§6g Salmon V Herbal Lib. L 
from it, hut this miftake of his might be from 
the differing Soils and Clime, wherein he faw it 
gtow : ) Anrlrofimum Hirfutum Btmhim ; Hyperi- 
ccn if- dumetis nfi'cens Trdgi, Our common PeterS- 
tvort, or fquare Johns-wort. 2. Afcyrum Supimm 
-SiUofuih paluftre , Btmbini-, Afcyrum Supinum 
MPa Clafij, Marlh Peters-wort, or Creeping Marflt 
Peters- wort. a. ' Afcyrum magna Flore Battbini, 
Great Flowred j?eters-wort. 
The Defer ipt ions. 
111 . T he flrfi, or Our Common Peters-wort, 
or Square Johns-wort. It I'm a hard and woody-Root , 
not very thick, running under the upper furjqce of 
the Earth , with a great number of Fibres /fring- 
ing from the fame , and running fir ait down into 
the Earth ; it fends forth new Jhoots every Tear, 
and abides a long t ime, or for many Tears. This is 
that Peters-wort which is mefi common with us in 
England, and Fifes up with fquare upright Stalks 
for the trnft part , fame thing greater and higher than 
Hypericon, or Johns-wort, but brown in the fame 
manner. At every Joint, it has two Leaves, Jome- 
thing like thofe of Hypericon, but larger, a little 
rounder pointed, and with very few or no holes to be 
fecit therein, and having fometimes fome J mailer 
Leaves, fifing from the Bofiom of the greater, and 
fometimes a little hairy withall, as the Stalks will 
be. At the tops of the Stalks grow many yellow 
Star like Flowers, with yellow Threads in the mid- 
dle very like unto thofe 0/ Hypericon, fo that but 
for the largenefs and height, it is not readily 
difeerned from Hypericon. T be Leaves and 
Flowers give a bloody Juice, being bruifed be- 
tween the fingers as that does ; and it has fiuch 
like Seed, and of as Strong and Refinotis Smell. 
Jobns-wrt. 
Note, That by a miftake of the Printer, the true 
Figure of Peters-wort is placed in the Chapter 
of Johns-wort , G)ap. 405:. Pag. 572. b. which 
ought to be placed here ^ and this Figure of 
Johns-wort, which is put here, ought to be 
placed there, of which we defire the Reader to 
take notice> to avoid being miftaken. 
IV. The fcco a d, dr Marfh Peters- Wott, or Creep- 
ing Marfh Peters-wort. It Springs up with Stalks 
round, woolly , and foft , which Jland not upright, 
but lean downwards , taking Root at the Joints, 
having fome what rounder pointed Leaves , Jet at 
the Joints , two for the moji part together. The 
Flowers are as yellow, and of the fame . bignefs as 
the former, but give not full out fo red a Juice as 
they do * and in thefe particulars confffs the whole 
difference from the fir ft, jetting afide alfo the Na- 
tural place of its growth. 
V. JohnJon upon Gerard, thus deferibes this 
fecond Species. It fends forth divers round hairy 
creeping Stalks , which here and there put forth 
new Fibres or Roots , and thefe are fet at certain 
Spaces , with very round and hairy Leaves of a 
whitifh color, and two at a Joint. And on the tops 
of thefe Stalks, grow a few fmall yellow Flowers, 
which con/ift of five Leaves apiece. Thefe Stalks 
feldome fend forth Branches , unlefs it be one or two 
at the tops. This (fays he) may well be called in 
Fnglifh, Round S. Peters-wort. 
VI. The third, or Great Flowered Peters-wort. 
This Plant is very much like the fir ft defer ibed^ 
faving that it has a round brown upright Stalk , two 
Feet high at the leaf, with fucb like , but larger 
Leaves, and round pointed, of a paler green color 
on the upper fide , and whiter underneath. The 
Flowers which put forth at the end of the Stalk , are 
of a pale yellow color like the fieft, but much larger , 
with yellow Threads therein alfo. There is a larger 
Peters-wort than this, which is faid to grow in 
Candia, which they call Afcyroides Cretica major ^ 
but it differs in nothing from this, but in the large- 
nefs of its Leaves and Flowers, which are three or 
four times greater : the which difference may arife 
(for all that I know) from the different goodnefs 
of the Soils. 
VII. The Places. The firft grows in many 
Graves and fmall low Woods in feveral places of 
England, as in Kent , Huntington, Northampton, 
and Cambridgflnres , as alfo near Water Courfes 
in other places. Gerard found it in many places 
in Kent, as in a Cops by the then Mr. Sidleys 
Houfe near South-Fleet. It grows alfo plentifully 
in the North parts of England , efpecially irr 
Landfdale and Craven. The fecond grows in 
the Marfhes in the Low Countries, and in divers 
Boggy Grounds of this Kingdom, as Jobnfon fays, 
and is truely that Plant which Clujius delcribes in 
Autfarium. The third is a Native of the Pyrenean 
Mountains, and has been Tranfplanted from thence 
into our Clime, and is nourifht up in fome of our 
Gardens. Yet I have heard fome excellent Bota- 
niffs fay, that they have fometimes met with it 
upon feveral of the Mountains in Wales . 
VIII. The Times. They all Flovvet in June 
and July , and the Seed is ripe in July and 
A u guff. 
IX. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues of Peters-wort, are the fame with 
thofe of Johns-wort, in Chap. 407. Sell. 7. ad 22. 
of this Book aforegoing, to which 1 refer you. 
But Johns - wort is laid to be the more potent and 
efficacious to the purpofes intended* and fo to be 
prefered before Peters-wort, 
X. The 
