Tribe i. 
TbeTbeater of Plantes. 
C H A 
p. q 
8. CMarum Supinum. Creeping Grange Marjcrome. 
p. Marum Syriacnm met Crcticwn. 
Syrian or C andyc Maftick* 
and: fmaller than 
.thofe of CMothero£ 
Time, growing at fe- 
. veral diftances upon 
the branches , the 
flowers are fmall and 
purplifh,growing at 
the tops,with leaves 
among them , the 
fmell whereof is ve¬ 
ry fweet, and neereft 
Unto Marjcrome. 
9, M arum Syriacnm 
vel Creticum. 
,Thc Syrian or Can- 
dye Maftick. 
This Candye or 
Syrian„MarJerome, 
hathfundry upright 
ftalkes,tioc fo wood- 
dy as the hearb Maftick, but more tender and (lender al¬ 
io,about a foot and a halfe high, whereon are let divers 
fmall whitifh greene leaves, very like unto the fmall fine 
fvveet Marjerome, but fomewhat rougher up to the very 
tops,which beare fmaller heads or knots then the fweet 
Mar jerome, & white flowers out of them, all the hearbe 
is of a molt fragrant fweet fmel,enduring a long time af¬ 
ter it hath beene dryed : it is very'tender to keepe, and 
will not endure any of our cold nights that come in Au- 
guft or September, but will quickly perifti by them. 
The Place and Time, 
The fweet Mar j’eromes grow wild on the mountain es 
in Spaine, and in other places, and the wild Marj'eroine, 
in the borders of come fields and paftures in fundry pla¬ 
ces of this Land : the reft are ail nurfed up in Gardens, 
their naturall places being not well knowne to us, faving 
that theiaft, Label he had out of Syria, and Profper 
Alpinus faith he faw it in Candye. The former feven 
forts doe flower in the end of Summer at the furtheft,but 
the two laft much later if they come any yeere to flower 
with us. 
The Names. 
Mat jerome is called in Greek Saturn & A ud^xov, in 
La tine C JMajorana a majori cur a, Sampfuchum alfo, and 
Amaracus after the Greeke, of the Arabians Merfinim y 
or Morfangus , of the Italians Maiorana & Perfa , of the 
Spaniards Adoiorana^ of the French CMariolaine , of the 
Germanes CMaiaron cjr Ahjoran, of the Dutch CMario- 
laine, and of us Adarjerome , and Iweet CMar)erome. 
Uftarum is called in Greeke and fo in Latine : Sunt 
inquit Poena^qui regi Thracia cut nomen Adaroni e(fet,Adari 
berbdt appellationcm acceptum ferunt : veruntamen potuit 
ctia ab Amaraco per apocopendiciy utpote cti Amaraci Jpecies 
'viaeatur CMarum. The French call it A /1 arone and Ma¬ 
fic, and wee in Englifh AlafHck^ov hearbe Maftick^, to 
make a diftin&ion betweene it and the Maftick Time. There is much controverfie among the moderne Writers 
about thefe two hearbes. Firft whether Sampfuchum and Amaracum fhould be but one or differing hearbes, and 
whether our Marjerome fhould be either: for Galen and Paulas cALgineta in their records and cenfures of fimples, 
mention them both in feverall chapters as differing hcarbs, and the fufpition hereof is encreafed the more,in that: 
Biofcorides himfelfe in the compolition ofhisoyntments,maketn 0 leum Sampfuchinum and Ama^acinum ro beare 
two names, as of two feverall fimples, although be had faid in the chapter of Sampfuchum that the Sicilians and 
thofe oi'Cyzice-na call that Amaracus, which thofe of Cyprus and Egypt call Sampfuchum : but Biofcorides thereby 
rather fhevveth the diverfitie ofthe compolitions, and the more excellency ofthe one from the other, which hee 
could not doe without diverfitie of names, but efpecially becaule thofe of Q^ cen being the chiefeft compofitors 
of fuch oyles, according to their C ountry name gave it that title : Some have thought that the Amaracus of Galen 
is not the fame of Biofcorides or Theophraffus ,but Parthenium } bccmfe Biofcorides faith that by fome in his time ic 
was called Amaracus 1 and the rather becaufe he maketh no mention of Parthenium in the cenfure of his fimples : 
which how erronious it is,appeareth by Galens owne words ofthe Oleum Amaracinrnn , which he calleth a fweet 
oyie, although not fo fweet as Adtirum^ and Biofcorides termeth the fmell of P arthenium, fubvirofus, having leaves 
like Coriander r then whether the Sampfuchum of Biofcorides be our Marjerome, for l findethat Lobelin Adver- 
C faria 
