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which Time they Ihould be cut 

 for medicinal Ufej but thofe Plants 

 which are left will produce ripe 

 Seeds in September, provided the 

 Autumn be favourable. 



The Winter Savory is an abiding 

 Plant, and may be propagated by 

 Slips or Cuttings, which, if planted 

 in a Bed of light, frefli Earth, in 

 the Spring, and carefully watered, 

 will take Root in a fliort Time, 

 and may then be tranfplanted where 

 they are to remain. This Plant 

 fhould have a dry Soil, in which 

 it will endure the Cold very well, 

 as may be feen by its growing in 

 fome Places upon the Tops of Walls, 

 where it defies the feverefl Cold of 

 our Climate. 



Thefe Plants were formerly more 

 cultivated in England than at pre- 

 fent, they being very little in ufe 

 to what they were formerly, when 

 they enter'd moft Difhes of Soups, 

 C^c. but at prefent they are very 

 little ufed in the Kitchen, and are 

 chiefly cultivated for medicinal 

 Ufe. 



SATYRION 5 fide Orchis. 



SAVIN j vide Sabina. 



SAVORY; vide Satureja. 



SAXIFRAGAi Saxifrage. 

 The Characters are j 



The Flower confijis of feveral 

 Leaves y placed orbicularly, which 

 expand in Form of a Rofe out of 

 whofg multifid Flower- cup rifes the 

 Taint al, -which commonly ends in two 

 Horns, and afterwards turns, toge- 

 ther -with the Flower-cup, into a 

 TGundijtf Fruit, which has likewife 

 two Horns, and two Cells, which are 

 full of fmall Seeds. 



The Species are j 



i« SAXIFRAGAi rotundlfolia, alba, 

 C. B. P. White round-leav'd Saxi- 

 frage, 



2. Saxifraca ; rotundlfolia, alba, 

 jkn }>lem. Funrh. Imi,. White round- 



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leav'd Saxifrage, with a double 

 Flower. 



3. Saxifragaj Alpina, ericoides, 

 Jlore CAruleo. Tourn. Mountain 



Heath-like Sengreen with a blue 

 Flower. 



4. Saxifraga ; fedi folio, fiorQ 

 albo, multifiora. Tourn, Many-flow- 

 er'd Saxifrage, with a Houfcleek 

 Leaf and a white Flower, commonly 

 called Pyramidal Sedum. 



f. Saxifraga } fedi folio, angU' 

 fliore, ferrato. Tourn. Saxifrage, 

 with a narrow, ferrated, Houfeleek 

 Leaf. 



The firft of thefe Plants is very 

 common in moift Meadows, in 

 divers Parts of England, and is 

 rarely cultivated in Gardens. This 

 is what the College of Fhyficians 

 have diredled to be ufed in Medi- 

 cine, under the Title of White Saxi- 

 frage, to diftinguilh it from Mea- 

 dow Saxifrage, which is an um- 

 belliferous Plant, of a very different 

 Nature and Appearance from this. 



The fecond Sort is a Variety of 

 the firft, which was found wild by 

 Mr. Jofeph Blind, Gardener at Barns, 

 who tranfplanted it into his Gar- 

 den, and afterwards diftributed it 

 to feveral curious Persons j fince 

 which Time it hath been multi- 

 plied fb much, as to become a 

 very common Plant in moll Gar- 

 dens near London, where it is com- 

 monly planted in Pots to adorn 

 Court-yards, iQrc. in the Spring. 



This Plant is propagated by Off- 

 fets, which are fent forth from the 

 old Roots in great Plenty. The 

 bell Scafon for tranfplanting them 

 is in July, after their Leaves are 

 decay 'd, when they mud be put 

 into frefli undung'd Earth, and 

 placed in the Shade until Autumn ; 

 but in Winter they may be expofed 

 to the Sun, which will caufc 'em 

 to liower fomewhat earlier in the 



Spring. 



