iF r f b e , 5., The Theater of'Plants, Chap. 50. 
.having two leaves fet one againft another, at every j'oynt up to 
ie toppes: and are almoft round, like unto Money- wort or hearbe 
VO pence, of a darke or fad greene on the upperiide, and whitilh 
, nderneath, (potted fometimes with reddifh fpotts and drakes: the 
1; ow ers are ofa paler yellow colour, than the former, but fomewhat 
f irgc in companion of the plant, wtthdivers yellow threds in the 
.’.liddle • the rooteis fmall and long. 
Hypericum tamen&ofummajia Jlispanicr.m. Great 
woolly S. Iohm wort. 
I The greater woolly S. Johns wort, hath divers hayrie,whitifh wool- 
t f branches, lyinguponthe ground, and (hooting forth fibres, very 
hickc fee with fuch like leaves, as the.Common S. Johns wort hath, 
lit hoarie, white.and woolly; at the joynts towards the toppes, and 
t the toppes alfo, Hand paler and fmaller flowers than inthecom- 
non : after which come leede veffcls like unto the other iorts. and 
o is the feede, and wooddy roote. 
I _ P_ Hypericum fnpinttm tomentofum minus. Small creeping 
Woolly S. Johns wort. 
| The leffer woolly S. Johns wort, is in mofl things like the greater, 
r >nt that it is fmaller, the branches having the woolly leaves, notfo 
. hicke fet together, fmaller and rounder than the former. 
7. Hypericum frutejeens Atnericnnum jiore ciho. Indian 
S.M»r wore,with whiteflowers. 
I The Indian S. /.fouwort, rifeth up with fundry wooddy (terns 
1 ilmoft to a mans height, covered with a whitifh barke. from whence 
ifpring on all Tides, drivers branches, fccthicke with greene leaves, 
narrow below,and broad and round at the ends, fometimes * or 3 at 
a place, from which joynts alfo rife diver6 white flowers, madeof 
fourc leaves apeece: the leaves fall away every yeere, and rife 
againe in the fpring, the wooddy fiems abiding. 
The Place, 
r The firft foure forts grow in woods, and copfes, as well thofe that 
are fhadie, as open to the funne: the fife Clufius found in Salamanca, 
and Valent ia in Sp/tine : the fixt like wife is often found in our Coan- 
tryjas well on dry barren grounds, as in moorifh 2tnd wet Helds ; the 
laft was brought from the North-weft parts of America . 
, The Time. 
They doe all flower about Midfommer, and in Inly, and fome o H . 
them later, and their feede is ripe in the end of July and Auguft, for the moft part. 
The Names. 
It called in Greeke <c$j>iy.ov Hyper icon, which the Latines.doeretainc, and yet fome hav£ called it Fugadtmc* 
num. fupcrftitioufly imsgining, that it will drive away devills: and fome call it, Perforata, or Porofa, from the 
many fmall holes, are to be feene in the leaves: but we finde that in Diofcor ides his time; the name Hypericum 
was oiven unto five feverall hearbs; that is,to Rata fjheflrU , OnobrjcbU , Hypericum, Afcyrum, and Corii as in his 
Commentaries, is extant, to be feene : and concerning this Hypericum alfo, he faith, thatinhis timeicwasca led 
Androfemum (of the bloody colour, the flowers yeeld) and Chamepytis (of the refinous lent of the feede and 
heads)and yet all thefeherbes are feverally deferibed by fDiofcorides, in feverall chapters of his Commentaries. 
Marcclltn Floremimts, from the Greeke word Leucoion , in the text of T>iofcorides } whereunto he compareth the 
flowers of Hypericum, would thereupon interpret the flowers thereof to be white, and Plinye alfo mntakmg the 
Greeke word in Diofcor ides, as it is very frequent ip him, where Diofcorides compareth the leeae veflek, or 
Hypericum, unto abarlycorne that is fomewhat long and round, he faith that the feede ripeneth at the tunc, 
when as barly is ripe. The' Arabians call it Reofiicon, Reiofaricon, and as others have it Henfertcou Nclifricon • the 
Italians Hyperico, & perforata, zfr herba di San Giouainni: the Spaniards Comconcillo i the French Adi " e P e * tu f*' & 
Tourchcron : the Germane s S. Johan, kraut, and Harphaw : th eVutch S. Johns cruiit, and we in Enghfl, S. Johns 
wort. Thefirft is generally nowadayes, by all authors taken to be the true Hypericon oh Diofcon es, as both 
the bio xfy colour of the fio.wers, and the refinous fent of the heads, and feede thereof doe declare, cmg 
two principal! notes thereof: the fccond is thought to be Hypericum pulchrum of 7>rf£*-r, and the fmaller .ore 
of Thalius. I cannot otherwifethinke,butthatit is alfo, the Hypericum Syriacum of Lobel, for lucn a one hath 
beene found in many places of this Land, with many fmall leaves fet at a joynt, in the fame manner, au whs 
calleth it Hypericum minus erettum, as l doe in the title; yet he maketh Lobel his Syriacum to be another fort.c >c 
third is the Hyperieumextguum of Tragus, the Hypericum minus of Gefner and Dodontus, Hypericum minimum 
fupinum Septentrionale ot Lobel, and the Hypericum fupinum tertium minimum of Clupus, which Baubinus calleth 
Hypericum minus fupinum, velfupinumglabrum : the fourth is as I take it, the Hypericum tertittm of Tragus^Nh\a\ 
Baubinus in his Vinax maketh his fecond fort, and deferibeth it in his Prodromus , under the fame name in the title: 
the fi ftCluftus calleth Hypericum fupinum, & tomentofum-H/Jpanicum, which as he faith lohannes P afa or a cn- 
tia. called Ruta fylveslris of Diofcorides, but Ruellius putteth that among the baftard names. Baubinus calleth 
it Hypericum fupinum tomentofum majus, vel Hifj>*nicum, and yet maketh this to be Lobel his Hypericum ?n snmum 
fupinum Septentrionalium, which he referred before to th emlnus vel fupinum olabrum,hwr. it cannot be both t. is an 
that,becaufe the one hath fmooth greene leaves, and is leffer than th tSpanifh kinde, which is woolly, an o is 
not that: thefixth is the Hypericumcdterum tomentofum of Lobel ; but Clufius checketh Lobel in making t is an 
his former tementofum JJijfanicum to be both one. Bauhims calleth it Hypericum fupinum tomento ^ um ^^^ aa 
