L I B. 2 . 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Chap. 281. Of Dittany ; 
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■f The Defer if tion « 
j T'X Ittanie of Crete now called Candle (as Diofcorides faith) is a hot and fharne heath., 
much l ike vnto Penni-roiall, fauingthat his leaues be greater and fomewhat hoary” 
r 1 1 r c ° u . ered 0l - ler 'Y lth a foft doivne ? r white woollie cotton : at the top of the branch 
grow finall fpikie eares or fcaly aglets, hanging by little frnall ftemmes,refembHng the fpiky tufts 
ofMarrerome ofa white colour : arnongft which feales there doe come forth frnall floures Tike 
the flouring of wheat, of a red purple cofa,r ; which being pa ft,the knop is found full of fall feed 
contrarie to the faying of Dvfcorides, who faith, it neither beareth floure nor feed burny felfe 
£f„ g" ne b0,b “ ,ny G “ J “ ; ,te ” h< * p h “ ■» ti.1 5 vSS 
I Diclumnnm Creticum. 
Dittanie of Candie. 
2 T fendedicr .imnum , 
Baftard Dittanie. 
fauins 1 \ at fac noST of r «,Baftard Dirtanie,is much like vnto the firft 
ivirhkno^Tnl r 'veet of fmell, neither doth itbitethe tongue, hauing round foftvvoolly ftalks 
wrlfl" T ts v an T a V euery ^ nottwoleai,esromewhatioiind 3fof^ 
n > ■ , d °, L 1 p, S ^t°n a hght purple color comparing the ftalks by certain fpaces like °- ar Iands 
lke £ fl c 0 Ur l S0f p -- r °i al! Wrootfs of.wooddi fubftan^e h thofc 
gtoweth to the height ofa cubite and an hnlfe, and lafteth Ion-. tne wnoiepiant 
J o 
Th c /i n- • The Place. 
rallv 1 h r ICtame C ° mmeth f 10m , Crete > an Hand which we call Candie,where it -rowes hatu- 
-.f the in ' Ue °e VnC U m my § arden > vv ^ cre it hath' floured and borne feed- but it perifhed by reafon 
- he imurie of our extraordinary cold winter that then happened : neuertheleffe D/e/JL mi- 
teth 
