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TheTheater ofTUnis. 
Chap. 14. 1231 
The Place and Time, 
Jhcfe doe all grow in moift and wet grounds: the firft and 
third in our owne Country in iundry places. The fecond in 
Ateftrt*, And the lad in Candy, They hower in the Sommer 
moneths, and give their fcede foonc after. 
The Names. 
The fitft is called Ctytarrubjumaquatic umby Tragiu/Dodo- 
7 i£Mj Lobel, and Lugdnnenjts.OV Adarrubium‘ % palttjtre by o- 
tilers, CMatthiolm puctech it for the firft S ideritis of Diofcori - 
des, and lo doe Angui Ur a fie (her in bortU s Lacuna, Camerariw > 
Tb'Aius ^and Lugdunenjis :but Lonicertu and Lobel put it for his 
fecond Sideritis , faefncr alio calleth it Lancea ^brifii,znd Bats - 
himft, Alarrubutm pain fire glabrum, as he doth the fecond pa- 
Ittfirc hirjntpsm. 1 he third is called in Greeke by Diofcerides 
(ia.hh*-ti i at\dfjLiKa.vTr£<?-nov i t BaU$te i and Marrubium nigrum in 
Latine,and fo mod writers doe call it,yet fomc call it Mafru- 
biaflrum or Adarrubiitmfiurittm as Lobel doth, and Baubintu 
Adarrubium nigrum fatscLum, and B allot e. The lad is fo called 
by Alpinw as icjis in the title, who iaith that the feede was fent 
him from Candy ,by the name of Marrubium nigrum. 
T he Venues. 
Galen faith that the blacke Horehound, for there is noufe 
of the others in Phyficke^hat we know it is of a fharpe and 
cleaning quality, and being applyed with fait, doth heale the 
bitingsof dogges,as Dio/corides before him did fet it downe. 
The leaves heated under the afhes untill they grow yellow, 
and applyed to the hard fweilings of the fundament that 
b'eede, being like unto the Kemorrhoides, doe (lay the blee¬ 
ding,and ealc the paines,and being ufed with hony they clenfe 
foule ulcers. 
4. Manubimn nigrum Creticuta. Candy blacke Horehoaad. 
Chap. XIV. 
Stachjs palufirie. Marfh bafe Horehound. 
BHis hath fquarc round and hairy ftalkes,about two foots high, with two fomewhrt long and narrow, 
darkegreene 'caves, and gray underneath,. staebytpaluflris. 
pointed at the ends, and dented about the Marfli bate Horehound. 
edges, with round dents like Betony, fet at 
every joynt, and iomewbat a ftrong unfa¬ 
vour y fent at the upper joyntsywith the leaves come forth 
fundry pale reddifli flowers, fet in rankesljke unto Beto¬ 
ny, the roote is fomewhat long and thicke,joyntcd at fey 
v trail fpaces with fibres at them. 
The Place and Time. 
It groweth in the plafhy placcs.oflow grounds,in fun- 
dry Countries and flowreth in Iulj. 
The Names, 
Camerarm calleth it Stachjs paluflris Gefnpri, but Gefi 
ner himfelfe in Collations Slirpium, calleth it Betanicafeti¬ 
che, and qnellioneth whether it ihould not be the Herha 
Iudaica : Lugdunenfe laith iys Cljmcnum minus, Dale- 
champi] and Thalius calleth it,Sideritis prima. gravis tsdoris, 
(efalpinut Terxiala, becaule it cureth a tertian ague,Reylfr 
in the great httrtus Tyfietenjis, faith it was called with 
them Lyfintachfegalericnlata adulterine, and Cjerard Mar- 
rabittm ajuaticum acutum, yetitis not his PinaxCahni, 
as fome would thinke, which is not of fo ftrong a fent as 
this, neither is the leafe ol this fo long,nor rootes fo Scro. 
phuloiis. 
Tht Venues. 
It is a Angular good wound herbe.fervinjj both ro heale 
greene wounds,and foule old Vlcers, the juyee taken in 
fome drioke an houre before the fit of an ague,will le/Icn 
and alter the fit, and at two or three times taking, quite 
rid it away. 
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