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Of the Hiftorie df Plants. 
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B. 2. 
t 3 Saxifraga alba f etna. 
White Rocke Saxifrage. 
2 Golden Saxifrage hath round compaf- 
fed leaues, bluntly indented about the borders : 
like the former, among which rife vp ftalkes a 
handfull high, at the top whereof grow two or 
three little leaues together. -outofthemiddlei 
of them fpring fmall floures of a golden color, , 
after which come little husks, wherein is con- • 
tained the red feed,notvnlike the former: the : 
roote is tender, creeping in the ground with 
long threds or haires. 
4: 3 Ponti hath fet forth this p!^ by the : 
name of Saxtfraga alba petr*d, and therefore 1 1 
haue placed it here ; though I thinke I might ; 
more fitly haue ranked him with Paronjchuru- 
taceo folio formerly dcfcribed. It hath a fmall 
finglc root from which arife diners fat longifii 
leaues, fomewhat hairy, and diuided'into three i 
parts : amongft thofe rifesvpa round knottie: 
ftaike.roughifh, and of a purplifh colour, fome :j 
lralfe foot high,diuided into fundry branches, 
which carry white floures, confifting of flue 
leaues apiece, with fome yellowifh threds in' 
their middles : thefe falling, there remaines a ■ 
cup containing a very fmall feed. It floures at i 
the end of Iune in the fhadovvie places of the 
Alpes, whereas /tajfirftobferued it. f 
•I The Place. 
The white Saxifrage gioweth plentifully 
in fundrie places of England, and especially in 
a field on the left hand of the high way, as you j 
goe from the place of execution called Saint i 
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Thomas Waterings vnto Dedford by London. It growethalfo in the great field by Iflington cal- I 
led the Mantles : alfo in the greene places by the fea fide at Lee in Elfex, among the rufhes,andin j 
fundrie other places thereabout, and elfe where, ifltalfogrowes in Saint Georges fields behinde 
Southvvarke. t 
The golden Saxifrage groweth in the moift and marifh grounds about Bathe and Wels,alfo in i 
the Moores by Bo (Ion and Wisbich in Lincolnfhire : 4 and Ml. George Bowles hath found it grow- j 
ing in diners woods at Chiflelhu; ft in Kent: M r .Gno^ctalfohathobferued it abundantly on the 
fihadowiemoiftrockesbyMapledurhaminHampfture : andlhaue found it in the like places in i 
Yorkfhire. $ 
The Time. 
The white Saxifrage floureth in May and Iune : the herbe with his floure are no more (een vn- j 
till the nextyeare. 
The golden Saxifrage floureth in March and Aprill. 
The Names. 
Thefirft is called in Latine Saxtfraga Alba : in Englifh, white Saxifrage, or white Stone-breake : 
The fecond is called Golden Saxifrage, or golden Stone-breake. 
The That tire. 
The firftof theft, efpecially the root and feed theieof,isofa warmeorhot complexion. 
Golden Saxifrage is of a cold nature, as the tafte doth mamfeftly declare. 
f The Vertues. 
The root of white Saxifrage boiled in wine and drunken, prOuoketh vrine, clenfeth the kidneis 
and bladder,breaketh the ftone,and dtiueth it forth, and is Angular good againft the ftrangurie,and 
all other griefes and imperfeftions inthereines. 
The vertues of golden Saxifrage arc yet vnto vs vnknowne,norwitftanding I am of this minde , 1 
that it is a lingular wound herbe, equal! with Sanicle. 
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