The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 WHite Horehound bringeth forth very many stalkes foure square, a cubit high, co∣uered ouer with a thin whitish 〈◊〉〈◊〉: whereupon are placed by couples at certaine distances, thicke whitish leaues somewhat round, wrinkled and nicked on the edges, and couered ouer with the like downinesse; from the bosomes of which leaues come forth small floures of a feint purplish colour, set round about the stalke in round wharles, which turne into sharpe prickly husks after the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be past. The whole plant is of a strong sauor, but not vnpleasant: the root is threddy.

2 The second kinde of Horehound hath sundry crooked slender stalkes, diuided into many small branches couered ouer with a white hoarinesse or cottony downe. The leaues are likewise hoarie and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, longer and narrower than the precedent, lightly indented about the edges, and sharply pointed like the Turky Bawme, and of the same bignesse, hauing small wharles of white

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1 Marrubium album. White Horehound.

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2 Marrubium 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Snow white Horehound:

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3 Marrubium Hispanicum. Spanish Horehound.

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4 Marrubium Creticum. Candy Horehound.

floures, and prickly rundles or seed-vessels set about the stalks by certaine distances. The root is likewise threddy.

3 Spanish Horehound hath a stiffe hoarie and hairy stalke, diuiding it selfe at the bottome into two wings or more armes, and likewise toward the top into two others; whereupon are placed by couples at certaine spaces faire broad leaues, more round than any of the rest, and likewise more woolly and hairy. The floures grow at the top of the stalkes, spike fashion, composed of small ga∣ping floures of a purple colour. The whole plant hath the sauor of Stoechados.

4 Candy Horehound hath a thicke and hard root, with many hairy threds fastned thereunto; from which rise vp immediately rough square stalkes, set confusedly with long leaues of a hoarie colour, of a most pleasant strong smell. The floures grow toward the top of the stalkes in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rundles, of a whitish colour.