TUTSAN. 



Hyper iciim Androscemum. Nat. Ord., 

 Hypericacea;. 



LTHOUGH the tutsan is not 

 so familiar as many other 

 plants, it is spread fairly com- 

 monly throughout Britain, 

 being- in some districts better 

 known than in others. It may 

 often, too, be met with in old- 

 fashioned country gardens. 

 Though the lovers of plants are 

 by no means extinct, and may 

 often transplant to their own 

 gardens some wildling that 

 from its beauty or rarity has 

 attracted them, most of the 

 old English wild plants found 

 blossoming in the rustic flower- 

 bed may be considered to owe 

 their presence there to the great use of simples and herbs 

 in olden times a use that our grandmothers affected 

 to a great extent when foreign drugs were with great 

 difficulty procurable, and that still survives to a con- 

 siderable degree in many rural districts, where the herb- 

 doctor is often an old woman, and prescribes for her 

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