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which the Juice or Effence are given. It mixed 
with Honey and fo taken, it is an Excellent thing to 
open Obftrufled Lungs, and to caufe an eafie 
expectoration of the Pituitous matter afflicting 
them. 
XV. The Diftilled. Water of Roots , heaves , and 
Flowers. It has the Virtues of the Juice and 
Eflence, but in a much inferior degree, and may 
be given half a Pint at a time, fweetned either 
with our Syrupus Nepbriticus , or with Clarified 
Honey , and fo taken Morning, Noon, and Night. 
It caufes Flegm to be eafily voided from the 
Lungs. 
CHAP DCXXV. 
Of SAXIFRAGE Burnet. 
I. r ~r' HE Names. The Ancient Greeks and La- 
X tines knew nothing of this Plant : Our 
Modern Authors have call’d it, Pimpinella Saxi- 
graga : And we in Englifh, Burnet Saxifrage. 
II. The Kinds. Thefe following are the Chief, 
viz. i. Pimpinella Saxifrage major noflras , Our 
Greater Englifh Burnet Saxifrage. 2. Pimpinella 
Saxifrage minor nofir as 4 Pimpinella Saxifrage te- 
nuifolia Baubini , Our fmaller Englifh Burnet Saxi- 
frage. 3. Pimpinella Saxifrage hircina major 4 Pim- 
pinella Cordi , Fuchfij , Gefneri , Lobe If Tragi • 
Pimpinella Saxifrage Matthioli , Camerarij 4 Saxi- 
frage hircina Gefneri Cf Uufij 4 Bipenula Locuna 4 
Bipinella Saxifrage Lobe If Tragofelinum majus 
Tabernamontani , The great German or Hircinian 
Burnet Saxifrage. 4. Pimpinella Saxifraga hircina 
major flore rubente Gefneri , The great German or 
Hircinian Burnet Saxifrage with a reddifh Flower. 
5. Pimpinella Saxifraga hircina minor ^ Saxifraga 
hircina minor 4 Pimpinella Tragi ; Daucus felinoides 
Cordi •, Dauci tertium genus Lugdunenfis j Tragium 
Diofcoridi Column a • & Pimpinella minor ^ by divers, 
The fmall German or Hircinian Burnet Saxifrage. 
T he Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or our greater Englifh Burnet 
Saxifrage. It has a long whitifh Parfnep like Root , 
of a hot and biting Tafle like Ginger , which conti- 
nues many Tears. It grows up in the fame manner 
like the great German Saxifrage at Sell. V. follow- 
ing, having an hollow Stalk two or three Feet high , 
with joints and knees , befet with large Winged 
Leaves , which do more nearly referable Sm allage 
than Burnet •, which confifis of many fmall Leaves 
growing upon one Stem , fnipt or dented about the 
Edges like a Saw. The Flowers grow at the tops 
of the Stalks and Branches in white round Tufts , 
or Umbels : The Seed is like Common Barfly Seed , 
faving that it is hotter , and biting upon the 
Tongue , being fharper and hotter than that at 
Sell. V. following. 
IV. The fecond, or our fmaller Englifh Burnet 
Saxifrage. This is the befi known of all the refi. 
Its Root is long and white , fmaller than the former, 
and puts it felf forth into Branches , being of a hot , 
Jharp and biting Tafie alfo. It fprings up with 
Leaves almoji like unto Burnet , or Common Barfly 
of a dark green Color , and fmooth or void of hairs , 
which if tenderly broken with your Hands , you may 
Saxifrage Burnet Greater. 
draw forth fmall Threads, like thofe of a Spiders 
Web, and fitch as you may draw Jrom the Leaves 
of Scabious. The Stalk is hollow , dividing it felf 
from its Joints or Knees, into fever, it Jntall 
Branches , at the Tops of which do grow JmallTufts 
or fpokie Umbels of white flowers, after which 
comes the Seed, of a hot Jharp TaJIe, like to that of 
Caraways. 
V. The third, or great German or Hircinian 
Burnet Saxifrage. Its Root is fmall, long and white, 
very like unto a Parfnep or rather a Par/ly Root 
but much hotter in Talie, which pcrijhes not after 
Seed time , but endures fevcral Tears. It fprings 
up with fevcra! large and long Stalks of Winged 
Leaves, one fet dtrcBIy oppojite to another, on 
both fide s the middle Rib-, each being fomemhat 
broad, a little Pointed, and fomemhat deeply Je tted 
about the Edges, oj a frejh green color, a/mofi Jhm- 
ing. Prom among which rife up one or more round 
hollow Stalks, three feet high or better. Jit at the 
Joints with the like, but lejjer Leaves, and bear 
mg at their fevcral Tops, fmall Umbels of fmall 
white flowers, after which come fmall , blackijh, 
round Seed, like unto Parjly Seed, but much hotter 
in TaJIe, and Sharper upon the Tongue. The 
Leaves of this fpecies are groffer cut in or dented 
than our great Englifh kind at Sell. III. above, and 
at leal I double their Breadth, they both being in . 
dented after the fame manner. 
VI. The fourth, or great German or Hircinian 
Burnet Saxifrage with a Reddifh Flower. Thisjort 
differs little or nothing from the former, neither in its 
Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Branches, flowers, nor Seed 
nor yet in its Magnitude or form of Growing, faving 
only that the flowers in this are of a reddifh or 
blujh color. 
VII. The fifth, or fmaller German or Hirci- 
man Burnet Saxifrage. Its Root is long and 
White, but fmaller than the Roots of the two 
lajt deferibed-, alfo more hot, quick, and Jharp, 
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