Tribe 8. The Theater of Plants . Chap.. 
the moderne Hcrbarifts Pimpinella (imply by many,as Cordw > TragM,FHchfius,Gefner > 2in<\ Lohel .& Timpmclla Saxi¬ 
frage by Chlattbiolm and Gamer arm, or Saxifrage bircina^s Gefner & C lupus do,fome alfo BipineUa Saxifrage ,as 
Lohel , or Bipenula as Lacuna, or Tragofelinum majus as Tabermontanw. the fecond is remembred by Gefner in bor- 
tU y & in deferiptione mon iisfrafti ; the third is the fecond Pimpinella of Tragus , yet is greater than that kinde that 
groweth in our owne land j and fois the fift, and is moft likely to be Baubinus his PimpinelU Saxifrage renui folia * 
The fourth is the third Pimpinella of Tragus , and is called Ptmpinella minor by divers, and Saxifrage bircina minor 
by others,taken by Cordut to be T>aucusSelineides, and by Lugdunenps Tauci tertiumgenus, and by Qolttmna to be 
Tragium THofcoridU. There is growing at the rootes ofthefe Saxifrages in fome countries certaine graines that 
wilFgive a fcarlet die, as Lacuna and Anguilora have fetit downe, and by them called fac™radicum, buc Amatus 
Lufifanus faith that the like graines are found at the rootes of many other herbes. Fragofus ieemeth in reciting 
thefe graines growing at the rootes ofthefe Saxifrages, tothinke that thefe graines arc the Cochenill that the 
Diersufe to die their lilke and cloth in graine colours; for he faith, lib. 3.C.15. that theJCochcnill thatcommeth 
from Peru be the graines that grow at the rootes of certaine plants like unto our common Burnet SaTfrage, 
wherein he was much miltaken, for as Oviedus faith, they are gathered from the leaves of great trees in the fVefl 
Indies , called there Tunal , and with us Ficus Indica, and as it is fet downe in the eight partof the Weft Indian Hi- 
ftory, the fourth Booke and thirteenth Chapter ( and in the Claftis of the trees in this Worke ) from whence it 
feemeth lobn deLaet of Awtverpe in his fife Booke and third Chapter, pag.129* of the IVefl Indian Hiftory tooke 
his relation thereof, which is fomewhat too large to inlert in this place, I will therefore but briefely touch vvliac 
he there faith,that there are divers forts of Ficus Indica , fome that beare no fruit growing wilde,or fo thorny that 
ferveth to no life : others that are manured and beare fruit, which are eaten, and are either white, which are the 
better, or of a reddifh purple colour dying their hands that gather them, like as Mulberies doe : and there is ano¬ 
ther manured fort that beareth no fruit, but is of greateft worth, and moft carefully kept, becaufe.thar certaine 
Flies doe breede thereon ( which are that graine called by the Spaniards Cochenill, derived from the Coccus of the 
ancients, and this as a diminutive thereof) which they gather twife or thrice in a yeare, and kill them by calling 
cold water on them, and afterwards drie them in the fhadow • but of this he faith there are foure forts, fome bet- 
ter or worfc than others,thc worfer being gathered from the wilde plants, the beft from thole are planted in order 
like an orchard, and tended carefully. Tragus calleth this Saxifrage Piper Germanicum, and faith that no other 
plant can be more fitly referred to the Petrefolinum Macedonicum of Tiofcoyides than it, who compared the feede 
thereof unto the feede of Amoes, yet to be fweeter in fmell like unto fpice, and fharpe and hote in tafte, and to 
grow in rockie places, and hereon complaineth that men more willingly Ipend their coft on ftrange things fetcht 
from fane, than upon their owne hombred and country plants .* and afliiredly the feed - hereof is fo aromaticall, 
and fharpe piercing withall that I thinke he had reafon fo to thinke as he did, when as it farre furpafleth either 
the old Petrofelinum CMecedonicum of our modernes, I meane our Allifander feede or the new Petrofilihum Mace- 
donicum that commeth from J r enice ,and is now a dayes in fo great account,as though it were the true Petrofelinum 
Aiacedonium not to be doubted of, or none to goe beyond it: but I am in doubt I fhallfinde among my brethren 
fome Critickes that will taxe me for inferring this noveltie: ifitpleafe not them, let the judicious cenfurc it as 
they fhallfinde cau fe and reafon. Tragus alfo faith that fome others referred this to the Oreofelinum or Apm 
mentanum of Diofcorides, *** 
