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6, Oiclijja tMolucca afperior five Syriaca afperior. 
Prickly Altaian DauJme. 
7. Cardinal. Motherwort. 
fendeth forth a number of long firings, and fmall fibres, ta¬ 
king ft rong hold in the ground, of a darke yellowifh, or 
bro wnifh colour, and perifheth not as the other, but abideth 
as the Horehound, the fmell Ukcwife is not much differing 
from it. 
The Tlace. 
Thefirftis onelyto be found in gardens: the two next 
growes naturally in Moldavia , which re under the Turkifh 
Dominion. The third at the footc of divers hills both in 
Germany and Narbone in France. The fourth and fifth as 
CMatthiolm thought in the Molucca Hands which are in the 
£aft-Indies, but therein he was much miftaken, yet he faith 
they came from Constantinople, others and that more truely 
fay, that Martinellm Seejuinus an Italian fent them to Ve¬ 
nice out of Syria. The laft groweth among rubbifh, and by 
the fides of walls and hedges in many places beyond the 
Seas, but not with us that I have knowne or heard, but one- 
ly in (gardens where it hath beene once fowne or planted. 
The Time. 
The three firft and the laft flower fomewhat earlyer in 
the Summer, than the two Aflirian kindes, which flower 
very feldoAp before the middle of Auguft, lo that it hardly 
giveth any&>od feed, although the two former and the laft: 
doe plentifully. 
The Names. 
Balme is called in Greeke u^iani$vr>.w « iMeliffo- 
phyllnm , or Meliphyllum,td eft apumfolium,qnod apes eo valde 
dele Bant ur fin Latine CMcliffa,& Citrago,ab odore Citri , Api- 
flrum quodapibm fit gr atijfima, & OWeliJfopby/lum, of the 
effetft being good for Bees. The firft is called Meliffa, or 
MeUffophytlum generally by all writers: the fccond and third 
are called Melijfa Moldavica & Turcica by mod 
Writers; Bauhinns callethit r Jbfeli[[d Turcica peregrina fo¬ 
lio oblongo ; the third Cor dm and Fuchftm take to bee the 
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