Lib. 2. Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
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vvrithen,and below fometimes as thicke as ones little finger, from which grow many (mall & hard 
branches, and thofe flender ones ; the leaues are little, long and fharpe pointed : the flouresare 
white and fmall,and grow in cups, which are finely fnipt at the top in mannerof a coronet, wherein 
is contained a finall red feed > the rootes grow fo faft nnpaft in the Rockes,that it cannot by any 
meanes be got put. It grows vpon diuers rocks in Italy and Germany ; and it is the Saxtfiaga mag- 
rmoiMuttbiolm, and the Italians. 
t I Saxijraga magna CMatthioli. 
Matthiolus his great Saxifrage. 
t 2 Saxifragd <^Antiqttorum,Lob. 
Saxifrage of the Antients, according to Lob. 
in the head is contained around fmall reddilh lccd 
w Sax/jraga quorum. 
2 Pena and Lobe! fay, this growes 
in great plenty in Italic, in Dolphonie 
in France,and England, hauing many 
fmall flender branches a foot high, in- 
tricately wrapped within one another 
where they are fet with many grafTm 
ioynts : theroote is fmall and white 
with fome few fibers : the leaues ftand 
by couples at the ioynts, beeing long 
and narrow; of the bignelTe and fi- 
militudeof thofe of the wilde Pinks, 
or Rocke Sauorie: vpon eachwood- 
die, fmall, capillarie, ftraight, and 
creeping little branch, growes one lit- 
tle floure fomewhat like a Pinke,bee- 
mg finely fnipt about the edges! and 
. the forefaid Authours call this Saxifrtigra,fi- 
7 he I'erlues. 
' Matthiolus faith that c alceoldrms of Verona mightily c ommended this plant to him, for the a 
I f § dtlV 1L ' tlC , 11 lad t0 cx [ el1 , or driue forth the ftone of the Kidneies,and that I might in verie A 
deed beleeuc it he fent me abundance of ftones, whereof diuers exceeded the bignelTe of a beane 
hich were voided by drinking of this plant by one onely t. itizen of Verona, called Hieron V m de 
; but this made me moil to wonder, for that there were fome ftones amongft them, that fee. 
med rather to come out of the Bladder,than forth of the Kidneies. 
f it l 1C ^ ut hours of the <^4duerf.) as it is the lateft receiued in vie and name for Saxi- B 
JrTdl u- C the , b r e " er truer , e fpecially fo thought by the kalians, both for the highly commen- 
ded facultie, as alfo for the neere afhnitie which it feemes to haue with Efhhjmum^c. t 
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