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Of the liiftorie of Plants. 
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1 B. 2. 
' England. 
thereof, whence the ftalkes and ikaifes come forth : it growes vpon fame hils in Hungarie and Au, 
ftria.and floures in Inly, t 
9^ The Tlttci. 
Saxifrage grovveth in mod fields and medowes euery where throughout this our kingdome of 
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% The Time . 
Itfloureth from the beginning of May totheendofAuguft. , 
The Names. 
Saxifraga Anglic ana is called in our mother tongue Stone-breake or Englifh Saxifrage.- Pena 
and Lobel call it by this name Saxifraga Anglicana : for that it groweth more plentifully in England) 
than in any other countrey. 
The Nature. 
Stone-breake is hotand dtie in the thirddegree. '• » r 
9 } The Vert ues. 
A A deco£lionmade with the feeds and roots of Saxifrage, breaketh the ftone in the bladder and 
kidneies,helpeth the ftrangurie,and caufeth one to piffe freely, 
g Tlterootof Stone-breake boiled inwine,and thedecoftion drunken, bringethdowne. womens 
ficknefTe.expelleth the fecondine and dead childe. 
C The root dried and made into pouder,and taken with fuga^comfortefti and vvartaeth the ftomack,; 
cureth the gnawings and griping paines of the belly. 
D Ithelpeth the collicke, and driueth away ventofities or windinefTe. 
E Our Englifh women vfe to put it in their running or rennet for cheefe, efpecially in Chefhire 
^vhere I was borne,) where the beft cheefe of this Land is made. 
+ I hauc formerly Chap. i88.deliuered thehiftoryofthe.SWi/"rJ*i miior of Matthio.'m, and Saxfraga ^ntjquatum of Label ;.not fhirk'ngihnt our AuthorhaC 
put their dclcriptionsheicamongif the VmbtUifet *, for it I had, I fhould haucfpnrcd my labour there bcftow6d, and hnoeoiuen their figures here to the deferip. 
UoDsofour Author, which arc now omitted -The figure formerly here was of the C‘ . defenbed in the third place ot the 403 Chapter. 
Chap. 423 . Of Siler Mount aine or bajlard Louage. 
f 1 Siler mtmtanum Officinarum. 
Baftard Louage. 
1 i Sefeli pratenfe Monty difnfrtm, 
Horfe Fennell. 
