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Show Cuar. Theatrum Botanicum. 1. Saxifragaalba valgaris, The common white. Saxifrage: ce TrRize4 2: Saxifraga alba balbijera, A The Mountaine white Saxifrage, Tribe de The Theater of Plants. time growingto bethe feede veffell,hath divers {mall feede contained within it ; the calte ofthe leaves are {weetifh at Cuar.3. Saxiftaga albapetrea. White Rocke Saxiftage, the firft, but alitcle fharpe afterwards, The Place. / ; It groweth on Mount Ba/dus, not farre from Verena, in the territory of the Venetians, The Time. This flowreth in the naturall places in the end of Zune, andthe {cede isripe foone after,and perifheth wholly afterwards. The Names, It is called by Pona who fet forth the defcription of Mount Baldws, and whiat plants doe grow in every part thereof, by the name of Saxifragia alba petrea ;but Bashinu B accordingto his ufuall manner,in all things almoft that may be altered, doth vary the nametwife, calling it firft in his Phytopinax, Alfine Tridattylites Alpina ; but afterwards in his Pixax changing his former minde, calleth it Sedum: tri datlylites Alpinum majus album, and none of them both in my opinion anfwerable to fo famous an Herbarifts judgement; as to referre themto fuch plants, as yeeld fo {mall likenefle : for unto the Alfzes, (whereuntol faid he referred ic at the firft, but difclaimeth itafterwards) although it mayfeeme to have fome refemblance,in the white flow- EN ENS ers, yet the leaves and otherparts thereof, withftandeth that yD aS comparifon ;and unto any kindeorfort of Sed#m,it hath in myjudgement farre leffe correfpondtnci¢, which fheweth a {trong conceit inhim beyond compare, to makehis later opinion worfe than the former, which asis judged in moft, fhould be more confiderate and exact: but furely I thinke it doth fonearely refemble, as I faid before, the former | white Saxiftage, both in forme and qualitie, that it is moft fitly to be referred unto jt, and unto no other plant {6 They flower in (May, Staines or kernels at the “ae el commeth, his herbean Greekr isi : Greekeor anti likely: the chiefe differences confifting in the forme ofthe branches,leaves and rootes, as you mayplainely pers ceive bothbythe difeription andfigure, The Vertnes, : tN It hath no doubt the fame properties that the formerhath, both the namie argitingit, arid thelikeneffe offacé in growing notreclaiming, and thetafte efpecially,whereby the qualitie is chiefely difcerned an{wering thereun= to,and althoughthere is not any authorities extant to warrantthis my conceit, yet thofe foreremembred conditions therein, may plead a {trong per{wafionof veritie, and iintill it be contradicted by fufficiene triall and experis ence to be otherwife; [hold it may paffe for currantas.a Saxifrage, ; Cuap.IilL > 7 ifs and Che sae =ae ig = tyge (but not knowne to any of the i nerally called Savifraga alba, by all the oe me i ide Mi —m y ie eon on Pipe3 by the name orundifolia, and of Cluf . ius txberofaradice, naifoly Fabi : ketlirenc inn “abiusus Com C e Saxifiage or Breakeone ota keth it different: ra pe Laun o inEns enfi gl; b shie s as itis inthe title, who maSaxsfren d s im e Siacale ac ke G icfto onem a! ge eS zansandaSpan cae2 s call "iard ui ir Saffifrag ty ia bian h ca s The Unter i Hutch Witt Stein brech, a : ge being fomewhat bitte r, and held to be hot othe r fort of Saxifrape i and drie i whatfoever to clenfe the a:e - pifl fran fliing ng by t droppes: for whiic . ero the {mail kernel ly rootes, wh made with white win e Gtuallina manner, mens courfes, and and caufeth it the m reynes and bladde oe degree, isaseffectuall as Paes provoke trinealte coh e ais the ftone engendered in oétion of the heck Y being flopped, and to helpe the fee kaben a aoe Or rootes in white wine, or the Wine, orin the fame deco@ion ole herbe, rootes and flowers, as itis effe= 3 it provoketh alfo woe flegme,that troublethit, Saxifraga aurea, Golden Sxiftage Saxifraga aurea, Golden Saxiftage. SS }!OldenSaxifrage is a {mall low herbe having ma Fj ny round leaves lying on the ground bluntly en: ivy p dented about the edges fomewhatlike the forasl By! mer commonSaxifrage, but not hairy, fome- ~__. What thicker alfo and ofa darker greene colour, among whichrife up diversflender and weakeftalkes,little above a hand bredth high, with fuch like leaves on them as growbelowupto the toppes, where among the leaves come forth very{mall gold yellow flowers not eafily obferved, andfalling awayfo quickly; that they are fo feldome feene with them, and after theyare paft, there appeare in their places {mall round heads, wherein is contained {mall round reddith feede : the roote.is compofed of a number of {mall ftrings or fibres: the whole plant is almoft infipide or without tafte, bur nothing hotthat ie may be judged to be ¢ffeGtuall to diffolve or expell the ftone. The Place, Tealwayes groweth in moift places by Well fides, or other ftanding and fometimes running waters, and fometimes al- fo in moorifh grounds, asabout Tidnabam in the Forrelt of Deane, at Afbford, and Iden in Kent, -at Chepftow in Effex, and in divers other places. Saxifrage, “ave a I eat Unto the former, for the neare affinitie y leay in on the ha geoote? Withofthe fome ffibres thereat, ere div brownithhair ger y fall& deepelier P cutin edgds,than'thofe tometo the toppe; at th y d ke, about a foote and a balfehio hb ormer,among which white leaves a peece tan € ends whereofftand the flowersingre husk ranches from the bor: § tome yellowifh threds in the middle, ftandin ene huskes, confifting of five very 9 Handing about a head or umbell, whichin time The Time. It flowreth in Afay and fometimés in Aprill, but abideth ot all thereft of the yeare, and perifheth notlike the . ae _ The Names, Iriscalled Saxifraga aurea of molt Writers; from the Se on CF ae ff 7; cif Aj Oy |