L i b. 2 . Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
cubits high, and yeeldeth. many flioots from a vvooddy root, full <3f many whitifn (Ws rhr 
i! Ikes be round, fomewhat thicke, and of a reddifti colour, which arc hollow within' with cert in 
obfcure prints orfmall furrowes along the ftalkes , with equal! fpaces lialfe kneed or knotted 
and at euery fuch knee or loynt ftand two leaues one againft another, tufted like Mthlfa, but more 
rough and deeply indented, yet not fodeepely as our common Cardinal, called Mother-wort nor 
fo lharpe pointed : about the knees there come forth fraall little prickles, with fix or ei dit fimii 
open wide bells, bauing many corners thinne like parchment, and of the fame colour, fomew hat 
ftiffe and long ; and at the top of the edge of the bell it is cornered and pointed with lharpe pric- 
kles; and out of the middle of this prickly bell rifeth a flourefomewbat purple tending towhite- 
neffe, not vnlike our Lamlum or Cardiaca, which bringeth forth a cornered feed, the bottome flat 
and Ci nailer toward the top like a fteeple : the fauour . of the plant draweth toiva’rd the fc-nt of l2 
mi tan, 
6 The other kinde of Mellon, otherwife called Molucca afperior (whereof Pmm wrifeth)differeth 
from the laft before mentioned, in that the cups or bells W herein the floures grow are more prick- 
ly than the firft, and much (harper, longer, and more in number : the ftalke of i this is foure Iquare 
lightly hollowed or furrowed ; the feed three cornered, (harpe vpward like a Wedge - the tunnels of 
the floures brownifh,and not fo white as the firft. " 3 
The Place. 
Bawmeismuch foivenand fet in gardens, and oftentimes it groweth of it fe-lfe in Woods and 
mountaines, and other wilde places : it is profitably planted in gardens, as .Plim writeth lib 2 1 . 
cap 1 2 .about places where Bees are kept, becaufe they are delighted with this herbe aboue others, 
v iei eupon it hath bcene called Apiaftrum : for,faith be,when they are ftrayed away, they do finde 
heir w'ay homeagame by it, as Virgil writeth in his Georgicks : 
Hue In iujfos afperge llquores, 
Trita Meliphylla, & Cennthenobile gramen. 
Vfe here fuch helpe as husbandry doth vfually preferibe, 
ant, ®? wme in a mortar, and bafe Hony-worcbefide, 
All thefe I haue in my garden from yeare to yeare. 
M ra m 2 7 be 
j MdiffamoluccalmiK. 
Smooth Molucca,Bawme. 
1 fi-iXi' 
6 Molucca jpinofa. 
Thorny Molucca Bawme. 
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