2 Besides this there is also another de∣scribed by Fuchsius: the stalkes hereof are thicke, foure square, now and then two or three foot long: the leaues be broad, long, hoarie, nicked in the edges, hairie as are al∣so the stalks, and much broader than those of the common Horehound: the floures in the whorles which compasse the stalke a∣bout, are of a purple colour; the seede is round and blackish: the root hard & som∣thing yellow.
‡ 3 This thorny Stachys hath leaues before it comes to send forth the stalk, like those of the lesser Sage, but more white & hairie, those that grow vpon the stalkes are much narrower: the stalks are square some foot high: and at the parting of them into branches grow alwaies two leaues one op∣posit against another: the tops of the bran∣ches end in long sharpe thornie prickles: the floures grow about the toppes of the branches like those of Sage, but of some∣what a lighter colour. This grows natural∣ly in Candy, about a Towne called Larda, where Honorius Bellus first obserued it, there it is called Guidarothymo, or Asses Tyme, though it agree with Tyme in nothing but the place of growth. Clusius sets it forth by the name of Stachys spinosa.
4 Lobel hath giuen vs the figure and first description of this by the name of Sta∣chys Lusitanica. It hath creeping and dow∣nie stalkes some handfull and halfe high, set with little leaues: amongst which in rundles grow smal floures like those of the other wilde Horehounds; the whole plant is of somewhat a gratefull smell. ‡
5 There is another wilde Horehound of Mountpelier, called Sideritis Monspelliaca Scordioides, siue Scordij folio: being that kind of Sideritis or wilde 〈◊〉〈◊〉 which is like vnto Scordium, or water Germander, which groweth to the height of a handfull and a halfe, with many small branches ri∣sing vpright, of a wooddie substance, ha∣uing the tops and spokie coronets of Hys∣sop, but the leaues do resemble Dioscorides his Scordium, saue that they be somewhat lesser, stiffer, more wrinckled 〈◊〉〈◊〉 curled and hairie, than 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or the Iudaicall herb: the floures do 〈◊〉〈◊〉 those of the com∣mon Sauorie, in taste bitter, and of an aro∣maticall smell.
6 Mountaine Sideritis beeing also of the kindes of Horehound, was first found by Valerandus 〈◊〉〈◊〉, in the mountains of Sauoy, resembling very wel the last described, but the leaues are much narrower, and like those of Hyssope: the floures grow in small rough rundlets or tusts, pale of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 like Marrubium or Tetrahit; the root long and bending, of a wooddie substance, and purple co∣lour, bitter in taste, but not vnpleasant, whose vertue is yet vnknowne.