Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
L 1 B. 2 . 
:£ 3 Melijfa Fuchfijflorefurpirea. 
~ ard Bawme with purple floures . 1 
weake and tender fquare hairie branches * 
fome leaning backward, and others turning 
inward , diuiding themfelues into fundry 
other fmall armes or twigs, which are befec 
with long rough leaues dented about , and 
fraaller than the leaues of Sage. And grow- 
ing in another foile or clymat, you fhal fee 
the leaues like the oken leafjin other places 
like Murrubtum Creticitm,\ay hoary, which 
caufed Diofcorides to defcribe it with fo 
many fhapes,and alfothe floures, which 
are fometimes blew and purple, and often- 
times white : the root is fmalland crooked, 
with fome hairie firings fallned thereto. 
All the whole plant draweth to the fauour 
of Balme, called Metiffa. i This might 
much more fitly haue beene put to the reft 
of the Sidentes, but that our Authour had 
rhruft it as by force into this Chapter, t 
y There be alfo two other plants com- 
prehended vnder the kindes of Balme, the 
one very like vnto the other , although not 
knowne to many Herbarifts, and haue been 
of fome called by the title of Cardiac, t : the 
firftkinde calleth Cardiac it Melica, or 
Molucca Syriaca,(o called for that it was firft 
brought out of Syria : it groweth three 
j Melijfa Fuchfijjlore albo. 
Baftard Bawmc with wjiftp floures. 
Wul mu 
f 4 Herb a Judaic a Lobehj. 
Smiths Bawme, or Ietves AU-heale. 
