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Show Of the Hifterie of Plants. Lis, 2. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. te — 84i * fordiftin&ion fake I haue thought good to Englith NoblewhiteLinerwoott: , Cuar. 308, Of the Graff ofParnaffus. $£ 2 Gramen Parnafei flore duplic, Graffe ofParnaffus with double floures. 1 Gramen Parnaffi. .Graffe of Parnaflus. : The fecond may becalled Noblewhite Liuetwoortwith the double floure: | The Nature, The {eed ofParnaffus Graffe,or white Liuer-woort,is dtic, and offubtill parts; eae: eae : Gj The Vertues. e decoctionof the leaues o Parnaffus Graffe drunken, doth drie and ftretigthen the feeble ae cient ftoppeth the bellic, and taketh away the defire to vomite. ei e fame boiled inayine or water,and dtunken,e{pecially the feed thereof, keth the ftone,and driuethit forth. re ‘ ig s ; a Oketh vrine ee. netiet: Se 5 q The ee fformerly ini the firlt placeof thisi Chapter was ofnifolidm;deferibed before, cap. 9o.pig.4o9- that which wasia the fecdnd place belonged a Cuar. 309.° Of white Saxifrage,or Golden Saxifrage: & The Defiription, bithioh He white Saxifiage hath round leaves {pred vpon the gtound; and fomewhat i i about the edges,not muchvnlike the he of es, nee arena = ofa motefaint yellowifh greene : among which r1feth vp a round hairie ftalke a cu- - tg sbearing atthe top {mall white floures,almoft like Stockgillofloures : the root is com act ; anumber of blacke ftrings,whereunto ate faftened very many {mall ieddifh graines or ea bots as bigge as peppercornes, whichare vfed in medicine, and are called Semen Saxifrage all atis , the {eede afwhite Saxiftage , or Stone-breake, although (befide thefe forefai ‘eend ~ ithathalfo {mall feed contained in little huskes, following his floure as other herbes ¥ Saxtfraga alba, WhiteSaxifrage. % Saxifraga aurea, Golden Saxifrage; @ The Defcription. from an ykind of He Graffe ofParnaffs hath fmall round leaues,very muchdiffering and not OF lo Graffe,much refembling the leaues of Iute,or A farabacca, but {maller, bearing nglittle is high, fc darke a colour: among thefe leaues {pring vp fmall ft alkes a foot pa ft,there ct i and falne hb mawhite floures confifting of fiue round pointedleaues , which beeing thicke, wit round knopsor heads,whereinis contained a reddifh feed. [he root is fomewhat hat the nyftrings annexed thereto. pect, fauing ' 2 ~The fecond kinde of Gramen Parnaffi doth anfwer the forme rin each ref leaues are fomewhatlarger,and thefloures double,otherwife verielike. Le The Place. wif at s © f Engl Thefir groweth very plentifully in Lanfdall and Crauen,in the Northpart E ore necte o le Doncafter,and in Thornton fields in the fame countrie : moreouer in thethe M edow ca i ec by Cambridge,at Heffetalfo in Suffolke, ata place named Drinkftone, int fheWmelling 7 a o chers mead, ¢ M'.Goodyer foundit in the boggy ground belowthe red well ully 0 the Caftle? Northampton fhire : and M', William Broad obferuedit to grow p Jentif of Berwickevpon Tweed. } The fecond isa ftranger in England. t The Time. i . end of Auguft Thefe herbes do floure in the end of Iuly,andtheir feed is ripei a the hem i in @| The Names. f d fomething o Valerius Cordus hath among8 many ythat haue written of thefe hestbes fai ut controuctst e th wi a er? the name of Hepatica alba (wherc of by good purpofe, calling them t called kindes) in Englifh,white Liuerwooit : althoughthereis another plan Hepaie Golden |