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Show 542 ee Of the Hiltorie of Plants. Lie.2, Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. Lis. 2 & 2D iofcorides faith, That the feed drunkefor the {pace offourty dayes together, cureth the Sciaj. ca, andall aches that happenin the hips. ‘ Seale: , F The fame Authorfaith, That being takenwith Wine it taketh-away Tertian and Quartane Cuar.i60, Agues. Of Tutfan or Parke-leanes. %| The Defcription. He ftalkes of Tutfanbe ftraight,round, chamfered or¢érefted hard/and wooddy,being OfSaint Peters wort,orquare S.Fobns Graffe. 1 Afeyron. q The Defcription. S. Peters wort. ; Aint Peters wort growethto the height ofa cnbit anda halfe, hauinga ftraigtt vpright ftalke fomewhatbrowne, fetby couplesat certaine diftances,with Jeanes muchike thofe of S. Johns wort , but greater, rougher, and rounder pointed: fromthe bofomeof whichleaues come forth many fmaller leaues, thewhichare not bored through,as thofe of S. ohns wortare, yet fometimethere be fomefew fo boredthrough. The floures growat the top ofthe branchesof a yellow colour : the leaues and floures whentheyare but fed do yeeld forth a bloudy iuyceas doth S. lohns wort, whereofthis is a kinde. The root is tough, and of a wooddyfubftance. ea +2 Vpondiuers boggy groundsofthiskingdomeis tobe found growing that S. Peters Wort which Clufivs deferibes in his Aucfarium, bythe nameofAfcyrum [upinum adds. This fends forth die uers roundhairy creeping ftalkes, which here and there put out newfibres or roots, and thefe ate fet at cettaine fpaceswith very round andhairi¢ leaues ofa whitith colour, twoata ioynt, andon thetops of thefe ftalkes grow -a few {mall yellow floures which confift of fue leaues a piece ; thefe ftalks el- domefend forth branches, vnleffe it be one of - at the tops. It maywell becalled in Englith,ow leaued $.Peters wort. + @ The Place. “| S.Petets wort, ot S. Iohns Graffe growethplentifully in the North part ofEngland,efpeet ly in Land{dale and Crauen : I haue found it in many places ofKent,efpecially ina copie by fter Sidleys houfe neere Southfleet. ; @ TheTime, It foureth and flourifheth when S.Johns wort'doth. Z ; ‘ | The Names, It Itiscalledin Greeke éowey: the Latines haue no other name but this Greeke name AT is called offome Androfemum : Galen maketh it bothakinde of Tutfan, and S. Iohns Wort, aith it it isnamed i : Afeyron,and Afeyroides: yearninEnglith,S.Peters i faith wort, Square or great S.Iohnsafle: and of fome, Hardhay. Fewknow it from S.lohnswort, . i The Temperature, This herbe is oftem perature hot ae: < : TheVertues, Pri? ‘ Itis endued withthe fame vertues eit Johns wortis enduedwithall. The feed, faith s; rides, being drankein foure ouncesand a halfe of Meade, dothplentifully purge by fiege ticke excrements, Galen doth likewife affirme the fame, Cuar HAPs for the moft part two foot high. The Jeaties ate three or foure times bigger than thofe ofS. Iohins wort, which be at the’firt greene : afterwardsjand in the end of Sommer of a dark red colour : out ofwhichis prefled'a iuyce notlike blackebloud, but Clarer or Gafcoigne wine. Thefloures are yellow, and greater than thofe of S.Peters wort; after which tifeth vp a little round headorberry,firft greene, afterwards red, laft of all blacke, wherein is cons tained yellowifhred feed, Therootis hard; wooddy,and oflong continuance. $2. This (which Dodoren did not vnfitly call Rura [ylueftres Hypericoides, and’ which others haue fet forth for 4rdrofemum,and our Author the laft chapterfaue one affirmedtobe the true 47drofensum, thoughhere it eemes he hadeither altered his minde,ot forgot what he formerly wrot) may fitlyftand in competitionwith the laft: defcribed, which may’ paffe in the firft place for the Androfemum ofthe Antients ; for adhuc fib judice lis eff. Twill not here infift vpon the point ofcon- trouerfie, but giue you a defcription ofthe plant, which is this : It fends vp roundflender teddith ftalkes fome'twocubits high,fet with fewer yet biggerleaues thanthe ordinarie S, Iohns Wort, and thefe alfo more hairy : the floures andfeeds are like thofe of thecommonS. Tohns wort, but fomewhatlarger. It growes in fome mountainous and wooddy places 3 andin the'Adverfaria itis” called Androfemumexcellentins, feu magnum : and by Dedoneus (as we but nownoted ) Ruta fylueftris Hypericoides, thinking it to be the Rutafylueftris whichis defcribed by Diofcorides, lib.>. cap. 48. ia the old Greeke edition of Manutivs, xg.2, And in that of cttarcellus Vircilius his Interpretation, in the chapter and booke but now mentioned; but reie@ed amongft the Worha in the Paris Edition 4zmo 1549. You mayfinde the defeription alfo in Dedoneus, Pempt. prima, lib.3.cap. 254 whither I refer the cutious, being loath here to infift further vponit. 1 ClymenonItalorum, Tutfan, or Parke leaues, + + 2 Androfemum Hypericoides, Tutfan S.Iohns wort, |