Theatrum c Botamcum . 
Chap. XIII. 
Afarnibitm ayaaticam. Water Horchonnd. 
SNtorhe Water Horehounds Jmuft adjoyne two or three other plants, necteft thereunto both in 
. face and place,which 1 reletved out from the former Horehounds, to fet here. 
t. Atarrubium acjHaticitm vttlgarc. Our ordinary Water Horehound- 
, This Water Horehound growcth lomewhat great and high, with ftrong fquare ftalkes, having 
two fome what large and long leaves fet at every ,'oynt, fomewhat dcepely dented about thecd ‘ 
ges, not hairy or rough at all.butfmooth and grecne : at the j'oynts with the leaves towards the toppes hand 
fmall whitilh flowers in rough greene huskes comparing the ftalkes about: the feede that followeth is blackifli 
and roundjoure ufually fet together in the huske : the roote is a tuft of blackifh firings. 
2. Marrubium acfuattcum uttcrum. Hairy Marlh Horehound' 
This other Water or Marfh Horehound hath fquare ftalkes, but hairy and a little hoary and rounh, whereon 
arc let leaves by couples,as in the former,hairy hard and hoary, much more cut in on the ed»es,even to the middle 
ribbe, making them tceme like the leaves of the great Mountaine Scabious, the ends being”pointed and (h-, p e- 
the flowers are white and fmall, Handing in rough fliarpe pointed huskes compaffinu the ftalkes at the jovnt* as 
the former doth. 
, nigrum fetidumrSaUoie d.blum. Stinking blacke Horehound. 
The ftinking blacke Horehonnd hath divers (quare blackifh hairy greene ftalkes riling from the roote, whereon 
are fet upon long footelialkes round darke grecne leaves full of veincs.a little hairy.and endented about the edoes 
fmelling fomewhatftrongly twoalcvaies at a /oynt: the flowers are gaping andofapnrplifh colour, lomewhat 
like the red dead Nettie,in greenilh huskes compaffing the ftalkes as the others doe, tie (eede likewile is blacke 
.... and round,and foure fet together ufually alio: the roote is blackifh and threddy. 1 have found this with white 
f .art Alio fl owcrs ,in the way to Rochtftcr,bz[k a mile from Gravrfend. 
4- Marrubium nigrum Creticum. Candy blacke Horehound. 
1 his blacke Horehound of Candy , hath the firft leaves that rife from a flringy roote, fomewhat like unto that of 
a Primrofe,being many larger and longer then thofe of the white Horehound,dented about the edges and fharec 
pointed, as big as thofe of baime,andof fo blacke a“to1our as it may feeme to be fo coloured or dyed by art,and i'o 
are both the Iquarc llalkes and the many like leaves but Ieffer that grow together, at the feveraU joynts of them, 
up to the toppes, where the flowers ftand compafling them, being in forme like unto thofe of Horehound. but 
blackifh alio,it is wholly without fent or caftc. * 
i. Marrubium ajaiticumvulgare. 
Our ordinary Water Horthound, 
?• Marrubium nigrum fxtiJuu BaUote dtflum. 
Stinking Horehound. 
