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The Theater of Tlants. 
Chap.i. 425 
SAXIFRAGE PLANTS 
NEPHRITIC^ SIVE CALCV- 
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SAXIFRAGES OE 
Stone Plants. 
QVARTA, 
CHAP. I, 
1. Saxifrttg* M .« vulgaris. The common white Saxifrage or Breakeftone. 
Here are fo many and divers forts of herbes that beare the name of Saxifrage, that is, 
S i from the effefts in breaking and expelling the (lone, much diffei ing in forme one from 
fib ; an other,that I have therefore thought a fmall good to make a peculiar Claflis of them, 
Ji and yet not of all,for there are fiindry V mbelliferous and other plants,which cannot fo 
fitly be fevered from their owne Tribes. 
o i This whiteSaxifrage that is moft common in our land, hath a few fmall reddifh ker- 
nells orrootes, covered with fome skins, lying among divers fmall blackilh fibres, 
which fend forth divers round faint, or yellowifh gretne leaves, and grayifh un¬ 
derneath, lying above the ground, unevenly indented about the edges, and fomewhat 
hairy, every one upon a little foote (hike ; from whence rifeth up a round brownilh 
hairy greenc (hike, two or three foote high, with a few fuch like round leaves thereon as grow be low, but fmal- 
Ier, and branched fomewhat at the toppe, whereon (land pretty large white flowers of five leaves apeece, with 
fome yellow threds in the middle, (handing in long crelled brownifh greene huskes: after the flowers are pall 
fometimes arifeth a round hard head,by-forked at the toppe, wherein is contained fmall blackifh feede, but ufu- 
ally they fall away without any feede, which yet is not that which is called white Saxifrage feede.for thofefame 
kernells or graines of the rootes, are they which are ufually called the white Saxifrage feede and fo ufed. 
7. Saxifraga albaalxera bulbifera. The Monntaine white kernelly Saxifrage. 
This other white Saxifrage is very like the former in every part, but yet hath many efpecially differences to 
dilfinguifh it, as firft in the rootes, which although they are round, red,and bulbous likewe other,yet are they 
twife as great, and made as it were of feale's or cloves,one laid upon another, like the roote of a Lilly ■ the leaves 
are round and hairy, but fomewhat lefler, with brownifh foote ftalkes: the ftalkes are greater, having leaves 
thereon, as in the former, but at every joynt with the leafe commcth forha a fmall bulbe or kernell, like unto 
thofeat the roote, which when it is thorough ripe, wiil encreafe to be plants, as the bulkes of the bulbed Lilly, or 
of the bulbed Corrall roote will: the flowers and heades with feede are alike the bulbes on the ftalkes by the 
Cutters fault arc not fpecified in the figures. 
5. Saxifragaalba Alpha. Mountaine Saxifrage without kernelly rootes. 
This Monntaine Saxifrage groweth fo like unto the firft white Saxifrage, that Bauhimu caketh it to be no other 
but the very fame with the firft, but there is fome varietie therein ; firft, in , that this fpringech up with 
fewer leaves at the ground, yetroundand like to the white Saxifrage, then, although it hath fmall ftalkes, 
with leaves thereon like it, yet atthetoppes it hath pale yellowifh flowers: and laftly the rootes are wholly 
compofed of long firings or fibres, not having any of thofe fmall knots or kernells,that the former hath growing 
amongft them. 
The Place. 
The firft of thefe groweth in many places of our owne land, in the lower rrioift, as alto in the upper drie cor¬ 
ners of Medotves, and gralTie fandy places, on the backefide of Grapes Ime, where M r . Lambes Conduit heade 
ftandeth. The fecond groweth on the hills in the Kingdome of Naples-, the laft on the high luowie Alpei under 
the trees. 
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