¶ The Description.
1 SAint Peters wort groweth to the height of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and a halfe, hauing a straight vpright stalke somewhat browne, set by couples at certaine distances, with leaues much like those of S. Iohns wort, but greater, rougher, and rounder pointed: from the bosome of which leaues come forth many smaller leaues, the which are not bored through, as those of S. Iohns wort are; yet sometime there be some few so bored through. The floures grow at the top of the branches of a yellow colour: the leaues and floures when they are brui∣sed do yeeld forth a bloudy iuyce as doth S. Iohns wort, whereof this is a kinde. The root is tough, and of a wooddy substance.
‡ 2 Vpon diuers boggy grounds of this king∣dome is to be found growing that S. Peters Wort which Clusius describes in his Auctarium, by the name of Ascyrum supinum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. This sends forth di∣uers, round hairy creeping stalkes, which heere and there put out new fibres or roots; and these are set at certaine spaces with very round and hairie leaues of a whitish colour, two at a ioynt, and on the tops of these stalkes grow a few small yellow floures which consist of fiue leaues a piece; these stalks sel∣dome send forth branches, vnlesse it be one or two at the tops. It may well be called in English, Round leaued S. Peters wort. ‡