*8 Chap. 12. 
Tbeatrum Botanicum, 
Tribe, 
3 . Pfeudodi flamnui a'lcr Pe»<e t 
z. Tfcudoiifl*mnv:» Ballard Dittany. Another Baft a id Dittany. 
withall.The firft Baftard Dittany growcth in Irony places,as Diofcorides faith,and as Lobel faith he underftood by 
fomc Italians on Monte neoro neerc Pifa and Ligornc in the Florentine Dominions. It is fufficient frequent in ma¬ 
ny places of Italy in their Cardens, for we have had the feed thereof among others very often from thence, and 
abideth well in our Gardens alio: the laft, as Tom in his Italian Baidas faith, groweth in the Hand Ccrigo, and 
brought from thence to Signor Contnrcm to Pttdoa to furnifh his Garden. 
The Time. 
The true Dittany fas I faid)_ hardly flowreth with usatall, and when it doth, it is very late, not bringing any- 
feed, but Diofcorides (as it is found in the old Copies extant) writeth that it beareth neither Bower nor feed, even 
as he had faid before of Nardus montane, but Mmhioltss defendeth him. faying, that it was mod likely to be the 
flippe or errors of the W riters that fet downe ost« for o^eifa that is fort or profert, for confert, as thus, nec floret 
necfruCum, uclJemcnfert, or profert , for nee fores, mefruttum, vclfemen confert, for Theophraflns faith, lit,9. cap’ 
1 6. Vftts foliorum non r amor urn necfruttus eft, and Virgil and others (although Pliny following the corrupted 
text olDiofcorides , faith it beareth no flowers, nor Iced, nor ffalke, whereof it is a wonder, having borrowed fo 
much out of Theophrajlns , which acknowledgeth it) doe remember the flowers of Dittany,and fo doth Calm alfo 
in the EmpUftrnm de Diliamno, whereof Damocratcs, as he faith, gave him the receit. The firft Baftard Dittany 
flo wreth w ith us all the latter part of the Summer, but feldome giveth us any good feed. The laft hath not as yet 
beene feene in England. 
The Thames. 
It is called in Greckc y heaterdypict Pulcgi/tmfylveftre, by Diofcorides Ainrauvot, by Theophrajlns Alv.Tau^ar,f, r j ]c 
alfo AlfcTttfwsand Aimafcov, in Latine alfo 'Diet smut and Dillamnum, d.-eiri tiTthp Cornario diet videtur, yuod r/m- 
edv yjy untie Parities mullet urn facile s partus promittat,aut dolores peuitus fedat Diofcoride Cr Theophrafio : the firft is 
called by all Writers DiElamus or Dtllamnus Creticus, or Diflamum, or CiUamnum Creticum : the fecond like- 
wife is called by all Writers PfeitdodiB/mnus,or PfeudodiElamus,or PfetidodiBamum .- Anguilara faith it is called by 
the Greekes now a dayes Cali/dmathia : Pona vvould make it to be the Gnaphalium of Diofcorides : the laft isone- 
ly fet out by Tone, who taketh it to bee the Di&amnam alteram, of Theophrajlns and Diofcorides. Tile Arabians 
call it Afefentrara fr Anegen Aruba or Bun, the Italians Dittamo, and other Nations much thereafter according 
to their Dialed, and we in Englifh Dittany, but not Dittander ,as fome too foolifhly would make it. 
The Venues, 
It is available as Diofcorides faith, for all the pnrpofes that the planted or garden Penny-royall i9 ufed, but with 
farre more efficacy, for it not onely expelleth the dead child being drunke, but being applyed unto the place (as in 
a i'eiTary)or the fumes thereof taken hot,or burnt,and taken underneath: the juyee hath a purging quality apply¬ 
ed with Earley meale: It draweth forth thornes out ofthc feetc, or any other part of the body being applyed to 
the place-.for as it is reported that the wild Goates in C^ndy, being wounded by the Hunters with arrowes,doe by 
eating this hcarbe drive them forth,and are thereby cured. lt is held to be very profitabe for thofe that are troubled 
with 
