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Show 574 Cuar. 51, Theatrum Botanicam. Trips 5. Trip BS; The Theater of Plants. ee Monfpeliacum, and thinke it to be the Axdrofemum album Dalechampy of Ligdunenfis, which I fee no reafon, whyhe fhould fo judge, inthat the figure expreffeth an upright, and not abending plant, and there is no defcription given ofit ; The laft hath the namemeas uponit,as is fitteft I chinke forit, e Vertues, he Place fe firkt Stow! ‘ Bee Woodsin divers places of ~ pe 2 a2 Huntington, Northampton, avi : - Be ate fe as alfoneare water courfes in ot! ote n : je - the juice of Knotgraffe, helpeth all mannerof {pitting and vomiting of blood, bee it by any veine broken ine cond was fouud on the Pyrenian hills : d ‘h : iat ie the Marfhes of the Low Countries andthe Jalt in Candy, ; The Time, wardly, by bruifes, falls or howsoever : the fame alfo helpeth all thofe that are bitten or ftunge by any venemous creature: And is good for thofe that are troubled with the ftone in their Kidneys, or cannot make Water, and being applyed provoketh womens courfes:two dramsofthe feede madeinto ponder, and drunk ina little doth gently expell choller, or congealed bloodin the ftomack,and mefenteryveines 3 the decoétion ofthe broth andfeeds being drunk fomewhat warmebeforethe fits ofagues, whethertheybe tertians or quartiansdothleaves helpe to alter the firs,and byoften ufing taketh them quite away;the feede is much commended being drunke for 40 dayes together, to helpe the Sciatica or Hippe Goute,Falling fickneffe and Palfie alfo, Theherbe, thatis, both the leaves, towersand {eede, {teeped in wine for 12. houres, and then diftilled in an ordinaryStill, the water hereof being drunke witha little Sugar therein, is accounted as effeCtuall as any decoétion or other preparation, and killeth the wormesin the belly or ftomacke. The oyle ofS.Jobxs wort, eyther fimple or compound, but the compoundis moreeffectuall, is fingular good bothfor all greene wounds, andold fores & ulcers,in the legs orelfe where,that are hard to be cured, andis effe€tuall alfo for crampes and achesin the joynts,and paines in the Veines and finewes,and isalfo goodfor all burnings-by fire,to be prefently uféd,or the juice of the gteen leaves applyeds the hearbe dryed and made into pouder, is as effeCtuall for woundsand foresto be ftrowed thereon, as the o le of juice. The fimple oyle is mace of foureouncesof the flowers infufed in a pint ofoyle Ollive, called Sallet oyle, and three ounces of white wine, for 10. or 12. dayes to bee fet in the Sunne, and afterwarls boyled in a Vk Lai They doeall flowerin ane and Txlj, and the feede istipe in Angus, : , The Nemes. I) ns Ieis called in Greeke dawesy,and douwesdies A/cy- rum and Afcyroides, contrario dibums putatur : ones enim afperitatem illis fignificat ; The Latines have no other name thend/cyrum, from the Greckes to call ic. Diofcorides faith, it was alfo called An- y drofemum, and Hypericum too, and Galen therefore accounteth it akind of Androfemum, The firtis ufally called by moft writers A/cyrum, as Matthiots doth ; itis probable to bee the firlt Hypericum in dumetis uafcens of Tragus, and is the firlt Androf(oe mam of Fuchfins,and by Dodonaus fet for Hypericum, NG, EE ) Cte ANN ye ep eae LE a AM ) any a i oN TH KORY i Yi y AY) v in his French Edition, but called Androfgmum alte. Balneoor Kettle of {eething water, ftrayned forth, and refrefhed with new flowers, {0 et in the Sunnie, and i the fame manner boyled,{trained forth and renewed the third time withfreth flowers, whichafter they ha ‘h laftly (food in the Sunne a fortnight or more, are to be boyled in the fayd Baizeo or Kettl Lakhs of feething Wate {trayned forth, and the oyle, having fome fine turpentine diffolvedin it whilesit ishot, and¢ fo kepr, ty isi fingy r, r aforefayd. Like hereunto 4 goodfor the purpofes Gerard hath fet downe away, which is, with Saller ees parts, white wine and oyle of Turpentine onepart, {et in the Sunne, with the leaves, flowersandfeedes, of §Johns wort, for 8. or 10.dayes, and boyled and renewedthe third time, in the manner aforefayd. But the compound rum birfutum, by Fabius (olumna, who yet doubted whether to callit Hypericum or Androfemum, faying it came neareft unto A/cyrum, although fomewhat iffering fromfrom itit (which whichiit may bee ‘ be is-but the foyle differing and climate) Banhinys calleth it Androfemnm hirfita tum xthe next two have their namesintheir titles that Bashinus giveth them; yet the third is called fome earth wormes wafhedand flit, andall of them infufed in the fayd oyle, and fet in the Sunne aad ied boyled,{trayned forth, and Turpentine and oyle of Wormewood put thereto, which then is to bee refe din fome pot,or glaffe clofe ftopped, tobe ufed as occafiondoth require, ore Alpinus lib, de exoticis,asit is inthe title; all nations chriltned take it as another kind of $,Johns wort, and fo callit,and we S, Peters wort. The Vertues, oyle is made ofthe fimple oyle, after the laft infufion being {trained forth, there j : of Candy, Gentian or Felwort, Cardus Benedittys, or Bleffed thiftle, and Feomileb en en 575 The Felvicedarak aoe Grsiees ind Grail low S, Johns wort is as fingulara woundherbeas any other whatfoever, eyther for inward