I being i e>; 2, found the fecond of thefe growing wilde in Oxfordfhire in the field iovnino- m w,> 
I nay Parke a mile from the Towne. if t> V K ’ 
The Time. 
They floure in the Sommer moneths,and wither towards vvinter:the root remaineth aline a cer 
I taine time. 
Cf The Names* 
The former is taken for the right Sr, ichys- which is called in Greeke it isknowne in fhoppes 
and euery where : we name it in Englifh yellow Horehound,and wilde Horehoond. f Lobel calls ic 
I St achy s Lychnites (pur it Fltmdrorum. f: 
The other wilde Horehound, feeing it hath no name, is to' be called St achy ;JJ>uria : for it is not the 
right, neither is itSfhacdus(as mod haue fufpe&cd) ofwhich Theophraftiis hath made mention • it 
is called in Englifh purple Horehound, baftard wild Horehonnd,& Fuchfiut his wild Horehound,, 
I J Fabim Column a proues the fecond to be the SideritisHeraclta of Diof cor ides and the Antients. £ 
I I ?! *\Thc Temperature. 
Thefe herbes are of a biting and bitter tafte, and are hot in the third degree according to Galen. 
t The S tacky s Fticbj ij and Sideritides feem to be hot and dtie in the firft de°ree. $ 
*[f The Vertues-. 
The decoftion of the leaues drunk doth draw downe the menfes and the fecondine, as Diofcori - » 
I des teachetb. • ** 
t 2 This is offingularvfe (as moftofthe herbes of this kindeare) tQ keep wounds fromin- 
I fiammation,andfpeedily to heale them vp, as alfo to ftay all fluxes and deflu6tidns,hauing a dry- E 
| ing and moderate aftriffiue facultie. 
1' Aetim and ^Egincta commend the vfe of it in medicines vfed in the cure of the bitinc ofa mad n 
| Dog.* ° 
t C h a p. 132. Of thefronmorts or adiheales. 
i t Sideritis vulgaris. 
Ironwoort,or Alheale. 
«• The 
