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cal'ed bv him Sedum pa/uftre, and is the fourth Sedum minus with Tragw, which Bauhimu calleth Sedum arvenfe 
flora rubente■ although he would make it a differing fort (rom it: the feventh is the eighth Sedum minus five Can. 
flicitm of Clufiw, called lllecebra minor by Label, and Sempervivum minimum, and is taken by Anguilara to be the 
Cramcn 5 . Plimn and of Columna to be his Vatlylon 2. ml 3 ; and becauie of the d.fferent qualitie, he judgeth it, 
not fit to be accounted an eAizoox which arc all cold ; Cardus calleth it Aizaon acre, and Thahtu Aizetm minus fer. 
mdigujltn, who alfo calleth the eight Atom minus and Vermicular}, infipida, andby Cardus Aizoon minimum : 
the lad is onely mentioned by Label, 
The Vertues. 
All thefe kindes of frnall Houfelcekes or Stonecrops, except the feventh are cooling like unto the other grea-: 
ter Houfcleeks, and in their qualities are referred thereunto being fomewhatallringent withall whereby they: 
are no lefie powerful! to flay the fluxes and diftillations, bleedings inward and outward,eruptions in the skinne, 
cancerous and fretting fores and ulcers, and generally can doe and perforrae whatloeveris laid of the greater 
kindes and therefore in the want of the one, the other may fafely and effeflually be ufed; onely the laft fave one is 
fervent hot fliarpe Si exulcerating fas I faid before)the skin,and raifing blifters if it be laid thereupon but a while, 
as forcibly as Ranunculus or Crow foote will doe, and therefore it behoveth all that (hall have occafion to uleany 
of the cooling Stonecrops, thatthey doe not miftake this for feme of them whereunto it is folike; yetitisnot 
withoutfotrKother good properties, whereof good u(e may be made, for it is faid to procure vomiting, tire 
iuyee thereof taken with vinegar andfome other drinke, and thereby driveth forth thicke flegmaticke and colle- 
ricke humours whe eby quartaine agues,and other of long continuance may be cured. And that taken in the fame 
manner jit doth expell any poyfon,or the force of venemous herbes,and of the Aconites, which yet is referred by 
fotne to the greater kindes 1 but Caveat spin fumpferit. Diofcorides faith, that being outwardly applied with Axwi- 
eia, that is Hog°a fuet, it will take away knottes and kernells, as well in the necke and throatc, which is called 
the Kings evill, as in any other part of the body, and applied by it felfe, or boy led in oyle of Rofcs, and the 
anointed therewith, doth eafe the paines, and cure them of the gtiefe. 
fore piles annointed t 
Chap. VII. 
Aizcon, Sedum jive Semper vivnm minimum petr.atm & montanum • 
Rockie and Mountainous (mail Houfelcekes. 
3 He third kinde of fmall Houfeleekes that I am toentreate ol here,are of filch as grow on Rockie, 
j (tony, and mountainous places (of many whereof I have in my former Booke given you the 
| knowledge) which are the led ofall the red formed into circles or eyes, as the common Houfe- 
I Icekeis, and as the forts of Cotyledon altera are alio, whereunto they might be as well referred, 
j butbecaufe other Authors have let them forth by the name of Sedum minw, lam content to )c( 
them fopaffe alfo. 
I. Sedumminimum Alpinism Mufcoides ; Small Moffelike mountable Houfeleeke. 
This fmall Houfcleeke fpreadeth with the many round circling heads of leaves like Houfeleeke, a great deale 
of ground fo thicke lying thereon, as the Mode it felfe doth which leaves are very fmall, thicke, and of a blcwifli 
greene colour: from the middle of divers of which heades fpring up fmall flender dalkes, not above two or 
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three inches high, bare or naked of leaves, for the moft part unto the toppes, where hand two or three fmall 
white flowers made of five leaves apeece, and fome yellow threds in the middle of them: the roote is fmall and 
threaddy, but multiplied! it felfe into a number of heads. 
2. Sedum minimum Alyinum villofum. Small hairy meuntaine Houfeleeke. 
This is as fmall an Houfeleeke as the former, growing in the fame manner, and about the fame height, but the 
1. Sedum minimum Alyinum CMufcoidsi. 2. Sedum mhimum alyinum •villofum, 4 , Sedum montanum grammo folio aUetim* \ 
Small Meficlike mouacaine Houfeleeke. Smallbairie naomtainc Hcufdceke. AnothergretliJikclnull Htuldceke. 
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