wounds, hurts or brnifes, tobe boyled in wine anddrunke, or prepared into oyle or oyntment, bathe or lotion outwardly, for being of an hot and drying quality, with fubrill parts, it hath power to open obftruétions, to diffolve tumouts, to confolidate or foder the lips ofwounds,and to ftrengthen the partsthatare weake and feeble;the deco@ion ofthe herbe and flowers,butofthe feed efpecially in wine,being drunke,or the feed madeinto pouder and drunk with Cuar.52e Afiyrum vulgare, Ordinary S.Pcrers wort, See EA lel Zon Clufius, in the Aufuarinm of his other Appenae ce (upinum’ iradns s the lat is called by : Mi ; ye) y YT, L, Gi}fa ti yi) | 4 feds thé Tris ofthe fame propertie with S, Zohns wort, but fomewhat weake, and therefore monet Sie hae Crap, feede to the quantitie of two dramstakén at a time,in Meade or honyed water pargeth, a sedeteneee eds and Galea chollericke humours, and thereby helpeth thofe that are troubled with the Sota oF pane in LI, the hippes : theleaves are ufed as S. Johns wort, to helpe thofe places of the body that have beene burng withfire. Afiyrum, §, Peters wott, Re scum F this herbe likewife formerly there hath beene but one for: knowne, and defcribéd, bur wee BS have two other to thew, notlong fince Cuar, LIL found and broughe to our know ledge, ‘ oe . re vulgare, Ordinary S, Peters wort Us ©. eters Wort that is moft commoninourland, rifeth upwith fguare uprigh #§ thethe moft part, fomewhat greater and higher , tftalkes, for then S. Jobxs wort, but! heed te eee manner, = = ===> and atevery joynthaving two leaves, fomewhat like thofe ofS. Jobns wort, but larger, a little ae s,chc, yet becanfe itBaeis fo a generally teers ‘i an Lthough our Tutfan be not the right Androfemum of Die{coride ‘ xS By) ASAad accounted by molt, letf it receive his place here among fome other plants sales Androfa- > > (talk Bid any yetlose Harre-like : flowers, with : yellow threds in the as the ftalkesverylike will bee: a etl middle, uePe: 3 thetit ates ee bh oe ng aac and height, it is hardly by many difcerned from S. Iobns wort, and De= mum,by . Androfemum vulgare, Common Tutfan or Parkeleaves, Ae FOS Our Turlan bach not fasie but brownifbfhining round ftalkes, crefted all thelength eorent rifing to be two,or fometimesthree foote high, branching forth even from the bottome, forme t aly et s oe e pointed, and with veryfew or no holes to be feene therein,and having fometimes fome finaller leaves tiling from the bofome of the greater, and fometimes a little hayrie alfo, : Face sist lat fo bloody a. Juice, being bruifed betweene the fingers, having alfo fuchlike feede, of as firon: etnous fent ; the roote abidethlong, fending forth newfhoots every yeare, i : other S. Per e rue Si eanener. Great flowred S, Peters wort,ftalke, two aThisoo ethe former, having around browne upright foote high at thé seat - ike, but arger leaves and round pointed, ofa paler greene colour onthe upperfide, and whiNeerneath ; the flowerschat {tand at the end of the ftalke, are of a paie yellow colour like the other, b Good deale larger, with yellow threds therein alfo, ne he Mari 3 oe Finan vilefem paluftre Creeping S. Peters wort of the Marth. upright, but leaning. See at alles, me umetory are woolly and foft, and ftand not = > tthe joynts, having fomewhat rounder poi me ene ate = pester: the flowers are as ican aradiof the frees lockode abe wages Juice that they doe; and thefe things make the whole differencefrom the former be. as . . ‘ , This differeth from deteeae cretica major. Great S.Peters wort of Candy; ger then it. : er onely in the largenefie of the leaves and flowers, which are foure timésbig- Nastia Tutfan,or Parke leaves. AS ES auns by divers writers, that thereby you may fee and knowthedifference betweene them, farther afunder, having divers joynts, and at each of them two faire largeleayes ftanding, but more thinly fet then of the other forts,which are of a darke blewith greene colouron the upperfide,and ofa yellower greene unRt foes reddifh towards Autumne, but abiding on the branches all the winter a eres okthe ftalkes and branches ftand larger yellow flowers, then in any ofthe formerforts, and heads wit , oF cVy ser, whichbeing greene at the firft, and afterwards reddifh, turne to be of a blackifh purple colour, sey are through ripe, with {mall brownith {ede within them, and then yeeld a reddihjuice or liquor, oe "7 sodfone {omewhat refinous,and ofan harfhor (tipticke tafte, as the leaves alfoand the flowers vonehuch lefle, but doe not yeeld fuch a cleare Claret wine liquor, as Gerard ering De * mn ground. rein, faith it hath; the rooteis brownith, fomewhat great hard and wooddy,fpreading well inthe 2. Androfemum Matthioli. Matthiolus his Tutfan ‘ ! his Tutfan (for other Englifh name I knownot well, what it may have, unl¢ffe:you would call it a great f S. lobns wort, b stanfe it is fo like it) hath brownifh round (lalkes, with two leavesat every joynt, fuller of brank alietas Ficsene S, Johns wort, but more {paringly or thinly fet hereon, much {maller and oe os he former Tutfan, and greater then thofe of S, Iohns wort, without any hoates atall inthem; the flowers aden é j blackeftre ftreakes on owlikewife,and greater then they, and fo are the heads with feede; but fpotted with 7 The |