iX K. I B B I. 
TheTbeater of ‘Plantes. 
Chap. 14., 37 
z. Calamintha montanapr<e(lantiot. 
The 5? vc ate ft Calamint, 01 Mountaine Mint. 
4. (alamintbn minor incana. 
Small Calamint, 
j; calamintha arvenfit vert idUar a five aquatica Bel. 
Field Calamint with whorlcd coronets. 
*grejte 3 for hereunto that figure is nothing like. Bauhinm calleth 
it Calamintha magnoflore. Pona in the description of Atoms Bal- 
dus in many places doth take it to be the Melifjophyllum Fuchsij 0 The 
third is called by Lobe /as it is in the title, c Matthioln* and Came* 
raritts call it Calamintha alter ft, and fay that the Italians doe call it 
Nepotella. Cordus upon T>iofcorides callcth it Nepeta agrefiis, and 
Bauhinus alfo calleth it Calamintha Pulegij odore Jive Nepeta } Cje~ 
rard giveth the figure o£,CdtavHnbha montana pr&ftantior. for this: 
in Englifii Spotted Calamint, for a diftin&ion from the others, al¬ 
though it hath but fometimes fmall {hew of Ipots with us. The 
fourth is called by Lob el Calamintha fecunda incana , and by Came - 
rarias Calamintha Cretica , but by Bauhinus 'Calamintha incana oci~ 
mifolijs, in Englifh Small Calamint, becaufe it is the lead of all the 
reft. The laft is called by Lobel Calamintha aquatic a Bclgarum art 
Polycnemon ejudfi multitibia. Calamintha acjnatica Matthioli by 
Lugdunenfs. Calamintha arvenfs by Gefner in hortis,& Tabermon - 
tonus: by fome Mentha aquatica exigua c-r T ulegium fjIvejlre, and 
by Bauhinus Calamintha arvenfs verticillata . 
The Vertu.es . 
Calamint is very hot and Iharpe, the heat be onely is ufed, the 
root is unprofitable. The decqdion thereof drunke,bringcth down 
womens courfes, and provoketh urine. It is profitable for thole 
that are burden, and thefe that are troubled with convulfions or 
crampes,with fhortnefie of breath, and with cholerick torments 
and pairies in their bcllyes and ftomacks, it helpeth the yellow- 
Jaundife alfo, and frayeth vomiting being taken in wine, taken 
with fait and honey it killcth all manner of worfnes in the body. 
It helpeth fuch as have the Iepry, either taken inwardly drinking 
Whey after it, or the grecne hearbe applyed outwardly : if it bee 
applyedin woollas apeffary to theprivie parts of a Woman, it 
draweth downe the courfes, and eafet-h names of the mother, but 
killeth the birth, and therefore to bee refufed of women with 
child. It driveth away venemous Serpents, being either burred or 
ftrewed in the chamber,, It caketh away bla^k and blue fpots ar.d 
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