L 1 B. 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
68 ? 
Chap. 22?. Of Bawme, 
• 5 " The Description. 
1 A Piaftrnm, or Mtlitfa, is our common beft knovvne Balme or Bawme, hauing many fquare 
ftalkes and blackifh leaues like to Bfllote , or blacke Hore-hound, but larger, of a 
. . pleafant fmell, drawing neere in fmell and fauour vnto a Citron : the floures are of a 
Carnation colour : the root of a wooddy fubftance. 
2 The fecondkindeofBawme was brought into my garden and others, by his feed from the 
parts of Turky, wherefore we haue called it T urky Balme : it excelleth the reft of the kinds ifyou 
refpea the fweet fauour and goodly beauty thereof, and deferueth a more liuely defeription than 
myrudepencandehuer. This rare plant hath fundry fmallweake and brittle fquare ftalkes and 
branches, mounting to the height of a cubit and fomevvhat more, befet with leaues like to Ger- 
mander or Scordium, irfdented or toothed very bluntly about the edges, but fomewhat fharpe poin- 
ted! at the top. The floures grow infmall coronets, ofa purplifh blew colour : the root is final 1 
and threddy, and dieth at the firfl approch of Winter, and muft be fowne anew in the beginning of 
May, in good and fertill ground. ® s 
mon Bawme, but larger and blacker, and of an euill fauour ; the floures white , and much greater 
than thofe of the common Bawme ; the root hard, and of a wooddy fubftance. $ This varies with 
the leaues fometimes broader and othenvhiles narrower :alfo the floures are commonly purple, 
yet fometimes white, and otherwhiles ofdiuers colours .-the leaues are alfo fometimes broader, 
otherwhiles narrower : wherefore I haue giuen you one of the figures of Clufiut, and that of Lobel 
that you may fee the feuerall expreftions of this plant. Cluftus, and afrer him Bauhine, referre it to' 
the Lamium , or Arch-angell : and the former calls it Lamium Pcmnonicttm : and the later , Lamium 
montanum Metijp: folio. $ 
4 There is a kinde of Bawme called Herb a Iudaica, which Lobel calles T ctrabit, that hath many’ 
i Meli/fa. 
Bawme. 
2 Mdijfa Turcica . 
Turky Bawme. 
3 i r »r/i//«-fettethforthakindeofBawmehauingafquareftalke, with leaues like vnto com- 
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