TRIBE.5, The ‘.lheater of ''Plants. Chap.55. ‘ 
bide on the branches, winter as well as Summer,in the warme countries,wherein it is naturall,but doth hardly en¬ 
dure our cold climate, although kept and defended with all the care wee can ufe ; at the ends of the Italkes Hand 
yellow flowers, like the common Tutfan, upon (lender but longer footeftalkes then in any of the former forts, 
and the yellow threds in the middle of them longer alfo; which after they are paftyecld round and fomewhat 
longheads, likeunto the berries of the Turpentine tree, never falling away from the buflies of themfelves, 
wherein lye very fmall feede. In Candy it yeeldeth a liquid Rofcn or Turpentine that fmelleth ftrong, more like 
a Goate then any Rofen, even as the leaves and all the reft of the plant doth, this yeeldeth no redorblooddy 
juice at all, as the true Androfemum and Afcyrum doe. 
The Place . 
1 The firfl groweth in many Woods. Groves and wooddy grounds, as ParkeS and Forrelfs, and by hedge fides, 
.1 in many places of this land, as in Hampfted Wood, by Rally in EJfex, in the wealde of Kent, and many other pla¬ 
ces needeltfle to recite : The fecond is found alfo about Briftow and Bath, and in other parts of the Weft coun¬ 
try. The third Babins Columna faith hee found on the hills Cirimle, which are to the Southward in Naples ; 
And the lalt Honorius Bellus faith, groweth by the brookes and fprings of waters in Candy and no where elfe- but 
it moweth upon Mount Baldus as forta faith in the defcription thereof. 
s 7 he Time. 
They all flower later then S. Iohns wort, or S. Veters wort, and the laft later then any of the other. 
The Names. 
I It is called Greeke Androfamon a [anguine htsmanoctsi com-cfucctts ajftmiUtur, Galen faith it was of 
■twoforts, the one whereof was called Diom/hM by fome in his time, the other AJcyrium, and Afcyroides. The 
: firfl is called by Dodonam Androfxmum, and (o it is alfo (fameramiss, Gefner inbortis, and Lugdunenfis, and ta- 
1 ken by Cafalpinm robe the true Androfamumoi Biofcoriies,qalenxc\d J liny, and the Centeria of Theophraftus ■ 
but Lobel in his Adverfaria contefteth againft it,&Taith it is the Clymetmm It alert/m, as AnguiUara doth, and lilted 
wife Gefner in bortisjo alfo Cafter Durantes,md of the Italians in many places called $kiliana,or herba Siciliana 
becaufe as they imagined it grew no where naturally but in Sicily ; or Cecil,ana as Camerarms hath, who alfo 
calleth it Climemrn non ‘Diofcaridis, fed Plmianum, as Anguillara before him did. 'Bauhintes calleth it Androfx- 
mum maximumfrutefeens .We callirproperly in Englifb Tutfan.from the French who tMilToutfamc, & not from 
the Italians who call it Tutifan, as Carrier ariw faith. Some alfo call it Parke leaves, becaufe it is (o familiar to 
Parkes and Woods, that it almoft groweth no where elfe. The fecond is called Androfxmum by Matthiolm as 
alfo by Eufchim, Lacuna, Cordus upon Diofcvrides and Gefner ■ Camerarius as I take it calleth it Amtrofemum 
minus, for be calleth the former majus, and Lobel calleth it Androfemum magnum,and Sxcellentm, becaufe he was 
not perfwaded that the firfl; was worthy the name of Androfamm. TTodonaus would hhve it to bee-ffarvt 
Sylveftris of Diofcoridcs, and thereupon calleth it F.uta Sylveftris Hypericoides, becaufe Diofcorides writetb that 
the Ruta Sylvtftris was called Hypericum by fome in his time; I take it to be the Hypericum fecttndum Travi in d:s. 
metis uafeens • as alfo to bee the Andrefamum Campoclarenfe of Colstmna. Bauhinus doth impofe two feverall 
names upon this herbe in my judgement, when as it is but one, for hec calleth that of Matthiolm, Cordus,Gefner 
and the re A, Afcyrumfive Hypericum bifolium glabrum, non perforatum and the other of Lobel, which T)odon.cm 
called Rutafyl. Hypericoides , Androfamum altcrumfoliys Hyperici, quod aliqtsibus Hypericoides. The third is called 
by Columna, as it is in the title, but by Bauhinus Androfemnm perfoliqtum & perforatum. The laft is called bv 
(famerarius Androfamummimu five anguftifolium and taketh it to be Tragium of Homrius Bellus of Can¬ 
dy, called by the inhabitants Neroitti, as hee faith, and as it is remembred by him, in his third Epiftle to CluRus 
let forth with Ciuftus his Htftoriararierumplantarum,-whole figureas Camcrarius thought, was not as thenfet 
forth by any ; butfincehis time Bauhhius hath exhibited the figure thereof in his OMatthiolus, by the name of 
Androftmum feetidism, and afterwards by Bona, in the defcription of mount Baldiu, both in hisLatineand Ita¬ 
lian Edition, when he calleth it Tragum/egitirnumveteram, ab ipfo Bello cffigiatssm, and in the fame Latine Edi¬ 
tion, fob I I. hee calleth it Tragium Crettcum Bellamy wmTHofcoridis, and fo doth Bauhinm alfo: but I thinke 
Tauhiniu was miflaken, to thinke that this plant,which in his Pinax, he formerly referreth to Tragium of Ho. 
norius Bellus, fbould bee alfo the fame with Afcyrum Legitimism, for 'Bellus faith, that the Cretans called this 
Agaudotsro, and the Tragium Neroitli, as it is before fayd, fo that thefe are two feverall plants, and called by 
two feverall names, asSr/tot fliewcch it, who was fo Angular inherbarifme, thache would not fall into fuch 
anerrouras Bauhinus here doth. 
The Vertues. 
Tutfan moderately heateth and dryeth, yet the feede hath an abfterfive qualide, whereby it purgeth cholo- 
ricke humours, asS. Peters wort is fayd before to doe, for therein and in all other things it makes the fame ef¬ 
fect, both to helpe the Sciatica and Goute,and to healc burnings by fire : it ftayeth alfo the bleeding of wounds, 
if eyther the greene herbe bruifed, or the ponder of the dry be applyed thereto; it is, and fo hath formerly in all 
agesamong husbandmen, beene accounted a fovefaigne herbe to heale any wound or fore, eyther outwardly or 
inwardly as the name importeth ; and therefore it wasalwayes one of their lingular good herbes wherewith 
they made wound drinkes,or lotions, BalmCs, ovles, or oyntments, for any fort of greene wound, or old VI- 
cers and fores, in all which the continuall experience of many ages, to bee admirable good, hath confirmed the 
nfethereofto be affured, although it be not fo much in requeft and nfe as formerly it was, when as Chirurgions 
and leeches did more addift themfelves to ufe herbes,then now they doe. 
Ghap. LIII, 
Bupleurum. Hares eves. 
Any have reckoned the Buplettra fit to be placed with the umbellifers, becaufe they beare tufts offlow- 
ers and feede like unto them, but in that their growing is much different; I have thought it fitter to 
fpeake of them apart, 
D d d 1. Bis- 
