Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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Jlnm : the floures grow at the pp of the ftalkes hanging downcwards,ofa white colour anrfTrT 
taken generally for Be hen album: the roote is white, plaine, and long, and very tough and hard to * 
*J The Place. 
The firft grovveth plentifully in ray garden, being a great ornament to the fame, and not mm 
mon in England. 
Thefecond groweth almoftin euerypafture. 
% The Time. 
Thefe plants do floure from May to the end of Auguft. 
The diames. 
Red Valerian hathbeenefo called ofthelikenelfeof the floures and fpoked rundles with Vale. 
rian-,by which name we had rather haue it called, than raflily to lay vpon itanvnproper name There 
arefome alfovvho would haueitto be a kinde otBehenoC the later Herbarifts, namin'* the fame 
Behen rubrum, for difference between it and the other Behenalbumfhat of forne is called (Hym 
and Papaucrftumum which I haue Englifhed, Sparling Poppie ; and is in truth another plant, much 
differing from Bchen of the Arabians : it is alfocalled Valeriamhon.Saponariaaltera.Struthium Aldro- 
<wai,and Condurdum : in EnglilTijred Valerian, and red Cow BafilL 
Spatling Poppic is called Bchen album , 0 cymajlrtim altcrum ; of fome, Polemonium and Papauer 
fiumeum : in Englifh, Spatling Poppie,frothie Poppie,and white Ben. 
«[ The Nature. 
Thefe plants are drie in the fecond degree. 
The Verities. 
The root oT Be hen Album dmnke m wine, is good again ft the bloudic fluxe : and beeiV pound a 
leaues and floures, and laid to,cureth the Ringings of Scorpions and fuch like venomous beafts n 
infomuch that who fo doth hold the fame in his hand, can receiue no damage or hurt by any veno- 
mous beaft. ’ 
Til. decoction of the toot made in water and drunke,prouokcth vrine,it helpeth the ftrangutie, £ 
and paints about the backe and Huckle bone. 
Chap. 225.- Of Svhnts. 
ThcKindes. 
T’* Here be diuers forts of Mints -fome of the garden 3 otherwilde 3 or of the field . and alfo fome 
m or the water. 
The Defcription. 
1 * | tame or garden Mint commethvp with ftalkes foure fqtiare, ofanobfeurered 
coour lomewhat hairie, which are couered wirh round leaues nicked in the edges likea 
law,of a deepegreene colour •• the floures are little and red, and grow about the ftalkes circle-vvife, 
as thole of Pennie Royall : the roote creepeth aflope in the ground, hauing fome firings on it, and 
now am then in fundry places it buddethout afrefhithewholeherbeisofapIeafantfmelLandit 
rather lieth ciowne than ftandeth vp. 
2 The fecond i^ like to the firft in hairie ftalkes fomething round, in blackifh leaues, incree- 
ping roots and alfo in fmell,but the floures do not at all compafle the ftalke about, but ftand vp in 
the tops of the branches being orderly placed in little eares,or rather catkines or aglets. 
3 The leaues of Speare-Mint are long like thofe of the Willow tree, but whiter, fofter, and 
more hairieithe floures are orderly placed in the tops of the ftalks,and in ears like thole of the fe- 
cond. The root hereofdoth alfo creepe no othervvife than doth that of the firft, vnto which itis 
like. 
4 There is another fort of Mint which hath long leaues like to the third in ftalks,yet in leaues 
and m roots Iefler ; but the floures hereof ftand not in the tops of the branches, but compare the 
italks about circle-wifeasdotbofeof the firft, which be ofa light purple colour. 
t 5 This hath round leaues broader than the common Mint, rounder alfo, and as crifp or cur- 
led as thofe deferibed in the fecond place (of which it feemes but a larger varietie-.)the ftalkes are 
L 1 1 2 foure 
