 
following therefore the example of Diofcorides, 
1 haue thought good to call it Epiurtica , or ra- 
ther Em W »„*„,and fo of the reft according to the 
herbes whereon they do grow. 
The Names. 
The greateft is called in (hops euery where 
C u [cut a : and of diuers becaufe it groweth vpori 
Flaxe 
