7°° Of the Biftorie of Plants. Lib. 2 . 
The T empcratures and Vertues. 
A Thefc plants arc drie with little or no hcat 5 and arc endued with anaflriftiue faculty. They con- 
duce much to the healing of greene wounds being beaten and applied 5 or put in vnguents or plai- 
fters made for that purpofe. * p r 
B They are alfo good for thofe things that are mentioned in the Iaft chapter, in B,and C. 
C Clufiut faith, the firft and fecond are vfed in Stiria in fomentations, to bathe’ the head againft the 
paines oraches thereof, as alfo againft the ftiffenefle and wearinefle of the limbs or ioints. 
D . And the fame Author affirmes that he hath knovvne the decodlionvfed with very oood fiicceffe 
in curing the inflammations and vicerations of the legs. $ 
Chap. 237. Of JVater Horehound. 
$ I CMaruhum aqitaticum. 
Water Horehound. 
The Description. 
1 \\7 Ater Horehound is very like 
Y V to blacke and Sinking Hore- 
hound in ftalke and floured 
cups, which are rough, pricking, & comparing 
the ftalks round about like garlandsithe leaues 
thereof be alfo blacke, but longer,hardcr,more 
deeply gafhed in theedges than thofe of (lin- 
king Horehound, yet not hairieatall,butwrin- 
kled: fhe floures befmallandwhiti(h:theroot 
is fattened with many blacke firings. 
•f The Place. 
It growes in Brooks on the brinks of water 
ditches and neere vnto motes, for it requireth 
(lore of water, and groweth not in drie places. 
«fl TheTime. 
It flourifhes and floures in the Sommer 
moneths,in Iuly and Auguft. 
^ The Thames. 
It is called Aquatile,and Palufire Maruhittm: 
In Engtift, water Horehound. Matthiolus ta- 
keth it to be Species prima Stderitidis ; or a kind 
oflronwoort, which Diofcorides hathdeferibed 
in the firft place but with this doth better a- 
gree that which is called Herha Iudaiiapx Glid 
woort ; it much lefle agreeth with Sideritis ft - 
cundapt the fecond Ironwoort, which opinion 
alfo hath his fauourers, for it is like in Ieafe to 
, r , , . none of the Femes. Some alfo thinkegood to 
f 1 it Herha ~£gjPt U , becaufe they that feme themfelues Egyptians ( fuch as many times wander 
I ke vagabonds from cine to cme in Germanie and other places) do v fe with this herbe to giue 
t emfelues a fwart colour, fuch as the Egyptians and th ? people of A fricke are of-, for the mice o f 
this herbe doth d.eeuery thing with this kinds of colour, which alfo holdeth fo fad, as that it can- 
notbe wiped or wafted away : mfomu.ch as linnen cloth being died herewith, doth alwaies keepe 
_ %The Temperature * 
Itleemerh to becold 3 and withall very aftringent or binding. 
The Vertues* 
i here is little vie of the water Horehound in Phyficke. 
+ Thefigurcthat heretofore wasinthe (trftp’aceua'iof th e ^farr('l/«w>j;>r« ro( )crcribcdin thffncvrrh3nM*r.ini,»./.c . , - ■ . . 
fecond place bv the name o (Mambw.m «futi<cm aeutum.w cic of the lb n;uc Magnified 7V, ftlm 0 . Clown? A1 a 5 d defc . u P UGn f that in *e 
toauotd Tautolo&ic- • ° Cemi or Glowns Al.healc of our Author.and therefore here omitted 
Chap, 
