gribe Placed 
The firft groweth in many Grovesj and fmall low 
foods in divers places or this Land, as in Kent t 
r untington y Northampton, and Cambridge (hires; 
alfo neare water courfes in other places The (c- 
>nd was fouud on the Pjrtnitn hills: The third in 
Mardies of the Low Countries,and the laft in 
'andy. 
The Time, 
They doe all flower in Une and Iuly t and the feedc 
9 ripe in August. 
The Thames, 
It is called in (Sreekc etW^and dewytMi, Afcy- 
m and Afcyroides , & contrario diBum put atm : 
)tOs©- enim afperitatem illu fignificati The Latincs 
: avc no other name then Afcyrum, from the Greekea 
i 3 call it. Diofcorides faith, it was alfo called An- 
irofemvtn, and Hypericum tocr, and Galen there- 
3re accounteth it a kind ot Androfamum . The firft is 
j fually called by moft writers Afcyrum , as CMatthio. 
I ** doth ; it is probable to bee the firft Hypericum in 
< 'ftmctii nafeensot Tragw , and is the firft Androfx- 
f mm of Fuchfius, and by Dodonaus fet for Hypericum , 
in his French Edition, but called Androfamum alte - 
urn hirfutum, by Fabius folumna, who yet doubted 
vhether to call it Hypericum or Androfdmum , faying 
tcameneareft unto Afcyrum , although lomewhat 
litfering from it (which it may bee is but the foyle 
md climate) Bauhinui calleth it Androfemum hirfu- 
turn : the next two have their names in their titles 
:hat Bauhinus giveth them; yet the third is called 
3 yClujiiu, in the Antluarium of his other Appen¬ 
dix, Afcyrum fupinum : the laft is called by 
Alpinut lib. de exoticisfisk is in the title; all nations 
chriftned take it as another kind ofS Johns wort, and 
fo call it,and we S. Peters wort. The Verifies, , . ■ 
\ It is of the fame propertie with S. Iohns wort, but lomewhat weake, and therclore more iduomc u-led; th£ 
! {cede to the qqantitie of two drams taken at a time,in Meade or honyed wata ,purgcth, faith Dio/corides, Tliny^ 
and Galen choflcricke humours, and thereby helpeth thofe that are troubled with the Sciatica, or paine in 
the hippes : thcleaves are ufed as S .Iohns wort, to hclpe thofe places of the body that have bcenc burnt 
with fire. 
Chap. 1.11» 
Androftmum, Tutfan,or Parke leaves. 
J Lthough out Tutfan be not the right Androftmum of Di*Jcorides,&c, yet becaufe it is fo generally 
sc, called^and accounted by moll, let it receive his place here among fome other plants called Androf «- 
mum, by divers writers, that thereby you may fee and know the difference bet weene them. 
I. Androfarrmm vulgare. Common Tutfan or Parke leaves. 
-- Our Tutfan hath not fquare butbrowniih (hining round (lalkes, crefted all the length thereof, ri- 
ing to be two.orfometimes three footc high, branching forth even from thebottome, but more thinly fet or 
r artherai'under having divers joynts, and at each of them two faire large leaves (landing, but more thinly let 
hen of the other forts, which are of a darke blewifh greene colour on the upper hde.and of a yellower greene un- 
ierneath, turning reddifh towards Autumne, but abiding on the branches ali the winter: at the ropes of the 
lalkes and branches Hand larger yellow flowers, then in any of the former forts, and head, with feede ike- 
arife larger, which being greene at the firll, and afterwards reddilh, turne to be of a black.(h purple colour, 
•vhen they are through ripe, with fmall brownilh feede within them, and then yeeld a reddilh ju.ee or liquor, 
if a reafonable good fent, lomewhat refinous, and of an harfli or llipticke tafle, as the leaves alio and the flowers 
lee, although muchleffe, but doe notyeeld fuch a cleare Claret wine liquor, as Gertrd following 
MU s therein, faith it hath; the rooteis brownilh, fomewhat great hard and wooddy.lpreadtng well in the 
D 2 , Androfemum \JWattbioli. Adatthiolus his Tutfan . • 
This Tutfan ("for other Englilh name I know not well, what it may have, unlefle you would call it a great S , 
iohns wort becaufe it is fo like it) hath brownilh roundflalkes, with two leaves at every joynt, fuller of bran¬ 
ds, elfe very like unto S, Iohns wort, but more fparingly or thinly fet thereon, much fmaller and greener then 
heformerTutfan, and greater then thofe of S. Iohns won, without any hoales at all in them; the flowersate 
ycljpw like wife,and greater then they, and fo are the heads with feede, butfpotted with blacke (treakes on 
