TheT,beater of T/antes. 
Chap. 4. 9 
ous and the naturall place not well knowne to us: the eight Ban himus faith, groweth mmany of the dry grounds 
about Bai[Ul : the ninth ,Clujuu faith he found in Hungary : the tenth is common with its generally in hioft coun¬ 
tries and that with white flowers on Bufhieheathe, in Digiwell paftures by Hatfield: and the eleaventh in 
many places in Kent, betweene Southfleet and Longficld downes, and betweene Rocheflcr and Sittingborne, even 
in the high way, where by the lent chiefly it is to bee knowne from the common: the two laft are nourfed up in 
The Tyne, 
The fir A true kinde flowreth late with us, as not vntill Auguft with the fooneft : the reft for the molt part iij 
Iuly or thereabouts. 
The Kernes 
Tymc is called in Greeke, Si iuos iuiri quodijs yin animi dcliepuiumpatiuntur adbibeatur, alt], d-ro rils hvud- 
not $ T»! Zulu jeducnnt,qtiod hoc vetcres ir.J'.ur is flue igne oecenfofiehant priutum ujifint ; iti Latinc,Thymus & Thy. 
mum. the Arabians Hdce, the Italians Thymoy he Spaniards Tomilho, the French Thjm & M.n'joLiine dAngleterre, 
the Germanes guendclfic the true kind Romfcher Guendd & wcljher guendcl, the Dutch Thymus,Sc we ill Englifh 
Tyme,or garden Tyme,or as they are in their titles. Serpillum or Serpyllum is called in Greeke s' w>s>- ini A it-rirj 
a ferpendo diPlum, of the Arabians Bemen,oS the Italians Serpi//o j0 f the Spaniards Serpilio, of tile French Scrpotlet.pi 
the Germanes Huner Kd,o£ the Dutch fhtendd, or wilde Thymus,Sc we in Englifh mid Tyme,or Mother of Tyme . 
The firft true Tyme is ufually called by all that have written ofit, Thymum Ugitimum,ox Cttpit.itum, or Creticum as 
Cordus Sc Ca.mcr.idus do,but it is not that which the old Gerard letteth do wne for it: the fecond is called Thymus 
-duh.iris ©- twjh-os by many authors, and Thymumdurius cjr nigrum by others, & by Cefolpinus Pepolina: the fourth 
is called by LobdfThymumlatifolium,tmd Serpyllum hortenfe by others: but Bauhinus doth not number it among his 
Tymes, but cakes it Serpillum fus Utifolium, and is the fame with UWdtthitlus his Serpillum, although Bauhinus 
doth diftinguifh them : the fift is from Bauhinus ; the fixt is called by Lohd Serpyllum Narbo'nenfr, and by Clufius 
SerpillumJylvefre Zygis Diofcorides : the feventh Camerarius calleth Serpyllum m.ijus florepurpurea, and that with 
the white flower ,flore Candida, but both the old and new Gerard, have erred in the figure and difeription therof: for 
this nujus and the folijs Amaraci are bpth one; the eighth is of Bauhinus his relation and denomination: the ninth 
of both forts, Clufius calleth SerpyllumT’ annor.icum , and Bauhinus, anguJlifoliumgUbmmhirfutum : the tenth is 
called by moft authors Serpyllum, ox Serpyllum vulgare minus by others : the reft have their names in their titles, as 
whereby they may fitlieft be called. 1 
The Vertues, 
The true Tyme.or in the want thereof our garden Tyme, (as neareft thereunto, although not altogether fo ef- 
feftuall) dothhelpe fomewhat to purge flegmc, if as THojcorides faith, it be taken with hony fait and vinegars 
the decoftion thereof is good for thofe, that are troubled with fhortnes or ftraightnefle of breath: it killeth the 
vvortrtes in the belly, procured: the monethly courles of women,expelleth the fecondine or afterbirth, after it hath 
holpen the delivery ofthe child,& caufeth eafie expeflorationsof toUgh flegme,being taken with hony in an Eleflu- 
, ary; it diflolveth tumours or fwellings when they are frefh; the juyee thereof being annoynted or bathed on the 
place with fome vinegar,taketh away loofe or hanging warts t it helpcth thofe that have the Sciatica,applved with 
wine and meale : it helpeth thofe that are dull lighted, and is of good vfe in meates and brothes.to warme and 
comfort the ftomacke,and tohelpe'to bicake winde as well for the lickcas the found. Galen faith the fame things 
almoft. It is found by experience faith lAEtius, that if 4. dragmes of dried Tyme in powther,be given in Oxymcl 
falling,to them that have tire gowte it helpcth them, for it pflrgeth chollcr and other (harpe humours, and thanf 
one dragme thereofbee given fading with meade,it diflolveth the hard fwellings of the belly: It is profitable for 
thofe that have fwellings in their lides, and paines in their loyncs and hippes: it is likewifc given failing to thole 
that have greatepaincs in their eyes, and are bleare-eyed: it is with wineapplyed to the cods that arc fwollenj 
Wild Tyme, or Mother of Tyme if it beboyled and drunke, moveth vrine, and the monethly courfes, helpeth fucli 
as have griping paines in the belly, or that have cramps, or are burden bellied, or are troubled with inflafnation of 
the liver; being taken inwardly,or applyed outwardly with Rofemary and vinegar to the hcad,itceafeththc 
paines thereof, and is very helpefull to thofe, that are troubled with either Frenfye or Lethargy : foure dragmes of 
thejuyee drunke with a little vinegar,is very availeable to thofe thatfpitt or vomit blood taken with hony,Iicoris 
and anifeede in wine, it helpeth a dry cough,and is comfortable both to the head, ftomacke and reincs, and helpeth 
to expel! winde: the diftilled water therof applyed with vinegar of Rofcs to the forehead, cafcth the rage ofFrcn- 
Iye,fc expelleth Vertigo that is the ftvimming or turning of the braine,& helpeth to breake the ftone in the bladder»' 
Chap. 1111. 
Cufcuu. Doddef. 
S yNder this title of Dodder,! comprehend not onely Epithymum as the chicfeft kinde thereof: but all the 
e other forts of laces or threads,that grow cither upon hearbes and (hrubbes.&c.or upon the ground : and 
c becaufe I would not fpeake of them in many places,(as I (hall doc ofthe plants whereon they grow, in 
' fevcrall places ofthis worke) I though it more fitt to include them in one Chapter, and give you know¬ 
ledge both ol their formes and vcrtues,inone place rather then-in many: I acknowledge I might more fitly have 
placed this plant among the purgcrs,btit that for the names fake I would fet it next unto the Tymes. 
Epithymum. The Dodder of Tyme. 
Pliny fettethdowne in the eigth Chapter of his 16. booke, two forts of Epithymum, (which Matthioius (ee- 
ir.eth to confute) the one to be the flowers of Tyme as Diofcorides before him did, both greenc and white, theo- 
ther tobe redhaires growing without roote : now moft of our moderne writers doe acknowledge but one kinde. 
Tragus as I thinke,firft mentioned both white & ted firings,growing on fevcrall hearbs,even as I have done al- 
lOjWhich yet are but one and the fame thing in it felfe,growing in the fame manner upon Tyme or Savory,as it doth 
upon any other plant,being red on fome hearbes, and white on others, as may bee obferved on fundry plants on 
Hampftead heath. It firll from feedcs gjvech routes in the ground,which flioote forth threadsor (fringes,grofltr or 
finer 
