cbverd over with a rough or hayrie downeifrorh the lower 
joynts of the ftalkes come alwaies two branches, and two 
leaves fetat them and fo in like manner all along the bran¬ 
ches two at every joynpofieagainft another on the contra- 
riefide, and are very like unto the leaves of the true Tyme, 
but fome what hairye, ofa fweete lent and (harpe tafte be- 
tweene Tyme and Savory ; on the toppes of the branches 
st certaine dirtances one above another,grow forth heads or 
tufts of greene leaves, from among which ftart forth many 
purplifti flowers like unto Tyme, (landing in brownifh 
huskes-.the leede is of a blackifh browne colour, very like 
unto Tyme • the roote is fomewhat long, hard and woody, 
with fome fmall blackifh fibers growing from it, and will 
as hardly winter with us as the laft, although the Jower 
branches that lie on the ground are apt to take roote,which 
fhe weth, that in the naturall place where it feeleth no cold 
winter, it fpeadeth and increafeth. / 
5. SMtneia Cretica fpinofa. Prickly Savory of Candy,' 
Votm , in his Italian defeription of Mount Baidas maketh 
mention of this Savory, but without any defeription or fur¬ 
ther relation; whereby I gather that there is fmall diffe¬ 
rence betweene it and the laft.faving that as in the Chama- 
drysfpinofa,the branches have fmall prickes on them at the 
ends,and therefore I cannot yet give you any further know¬ 
ledge of it, having not feene ir. Bnuh'mtu alfo hath made mention of another, received from GonMrenut for 
"Ebymbra,and as he faith is the Satureia Diofcoridisby Alatthiolus ; but becaufe I doe notthinke it to be a Savory, 
I forbenre it here. The Place and Tyme. 
AH thefe Savories are with us onely nourfedin gardens, but they areas wilde hearbes in divers parts of Europe , 
elpecially in Grovesvery plentifully, and are intituled to their places; flourilhing in the end of fltmmer, fome 
not abiding the winter. The Names. 
Tt is called in f'lcekc, ■niijO.,. rv* ■Slfs^pa. forte £ rl t 3 oh fragrant lam, in Latine Saturcin , a/jti a faturando 
aifta aiijs, a Satyris nomen traxife putant,co quod, coitus marcejfentesflimulat : fome alfo call it Thymbra in Latine, 
and (ome take Saturcin & Thymbra to bee differing plantes.The Arabians call it Sahsstcr or Sabsstar , the Italians 
Savoreoqia Cornelia & Peverell ■ , the Spanyardes, Axadrea & Segurella , the French , Savoree,Sauriette <f~ iSad ’C. 
t.ie Germanes linnet , Zroibe Hyfope. & Sature, the ’Dutch, Kenle, and winter Ken/e, and we in Sntrlifb, Savorye . 
Thsreis much controverfie among our moderne writers, what hearbe fhould certainely be the Thymbra of Diof- 
s '-which m his time as it fhould feeme was moft familiarl/known, & therforegiveth no further defeription 
thereof, then thatitwaslikeuntoTyme, but leffe and more tender, having headsot greene flower-, and that it 
grew in rough and flony places, Alatthiolus giveth us one, Lobe! another, Clufms a third, and each entitle theirs 
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