488 
of the ancients ; e but many phyfi 
peculiarly differ from 
no 
faith 
Sir John Hill. 
in 
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think th 
and are fcep 
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afcribed to 
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by Muntingius and 
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Dijf. Hijl. Med. de vera herba Br 
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powdered root is faid by Murray to be an excellent dentrifice 
3- p- 344 
Plin. lib. 25, 
App . Med. vol 
PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA. 
SMALL BURNET 
SAXIFRAGE. 
8 TNO NT MA. 
minor. Baub. Pin. 
Pimpinella. Pbarm. Edinb. Pimpinella faxifraga 
Pimpinella feu faxifraga minor* 
160. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1044. Saxifraga hircina minor. Park. Tbeat. 
947 
Rait Hift. p. 445. 
Synop 
Q 
2I3 
Tragofelinum foliis 
pinnatis, pinnis ovatis. Ball. Stirp. Helv. n. j86. P. Saxifraga. 
Hud/on. Flor. Ang. p. 1 2 7. Light/hot. Flor. Scot. p. 1 69. Withering. 
Bot.Arr. p. 313. Re/ban. Flor. Cant, p. 124. Ic. Flor, Ban 
395 
or. Dan. 669. 
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■ 
Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 366. 
EJl Gen. Cb. Frufius ovato-oblongus. Petala inflexa. Stigmata 
fubglobofa. 
Cb. 
P. foliis pinnatis.: 
linearibus. 
radicalibus fubrotundis; fummis 
THE root is perennial, fpindfe-fhaped, whitifh : the item is erect, 
round, fcored, downy, jointed, towards the top a little branched, and 
rifes above a foot in height : the leaves are varioufly fhaped, pinnated, 
alternate; on the upper part of the Hem they divide into fimple 
linear 
