The ordinary Basill is in a manner wholly spent to make sweet, or washing waters, among other sweet herbes, yet sometimes it is put into nosegayes. The Physicall properties are, to procure a cheerefull and merry heart, whervnto the seede is chiefly vsed in pouder, &c. and is most vsed to that, and to no other purpose.
| 1 | Santolina. Lauender Cotton. |
| 2 | Lauendula. Lauender Spike. |
| 3 | Stœchas. Cassidony. |
| 4 | Chamædrys. Germander. |
| 5 | Ocimum minus. Fine Bassill. |
| 6 | Marum. Herbe Masticke. |
| 7 | Maiorana. Sweete Marierome. |
Chap. CXXXI.
Maiorana. Sweete Marierome.
Wee haue many sorts of Marierome; some that are sweete, and but Summer plants; others that are greater and not so sweet; and some also that are wilde. Of all these I will onely select some of the choisest that are fit for this place, and leaue the other for the next garden, and the garden of simples, or a generall worke: yet hereunto I will adioyne another sweete plant called Masticke, as participating neerer with them then with Time, whereunto many doe referre it.
1. Maiorana maior æstiua. Common sweet Marierome.
The sweet Marierome that is most frequently sowen in our Country, is a low herbe little aboue a foote high when it is at the highest, full of branches, and small whitish soft roundish leaues, smelling very sweet: at the toppes of the branches stand diuers small scaly heads, like vnto knots, (and therefore of some called knotted Marierome) of a whitish greene colour, out of which come here and there small white flowers, and afterwards small reddish seede: the roote is composed of many small threds or strings, which perish with the whole plant euery yeare.