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Wnning sores, cankers, tetters, and ringworms ; and 

 being applied to the place, may haply cure venereal sores. 

 This 1 thought good to speak of, as it may be safely used 

 outwardly, lor inwardly it cannot be taken MJlhout mani- 

 fest danger. 



White Saxifrage, c • (h. d. 2.) 



TiirnE arc two kinds of Saxifrage, both of which arc here 

 described. 



Descripi.'] The common >vhite Saxifrage hath a few 

 small reddish kernels of roots covered with some skins, 

 lying among divers small blackish fibres, which send forth 

 divers round, faint or yellow green leaves, and greyish 

 underneath, lying above the ground, unevenly dented 

 about the edges, and somewhat hairy, every one upon a 

 little footstalk, from whence riseth up round, brownish, 

 hairy, green stalks, two or three feet high, with a few 

 such like round leaves as grow below, but smaller, and 

 somewhat branched at the top, whereon stand pretty- 

 large white flowers, of five leaves a-piece, with some 

 yellow threads in the middle, standing; in a long crested, 

 brownish, green husk. After the flowers are past, there 

 ariscth sometimes a round hard head, forked at the top, 

 wlierein is contained small black seed, but usually they 

 fall away without any seed, and it is the kernels or grains 

 of the root which arc usually called the White Saxifrage- 

 seed, and so used. 



Place.] It groweth as well in the lowermost, as in 

 the upper dry corners of meadows, and grassy sandy 

 places. 



Time.'] It ilowereth in May, and then gathered, as 

 well for that which- is called the seed, as to distil, for it 

 quickly perisheth down to the ground. 



Government ami Vivtiics.'] It is efteflual to cleanse the 

 reins and bladder, to dissolve the stone in them, and to 

 expel it and the gravel by urine ^ to help the stranguary ; 

 for which purpose the decoftion of the herb or roots in 

 white w ine, is most usual, or the powder of the small 

 kernel root, which is called the seed, taken in white wine. 

 The distilled water of the whole herb, root and flowers, 

 4s most familiar to be taken. It provokcth also women's 



