Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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T , 4 Oar Author here in the fourth place defcribed the Knawel, and he figured it in the fe- 
cond place, vnder the title of Ant by [(is V alentina Clufj : for the figure which was in the third place 
we here giue you in the fifth ; and I come dure it is not of Knavvel,but of Saxifr.tr a Anglic, ma of the 
Acluerf So that our Authors words are true, if he meant of the pidure which lie fet forthby the 
name of Polygonum felynoie/es fine Knawel ; but falfe ifof the plant which he defcribed. But if the 
come (hire ot Pena and Label be true,who iudge their Saxifiaga Anglican a to b cSynanchice Dalefcham- 
f\h tlien lt IS neither o f Knawel, as our Author would haue it, nor of this which I here giue, but of 
a fmall plant which you fliall finde amongft the Rubins. Now this plant that I take to be the Saxi- 
fraga Anglican a of Pena and Lobtl , is a fmall little herbe growing thicke, with very many branches 
iometwoor three inches high, with fome ftalkes (landing vprigbt, and ocherfome creepin<*:at 
each ioynt grow two fhort narrow fharpe pointed greene leaues, out of whofe bofomes come di- 
ners lefler leaues : at the tops of the branches vpon pretty long ftalkes grow vpon each ftalkc one 
round whitifh (calyhead 5 confiding commonly of foure vnder greenifh leaues which make the 
cup, and foure gray i lit or whitifh leaues which are the flourc. Now after thefe come to fome ma- 
turitie they appeare all of a whitifh colour, and through the thinne fihnes of thefe heads appeares 
the feed, which at the firft view feems to be pretty large and blacke , for it lies all clufterimn toge- 
ther ; but ifyou rub it out you fliall finde it as fmall as fand, and of a darke rcddifli colon? The 
tafte of this plant is very hot and piercing, like that of Golden rod or our common Saxifrage and 
without doubt it is more cffeduall to mouevrine than the former Knawel . I haue found it grow- 
ing in many places about brickc and ftonc walls, and vpon chalky barren grounds. I called this in 
my Iournall Anno \6 { 2 . Saxifaga minor altera flofcttlis albisfemine nigro : an<I queftioned whether it 
were not Alfme Safifraga angujli folia minima montana of Colamna. But nOw I thinke it rather (if the 
number of leaues m the floure did not difigree) the other which is defcribed in the next place of 
which I fince that time haue receiued both the figure and defcriptioi^as alfo a dry plant from M r 
Cooler. He come Aures it may be this plant which I haue here defcribed, that is fet forth in the 
Uiftoria Lugd.fag . 1 2 3 5 . by the name of Alfme mtfeofa. 
Alfme faluflrisfolijs temipmis ifiue Saxifraga faluftris alfmefolia. 
The Time. 
Thefe floure for the moft part from May to September. 
The Names . 
That which hath beene faid of their names in their feuerall defections (hall fuffice. 
The Nature. 
