6p^ Of the Fhftorie of Plants. Li b. i, 
floures, and prickly rundles or feed-velfels fet about the ftalks by certaine diftances. The root is 
Iikewife threddy. 
3 Spamfh Horehound hath a ftitfehoarie and hairy ftalke,diuiding it felfe at the bottome 
into two wings or more armes,and Iikewife toward the top into two others ; whereupon are placed 
by couples at certaine fpaces faire broad leaues, more round than any of the reft, and 'Iikewife more 
woolly and hairy. The floures grow at the topof the ftalkes, fpike fafhion, compofed offmall ra- 
ping floures of a purple colour. The whole plant hath the fauor of Stoechados. 
4 Candy Horehound hath a thicke and hard root, with many hairy threds faftned thereunto • 
from which rife vp immediately rough fquare ftalkes, fet confufedly with long leaues of a hoarm 
colour, of a moft plcafant ftrong fraell. The floures grow toward the top of the ftalkes in chaffie 
rundles, ofawhitiflr colour. 
The Place. 
The firft of thefe Horchounds, being the common kinde, groweth plentifully in all places of 
England,ncere vnto old walls, highvvayes, and beaten paths, in vntilled places. Itgrovveth in all 
other countries Iikewife, where it altereth according to the feituation and nature of the countries, 
for commonly that which growes in Candy and in Hungary is much whiter, and ofa fleeter find,’ 
and the leaues oftentimes narrower and Idler than that which groweth in England and thefe Nor- 
therne Regions. 
The Time. 
They floure in Inly and Auguft,and that in the fecond yeare after the fowing of them. 
f The Names. 
Horehound is called in Greeke •• in Latine, Marrubium : in drops, Prafaum , and alfo Marru- 
bium. There be certaine baftard names found in Apuleim, as Melittena , Labeonia, and P her aria . in 
Italian, Marrubio : in Spanifh, : in Dutch, SipalrOtte : in French, Marubm ■ in Englift), 
Horehound . clufms calls the third Ocimafirum Valeminttm.% 
<([ The Temperature. 
Horehound (as Galen teacheth) is hot in the fecond degree, and dry in the third, and ofa bitter 
tafte. 
The Per lues. 
. Common Horehound boyled in water and drunke, openeth the liner and fpleene,cleanfeth the 
A breft and Iungs,and preuailes greatly againft an old cough,the paine of the iide,fpitting of bloud, 
the pty ficke, and vicerations of the lungs. 
£ The fame boyled in wine and drunke, bringeth downe the termes, expelleth the fecondine,afrer 
birth, or dead childe,and alfo eafeth thofe thathaue fore and hard labour in childe-bearing. 
q Syrrup made of the grecne frefh leaues and fugar, is a moft Angular remedie againft the cough 
andwheeiing ofthe lungs. 
.. The fame fyrrupdoth wonderfully and aboue credit eafe fuchas haue lien long (ickeof any 
confumpnon of the lungs, as hath beene often proued by the learned Phyfitions of our London 
Coliedge. 
j; It is Iikewife good for them that haue drunke poyfon , or thathaue beene bitten of Serpents. 
The leaues are applied with honey to cleanfe foule and filthy vlcers. It ftayeth and keepeth back 
the pearle or web in the eyes . 
_ The iuyee preffed forth of the leaues, and hardned in the Sun, is very good for the fame things, 
efpecially if it be mixed with a little wine and honey ; and dropped into the eyes, it helps them, 
and cleereth the fight. 
Beingdravvnevpinto thenofthrils itcleanfeththe yellownelfe of the eyes, and ftayeth the run- 
ning and watering of them. 
Chap. *ji. Of mlde Horehound. 
The Vcfcription. 
1 \ .\/Tld Horehound is alfo like to common Horehound : there rifeth from the root here- 
* ofa great number of ftalkes high and ioynted, and out ofeuery ioynt a couple of 
leaues oppofite, or fet one againft another, fomewhat hard, a little longer than thofe of common 
Horehound, and whiter, as alfo the ftalkes are fet with foft haires,and of a fvveet fmell : the floures 
docompalfe the ftalkc about as thofe doe of common Horehound, but they are yellow, and the 
wharles be narrower : the root is wooddy and durable. 
2 Befides 
