Lib.i. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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. 160. 



Of 'Tutfan or Tar\e leaues. 



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than tho/c 



, rpHe ftalks of Tutfan be ftraigh^roundjchamfered or crefted,hard and wooddy, beeirig 

 J for the mofl part two foot high. The leaues are three or foure times bigger 



of S.Iohns wort.ivhich be at the fir ft green s afterwards and in the end of Summer of 

 bkei I colour: out of which is prefTed a juice not like blackebloud, but Claretor Gafcoigne 

 . The flourcsare ye!low,and greater than thofcof S.Peters wort ; after which rifeth vp a little 

 reundhcadorberry^rft green.afterwards redraft of all blacke,\vhercin iscontained yellowifli red 

 fad: the root is hard,wooddy,and of long continuance. 



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: fet forth for Aadrefitmum^nd our Auth 



fyheft 



Mm, (though here it feemes he had either altered his mind,or forgot what he formerly wroc) 

 my fitly ftand in competition with the laft defcribed , which may pafTe in the fir ft place for the 

 imV#«w»of the Antients; for Adhucfdjudiceliteft. I will not here infift vponthe point ofcon- 

 troucrii^ucgiueyouthedefcriptionofthe plant, which is thisrlt fends vp round (lender redd ifh 

 lalks lone two cubits high,fet with fewer yet bigger leaues than the ordinarie S . Iohns wort and 

 Aefc alio more hairy : thefloures and feeds are like thofe of the common S.Iohns wort.but fome 

 that larger : it growes in fome mountainous wooddy places , and in the AduerfarU it is called An- 

 hftmmtxcellenmsjeu magnum : and by Dodenstts (as we but now noted) Ruufjfoejlru Hypericoi- 



fylueftris which is defcribed by Diofi 



dupteraod bookebut now mentioned ; but reje&ec 

 1549. You may finde thedefcription alfoin Vodonsu 



tic Girious,beiog loth here to infift farther vpon it. 



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