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Show $ 3 Saxifraga alba petrea, White Rocke Saxifrage. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lis.2. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 2 Golden Saxifrage hath round compat. fed Jeaues,bluntly indented about the borders like the former, among whichrife vp ftalkesa Cuapr. 310 OfSow-bread, handfull high, at the top whereofgrowtwo or q The Deftription. three little leaues together: out ofthemiddle of them{pring {mall floures ofa goldencolor, after which come little husks, whereinis contained the ted feed,notvnlike the former: the roote is tender, creeping in the ground with long threds orhaires. $3.» Pona hathfet forththis plane by the name of Saxifraga alba petraa, and therefore! haue placed it here; though I thinke Imight more fitly have ranked himwith Paronychia rataceo folio formerly defcribed. It hath afmall fingle root fromwhicharife diuers fat longith leaues,fomewhat hairy,and diuided into three parts ; among ft thoferifes vpa round knottie ftalke,roughith, andof a purplith colowr,fome halfe foot high,diuidedinto fundry branches, which carry, white. flonres, confifting offiue Icaues apiece, with fomeyellowith threds in their middles : thefefalling,thereremaines a cup containing a very {mallfeed,, Itflouresat the end. of Iune in the fhadowie places of the Alpes,whereas Pona firlt obferued it, q The Place. The white Saxifrage groweth plentifully in fundrie places ofEngland, and efpecially ia yO" a field on the left hand ofthehighway,4s— goe from the place of execution called Thomas Waterings vnto Dedford by London.It growethalfo in the great field byIflington led the Mantles: alfo in the greene places bythefea fide at Lee in E flex,amongthe rufhes,and si . fundrie otherplaces thereabout, and elfe where. + It alfo growes in Saint George fields behines Southwarke. + Tels alfo in The golden Saxifrage growethin the moift and marith grounds about Bathe and We's,a''" the Moores by Bofton and Wisbich in Lincolnfhire: ¢ and M*.George Bowles hath found it gr obferued it abundantly = ing in diuers woodsat Chiffelhurft in Kent: M‘.Goodyeralfo hath fhadowie moiftrockesby Mapledurhamin Hampfhire : and I haue found st in thellike places” Yorkfhire. ¢ 4 q The Time. more feta ¥9_ Thewhite Saxifrage floureth in Mayand Iune: the herbe with his floure are nO till the hext yeare. The golden’Saxifrage floureth in March and Aprill. | The Names. : break The firft is called in Latine Savifraga Alba: in Englith,white Saxifrage, oF white Srone™" The fecondis called Golden Saxifrage,or golden Stone-breake. q The Nature. fexion Thefirft of thefe efpecially the rootandfeed thereof,is ofa warmeor hot complexio™ Golden Saxifrage is of a cold nature.as the tafte doth manifeftly declare. ] @ The Vertues. : feth thesis? Theroot ofwhite Saxifrage boiled in wine and drunken, prouoketh vrine, cleny oe and bladder,breaketh the ftone,and driuethit forth,andis fingular good againft thefran! allother griefes and imperfeGtions in the reines. , Doe Thevertuesof golden Saxifrageare yet vnto vs vaknowne,notwitfanding Jam oft B thatit is a fingular wound herbe,cquall with Sanicle. de Cua He firft being the commonkinde of Sowbread, called in (hops Panis porcinnsahd Ar= thanita,iath many greene and round leaues like vnto A farabacca RaniSec oper part of the Jeaues are mixed here and there confufedly with white {pots and vnder the leaues next the ground ofa purple colour : among which rife'vp little ftemmes like vnto the flalks ofviolets,bearing at the top {mall purple floures,which curne themfelues backward (beeing fullblowne)likea Turks cap,or Tulepan,ofa {mall fent or fauour,or noneatal! : which being aft there fucceedlittle round knops or heads which containe lender brownefeedes: thefe ties @ 7 1 Cyclamen orbiculatofolio. Round Sowbread. 2 Cyclamenfolie Hedcra. luie Sowbread. |
