fa bitter as the fweete Marjerome, and therby the fitter and the more 
willingly ufed for meates, the roote is white and threddye perifhing 
not in the winter, but abideth many yeares, and is to be encreafed by 
flipping rather then fo wing the feede. 
c JltajorauM latifola anrea. Yellow Mar jerom- 
This Mar jerome is of the lame fort with the lad deferibed,differing 
onely in the colour of the leaves^hich are in Summer wholy yellow 
in fome, or but a little greene,or parted with yellow and greene, 
or lefle as nature lifteth to play, the fent being fmall like the other. We 
have all'o an other fort parted with white and greene. 
6. CMajoranafjlvefifts. Wilde or fielde Marjerome. 
4/tiejorana latijolia (ive major Angita. 
Winter or pot Mar jerome. 
1 Theatrum Botariicum. 
6 . JWajorand fylveflris. Wilde or field Marjerome? 
The wild or fielde Mar jerome fendeth forth fundry brow- 
nilh hard fquare ftalks,with fmall darke greene leaves fet by 
couples on them, very like thofe of the fweete Marjerome, 
but harder and fome what broader .* at the toppes of the 
ftalkes hand tufts of darke or deepe purplifh red flowers, 
which turne into a fmall feede as the garden Marjeroin 
feede, but blacker the roote creepeth under ground, and 
encreafeth much, abiding from yeere to yeere •• the whole 
plant lmelleth ftrong. 
7. Mar urn ■vu’garc Hearbc Mafticke. 
7. CMavum vulgare. Hearbe Mafticke.’ 
The neerer refernblance that this hearbe hath with Marje¬ 
rome, then with Tyme, ( as fome have taken it) doth make 
mee joyne it in the fame chapter. It rifeth up with greater 
& more wooddy (hikes then any of the former Mar jeroms, 
being two foote high or better in lomc places,where it liketh 
the ground and ayre branching itfelfe on all lides towards 
the upper parrs, leaving the (femme bare below if it be old, 
otherwife being yong, thinly furnifhing the branches from 
the bottome, with fmall greene leaves bigger then the leaves 
of any Tyme, and neere the bignesofthe leaves of the Mar- 
jerotne gentle : at the toppes of the branches, (land fmall 
flowers on a head, which afterwards turne into a loofe tuft, 
of along white hoarie matter like unto fofc down,with fome 
leaves under and about them, which abide notlongonthe 
ftalkes, but are blowne away with the winde : the feede is 
fo fmall if it have any, that I have not obferved it; the roote 
is threaddy,the whole plant is ofa fweet refinous fent,ftron- 
ger then Marjerome, and abideth our winters, ifitbee care¬ 
fully planted and regarded afterwardes. 
8. Martim fupinum. Creeping ftrang Marjerome.* 
This ftrange Marjerome hath divers (lender weake ftalkes, 1 
lying upon the ground, and not (landing upright as all the 
fweete Mar jeroms & hearbe Mafticke do, thcrin refembling 
the wild Tyme rather then Marjerome: the leaves are many 
