Tribb, 5 , The Theater of "Plants , Chap. 66. 6oi 
■ellow Archangell which they meant ;and Clufius as you fhallheare by & by, miilikedall ocher figures of Galcopjit 
ts not truly anlwering unto Diofcorides his defcription, for I can finde no Author hath given a true figure hereof 
lefore Label and Dodonaus-, whereby it feemeth that tins Lamium is more proper to England then to other coun- 
:ries. Dodonatu calleth itVrtica iners altera. I would incline to thinkithiskindof to be the true Galeopfir 
if Diofcorid.es with Label and others, if the leaves were not fo round, but more like unto Nettle leaves, and that 
I .ve had not a kinde,that fmelleth drong, with leaves more like unto the Nettle, as youfhal! heare in the next 
■ Chapter.And I would rather thinke alio,that rhe other red Archangell that hath longer leaves very like the white 
3! .vere the tfa/eopfis of Diofcorides, with Matthiiltu, Lacuna, Cordus and the reft, if it hadallrong fent whichit 
lath not, iothat feeing both thefe are dcfeftiveeythcr in the one or the other quality, I cannot deeme eytherof 
i:hem to be right, efpecially feeing I can produce one that hath both tlielc propci ties more anlwerable to Diofco- 
\-ides his defcription. The fecond is remembred onely by Comutus in his hillory of Canada plants, and tberccal- 
led Lamium Aflrapaloides.She third is the firft Lamium of ' Dodor.eus, called by Lobel oyArchangelica flare alba, 
1 from whence came our Engli/h word Archangell,as I take it. The fourth is as I fayd, the Ga/eopfls of CMatthio. 
(ur, Lugdttnenfis and others that follow him, Tabermnitanw called both circle (orts Lamium purpureum i>~ album. 
1 Ctfilpintu calleth them Leucas, and arc his fecond and third; 'Bauhinm calleth them Lamium purpureum vtl al. 
Uum,non fatens folio oblongo. The fifth Thalnts calleth Vrticafatua KdydsnVd, and is Tabermontar u < firft Galeopjls, 
which ColumnU calleth Vrtica mortua macuiis albisrefperfa ,and of Banhinus Lamium macuUtum. The fixt is the 
tj Lamium Plinij o( Anguillarafiamerarms and Matthiolus. and by him called Vrticalattea, who would faine have 
imade it the Ga/eopfis of Diofcorides, but that he found thnj to make mention of the white in the leaves ol La- 
hnium, to be efpecially ufed for inflammations, S. Anthonies fire and the like, which made him defilt from that 
ifopinion, and conclude it Flinies Lamium. (flulumna calleth it Lamium Plinij mentanum, and Bauhinus Lamium 
ia/ba line a not alum ; and this he faith the Italians call Milajtdellaex iMiLaatclla, which is fo highly commended 
by them againft the fpleene: but Lobel taketh the ordinary white, or the yellow Archangell to bee it, and fo 
1 doth Lttgdunenjis alfo, and both crronloufly : The feaventh is called Lamium luteum by Lobil, Dodmaut and. 
1 others fcjnteopfis flora tuteo by Camerarim, and Dalechampiiu. Cafalpinm calleth it Leuccium montanum : the 
flail is called Cajfldaby Columna, and Scutellariaby Cortufus, and thole of Italy, as well at Padoa asat Tfjples. 
1, JSauhir.us calleth it Lamiumperegrinum five Scutellaria, and faith that it is the Sacerdotis flair.da Plmtj of Pena, in 
I his Italian defcription of Mount Ba/dus, whichl hardly beleeve, bccaule the flowers are not equal!, accor¬ 
ding to their figures; as alfo that TSetonica fl/lvefirit of Paulus •yEgineta, chat is like Pennyroyal! and without 
lent, whereof 1 fpeake in the Chapter ofBetony hereafter, by Quadranitu judgement is this kind of Lamium-. 
the Italians call it Ortica morte, the Spaniards Hertiga muerta, the french Ortie morte, the Germanes Todt Nefle/l , 
Taub Neffe/l, and Hinfang, the Dutch Doove Nettlen , and wee in Enghjk, Dead Nettle, Blind Nettle, and 
Archangell. 
• The Vertues. 
The Archangells are fomewhat hotter and drier then the flinging Nettles, and are more appropriate,and with 
better fucceffe ufed for the obdruftionsandhardnefle of the fpleene then they, to be ufed inwardly by drinking 
thedccoflionoftheherbeln wine, and afterwards applying the herbe hot, or the decoftion unto the region of 
rhe fpleene, as a cataplafme or fomentation with fpunges. The flowers of the white Archangells are preferved 
or conferred daily to be ufed, or the diftlled water of them is ufed today the whites, and thofe of the red to day 
the reds in women, and is thought good to make the heart merry, to drive away melancholly, and to quicken the 
fpirlts. It is commended alio againd quartaine agues. It dancheth bleedings alfo at the mouth ornofe; if the 
herbe be damped and applyed to the nape of the necke: the hetbe alfo biuifed and with fome fait and vinegar, or 
with Auxungia that is,Hogs Lard laid upon any hard tumour or (welling,and that in' the neck or throate,which is 
called the Kings Evilldoth hclpe todiflolve.ordifcuffethem: in the like manner applyed to the Goute, Sciatica 
or other /oynt aches or sf the finevres, doth very much allay thepaines.and give eafe. It is alfo very cft'eiduall 
for all inflammations, as are percudive, and to heale all greene wounds, by drying and doling up the lippesn* 
the wounds, and for old Vlcers alfo to day their malignitie of fretting, and corroding or fpreading, thereby 
causing them to heale the more fpcedily ritdraweth forth fplinters, or other luch like things gotten into thi 
flefh. .Ptay highly commendeth it for many other things, asforbruifes and burningsbut the Archangcll with 
yellow flowers is mod commended, for old filthy and corrupt fores ot corrupt V leers, yea although they grow 
to be fidulons or hollow, and to diffolve tumors. 
Chap, L X VI. 
Gaieopfis. Stinking Dead Nettle. 
Have here to bring to your confideracion not onely the Genuine Cjaleopfls of Diofcorides, both in Clu- 
Elfins and my judgement, but fome other plantsalfo, which may not unfit y for their likeneffe there- 
i unto,be referred unto it as I thinke. 
I. Galeopfis GenuinaDiofioridii. The true dinking Dead Nettle of Diofcorides. 
This kind of Dead Nettle hath divers fquare, foft, and hairy dalkes, riling up to be three or foure 
foote high, at the joynts whereof grow two leaves a peece upon long footedalkes, very like unto Nettle leaves, 
but that they are foft and fomewhat hoary or hairy, butnotdinging at all, of a very drong fent fomewhat un- 
pleafant, efpecially growing in fhadowy places, and nothing fo drong in the open fields : at rhe toppes of the 
dalkes grow the flowers fet in the randies, foure or five at a fpace, and many of them one above another, in 
manner of a (pike, every one dandjng in a greenilh huske, like unto thofe of the former Dead Nettles, but not 
fo great an! are of a fad red or purplifh colour, efpecially the heads or upper parts; but the lower hbells or 
lippes, have fome white fpors in them : within thofe huskes after the flowers are fallen, grow fmall round, yet 
fomewhat rough feede, foure for the mod part danding together; the roote is compofed of many drings, {hoo¬ 
ting frefh heads every yeare.and increafing thereby very much, 
2, Gateopjil 
