Theatrum Botanic urn. 
RlBE, I. 
I/j. C H A B. 6* 
UrU termeth his 'JMr.rumfupiaum Sampfnchus forte T> iofeorides,mATnuhinus in his ‘P>»n*entituleth our ordina¬ 
ry Marum or hearbe M.-tflick. Sampfuchus, five tJMarum Mafiichen reddens, which two authors thought 'Marum 
better to arcue with his Sampfuchumthm Marjerome.becaufe Diofcorides faith that his Sam/fuchmt isanhearbe 
full of branches creeping on the ground with hairy round leaves,like the fmaller or finer leafed Calammt, fmelling 
very fweet, and in the cSmpofition of the Oleum Samp/uchinum bee advifeth to chufe that Sampfhdum that hath 
darke greene leaves, neither of which properties ate in ourMarjerome, nor yet in either of Lobels or bauhmus 
their Marum for although Lobe/his CAlarumfupmum creepe on the ground, yet it hath not hairy round leaves 
but fniall and Ion-, and Bauhmus his and our Marum creepeth not upon the ground, but ilandeth upright as Mar- 
ierome doth. The next controverfie is,whether the CAUrum of D iofeorides be anfwerablc to any of thofe hearbes, 
arc called Marum by any of our moderne W riters: that none of them can be his Marum, this (heweth plainely, 
that he faith his Marum hath whiter leaves by much then Origanum, and a Tweeter flower, and neither the Ma- 
rum Jupinum of Lobel, no nor our ordinary Marum hath whitifh leaves, or is Tweeter then Marjerome. C/*/«r 
therefore thought good to call our ordinary Marum, Tragorigauum rather then Marum, and faith that the Teed 
thereof was fent him by the name of Ambraduleis, and Baubinus callcth the Marum SjnacumoC Lobel Major**, 
Syriaca, and yet by Bauhmus leave,his Sjriacum or Alfim, freticum commeth neerer to Die(cor,des his Marum, 
then to his Samp/,.chum : mod Writers call the fweet Marjeronws and Sampfuchus, and fome Majora. 
nn vultttwr. and the fmaller or finer fort tenuior: but I doe not finde that any or them hath made mention of my 
livinglweet fort, although both Comer,arias and Bauhinus doe entitle the fourth C Major ana perenms, as I doe the 
next before it, but they adde Sjlveftris as Tragus and Gefncr doe, and CMaiorana major, or lanfoha r as others doe, 
and Ana tic a, and Camerarius iaith he found a fort thereof about Bononut , going a (impling with J liffes Aldroan- 
dus that^had larger and fofter leaves: thefixt is called by many Authors Origanum vulgar*, and by others Orig*. 
num fy tv efire • Lobel, Origanum Onins majus , and Agrioriganum, C&falpinus Origanum Italicum- an dGerarde 
Anolicnm: but I as you fee number it rather among the Mar jeromea, as awilde kind thereof, asweufually call it 
in Englifh, and as we doe the fourth and fift, this having leaves like Marjeromc,but greener. Piny as I faid be¬ 
fore calieth it CuniUi bubula, and fo doth Diofeorides his alfo. But take them here as wee dually call them, the 
fcventh is commonly called Marum by molt Authors, yet Dodontus,Gefncr in hortu and Gamer anus take it to be 
Clinopodium, Anenilara and Lobel co be Hclcnium odorum of Theophrafius ,ClufiustO bcTragonganum,, and Bauhmus 
to be Sampfuchus ‘Diofcoridis , it is called Mafic both by the French and us. The eight is called by Lobel,Marum 
fupinum, by Cafalpinus Marum ex Sicilia allauim,Sampfuchum T> iofcoridis, Lobel in Adverfanjs callcth it Sampfu- 
'chus Diofcorid. Amaracusferpens,md Bauhinus ,Marum repens vcrtiojjlatum. The laft is called by Label,Marum Sy - 
riacum,and 1b doe after him Dodontus and Taber montanusfcut Alpinus calieth it Cretenfe finding it in Canaye , and 
Bauhmus as I faid before, (JATajoranct Syriac a vcl Cretica, 
The Vertues. 
