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over a piece of leather, and applied to the j them, and^ to expel it and the gravel by 

 navel, kills the worms in the belly, helps 

 :cabs and itch, running sores, cankers; tet- 

 ters, and ringworms ; and being applied to 



the place, may haply cure venereal sores 

 This I thought good* to speak of, as it may 

 be safely used outwardly, for inwardly it 

 cannot be taken without manifest danger. 



urine ; to help the stranguary ; for which 

 purpose the decoction of the herb or roots 

 in white wine, is most usual, or the powder 

 of the small kernelly root, which is called 

 the seed, taken in white wine, or in the 

 same decoction made with white wine, is 

 most usual. The distilled water of the 



whole herb, root and flowers, is most farai- 



THE COMMON WHITE SAXIFRAGE. j ]iar to be taken . It provokes also women's 



Descript. "] THIS hath a few small red- courses, and frees and cleanses the stomach 

 dish kernels of roots covered with some and lungs from thick and tough phlegm 

 skins, lying among divers small blackish I that trouble them. There are not many 

 fibres, which send forth divers round, faint $ better medicines to break the stone than 

 or yellow green leaves, and greyish under- j this. 



neath lying above the grounds, unevenly BURNET SAXIFRAGE. 



dented about the edges, and somewhat: 



hairy, every one upon a little foot-stalk, 

 from whence rises up round, brownish, 

 hairy, green stalks, two or three feet high, 



Descript. .] THE greater sort of our 

 English Burnet Saxifrage grows up with 

 divers long stalks of winged leaves, set. 



with a few such like round leaves as grow ! directly opposite one to another on both 

 below, but smaller, and somewhat branched 1 sides, each being somewhat broad, and a 

 at the top, whereon stand pretty large white j little pointed and dented about the edges, 

 flowers of five leaves a-piece, with some 1 of a sad green colour. At the top of the 

 yellow threads in the middle, standing in a * stalks stand umbels of white flowers, after 

 long crested, brownish green husk. After i which come small and blackish seed. The 

 the flowers are past, there arises sometimes [ root is long and whitish, abiding long. Our 

 a round hard head, forked at the top, i lesser Burnet Saxifrage hath much finer 

 wherein is contained small black seed, but; leaves than the former, and very small, and 

 usually they fall away without any seed, I set one against another, deeply jagged 

 and it is the kernels or grains of the root! about the edges, and of the same colour as 

 which are usually called the White Saxi- j the former. The umbels of the flowers are 

 frage-seed, and so used. I white, and the seed very small, and so is 



Place.'] It grows in many places of our j the root, being also somewhat hot and quick 

 land, as well in the lower-most, as in the j in taste. 



upper dry corners of meadows, and grassy j Place."] These grow in moist meadows 

 sandy places. It used to grow near Lamb's \ of this land, and are easy to be found being 

 conduit, on the backside of Gray's Inn. j well sought for among the grass, wherein 



Time!] It flowers in May, and then \ many times they lay hid scarcely to be dis- 

 gathered, as well for that which is called j cerned. 



the seed, as to distil, for it quickly perishesj Time.'] They flower about July, and 

 down to the ground' when any hot weather j their seed is ripe in August, 

 comes. Government and virtues.'] They are both 



Government and virtues."] It is very ef-|of them herbs of the Moon. The Saxi- 

 fectual to cleanse the reins and bladder, j frages are hot as pepper ; and Tragus saith, 

 + o dissolve the stone engendered in j by his experience, that they are wholesome 



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