Tribe. i. The Theater of Tlants. Chap.!}. 31 
with honey and fait it helpeth the toothach: ithelpeth the cold griefes of the j'oynts, taking away the paines, and 
warming the cold parts, being fall bonnd to the place after a bathing, or having beenc in a'hot houfe. Pliny ad- 
deth hereunto that Mints and Penny-royall agree very well together in helping famtings or fwonings bein^ put 
into vineger, and put to the noltrils to be fmelled unto, or a little thereof put into the mouth. It cafe?h the head- 
ach, and the paines of the bread and belly, llayeth the gnawing of the flomack, and the inward paines of the bow¬ 
els, being drunke in wine provokech vrine,ar.d womens couries, and expelleth the after-birth and dead child: it 
helpeth the falling-ficknefle being given in wine : put alfo into unwholfome and llinking waters, that men mud 
drinke (as at Sea in long voyages jit maketh them the lefle hurtfull ; it lefneth the fatneffe of the body being mvcn 
with wine/but here Pliny is fuppofed to have mif-interpreted the Greeke word,tranflating it Saljitudtnes Corporis 
fords thought to be **.u'<*< that is anxidtates ,which Hippocrates in Aphorifn .56 .lib .7 .faith,is taken away by drink¬ 
ing it in an equall proportion of wine and water jit helpeth crampes or the convulfions of the finewes bein" apply- 
ed with honey, fair, and Vineger. It is very effeetuall for the cough, boyled in milke, and drunke, and for the ul¬ 
cers or forcsof the mouth. Thus faith Pliny. Galen faith chat being iharpe and lomewhat bitter, it heateth much 
and extenuateth alfo. And in that it heatetb.much may be knowne by this, thatit maketh the place red where it 
is applyed, and raileth bliders if it be fuffered to lie long upon it: And that it doth extenuate, is (utficiently fcene 
by this, that it doth caufe thick and tough fiegme to be avoyded forth of the lungs and chclf, and that with eafe 
as alfo that it procured) the feminine couries ; Matthiolus faith (and fo doth Caflor Durante* alfo) that the 'leco- 
ftion thereof drunke helpeth th e jaundife and dropfic, and all paines of the head and finewes that come of a cold 
caufe, and that it helpeth to deare and quicken the eye-fight, It was ufed as Dttrantes faith, in (lead of DiSfamus 
(^retenjis (for it Ihould feemc in his time alfo the true Di'damns was not knowne, which was in Anno 1585.) 
who faith,that bruifed, and with vineger applyed to the nollrils of thofe that have the falling-fickneffe, or the le- 
thargie, or put into the mouth, helpeth them much, and applyed withbarly meale it helpeth burnings’by fire • it 
bringeth the loofned matrix to its place,and dilfolveth the windineffc and hardneffe thereof, eafeth all paines a’nd 
inflamations of the eyes, and comforteth and quickneth the eye-fight being put therein, as alfo put into the cares 
eafeth the paines of them. 
Chap. XIII. 
Mentha. Mintes, 
SPjSS! Here are many forts of Mints,fome chiefly nourilhed up in Gardens, others growing wilde cither on the 
SSffl [§§/ mountaines (which for their rarity and diverfitie are brought alfo into Gardens) or the wet and over” 
RgiJwK flowne marifhes,or the Water it felfe. 
I. Mentha RomanaanguJHfolio jive Cardiac a. Hart Mint, 
or Speare Mint. 
This Mint hath divers round flalkes, and longer and nar¬ 
rower leaves fet thereon , chan the next Mint, and 
groweth fomewhat lower and fmaller, and of a darker 
greene colour than it ■ the flowers (land in fpiked heads at 
the tops of the branches, being of a pale blulh colour, the 
fmell or (lent hereof is fomewhat neere unto Bafill. It en- 
creafeth by the root underground^* all the others doe. 
i. MenthaQruciattt. CrofleMint. 
The CrolTe Mint hath his fquare (lalkes fomewhat hoary, 
and the leaves thereon hairy alfo,rougher,broader,and roun¬ 
der than the former, which (land on all fides thereof one a- 
gainft another,two at a j‘oynt,fo that they reprefent a crofle, 
thereby giving it the name: the flowers Hand in fpiky heads, 
of a purplifh colour, fomewhat deeper than it. 
5 •. Mentha fufea five vulgaris. Red or Browne Mints. 
This Mint hath fquare brownilh tlalkcs, with fomewhat 
long and round pointed leaves, nicked about the edges, of a 
darke greene, and fometimes reddifh colour, fet by couples 
at the joynts, and ofa reafonable good fcent: the flowers 
are reddilh,(landing by fpaces about the tops of the flalkes % 
the roots runne creeping in the ground as the reft doe, and 
will as hardly be extirped as the reft. 
4. Mentha Crijpa, CrifpeorCarldMint. 
The greateft difference in this kinde of Mint from the laft, 
confifteth firft in the leaves, which are almoft as round as the 
laft, but more rou^h or crumpled, or as it were curld: then 
in the flowers which arc purplifh (landing in rundles about 
the toppes of (lalkes: and in the fmell hereof which com- 
meth neereft unto Balmc. 
5 ■ Mentha Crijpa Dattica aut Germanica fjteciofa, The 
great Curld Mint of Germany. 
This brave Mint creepeth with his rootes as the others 
doe, having divers high ftalkes rifing from them, which 
fione 
1 ‘ i MmthaKtmanaaugufliftlioCardinal, 
Bart Mine, or Speire tejinr. 
