c rheatrum Botanicum. 
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. _ ' The Place. 
fi ^ OWC ^°? M ° U f ■ ifi the 0**°™ hilIs and Woods of Provence, a „d in other fuch Iik, 1 
places : the lecond Columna faith he found in Naples : the third eroweth bv Hurt CadleriZr rb in e , ' 
and in the fayd I(le alfo in many places by the Sea ? fide: the fourth iffound h tZta ‘ ? 
as alfo about a mile from Southampton, in the ground of one Mr GourU •» Titirinp 1 ^ t . r ^iaid, c 
,, C “Hi , fald ] 1 h< : ,01 ? nd n ° where elfc then on the hills ncare Salamanca i n Spaine :t he fevemh etmvcfo sf 
thefoote of the hill that is by Bonnet neare unto CMynphcr, and in the borders of the fields ...Irf ", 11 
eighth and ninth in divers places of our owne Land : th/l,ft upon .nount ^Mo. as “fth and bv cXr * R ' 
report upon the Alps, of Auftna mdStiria, on the highefl: placts of them, tu, apdby CArjfahu : 
, The Time. 
fee^c is rlpc^quickly 1 after, Umlr ' er Moncths °^Os»e t luljf and Augudl, looie earlier or later then .thers, and their t 
c n . ... The Names. 
. The firft is called Or, moides repens by Camerariu, and Pom, Xefe/addcth Poli.oni folio Saponarti fore r,r„, 
,a horns calleth it Oc,modes Alptnus, Bautin* taketh it to be the Cneorum of Manhio/u but I thin te ven (he 
s therein much m,[taken, for that as Clufius faith, that Cneorum beareth a long white b r v fa r e d fa h 7 h 
rn Lugdunenfis hAlor.afolso , 3 d 4 ) fomewhat like unto the berry of ^wlt w th f de tterZ^lZ 
unto it alfo, which m part was the caufe that Ctufius did icferre it to the ThymaUaexcembZ,b7lb „ y ^ 
Bauhunu followcth him alfo in fol. 4 <Sj. of his PtZx mikin'* Chanter g th * ^ taftcand 
gKatt 
them alfo: blit whether Cneorum CMatthioh fhould he eirher rhur nt Tlinfrr v W * /- r ieeac * l * c Unt 0 
forts of Theophraftm in his fixt Booke and fecond Chap, ismuchdo^^ of^ bj^ivers ^ndwtat olams a^rhe r' V ° 
IS as much controverted. Anatullara and others thought rhr rncaru™ „ a- and W ?! P'f arc the true 
Lavendula and R°(mannum,our ordinary Lavender andRofem^ETL 17b r J heophrafi w , were 
vender and Rofemary j whom mZ If/“ "«h foewShat S*/2? m *** Cha P ters ° f La ' 
clarediothers thmke they might be referred to the Chamelea aid ThjmaUa of DioZri'ks'bJr ^b 7 b ^ 
can be no difhnftion of white and blacke bein« both nf rhrm armJ^A • u J c ° ndes ',y\ix. m thefe two there 
befides they doe both flower in the fpring, and Kte '7 ° therS ' and 
ffanding that the leaves of Thynutiahy Viifcoride, was cMedcZor’JandprOfc*- b^ h ‘ S , d °V notwlth - 
led offome in his time Cnejlrumand dneoZ°.\who* neare™ scal ; 
Diofcorides and Galen is t0 bee (hewed • irisrertainell £ld ,1 , b e <7 J C , ” r " w commeth unto that of 
from thole of Theophrafii,, as Sl'kiihTn both &Ml tro°C^t V"? 2*7 ^ ^ 
134. and in his fourth Booke Fob ,72. and faith that becatife the Cneorum “d™ ^‘ S J- hlrd Boo * teof Epiflles Fol. 
to Pliuj iruhis ai, Book and ninth Chap, and twelfth Chan itwasre l j W 1S ^'' C ^ tc > thcref °re according 
put into Garlands, which neither Chamll oTrl^/^doebutK aF ^rnon^thc fweete hetbes that were 
which it feemeth it was alfo by Virgin in divers places of his’wJL^^R 6 ca '1 ^‘ a b y 
Eclogue,he foewethone 0f the Na.des workcin making a Garhnd m foefe Vc^fof ^ 5 21 ^ “ hls Bac ° bck ~ 
Tunc Cafla atejue altjs intexens fuavibui her bis 
Mo Ilia luteola pin git vaccinia caltha . 
And m the fecond of his Georgickj, 
A , Vlx hnmiks apibui cafiu roremque mini fir at 
And m the fourth of the fame, 
Nec circum cafi£ virides & olentia late 
SerpyHa, ctr graviterJpirantes copia thymbra 
FUr eat^rrigttumque bibat violariafontem. 
All which doe plamely fliew that Cafia was commonly accounted with them a ftvecrF^ k r •< , 
Bees to feede on,as well as to put into Garlands : and not that Cafia w h ichTs a tree fif ’ c Y Phmed Fot 
of the Apothecaries Caff,a li gMA , for which caufe it is very probable that CaZ i tma ™ on C cal '^ 
Greeke copie into Latin, puc Cajia for Cneorum rakins them to bee hn,fi , tranflating Theophrajlu, 
gaUn (ay, was the leafe of that plant that bare ’the cllusC^t ! as , DiofJ,des{ n d 
galen fsy, wayhe leafe of that plant that bare the 6 wdiich n byan r tlK , b°fi <W *5 Biofioridesand 
groweth upon ThymaUa, being the fruit thereof, which both in face and n.r ‘ ji c(l mod , erne Hvrbatifls 
firewed before Now how much it differeth from thole of Theophrafius ^ u'!' ,“ U a h “l folldtr as i$ 
agree with his blacke Cneorum, needeth no further demnnfWl™ .ii_ . th r .°. “ e d '<:lared, that it cannot 
agree with his blacke Cneorum, needeth no further demonfttatmn then is foewed h^ dccl , ared ’ that 
>Z t ^ SW ,' t ^? ftd0ea g-- y« Come things therein aredoubtfull firft rhe'/ 0 ' 6 = fc J! c that , !l: “mmeth 
tfoould be called white, (econdlythe branches arc notfo pliant and ftiffeth a r,fi lsn °<E e w therein, why 
W.rfi.ll « . L: .„ . ° • andlaftlv ft d u the y„ ma y fer ' e to binde things 
■dL" ia ft i y IC d ? th "°t flower after the Autumne 
.... — . > t-uc uiancncs arc : 
i aS : thirdI y therooteisnotverygreat: andlaftlv it dnrh n /fl ' w “*««*'u«uig: 
folttice,but in the Spring. Thus farre I have digrelfed from the fiift rLl l e ■ fl T er attcr the Autumne 
whereunto zslfayd fiautiuus teferrech it, and calleth it Lychnis vel Or ft, ;d' ^ C ' n ® drawne 011 by Cneorum, 
^ a .Vr IS z t 16 ^ cimo ^ es Alpinum o^Gefner inhortie and ,hc Saponaruin-'- °l™f e f eyis m °ntanu7n, and faith alfo 
FahtuS Co/urnna calleth Ocimades Ljchntlis ’and bv Bauhinus Lrch °. r Da ecb> "”f’l in Lugdunenfis : rhefe- 
’bdani Lugdunenfis, and TabermoLn* rbor „ , f I ? ^1”“ re T e ”’«the third is remembred 
that it i__ 
and 
