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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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IB. 2. 



3 Saxifiagaalbapetrxa. 



White Rocke Saxifrage. 



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/, w "«« aaxmage hath round corner 

 fed leaues,bluntly indented about the SK 

 hkc the former, among which rife vpftat" 



hand full high, at the top whereof grSw * 

 three httlc tQgethet . ^ Z *o « 



of them fpnng fmall floures of a golden eo] r 

 after which come little husks, wLdn is c £ 

 tamed the red feed, not vnlike the former • Z 



IT* 11 te ^ Cr >u " Ceping in the g round ii4 

 long threds or haires. 



t 3 JV»4 hath fet forth this plant by the 

 name of S*xf~* Ma petrta, and therefore I 

 haue placed it here } though I thinke I might 

 more fitly haue ranked him with Famjcbim. 

 taceofelio formerly defcribed. It hath a fmall 

 fingle root from which arife diuers fat longift 

 leaues,fomewhat hairy,and diuided into three 

 parts : amongft thofe rifeth vp a round knotty 

 ftalke,roughifh,and of a purplim colour.fome 

 halfe foot high, diuided into fundry branches 

 which carry white floures, con lifting of fiue 

 leaues apiece, with forne yellow i(h tbreds jp 

 their middles : thefe falling, there reroaincu 

 cup containing a very fmall feed. It floures it 

 the end of Iune in the fhadowie places of ttc 





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% The Place. 





The wfrite Saxifrage grovveth plentifully 



in fundry places of England, and especially in 

 a field on the left hand of the highways you 



goe from the place of execution called Saint 

 Thomas Waterings vnto Dedford by London. It groweth alfo in the great field by Iflington cal- 

 led the Mantles : alfo in the greene places by the fea fide at Lee in ElTex^among the nifties, and in 

 fundry other places thereabout, and elfe where. $ It alfo growes in Saint Georges fields behiude 

 Southwarke. $ 



The golden Saxifrage groweth in the moift and marifli grounds about Bathe and Wcls, alfo in 

 the Moorcs by Bofton and Wisbich in Lincolnefliirc : t and M r . George Bowles hatb found it gto* 

 ingin diuers woods at ChiiTelhurft in Kent : W.Goodyer alfo hath obferued it abundantly on «* 

 fhadowie moift rockes by Mapledurham in Hampshire : and 1 haue found it in the like places u* 



Yorkfhire. $ 



^J Tie Time. 



The white Saxifrage floureth in May and Iune : the herbe with his floure are no more feeac vo- 

 rill the next ycare. 



The golden Saxifrage floureth in March and April!. 



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The firft is called in Latine Saxifraga alba : in Englifh,white Saxifrage,or white Stone-breasc 

 The fecond is called Golden Saxifrage,or Golden Stone-breake. 



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The firft of thefe, efpecially the root and feed thereof, is of a warme or hot complexion. 

 Golden Saxifrage is of a cold nature,as the taftedoth manifeftly declare. 



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The root of white Saxifrage bqiled in wine and drunken, prouoketh vrine, clen fetb vac* ^ 

 and bladder, breaketh the ftone and driueth it forth, and is lingular good againft the ttrtog" »"" 



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all other griefes and impcrfeaion$ in thereines. 



The vertues of golden Saxifrage are yet vnto vs vnknowne, notwithftanding I am 

 chat it is a Angular wound herbe,equall with Sanicle. 



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