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_a10fl:'orz'dc5faith,That the feed drunke for the {pace of forty daies together cureth the Sfiaticat and all aches that happen in the hips. _ The fame Author faith,That beingtakerr in wine it takes away tertian and quartan Agnes-

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C H A P; 15 9. S."'Peter.r wort or /padre S.Io/ms gm/f e.

1 L/Ifcyrofl. 1; TbeDefcrz'ption. . S . Peters wort. _ . ht Aint Peters wort groweth to the belght of a cubit and a halfe, hauing a {M15 vpright (lalk fornwhat brow n,rc: by c°"‘ ples at certaine diflances , with leaues rnuc d thofe of S.Iohns VVort, but reater, rou%her;3“ rounder pointed: from the ho om of whic come forth many fmall leaues, the which are “Or bored through,as thofe of S. Iohns VVort are 5 Y1: fomtimes therebe fame few {'0 bored through-T e floures grow at the top of the branches ofa ycllow colour : the leaues and Homes when they art! “'1' fed do yeeld forth a bloudy juice as doth S. 101*“ wort,whereof this is a kind. The root is toughra“ of a wooddy fubflance. _ ~ » :1; 2 Vpon diuers boggy grounds of this kmg‘ dome is to be found growing that S.Pcters 0 5 which Clu/Ira defcribes in his L'Auc7armm by ‘h. name of Afcyrumfipinum zi.'.m.This {ends forth d“ uers round hairy creeping (talks, which heere ‘mt there put vp new fibres or roots,and thefe are {BF “F certain {paces with very round and hairy leau65° a whitifh colour, two at a joint, and on the £095,011 thefe {talks grow a few {mall yellow flour.es»wh“ confifl of fine leaues apiece. Thefe flalks feldome _ __ fend forth branches, vnleffis it be one or two at ‘he W t g V» tops: it may well be called in Englifh. Round 1‘?

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q; The Place; _ _ fly S.Peters wort or S.Iohns graffe groweth plentifully in the North parts of England, efpcfia. _ in Land {dale and Crauen : I haue found it in many places of Kent,efpecially in acopfe by M - icy: houfe neere South-fleet. . q; The Time. It floureth andfloutifheth when S .Iohns wort doth. * q The Names. b It Iris called in Greeke I:'rnr.ugyv . the Latines ha_ue no other name but this Greek name Afcyrafif- it is called of {ome ulndrqfaemurrz .- Galen makes it both a kind of Tutfan and S . Iohns wort, “and it is named Afiyranpr tjfvyrofdes .- in Englil'h,S.Peters wort, Square or great S.Iohnsgra {Yer _ of fame Hardhay. Few know_it from S.Iohns_w0i't. _ - v A V The Temperature. This herb is of temperature hot and dry. q} The Venues.

1; is enducd with the fame vertues that S.Iohns wort is.The feed,faith Diofcorider and G4/€”’be‘

1 ing drunk in foure ounces and a halfe of Meade, doth plentifully purge by fiege cholericke exCF‘*

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C H A P. 16 o. Of Tuffim or Tarke leaner.

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1 Tide Pralks ofTutfari be firaight,round,chamf'ered or cre{{ed,hard and wooddy, heeing for the moft part two foot high. The leaues are three or foure times bigger than there

a darker d Of S.Ioh_ns wort‘,whic_h be at the_fi_rft green 5 afterwards and in the end of Summer of wine TE Eolour: out of which 15 preffed ayuice not like blacke bloud, but Claret or Gaicoigne mun he Cd oures are yellow,and greater than thofe of S.Perers wortgafter which rrfeth vp a little feed _ [hf 0!’ herryfirfl: greemafterwards red,la_fl' of all blacke,wherein is contained yellowifh red

- c rootis hard,wooddy,and of long continuance.

haue feif Th1S,which Dadomws did not vnfitly call Ratzz fylr:/eflric Hyperitoiclegand which others rofm’ N orth for .4izdrqfli2m1rm,aEld our Author the lafi chapter faue one alfirmed to be the true Ax- m 31 A’ ‘F “""s (though here it feemes he had either altered his mind,or forgot what he formerly wrot). A”§’_‘f=}’ {bind in competitionwith the lafk defcribed , which may pafl'e in the firfr place for the mu 0.1g/ffiismz of the Antients; for adbacfab judice 1;’; eff. I will not here infifi: vpon the point ofcon- anfs’ -Wahllt giue you the defcription of the plant,which is this:It {ends vp round flcnder reddrlh there 1<i>_me two cubits hig'h,fet with fewer yet bigger leaues than the ordinarie S . Iohns worr,and at}! 0 more harry: the flouresand feeds are like thofe of the common S.Iohns wort,but fome- ,0/gmargfir ’" z‘§T9W€S in fome mountainous wooddy places Sand in the Aduerfixria it is called Aa- E: ~[h_“”1 _€xCe./Zcntim‘,_[?m magnum .- and by Drufrmamr (as we but now noted) Ratafylvejlrir Hy}7E7iC01-

- r’eek“‘,k1§1g it to be the Rutafylaejms which is defcribed by Diqrwr ?de_t, lié. 3 . cap.48. _in the old C lapteee mom of Manarias, Iv» ~-M And intha-t of ouarcellm Virgiiim his interpretation, in the, IS rand booke but now mentioned ; but rejeéted amongfi the Narlzz‘ in the Paris edition, Anna ;h§9C' Y9“ maiflfinde the de {cription alfo in Dodamzus, Pemptqirimx, lib. 3. mpg. 5 . whither I refer urious,being loth here to infifi farther vpon it. it

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