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I 455. Tutfan, or Park-leaves. In diickets, hedges, 
[ and fhady banks. The flowers are fmall and yellow ; 
I The fruit is round, and refembles a berry. It has 
large, oval, brownilh green leaves j wluch, when pul- 
I led oflF, and dried a little, fmell exceeding fweet. 
I Jt yields no red juice when fqueez’d f. 
- 7. Hypericum Afeyron diSiim caule ^drangulo^ R. 
1 344- Afeyron^ G. 434. vulgare^ P. 575. St Pe- 
•'ter’sWort. In moift meadows. The ftalks are 
Iquare, and the flowers lels than diofe of Common 
St John’s Wort. 
Afeyron fupinum viUoftim paluftre^'K, ^44^ C. 
^;8p, P. 574. fupinum Chifiiy G. E. 542. Marfli 
St Peter’s Wort, with hoary leaves. On boggy 
grponds. The ftalks are round, and lye upon the 
ground : The flowers are yellow, and ^the leaves co- 
vered with a hoary down. About two miles from 
Kendal^ in Wefimor elands in a boggy place, on the 
fouth-fide of the high road, between Underharroun 
fear-foot and the becK, in the way to Cartmell -j-. 
They diftil this plant, and make an .oil and an extradlof it. 
The oil is fimple or compound. The fimple is made thus : Inilil« 
the. tops of St John’s Wort, between dower and feed, in a fuf- 
heient quantity of Olive oil ; fet it, for fome days, in the fun f 
drain it out, and reiterate the infufion till it be of a deep red. 
For the compound oil, infqfe one pound of the taps of the fame 
plant in two pounds of -oil, andone pound of red wine ; after it has 
been macerated, three days, boil it in Balueo Mariai till the wine 
be-conhimed ; make three infufions after the fame manner, and 
in the lafl: dilute a pound of Venice Turpentine, and four feru- 
ples of Saffron. Thefe oils are excellent for all forts of wounds. 
They give half an ounce, or an ounce, of it to drink for fit- 
ting of blood, and the . dyfentei y ; for the fciatick, rheumatilm, 
and fuch like difeafes, they rub the part with two ounces of oil 
of St John’s Wort, and one ounce of good fpirit of wine. 
To make the extraft of this plant, take the flowers in the .bud, 
putthem todigefl: for two days in .good fpirit. of wine, , fquee^e 
out the infufion, and let it -evaporate to -the canfiftence of an 
They give ft;om a fcruple to a dram, of it. The diftill’d 
water of this plant, and the infufion o!' ils ieed,.-kill worms 
ftod provoke urine. 
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