¶ The Description.
1 BLacke Horehound is somewhat like vnto the white kinde. The stalkes be also square and hairie. The leaues somewhat larger, of a darke swart or blackish colour, somewhat like the leaues of Nettles, snipt about the edges, of an vnpleasant and stinking sauour. The floures grow about the stalks in certain spaces, of a purple colour, in shape like those of Arch∣angell or dead Nettle. The roote is small and threddie. ‡ I haue found this also with white floures.
‡ 2 To this may fitly be referred that plant which some haue called Parietaria, Sideritis, and Herbaventi, with the additament of Monspeliensium to each of these denominations: but Bauhine, who I herein follow, calls it Marrubium nigrum longifolium. It is thus described: the root is thicke and very fibrous, sending vp many square rough stalkes some cubite high, set at certaine spaces with leaues longer and broader than Sage, rough also and snipt about the edges: and out of their bo∣somes come sloures, hooded, and purple of colour, engirting the stalkes as in other plants of this kinde. Some haue thought this to be Othonna of the Antients, because the leaues not falling 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Winter, are either eaten by the Wormes, or wasted by the iniurie of the weather to the very nerues or veines that runne ouer them; so that by this meanes they are all perforated, and easily blowne thorow by each blast of winde: which caused some to giue it also the name of Herba 〈◊〉〈◊〉. It grows in the corne fields about Montpelier. ‡