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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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? There is ajfo another kind hereofthat hath a longer and narrower leafe, and not of fowhire 
a colour : theftalkes hereof are foure fquare : the floures be more plentiful), of a red Ji« ht nVrnle 
colour inclining to blew, fprinkled with little fine purple fpecks : the fmell hereof is Itranuer but 
thetafte is more biting. $ The figure of this was formerly in the third place of the laft chapter. $ 
t 3 MenthaCattari* anruftifatia. 
Small Cat-Mint. 
% The Place. 
The firft growes about the borders ofgardens 
and fields, neere to rough bankes, ditches, and 
common wayes: it is delighted with moiftand 
vvaterie places: it is brought into gardens. 
d The other too commonly grow in gardens 
with vs. t 
The Time. 
The Cat-Mints flourifh by and by after the 
Spring : they floure in Iuly and Auguft. 
IT Thc Names. . 
The later Herbarifts do cal it Hcrha Cattaria , 
and Herha Catti, bccaufe the Cats are very much 
delighted herewithjfor the fmelofit is fo plea- 
iant to them, that they rub themlelues vpon it, 
and wallow or tumble in it, arid alfo feed on the 
branches and leaues very greedily. 1 1 is named 
of the Apothecaries Nepeta : but Nepeta is pro- 
perly called (as we haue faid) vvilde Penny-roy- 
all : inhigh-Dutch,ftatjm (UptlM? J in Low- . 
Dutch, Catte crutft : in Italian, Gattaria, ox her- 
ha Gatta : in Spanifh, Ter it a Gatera : in Englifh^ 
Cat Mint and Hep. f The true Nepeta is Cala- 
minthaPulegij odore. ^ 
The Temperature. 
Nep is of temperature hot and dry, and hath 
the faculties of the Calamints. 
•I The Tenues. 
It is commended againft cold paines of the A 
head, ftomacke, and matrix, and thofe difeafes 
thatgrow of flegme and raw humors, and ofwinde. It isa prefenthelpe forthemthat be burden 
inwardly by meanes of forne fall receiued from an high place, and that are very much bruifed , if 
the iuyee begiuen with wine ormede. 
It is vied in baths and deco (lions for women to fit ouer, to bring downe their ficknefle , and to ® 
make them fruitfull. 
t It is alfo good againft thofe difeafes for which the ordinarie Mints do ferue and are vfed. t C 
Chap. 12 7. Of Horfe-'Mint or JVdter-jS\'fint. 
The Defcription. 
1 \ \ 7 AterMint isakindeofwilde Mint, it is like to the firft Garden M int; the leaues 
y y thereof are round, theftalkes cornered, both the leaues and ftalkesareofadarke 
red colour : the roots creepe far abroad, but euery part is greater, and the herbe it 
felfe is ofa ftronger fmell : the floures in the tops of the branches are gathered together into a 
round eare, of a purple colour. 
t 2 The fecond kinde of water Mint in each refpeft is like the others, failing that the fame 
hath a more odoriferous fauor being lightly touched with the hand : otherivife being hardly tou- 
ched, the fauour isouer hot to fmell vnto : it beareth his floures in fundry tufts Or roundles ingir- 
ting the ftalkes in many places ; and they are of a light purple colour : the leaues are alfo lelfe than 
thofe of the former,and of an hoary gray colour. 
t 3 This common Horfe-Mint hath creeping roots like as the other Mints, from which 
proceed ftalkes partly leaning, and partly growing vpright : the leaues are pretty large, thicke, 
wrinkled* 
