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be that which they would exprefle by the name, was, that the herb h*A £? g - *<*' h mi 7 

 it would eat into the very flefh.The fecond and third argument both are if ^T? l^? 1 * that 

 be Greeke, as I haue already (hewed it to be, and rbJ^Z^^^^^ 

 frequently enter mtofuch compofition than ^: as Pampha*os poUth*™ n«r.i > °** 



nrfc«- mav (hnv. Mnreotirr. it had hern nhfarA f~ DiofcoriJ-s or an 1 ( ' "'? *"* 8nd IUanv 



ne Latine, and 54v/fr 



'fra»ga,ot Saxifr " ' 



^or^x^forfoitvvouldbc and not^X~, 



:thanoffignificat.onhathcaufcdthisconfunon,cfrK 

 Diofcmdes, when learning was at a very |o» ebbc. The 



7 T 7 V- a 4. »T r t r .. r , "" ,lu y l «Kccpcnistormcrp ace n D/«fr„, 



^r,are thefe : Firft, the generall confent of all both of Grecke and Latine copies fas UuJrZ 

 faith) how antient foeuer they be. SecondIy,the mention of this herbc.for the lame cflcft in foZ 

 Greeke Authors ofareafonable good antiquitie s for PW/w^/ W /4teftificth,tlmsv^*~X 

 »nft'<jtf«jr^. Then Trail/anus amongft other things in a Condttum ffefbriticwm mem 

 ■z#w ■. but Norms a later Greeke calls it 2«e«oo«< fo that it is euident they knew and vfed fomc dm 



S a 



ifcorides defcribes 



d 



Latine Sjxijr, 



places,like vnto Eptbymurrt. boyled in wine and drunkc.it hath the faculty tohelpe the Strangurie 



ffiifimus & frobat:fi 





laus Barbarus iaith 5 Vttcrum in Diof coride piauram haius herb* vidi, nonplus folijs qitsm cirris mtnmk 

 per ramps ex intervalh conditfSftccftequentibusjn cacumine furculorum jloccijeu Arentcspotius quamflefc*- 



lijubrubida radice nonjiuefibris. A figure reafonable well agreeing wirh this defcription oxHcrmldus, 

 I lately receiued from my friend M r Goodyer^who writ to me that he had fought to know what 

 Saxifr Ago. (to wit,of the Ancients) fhould be : and finding no antient Author that had defcribed it 

 to any purpofe,he fought Apuleius . which word Apukius (faith he) is the printed title : my Manu- 

 fcript acknowledgeth no Author but Apelienfis pAtffl- there is nodefcription neithc . 

 fcript hath a figure which I haue drawneand fenc you, and all thatverfatim that he 1 

 it, I fhould be glad to hauc this figure cut and added to your worke, together v.- ith hisword$,bc- 

 canfe there hath beenefo little written thereof by the Antients. This hisrequeft I though fit to 



hath vvnttenof 



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that 



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lyadde this,that the plants here defcribed, and the A I fine Saxt J^* 

 Chickwccd Saxifrages formerly defcribed Chap, 171. come necrcflot 



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iftius herb^Saxifr 







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Icon &defcriptio ex Manufcriptovctfr 



ti/Timo, 



guidon dicunt earn Scebf>t»drtm t dj 

 S col tomes, alij Vttis (atmm, qui dam zero lr+ 



cos. It di S axifi tgm . Egypt ij Peprim,* 

 Lamfrocam em nommattt. 'Njfcttur W* 

 %jiiontibus & locisftxofis . 



Vna cura ipfius ad calculos expcIlcocI«- 



Herbm iftim S axifi *gm ( * ,ft "ffff'' 

 Me Mam dakis in vm. Iffe vert fig"* 

 tauerit turn aqm ctlids, tarn frtfins tf*~ 

 a$ expert is upturn , vt todm Me p?* 

 cieclifquc cdcalU adfmmem <vfr»< P" 



at* 



x This firft little herbe/aitb^ 



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The ftalk 



>isgrowtr» c 

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