Lib. i. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 54.1 
which by Tragus is called Hypericum pulchrum ; and both by him and Lonicerus is thought to be 
Dio [cor ides his Androftewum-, the which we in Englifhmay for didindtions fake call Vpright Saint 
Iohns wort.It hath roots like thole of the ordinariekinde ; from which arife ftraight llender ftalks 
fome cubit high, fet at equail fnaces with pretty fmooth leaues, broad, and almod incompalfing 
the ftalkc at their fetting on, and being fometimes of a green, and othervvhiles of a reddifh colour: 
towards the top they are parted into fome few branches,whichbearefuch yellow floures as the 
common kinde, but fomewhat fmaller. It floures about the fame time as the former, ora little 
after, t 
The Place 
They grow very plentifully in the paftures in euery countrey; 
«(J The.Ttme. 
They floure and flourifh for the moll part in Iuly and Auguft.' 
The Names, 
S. Iohns wort is called in Greekea#««: in Latine, Hypericum: in fhops, Perforata : of diners, 
Inga d&monum : in Dutch, <sj>att fctauf J in Italian, Hyperico : in S pan i 111 , Caracortfyllo : in 
French, CMiHe Pertuys : in Engiilh, S .Iohns wort, or S . Iohns grade. 
TheTemperature. 
S .Iohns Wort (as Galen teacheth) is hot and dry, being of fub fiance thinne. 
The Venues. 
S. Iohns wort with his floures and feed boy led and drunken, prouokethvrine, and is right good & 
againft the done in the bladder, and doppeth the laske. The leaues damped are good to be layd 
vpon burnings, fcaldings, and all wounds ; and alfo for rotten and filthy vlcers. 
The leaues, floures, and feeds damped, and put into a glade with oyleOliue, and fet in the hot B 
Sunnefbrcettaineweekes together, and then drained from thofe herbes,and the like quantitieof 
new putin, and funned in likemanner, doth make an oyleofthecolourofbloud,whichis a mod 
precious remedy for deepe wounds, and thofe that are thorow the body, for finewes that are prickt,' 
or any wound made with a venomed weapon. I amaccudomed to make a compound oyle hereof; 1 
the making of which ye (hall receiue at my hands, becaufe that I know in the world there is not a 
better, no not naturallbalfamitfelfe ; forIdarevndertaketo cure anyfuch wound asabfolutely 
in each refped, if not fooner and better, as any man whatfoeuer fhall or may with natural! balfam. 
Take whitewine two pintes,oyle oliue foure pounds,oile of Turpentine two pounds, the leaues, C 
flo.ures, and feeds of S . Iohns ivort, of each two great handfulls gently bruifed ; put them all toge- 
therintoagreatdoubleglalTe, and fet it in the Sunnceightortendayes ; thenboylethem in the 
fame glade per balneum Marie, that is, in a kettle ofvvater with fome draw in the bottome, wherein 
the glade mud dand toboy'e : which done, Araine the liquor from the herbes,and do as you did 
before, putting in the like quantitie of herbes, floures, and feeds, but not anymorewine. And fo 
haue you a great fecret for the purpofes aforefaid. 
Diofcorides 
3 Hypericum tementefum Clufij. 
Woolly S. Iohns wort of Clufisa. 
$ 4 Hypericum fup'mum ghbrum. 
Small creeping S. Iohns wort. 
^ 1 l 
