mi, 
Tr i be. i. 
The 't heater ofT lints. 
Ch a p« 19. 
The Names. 
The firft c Matthiolut in his latter Edition calleth Stachys , and Judgeth it to be the true Stachys of© iofcoridcs , al¬ 
though in the former editions he had fet forth the fecond with an opinion that it had beene the right, and Dod'mx- 
m, Luodttnenfs, Tabcrmontanus , and Gerard call it Stachys, alfb Cdmerarius calleth it Stachys minor, Gefner calleth 
it Stachysfloribusgrat ion's odoris. Lobel calleth it Stachys lycbniths, & StachysJpuriaF/amirorum. Cetfalpinus calleth 
ithis Salvia fylvefiris tertia, m&Bauhimts Stachys Italicammor , in Englifh the lefler, or Italian bafe Horehound. 
The fecond is called by Mattbiolus Tfettdo-Stachys , and fo doth Lugdmenfis, but divers others call this Stachys, and 
Judge it contrary to Mattbiolus his laft opinion to be the truer Stachys of Diofcorides. Gefiier calleth it ,S tachys 
Germamca, and Camerarius,mayor five Germanica, Cafalpinus calleth it Salviafylvefiris, Tba/ius in Hetrcynia / ylva , 
Marrubium montanum album, Falias, (falumna, Sideritis Heraclea , and Basthmas Stachys minor Germanicd, in En - 
glilh Great Bafe Horehound. The third is called by Bauhinus Stachys, and I'feudo-Stachys Cretica, and faith it 
was fowne for Marrubium Crcticum. The fourth is called by Lonicerus Sphacelus forte Theoplrrafti, Cafalpinus 
calleth this Salvia fylvefiris nigrior. Tabcrmontanus and Gerard call it Salvia Alpma, and Bauhims I'feudo-Stachys 
Alpina, in Englifh Mountaine Bafe Horehound. The lift Lobcl calleth S tachys Lnftanica , and Lugdunenfis doththe 
like, in Englifh Portugal/ Bafe Horehound. The fixt from Candy, was fent unto C tufas by the name of G aiderothymo 
which fignifyeth A lies Time, whercunto it hath no correfponciency. f'ufus firft called it Stachys jburia, and Bau- 
hirms StachysJpinofa Cretica , in Englifh Thorny Bafe Horehound. 
The Vert He s. 
. ‘Diofcorides and Galen both fpeaking of this kinde of Horehound, called Stachys, fay it is of a hot and fharpe qua¬ 
lity, a little bitter.and in the third degree ofheat: and therefore the decoction thereof is profitable to procure wo¬ 
mens courfes, and to cxpcll the after birth, and that it caufeth abortion in women, that is, to mifearry in child-bea¬ 
ring, or to come before their time: it alfo provoketh urine being (topped, if the parts be fomented with thedeco- 
ftion thereof, or the party doe fit over the warme fumes. 
Chap. XIX. 
Salvia, Sage. 
£££•)( Have to (hew you here many differences of Sage worthy of obfervation, becaufe other Authors have 
Kg recorded fome of them to other hearbes. 
. . .. Salvia m*\or vulgaris. Ordinary Garden Sage, 
r. Salvia major vulgaris. Ordinary Garden Sage. 
Our ordinary Sage is reckoned to bee of two forts, white and 
red ( yet I thinkc they both rife from one and the fame plant 
flipped and fet) both of them bearing foure-fejuare wooddy 
ftalkes, in fome whiter greene, in others redder,as the leaves are 
alfo, (landing by couples at the joynts,being fomewhat long and 
broad, rough and wrinckled. ofa ftrong fweet feent: at the tops 
ofthe ftalkes come forth the flowers fet at certaine fpates, one 
above another, which are long and gaping, like unto the' flow¬ 
ers of Clary or dead Nettle, but of a ;bluifh purple colour, after 
which come fmall round feed in the huske that bore the flower: 
the rootc is woody, with divers firings at it: it is more ufually 
propagated by flips, pricked or thruft into the ground in the 
Spring time, than of the feed. Of this kinde are the two forts 
of party-coloured Sage, the one white and greene: the other 
whitifli red and greene in moft of the leaves. 
2 . Salvia maxima five latifolia. Great white Sage. 
This great Sage differeth not from the common or ordinary 
great Sage for the manner of the growing, or the colour of 
the leaves, or fweetnefle of the whole plant, the chiefe diffe¬ 
rences confift firft in the leaves, which are much larger, and a 
little dented about the edges, and fometimes much more, ma¬ 
king them feeme curled; divers of the leaves being foure inches 
long, . and three inches broad; and in the flowers , fome 
plants bearing purplifh flowers like the ordinary, and others 
tnilke white flowers which is the more rare. 
3. Salvia major Cretica latifoliaanguftifolia aurita , & non 
aurita, pomifera & non pomtfera. 
Great Sage of Candy with broad and narrow leaves, and bea¬ 
ring cares and apples, and that beare none. 
This great Sage hath many fquare hard hoary ftalkes, efpecia!- 
ly when they are young, but turning almoft round when they 
grow old, rifingboth greater and higher in the hot Countries 
than with us, whereon arc fet two leaves at a joynt, one againft 
another, in fome like our ordinary Sage but larger/in others 
fomewhat fmailer and longer.; in many plants of both forts there will bee fmall pieces of leaves growing on 
both fidesatthebottome oftKe leaves,‘ana in fome plant? or places there will be r^ne. ofthe fe pieces or cares to 
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