nS Chap. 4,2. Tbeatrum Botanicum, Tribe, i 
about it, with fome fibres (hooting from them, whereby it is encreafed, and 
fmelieth very like the roote of the garden Valerian, or Setwall, or not alto¬ 
gether fo ftrong, being greene,as when it is dry. 
7. Nardus Montana longiori radice. Long tuberous Mountaine Spiknard. ' 
This other MountaineSpiknard or Valerian is very like the laft, but hath 
a longer round white roote, (hooting forth many long knobs, and fmall fi¬ 
bres underneath, which may be feparated,and grow for increafe ; it hath ma¬ 
ny fmall long and fomewhatdarke greene leaves likcir, but fmaller : the 
ftalkes are not above halfe a yard high, in any that I hKe otyerved, bearing 
Lome finer cut and divided leaves thereon than any below, two alwayes ftan- 
ding together at a Joynt; at the toppes (land reddifh flowers, thicke thruft 
together in an umbell like the other, which pafling away, leave fmall feed 
behind them naked upon the flalkes: the whole plant is of a faint weake 
feent, but the roote is much ftronger, and much more when it is dry, than 
when it is frcih and greene. 
The Place, 
The true Nardm is faid by Garcias to grow onely in India, whatfoever o- 
thers have faid thereof. The firfl here was found upon that pleafant high hil! 
in Narbone, called of the Trench, Uhort de 'Diets, and Dei paradtfus, botfvfor 
thepleafantnefleofit, and for the excellent hearbes that grow thereon, as 
Pena faith, in the moffy moift places thereof, facing the South and Mediter¬ 
ranean Sea, which is not farre from a fmall village called Gauge. The fecond 
is found upon the Alpes in Germany in divers places, as alfo of Liguria in 
great plenty, and fundry other places. The third is found on the fame hills 
and on others alfo. The fourth was found upon the Hills in Apulia, which are 
in the Kingdome of Naples. Thefift wasfeencasis aforefaid dry, but never 
feene growing greene : but that we may well conjecture,that it grew where 
the Trench Spiknard was gathered, as Diofcorides al(o and Plmy imagined. The fixth was found by Tena as he faith 
on the hills neare CMindemm, and on the hills of Veganittm : (flufius faith hee had it (rom Ferr antes Imperattts of 
Naples , and gathered from the hill Virgineo, The laft is likely, being a kinde of the other to bee found * in the fame 
places with the other. 
The Time, —, 
They all flower and flori(h in the Summer moneths of Iune, Iuly, and Auguft, Lome earlier or later than others? 
The Names, 
Nardm is called in Greeke NaccT©-, a Naardo urbe Cyriaca forte faith Lob el, Euphrati contermina & vapjbTctxvs 
cjtuiji Nardus (pica, and fo the Indian kmde is generally called Spica Nardi, and of fome Nardus Indica, foradi- 
ftindlion betweenc it and Celtica : The firfl of thefe Pena calleth Nardm Gangitis jpuria Narb-oa, both for thelike- 
neffe thereof unto the true Nardus Gangitis of Diofcorides • and that the next Towne of any note unto that Hill 
whereon it groweth, being about feven miles of, is called Gange • and by that name of Nardm Narbonehfs, and 
Nardm fpurta Narbonenfis , it is called by all other W riters. The fecond is called Nardus Qeltica of Diofcorides , and 
of all other W riters fince, and Cafalpinus following Pliny Nardum Cjalltcum. It is in fhops called Spica Celtica , and 
by the mod and beft, is judged to be the Saliunca that Virgil in his Bucolicks maketh mention of in thefe Verfes. 
Puniceis humilis quantum Saliunca Rofetis, 
Jtidicio nofiro } tantum tibi cedit Amyntas • in Englifh thus i 
As the Mountaine Spiknard unto the purple Rofe tree. 
So (iff judge) Amyntas yeelds to thee. 
And is thoughtby them alfo, that the name Myyta is corruptly put for in Diofcorides : for the Valefians 
call it in their tongne to this day Selliga, as favoring of Saliunca, as Pena faith alfo : yet CMatthiolm findeth fault 
with Fuchfus and Lemtcenm for taking them to be both tine; and the Germanes alfo, who were reckoned a part 
of the filtes,c2\\ it Sclittnckj. Some would have it called Nardm ligujlica, becaufc it groweth fo plentifully on the 
Alpes of Liguria , and yet CMatthiolm faith, that the Phyfitians of Genua which is a City in Liguria■, did not know 
it before his time, and that he had publilhed his Commentaries upon Diofcorides in the Italian tongue, which cau- 
fed many both Phyfitians and Apothecaries, to be more inquifitive into the knowledge of hearbes, than they were 
before. Some alfo following the Arabians doftrine and words call it Nardm, or Spica Romana, becaufe they call it 
in their tongue CambulRunimi, The third is called by Gamerarius in his Epitome upon Mattbiolus Spica Celtica 
fafiigiato forum ordine, by Ch&fittt Nardm Alpha feu Celtica , but Bauhinus maketh this of Clufius to be the former, 
when as Camerarim faith it is not the fame with Matthiolus and others, which is the firfl here, and Baabinus him- 
felfe calleth it Nardus (feltica altera. The other is remembred by (ordtts upon Diofcorides , and Bauhinus in his Pro- 
dromus and Pinex, and called by him Nardo Celtica f mills inodora, The fourth is called by Lugdunenfs Saliunca 
Neapolitana, by Tabermontamis Phtt minus Apulum,znd by Bauhinus Nardus ex Apulia. T he fifth as is before faid. 
Was thought by Clufius to be the Hirculus of Diofcorides, although it lmel not flrong as he faith his doth: Anguillara 
taketh it to be the Nardus Sampboritea of Diofcorides , although CMatthiolus findeth fauLt with him for that opini¬ 
on ; Cferard calleth it Vrinvvort in Englifh, whereunto it hath no correfpondence: fornothaving fmell or taftc, 
i t cannot have the properties olNardus, which hath both. Thefixt is generally called Nardus montana , and alfo 
thought By all Writers, to be Diofcorides his Nardus montana, notwithftanding hee faith it hath neither ftalkcnor 
flower, nor feed, for 'CMatthiolus freefh him from that fault, (firfl both becaule in the forepart of his owne deferip- 
tion 
7.Hiirdut {Montana longiori tadice. 
Long Tuberous Mountaine Spiknard. 
