C i b. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Chap. i<5o. Of Tut fan or Tark^eJeaues* 
The Difcription. 
I nr He ftalkes of x utfan be ftraight, round, chamferedorctffted, hard and wooddy bein- 
I f ° r C ‘ 1C ® oft P art tw0 foot H h - The leaues are three or foure times bigger than 
thofe of S . Johns wort which be at the fir ft greene . afterwards, and in the end of 
Sommer of a dark red colour : out ofwhidus prefled a iuyce not like blackebloud, but Claret or 
Gycoigne wine. The floures are yellow, and greater than thofe of S .Peters wort , after which ri- 
feth vp a little rpund head or berry, firft greene, afterwards red, laft of all blacke , wherein is con- 
tained yellowifh red feed. The root is hard, wooddy, and of long continuance 
* 2 This (which Dodottsics did not vnfitly call Rata fylaeJlric-Hypericoides , and which others 
haue fet forth for Jndrefemum, and our Author the laft chapter fane one affirmed to be the true 
drofemnm though here it feemes he had either altered his minde,or forgot what he formerly wrorf 
may fitly ftandin competition with the laft defcribed, which may paffe in the firft place for the 
0fthe Antients,_for adhuefub )udtce Us eft. I will not here infift vpon the point of con- 
trouerfie’but g.ue you a defenpnon of the plant, which is this : It fends vp round (lender reddifh 
ftalkes fome two cubits high, fet with fewer yet bigger leaues than the ordinarie S. Iohns Wo t 
and thefc a fo more hairy : the floures and feeds are like thofe of the common S . Iohns wort but 
V a r ger ' IC g r eS m r° mC mountai " 0 " s and vvoodd y P^ces s and in the AduerfirU it is 
called Androfemum excellent tut, feu magnum : and by Dodonans (as we but now noted ) Rati (yheftm 
Hypertcotdcs, thinking it tobe the RmafyUuftrU which is defcribed by Dicfcondes, lib a. cap 4 S. in 
the old Greeke edition of c JUamttues, k,*. And in that of LMarceHu-s Virvilius his Interpretati 
on, m the chapter and Pookebut now mentioned . but reiefted amongft the Not ha in the Paris E- 
aition Anno \^y9. You may finde the defcription alfo in Dodonaus, Pempt. prim*, lib. ? , cap. 
whither I rerer the ctirious 5 being loath here to infift further vpon it, £ 
l Clymenon Itdorum. 
Tutfan, or Parke leaues. 
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t 2 AndrofamttmHypericoides . 
Tutfan S. Iohns wort. 
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