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5. Nepetapcrcirinalatifoli/i. --— 
Scrangc Neppe with broad lejves. 
They doe all flower in Iuly, or thereabouts, with the ordinary fort. 
The Thames. 
The ordinary garden fort is called offome Cataria, and Canaria, and of others CMentha Cataria, and CMentha 
felina, becaufe as I faid before. Cats delight both to fmellandeate thereof, and gladly rub thcmfelves againft it, 
but or molt with us Nepeta. Cjcrard faith that our Nepeta is called Pulegiumfjlvtftre, but hee is therein much mi- 
ltaken, for Diofcoridcs faith that the Latines did call that in his time Nepeta, which he calleth his fccond Calamint , 
and was called alfo of fom t Pulegium fy he fire, but T> iofcorides his 2. Calamint is not our Nepeta ufed in thefc 
■ , a ? an y judgement may loone pcrceivc,that readeth and marketh Diofcorides his defeription thereof. And 
< IMatthtolus alfo taxeth Brafavolus who fell into the fame errour, he being chiefly deceived by the miftaking of 
die name; for the Italians call that manured kind of Calamint Nepotella, as Matthiolus faith, which was derived 
from the Nepeta,zxid Brafavolus would fallen it upon this hearbe which they call Herba Gattaria. The firft of 
thefe is the Herba gattaria of Matthiolus : Gefnerin hortis tooke it for a kinde of Calamint, Tragus, Cordus, and 
others call it Nepeta. Label Cattaria.and Mentha fat aria, and generally with us Nepeta, inEnglilh Nep,orCat 
int: thefecond I doe notfinde mentioned by any Author, but it is continued in my Garden to this day under 
that name. The third lujius calleth (fattariatenuifolia Hi fpanica,and Gamerarius Nepeta minor. Bauburns Men- 
t mCattar 1a minor, m Englifh fmall Neppe,or Catmint. The fourth he calleth CMentha Cataria minor Alpina, in 
~ngliih Small mountaine Nep or Cat Mint. The fift is called by Lobel Mentha Cataria peregrina latifolia oPTaber- 
montanusMenthafelina fatvia latifolia -of Gerard Cattaria altera, and of Be ferns in his garden of the Bifhop of 
J-Jjtot,Nepeta peregrina, in Englilh ftrange Neppe with broad leaves. The laft is called by Lobel CMentha Cattaria 
peregrina angufiifolia, oPT) odonaus Cattaria folio longiore : of Gerard Salvia Romana, for the figure thereofan live- 
id Tt[ eU ” C °,. 5 and not unto any Cattaria ; of Bauhinut himfelfe CMentha (fataria anguJHfolia minor, in Englifh as 
. _ The Vert lies. 
, Ne PPc is generally ufed for women to procure their courfes when they are flayed,to ufe inwardly, or outward - 
* >^0 bathe them inthedecoftion of it,with other hearbes convenient for the purpofe, or with it alone, or to fit 
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