The Theater of \Plants < 
Chap, 19, 453] 
Tribe 4. _ ___ 
-- ” ' The Vertues . 
We have little recorded of any efpeciall cure this hath performed, or that it is applied to thofe that are ficke of 
anv difeafe • for although all doe agree that it is of a drying, glutinous and aftringent tafte, and might no doubt 
be effeftuali for i as kes and fluxes of blond and humours tn men and women, and to performe whatibe- 
verthe aftrin°enr and drying propertie might, as in Folygonum promife to performe, yet there is nothing deter¬ 
mined and therefore I dare not play the Phificion to invent new receipts, for the cure of old difeafes s it is fuffi. 
cient to declare the temperature and what others have ufed or approinted, when I have no new thing to (hew. .. 
3. luncarld Sa'waticenfn. 
Small ftone Woodroofc of Sprine* 
Chap. X IX. 
1 . JJperttlu refens Gefniri,fiwS«xifrtig<i alter ACefalfm, Brcakeftone Woodroofe'.' 
His fmall plant which is accounted akinde of Saxifrage in fome places of Italy, refembling in the 
1 outward face and forme Rubia minor, A/perula, Gallium, and fuch other like herbes, dothcaufemc 
to ioyne it with them, as being a congener of one tribe and family; how therefore to know this 
plant is in this manner. It fpreadeth upon the ground for the mod part (and yet in fome places 
ltandeth more upright) divers lmall tender flalkes, feparated into other fmaller branches, of about a foote 
high, full of joynts, at which come forth three, foure, or more fometimes, fmall and narrow frnooth leaves: the 
flowers (land at the toppes of the branches, many let to¬ 
gether in a tuft, which are long fmall and reddiih, and 
after they are paftgroweth, rough,crooked feede, which 
is fmall and blackifti ; the rootc is lmall and tlncddie, 
and brownifh on the outfide. 
2" Rubia Cynanchicafaxaiilis, Stone Woodroofe. 
This other fmall Woodroofe, is very like unto the for¬ 
mer, but that it is (mailer and lower, not pattanhand 
breadth high, and the leaves much fmaller, the flowers 
alfo of a pale red colour, many tufting together, and eve¬ 
ry one Handing upon a (hurt foote ftalke : the feedes and 
rootes arc like the other. 
5 . luncaria Salmatieenfis. 
Small ftone Woodroole of Spaine . 
This fmall plant is likewile very like unto the firft, 
growing more upright with fquare, rough rufhlike 
branches, lpreading forth into many fmalKprayes, al- 
moftlikcunto an Horletaile grafle full of Joints, with 
two leaves and fometimes with more at a Joint, fome- 
what long & narrow like unto Line or Flaxe,but rough: 
at the toppes of the branches come forth many fmall 
white flowers let in fpikes, and foure or five Handing 
upon a fhort foote ftalke together, which ftand in 
rough huskes, wherein commeth tie feede, which is 
blaclte and fmall j the roote is white and threddy like 
the other. 
The Place, 
The firft groweth in fhady Woods in many places of 
Italy s and Germany - 3 the iecond about Valentia inTaul- 
phinc in France : the laft about Salamanca in Spaine as 
Ch'fms faith • but I found it on the right hand of Bradford 
bridge at the lower end of Graycs Inne-Lane by London y 
neare the water courfe that pafteth along thereby. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower and feede in the end of Som¬ 
mer. 
The Names, 
The firft is called by Gefner in libello de colleftione JHr- 
plum Ajperula her ha repens , and is the fecond Saxifrage of Csfalpinus ; Bauhinas referretn it to the SynAnchycd of 
Ludgunenfis , and to the Gallium montanum latifolium cruciatum of Column* , and calleth it hnnlelfe Rubia Cynaru 
chica : the fecond he fettetb forth in his Prodromus, under the title I have here exprefled it; the laft is called by 
Clufm luncaria Salmatieenfis , and Synanchict Jfiecies of Lugdunenfis , by TVermont anus luncaria, but by Bauhtrm 
Rubia linifolia ajpera. 
The Vertues. 
The Italians as I faid in divers places of their countrie doe ufe the firft kinde to helpe thofe that are troubled 
with the ftone or gravell in their kidneyes, by provoking urine, which wafhing or pafling by the uritories, car- 
rieth with it (mall gravell, and fretting the ftone into gravell, fendeth it forth with the urine ; it conferreth like- 
wife much helpe to thofe that are troubled with the Quinfie, which is an inflammation of the kernells of the 
throat, which by the extreme paine thereof is ready to ftoppe the breath, and doth fometimes fuddenly happen 
fo indeede : it is a difeafe chat Dogges and Wolves, are much fubjeft unto, for it is derived from the Greekc 
Word laejueus , in that we ufually hang up fuch Dogges that are troubled therewith, or elfe that the difeafe 
