T ribe !• T be Theater of Tlantes. Chap.ip. ^ 
that Elilijphacos, with the Greekes is/jfera with others. The one is more gentle than the manured lentell, with a 
Ieffer, dryer, and fweeter leafe; and the other kinde that is wilde, is of a more grievous feent, &c. too much here to 
recite and fet downe, and to little purpofe. The fir(T is generally called Salvia major & latifolia, by almoft all Au¬ 
thors : the fecond Clufws faith he firft faw in Auflria, and Bauhinus that he had it firft from England, and called it 
Salvia latifoliaferrata; the third is called Salviapomifera cr baccifera, or baccata cE Crerica, oT^Cretenfis, to fhew 
the kinde. Label calleth it (foccifera, Matthiolus Salviafrullum inflar galUfcrcns , and Aneuilara Salvia Graca 
which he faith they ufully call Phlafcomelea-. the fourth is called Salvia nobilis by Gefner o)‘ minor by 
Matthiolus and divers others, angujlifolia ,and tenuifalia by fome others, aurita alfo, or auriculata, or pimata by o- 
thets : the fift Camerarius calleth Salvia Hijpanica odoratijpma, but B.whims Salvia folio tenuiore , the old Gerard 
calleth it Salvia Indicx, but his Correfter confoundeth it with the feventh following as you fhall heare: the lixt C/k- 
f'“s fetteth forth with this title, Salvia Cretica angujlifolia, and Bauhinus Salvut angujlifolia ferrata : the feventh 
2 hj*fwj/«onelyhathremembreduntousbythe name of Salvia minor altera, and I adde thereunto flare rubente to 
make it the better kntrwne, for it is fcarce knowne to many : this is that Sage that I faid before Maher Iohnfon 
that corrected Gerard hath erred exceedingly.in con founding this with the fift, which is the lame that Maher Cannon 
(hewed him and gave me, whofe feent is farre fweeter than the fmall Piggc Sage, and much differing from the 
feent of Wormewood, if he had asducly enformed his fmell thereof, as heedid his fight of the flower: the eighth 
Bauhinus alfo giveth the name of Salvia angujlifolia Unuginofa, and in Englifh fmall woolly Sage: the ninth fike- 
wifehath his name in the title, Bauhinus giving the Latine, and I theEnglifh : the tenth is called by f'lujluj Phlo- 
raisLycknitis, and referreth it to the Lychnitis called alfo Thryallis by Diofcorides , and by the Cahilians in Spaine 
Candilera, and thofe of Granado Menchera : Lob el calleth it Verbafcumfylvejlrcfoltys falvie tenuifolU, and Bauhinus 
Verbafcum angujlis fuhi.t foliys, who faith it is alfo called of lomc Angarathi : bnt Cjcfner in her tie Germania calleth 
it Salvia fylvefrU Monfpelienjium, and therefore 1 have placed it in the number of the Sages, and altered the title in 
Latine.and call it thcrcafter,in Englifh,the greater yellow Sage with narrow leaves: the eleventh is called by Mttt- 
thiolus alfo Verbafcumfylvejhe ,being bis fourth,and from him Anguilara,CaJlorDurantes,CluJiHs,a\\<i others do call 
it Vtrb.tfium 4. Matthto/i : Camerarius Verbafcum fylvejlrefolijs falvie , and Label Verbafcum fritticofum lignofum 
& flare listen, who faith as I fhewed you in the defeription, that it is called a wilde Sage in Italy. France, the Low- 
Countries, and England, for wc call it French Sage, and why then he and they fhould call it,as the next going before 
this, Verbafcum Mullein, 1 fee no capfe more than that the leaves in both are woolly like Mullein, and may lerve as 
a wteke for Lampes, as th^ Spaniards doe with the laft before this, and as Mullein leaves may doe, but that is not 
a fufficient caufe in my Judgement, to make them ofthe tribe of Mulleins, other things not concurring as the flow¬ 
ers whereof I have fpoken before. Let others of knowledge bee judges herein, 11 is called in Englifh as I (aid, 
french Sage, and wooddy Mullein , and this may as fitly bee called the great yellow wilde Sage 
with broad leaves , as the former is called the greater yellow wilde Sage with narrow leaves ; The 
lafl is called Verbafcum [alvifolium by Proffer Alpinus in his Booke De p/antis exoticis , but becaufe the 
flowers of this are more like a Sage than a Mullein, as in the former I have rather referred it to thel'ethanto 
them. Bauhinus would feeme to make our ordinary Sage to bee the Sphacelus of Theophrxjhu, (for Diofcorides 
maketh no mention of Sphacelus) fet downe in his fi.Booke and a. Chapter: whereof he fpeaketh in this manner. 
