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THe running Tyme, hath diuers smal wooddie brāches, somtimes tray∣ling alongst the ground, & somtimes growing vpright of a foote & half long, set full of smal leaues, much like to the leaues of common garden Time, but much larger. The floures grow about the toppe of the stalkes like to crownes or garlands, after ye maner of Horehound floures, or knops, most com∣monly of a purplered colour, & somtimes (but very seldom) as white as snow.
The roote is harde, and of wooddie substance, with many threeddie strings.
This herbe groweth plentifully in all this coūtrie in places that are rude, rough, dry, vntilled, and stonie, by the high way sides, and in the borders of fieldes.
Running Tyme floureth from after May vntill the end of Sommer.
This herbe is now called in Shoppes Serpillum, and in some places Pulegium montanum: in Italian Serpillo: in Spanish Sepollo Serpam: in English wilde Tyme, Pu∣liall mountayne, Pellamountayne, & run∣ning Time: in Frēch Serpolet. in high douch Quendel, and of some also Kumel, & Kieu∣lin: in base Almaigne Quendel, & in Bra∣bant Onser vrouwen bedstroo, & in some places wilden Thymus. Many iudge it to be that whiche the Greekes do call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Latines Serpyllum hortense, howbeit it should seeme rather to be a kind of Thymum durius, or that which is called of Dioscorides in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latine Saxifranga, than Serpyllum.
Pellamountayne is hoate and dry in the thirde degree.
[ A] Wilde Tyme boyled in water or wine and drōken, prouoketh and bringeth to women the fluxe Menstruall, driueth out the stone and grauell, and prouo∣keth vomit.
[ B] The same taken in the like manner, stoppeth the laske, and cureth gripings, or knawings, and is excellent against Crampes, and the drawing togither or shrinking of Synewes.
[ C] This herbe taken in meates and drinkes, (or brothes,) is a soueraigne me∣dicine against all poyson, and against the bytings and stingings of venemous beastes and Serpentes.
[ D] The iuyce of Pellamountayne or Running Tyme, dronken to the quanti∣tie of halfe an vuce with Vineger, is good agaynst the spetting and vomiting of bloud.
[ E] Running Tyme mengled with Vineger and oyle of Roses, and applied to the forehead and temples, swageth head ache, & is very good against rauing, and frensie.
[ F] The perfume of the same, driueth away all venemous beasts.