8 C H A P. 5. 
Theatrum 'Botanicum, 
Tribe, i. 
moft part at a jovnt like the other,but greater and not of fo darke a greenc colour, but rather refembling Mar/erom 
leaves ; the flowres grow at the toppes of the ftalkes, of a redilh purple colour like unto garden Tyme, but fom- 
what larger as the whole plant is, and of a fmall,but fomewhat hot fent and tafte. 
Vlorc aibo There is another of this kinde,that beareth white flowers and frc (her greene leaves, el fe in other things like the 
former. 
8. Serpillum lat if 0Humhirfiitum, Rough Mother ofTyme. 
This Mother ofTymegroweth in moft things like the ordinary fort, fpeading on the ground in the fame man¬ 
ner, but that the branches are more hoary or white, and the leaves fomewhat rounder and rougher, or as it were 
hairicjfmelling like unto Bitumen or hard pitch,which hath no good favour pleafing to any: the flowers and o- 
ther parts thereof are like the common Mother ofTyme. 
9. Serpillum Panmnicum Clufij. Hungarian Mother ofTyme. 
This fmall Mother ofTyme creepeth upon the ground, taking roote as it lpreadeth, with many fquare ftalkes fet 
with leaves.two alwaies at a joynt.but more thinly or fparfed- Huagarim-M^oj 
Ingrowing on them,then the ordinary wild kinde,and are nar- 
rower and longer than they, and very fmooth withall: the 
flowers growe at the toppes of the branches not unlike the com¬ 
mon kinde,and hath little or no fent at all. 
There is an other of this kinde little differing but in the hoa- 
rines of the leaves from the other. 
1 o. Serpillum Vulgare minus. The ordinary fmall 
wilde,or Mother of Tyme' 
... 10 ScrpiUiimvulgsre minm. Ordinary Mother of Tywc 
This lefler wilde 
Tyme lpreadeth 
fimdryhard brow 
nifh long branches 
rounde about the 
roote upon the 
ground, which 
take roote againe 
as they lye and 
fpread; the leaves 
are fmall,and of a 
fid green colour, 
fuelling like un¬ 
to Tyme almoft, 
but . nothing lo 
quicke either in 
finell or tafte - the 
flowres grow at 
the toppes of the 
branches of a pur- 
plilh or white 
colour, for of both forts fome are fo found. 
11 . Serpillum Citratum. Lemmon Tyme. 
The Lemmon Tyme is fomewhat like the common wild kinde in 
the manner of growing, but ftandeth more upright,bufhing thicke 
with branches, the leaves are fmall and of a darke greene colour like 
themjbut have the fent of a Pomecitron or Lemmon; the flowers are 
more white then in the common forts. 
12. Serpillum Mofchat urn, MuskeTyme. 
The Muske Tyme alfo groweth fomewhat upright,but with fewer 
ftalkes and thinner fet with fomewhat longer leaves,which are not of 
fo fad a greene colour, whofe fent is much neere unto the lent of 
Muske, and therupon tooke the name. 
13. Serpillum mretm jive verfcolor. Cuilded or embrodered Tyme. 
In the variable mixture of greene and yellow in the leaves of this 
Tyme, confifteth the chiefeft difference of this forte, from the com¬ 
mon wilde kinde, for the greene leaves thereof are in fome ftripedjn 
others edged with a gold yellow colour, which hath caufcd the guil- 
ded or embroidered name. 
The Place. 
The firft or true Tyme groweth plentifully about Sevill in Spaine t 
where they ufe and know no other Tyme, as alfo in Syria, &c. and 
yet as Clufius faith all the reft of Spaine y neither ufe it nor know it, 
but ufe our common garden kinde, which groweth in old (afiile ve- 
rie plentifully & in divers other places in Spaine ; the fourth we plant 
in our gardens ordinarily by flipping,not flawing*, the fift in the King- 
dome of Valentia in Spaine neere the feafide at Alikanta: theflxt 
(It 1 Jins faith, bee found in old CajHle i growing promifeuoufly with 
our common garden Tvme ; and Lobell and fay it wasfoundin 
Narbene in France 1 the feventh is planted in the gardens of the curi- 
Ctufii. 
ofTyme. 
} 1. SerpUlum citratanu Lemmon Tyme. 
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