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in an infinite number of places with pmnes pomts.The branches diuide themf P !.,»c 



floure 



yceld a reddifh juice of the colour of bloud. The feed is contained in little (harp pointed hint 

 black e of coIour,and fmelling likeRofin. The root is long^ellow^and ofa wooddy fubftance 



The fecond kind of S.Iohns wort is named Syriacum y ol thofe that haue not feen the fruitf I 

 and plentiful! fields of England,wherein it groweth aboundantly, hauing final! leaues almoft It 

 Rue or Herb-Grace : wherein Dodomus hath failed,intituling the true Androfamum by the namenf 

 Rata (flueftris } whereas indeed it is no more like Rue than an Apple to an Oifter. This plane is al 

 together like the precedent,but fmaller,wherein confifteth the difference, t It had becne litter 

 for our A uthor to haue giuen vs a better and perfe&er defcription of this plant(which as hee faith 

 grotves foabundantly with vs)than fo abfurdly to cauil with Dodontus for calling(as he faithHhc 

 ^ndrsfimim , Rutafylttepu : for if that be the true Androfamum which Dodonms made men 



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hereof in the chapter of Tutfan. I cannot fay I haue feen this plant j but Lohel the Author &frr, 

 tcrfcrth thereof thus briefly defcribes it:Thc leaues are foure times lefle than ' " " 

 grow thicke together as in rundIes,vpon ftalks beinga cubit high. The floure 

 thofe of our common kinde. ± 



thofe of ours 



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wcakeand tender branches charged with (ball pale yellow floure*. The feed 

 the true S . Iohns wort. 



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t 3 Hypericum tomemofum Ldelij . LokU woolly S.Iohns wort. 



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Cluftj : for chft 



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iue you the fecond in the t 

 jis.and blames Lobel for rem 



tha v°ou r a ?r th " u C 'ST 1 about Montpelier:whafe figure alfo I giue you firft in the diirffg 

 Sn t Si in . a 7. fee .! vh . ac difference you can obferue by them : for C/JL faith, Lobtls is but anb^ 



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full fiioh v«r\7i i" T* v "" clc , utc y° u c » n ooierue oy tnem : for Cl/tfi, 



gaSt bv t2 A° n ° l VS h T hi & h his g^e Sj neither inftances how they differ, neirfl"- 



So? white and L ^"P" 00 / but ' con i e ^ure it thus . That of C&* Mckfaiotioo is rfg 



X^^S?** 1 hath the flourcs s rowiD g alon s Ii£tIe **** 



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,.. . , „*> "^lomenandtullor more high,with weake and (lender bran< 



thofe of the 



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i-i 77' "fc'" wt; > iomenandt 

 i/ke thofe of the ordinarie kinde 





as the former. 

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and lefle. It is to be found in dry and barren erounds 





Wood and 



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