Our common fweet Mar Jerome is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and is warming and comfortable in cold 
difeafes of the head , ftomack> finewes , ana other parts , taken inwardly, or applyed outwardly ; it digcfteth 
laith ^/rtt^io/«/,attenuateth,opcneth,and flrengthneth : the dccoftion thereof, being drunke helpeth all the dilea- 
fes of the cheft, which hinder the freenefle of breathing: it is likewife profitable for the obltrucrioHs of the liver 
and fpleene, for it not onely cleareth them of thofe humours did ftuffe them, but flrengthneth alfo and confirmed! 
the inward parts: it helpeth the cold griefes of the wombe,and the windines thereof,or in any other inward part s 
it helpeth the Ioffe of fpeech by the refolution ofthe tongue : the deco&ion thereof made with fome Telletory 
of Spaine, and long pepper, or with a little Acorns or Origanum: Diofcorides and Galens Sampfuchum is hot and 
dry in the third degree of thin parts, and of a digefting quality : the decoftion thereof drunke is good for thofe 
that are beginning to fall into a dropfie; for thofe that cannot make their water, and againtt: paines and torments 
in the belly, it provoketh alfo womens courfes, if it be put up, being made into a peflary, and applyed with fait and 
vinegar, it taketh away the venomeof the Scorpions (ling : being made into powder and mixed with hony,^ it ta« 
keth away the black markes ofblowes or hruifes applied thereto:it is good for the inflammations and watering of 
the eves, being mixed with fine flower, and laid unto them : the juyee thereof dropped into the eares eafeththe 
paines in them, and helpeth the finging noyfe of them : it is profitably put into thole oyntments and falves,that arc 
made to warme and comfort the outward parts or members, the joynts alfo and finewes, for fwcllings alfo and 
places out of joynt: the powder thereof fnuffed up into the nofe, provoketh neefing, and thereby purgeth the 
braine, and chewed in the mouth draweth forth much flegme. The oyle made thereof is very warming and com¬ 
fortable to the joynts that are ftiffe,and the finewes that arc hard,to molific, fupple, and ftretch them forth. Our 
Marjeromeis much uled in all odoriferous waters, powders, &c. that are for ornament and delight. The great 
or pot Mar/cromebecaufe it is more mild and lefie bitter than the former, is lefle ufed inPhyficke, but mere in 
meates and brothes to give a rellifh unto them, and to helpe to warme a cold ftomack, and to expell winde: the 
wilde Marjeromeis more hot than it, and therefore more cffedluall to heat, warme, comfort, and flrengthen both 
inwardly and outwardly in all things whereunto it is applyed: Hearb Maftick is more temperate in heat than Mar- 
jerome, and is ufed by our Apothecaries, in ftead of the true Marum (which may well bee admitted untill a truer 
may be knowne in the compofition of th eTrochifci Hedychroi which Andromachus thought fit to make a principal 
part of his Treacle, accounting it effedluall againft all poifons, efpecially of vipers, and other Serpents. Our dain- 
tiefl women doe put it to ftill among their other lwect hcarbs, to make fweet wafhing water. 
Chap. VI. 
Origanum . Organy, or baftard Marjerome. 
S Heophraftus fD iofeorides and P liny do much vary one from the other,in fetting down the forts of Origanum 
that were knowne to them in their times, for Theophraflus maketh but two forts, a black that is barren, 
and a white that beareth feed. D iofeorides maketh 5 .forts, three of Origanum, and two otTragonganum. 
Origanum Heracleoticum, Onitie, and Sjlvefre, (which yet is not that which fome with us call Sylve - 
fire , and is fee forth in the foregoing Chapter, for his beareth a white flower, and fo doth not that ) P iny is more 
eonfhleji, therefore thought not to'be without error, for in divers places- of his 20. and 11. bookes, he mentioned! 