Sphacelus cr* Salvia, differ one from another; as if you would call the one the tame manured Sage, and the otflbt 
the wilde: the leafe of Sphacelus is ftnoother and narrower, and leffe unfeemely, or not fo ill-favoured: but Sage 
is more rough._ Lugduncnfls doth make the ordinary fmall Sage to be it, and C Matthiolus feemeth to fay the fame: 
Gtsilandinsts as is fet downe in the Chapter going before, thinketh the great St achy s to be it. ‘Dodonetss j'udgeth the 
Salvia agreflis, or Scorodonia, Wood Sage to heir, and fome others thinke Coins Iovis, or pup iters dutatfe, a kinde 
of wild Clary fet downe in the next Chapter to be it. So that among fuch variety of opinions among learned men, 
it is very hard for me to fet downe which is the truell: yet I will make bold to fcanthem alia little, and laftlylhew 
you my judgement. Firft, for "Bauhinus that feemeth to j'udgc our ordinary Sage to bee the Sphacelus , which if it 
fhould be fo, I would faine have him fet downe; what fort fhould be his Sage, that muft be by T heophrajius judge¬ 
ment more rugged than Sphacelus ; for 1 thinke none ofthe Sages is more rugged than the ordinary : For Dale - 
champius and others that thinke the fmall Sage to bee Sphacelus ,and fay it is peculiar to the Sphacelus to have eares j 
furely I thinke that if Theophraflsss had meant that Sage, he would not have forgotten to fpecifie the eares, which is 
fnch a manifcft diftimftion from tho other, and from all other hearbes almoft, that he might foone have put it out of 
all queftion, if he had but fo fet it downe, befides his Sphacelus hath a fmoother leafe, and not fo ill-favoured as the 
Sage, but the leafe of the fmall Sage, is almoft as unfightly for the fmalnefle as the greater : for Gistlanitmts that ta- 
keththegreatyMcfyrorbafeHorehoundtobeeSpWf/ar, the greatneffe of thef eaves and whole plant, and the 
refemblanccmoreneareanHorehoundthanaSage, will make any the more to decline from this opinion; for it 
feemeth by Theophraflus that Sphacelus fhould be a kinde of Sage, in that it fhould no otherwife differ from it, but 
in the fccmelineffe,lmoothneffe, and fmalnefle of the leafe. for D odor, tut who would make che Scorodonia or 
Salvia agreflis to be Sphacelus , and ftrengthneth his opinion with thefe reafons, that the leafe ofthe Sphacelus Is 
more narrow or fmall, ( for fo I tranflate the word contrail ins') and leffe unfeemely than Sage, fuch as the wooddy 
Sage hath, and maketh the Grceke word gugb vepor to fignifie a more grievous fmell, as well as a more rimged or 
crumpled leafe,that he might make the wood Sage to bee anfwerabfe unto Sphacelus, andto be leffe grievous in 
fmell, as well as lefle rugged in forme to the Sage : but although it be called Salvia & agreflis with him”, and fylve- 
firis with Tragus and others, yet it is alfo referred by the beft Authors unto the fecond jeordium or feerdotis, water 
Germander of Pliny ,and of Valerius Cordus ,called Scorodonia,ol the fmel of Garlicke, whereof this wood Sage hath 
a fmack.which even Dodontus himfelfe deferibeth to have larger,but fhorter leaves than Sage, both which 1 thinke 
cannot agree unto Sphacelus, for it is faid to have fmallcr leaves than Sage,and the fmell hereof cannot be faid to bee 
leffe grievous than that of Sage. Now for thofe that would have (folus Iovis to be fphacelus, their opinions have 
farre leffe (hew of reafon than any ofthe other going before, for the forme and largeneffe of the leaves and Halites 
is greater than Sage,and is differing from any good fcent,drawing neerer unto a wild Clary,(whereof good Authors 
make it a kindj than to any Sage. Now to (hew you my opinion, which of thefe come neereft to the truth, I mtilV 
a little before hand fcan the words of Theophraflus ,which you may read in the fame Booke and Chapter within a 
few lines after it; for in deferibing the next hcarbe Marrubium, Horchound to be of two kindes; when hee hath 
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