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3. Saxifrage!palufris Anglica. Mr .Goodyers Marfh Saxifrage. 
This hath fundry fmall leaves about an inch long,very fmall and narrow lying next the roote, among wh' f, 
rife divers (lender round ftalkes about halfe a foote high, full of joynts and branched here and there fe°t at b 
joynts with the like fmall leaves many togethcr.but two for the mod part longer then the reft, growing 
and (Boner up to the toppes, where groweth one pretty large white flower, made of five round pointer? leave' 
peccc.with fome white chives in the mi die,the roote is fmall and fibrous. vcsa 
4. SaxifragaCretica friar Alpino. Alpium his firft Candy Saxifrage. 
From a fmall long white roote, having a few fmall fibres at the head, fhooteth forth a hard white wondd 
ftalke, divided into (undry fmall branches, fob-divided alfo intoother leffcr, which (land not upright but le 
downewards, fet at each joynt with two fmall long and pointed leaves,fomewhat like to thofc of Tragorha* 
Goats Marjerome, and about the fame bignede : the flowers are fmall, made of many white threds fet tO"erT” 
(landing betweene the leaves, this is wholly without either fmell or tafte almoft. o cc uer, 
5 . Saxifrage! Cretica altera Alpino. Alpir, u s his other Candy Saxifrage. 
They have alfo another kinde of Saxifrage growing in barren dry grounds, very like to a' fmall Pinke for th - 
leaves and manner of growing.but the flowers (land at the toppes of the branches in tufts or umbels of a uale red 
difli colour, this is ofan aftringent and drying tafte, with a little acrimony. 1 rca " 
6 . Saxifrage! montana Neapolitan*, Mountaine Saxifrage of Naples, 
This fmall Saxifrage whicli Column* found growing out of the Chinkes of rocky ftee’pe hils bearcth two f 
long leaves, at each joynt of the ftalkes very like thofe of CMatthio/w his great Saxifrage, but fnmewh.r a 
fofter, and whitifh, with fome (mailer ones fet with them iikewife, where alfo rife branches bearing wh-” 
flowers at the toppes, made of foure fmall pointed leaves a peece,with divers fmall threds in the middled" 
fucceeded by fmall round skinny heades, with fmall browne feede within them; the roote is made of many f j u 
7, Saxifraget maritime! Neapolitan*. The Sea Saxifrage of Naples. 
This is another fort of the laft deferibed growing on the walls nigh the Sea at Naples, bein" twife as bigpe j 
having blufh coloured flowers in Autumne and afterwards long pointed feed veflels, and fmall browne (Sd - 
tile,'n . rnc<,nr 1. nn . 1,0 o.oi.lrrj ort/1 a. r.va —1.. I- rT I ” lit ICvQC 11] 
them,this creepeth on the ground, and ftandeth upright when it flowreth. 
8. Saxifraga Bavarica. The Saxifrage of Bavaria. 
The Saxifrage of Bavaria, fpreadeth upon the ground, with a number offlender round branches divided; , 
others, let full of leaves, two at every joynt, which are narrow, lomewhat long and thicke.and ofa pale greene 
colour, at the roppe of every fmall branch ftandeth one flower, fet in a fmall cuppe or huske of whirin, . 
leaves, of which colour the ftalkes are alfo, confiding of five fmall pure white leaves pointedat tie e 
fometimesa little purfled about the brims and with a waih of purple, laid open like a little ftarre,' wnh’fome 
pale coloured threds in the middle the feede that followeth in final round and lomewhat lon° heads is fmall 
blacke and Aiming, the roote is fmall and wnite, and groweth downc lomewhat deepe. ° 3 ma, hnat. 
The T lace and Time. 
The firft two forts grow in the Weft pans ofthis land as ivWfaitb, who relateth in his Aiverfaria that he 
found the fecond betweene Chtpnam and CMarleborough in London high wav to Briflow on a rholi,, 9 ,, ne 
fiith, he had the firft from Bali * wherlit groweth, tie S M, .clZr 
boggy ground below the red Well of Wellingborough in Northamptonfbirc, the fourth and fifth inCandr Z 
and leaventh in Naples , and the laft in Bavaria. They all flower late. ^ 
The Names. 
Lolel and Tem fay that the third Saxifrage:of ' Mmhioln which fome call magua MatthMM othmmaior Isa 
lontm is the fame which they have let forth in the firft place,in their AiverUna, although it A. - ; . 
grow not fo great,and 
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may not be a kinde of Chickeweede: but fure he need not doubt it, nor that it ,ZXnlltn , do , ubteth l' 1 
third here expreffed commeth nere Iikewife unto Column* his firft Neapolitan Saxifr/oe buttharZn™ 
in mnriflr rind his in rnrkv nlarfv: anr) rhtif fl-i** AnnrnroL..-£ _ i * * t that OUfS groWe 
in morift 1 , and his in rocky places, and that the flowers of his have but fourekam, 1 an! ours fivTround primed! 
and his ihrrpe. Alpium maketh mention of the Candy kindes.and Column* 0 fthe NeavotitZe whfrhlh, Zlvru 
Alfme Saxifraga mantema & marit 'ma : the laft (famcranus and Bona call Saxifrxtra F JL > Z ? he entitleth 
teth a doubt or eyatre whether it be not the Saxifraga magna Matthioh, when as Pom in the PUC ' 
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Thevertues. 
Thedoe wonderfully extoll with praifes the vertuesoftheir Saxifrages and a™ .u j- 
Neapolitans likewife,tobreakeanddiflolvethe done 
, r , , , , . .ereines and kidneies, and bladder 
rine.and to confirme the truth thereof, Mattholm faith he received from CaNoUriu, an Apothecarv of Her m 
fuch great ftones of fundry perfons that were voided in making of their urine that it couldZrdm u, n Si 
that they could pafle through the pipes from the bladder . to give him knowledge how ni Z ,^ bC bdeeVed ' 
thefe are, that can expell the ftone in the kidnics and bladder, be they never fo great, the other S^xifrag^”' 10 ? 
the third, have the fame properties taken in wine, or in a dranahmf^P^d._ c*u _ . ax “ ra g?s except 
tnc tnira, nave the lame properties taken in wine, or in a draught of the decoft ion of them with n,,i l A 
rootes, doth effeiftually performe as much as the former, to diflolve and breake the ftone. ’ 1 ^ ch S raffe 
