i-' i b. 2 . Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
5i ** Ploct. ■ 
It is found in gardens amongit potherbes, and oftentimes amoiigft ftones andrubbifliindrie 
lOiles; ° 
N n n qj The 
A P. 
2 34* 0/ blacke or jlinfmg Horehound . 
«(l The Defer if Hon. 
1 R La f, ke - Horchoimd is fomewhat like vneo the white kinde. The ftalkes bealfo fquare 
JJandhame. The leaues fomewhat larger, ofadarke fivart orblackifh colour, fomewhat 
tike the leaues of Nettles, fmpt about the edges, of an vnpleafant and (linking fiuiour 
te floures grow about the ftalks in certain fpaces,of a purple colour, in iTrape like thole of Arch- 
floures° rdead NeCtC ' Ther °° teis foaIland threddie. % Ihaue found this alfo with white 
T 2 To this may fitly be referred that plant which fomc haue called P.,rietaria , Sideritu. and 
Herbawntif\iiii dieaddLUmento('Monfelie»(ium tpeachofthefe denominations: butS.i;/^/»r,wl;o 
1 herein fodow, calls it Mur mb mm nigrum longifolutm. It is thus deferibed : the root is thicke ancf 
very fibrous, fending vp many fquare rough ftalkes fome cubite high , fe t at certaine fpa.es with 
leaues longer and broader than Sage,rough alfo and fnipt about the edges : and out of their bo- 
fomes come rtoures, hooded, and purple of colour, engirting the ftalkes as in other plants of this 
kinde. Some haue thought this to be othonna of the Antients.becaufe the leaues not falling off in 
Winter, are either eaten by the Wotmes, or wafted by the iniurieofthe weather totheverynerues 
or veuies that runne oue r them , fo that by this meanes they are all perforated, and eafily blowne 
thorow by each blaft of winde.-which caufed fome to giue it alfo the name of Herbn ventf.it stows 
in the come fields about Montpelier. £ ° 
t i tMarrubium nigrum. 
Stinking Horehound. 
If afjiofcLj . 
T 2 M.r/rubiam nigrum Longifclium. 
Long leaued Horehound. 
