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Show Cwared. Theatrum Botanicum. Trae 4. forme ofthe leaves and colourof the flowers, fearfe any well knowing whereunto better to referre it, Lobel from the naturall place of the growing and infipidity of the tafte, calleth it Lichenisfacie & natalitiys, and Beflerus thatfet forth the huge great booke of the Bifhop of Ey/tothis garden, following Lobel calleth it Hepatica palufiris, Tabermontanus calleth it Chryfo/plenium: Viiffes Aldroandys tookeit to be a kinde of Eryfmum butfarre unlikely. ; The Veriues. Theinfipide tafte as I faid before, doth not argue any certaineeffe& or property to wofke upon or stavell eitherto diffolve or expell it, unleffe it be by fome fpecificall or hidden propertytherein, yettheftone affuredly jg could not in my opinion havereceived the nameof a Saxifrage amongfo many authors without fomeproperef. fect therefore, which rofe nodoubt from fome Empyricall obfervation and practife, which gave it both the name and the opinion,unleffe it might from thelikeneffe of the leaves as I {aid before judged, which becanfe [ cannot maintaine nor difprove,I leaveit for others to difproveifthey can. The TheaterofPlantes. five and fometimesfixe, fmall white leaves, endented at thé ends, ofa fweete {mell, ftanding above the huskes, laid open like little ftarte,after which follow {mall round and fomewhat long heads, full of {mall reddith round feede, much leffethenthat of Poppy. Lobe/and Pena thinketh that this Saxifrageis the fame that they: have: fet } forthin their Adverfaria, but that withus it groweth not fo great and wooddy, 2. Saxifraga Anglica Lobely Occidentalium, Lobels Welt Country Saxifrage,.... . S This faith Lobelisverylikethe former, bur thatthe fowetsare white, and grow in {mall tufts at the topes of the {mall ftalkes, the whole plant being white, 2, Saxifraga Ang'ica Occidentalium Labelij, Lobels Welt Countiy Saxifrage, ’ 3- Saxifraga paluftris dnglicana, Mr, Goodyers Marth Saxifrage. . Va Crap, Iv. Saxifraga vera Diofcoridis Matthioli. Mdatthiolus his true Saxiftage of Diofcorides ; =O59) He true Saxifrage of Dio/corides, according to the judgement of Afatthiolusand others, from whom hereceivedit, isa {mall low fbrubby Plant, that fendeth forth divers {mall wooddy, and S| fomewhat hairy ftalkes, full ofjoynts clofe fet oneunto another, having divers fmall fhort and whitifh narrowleaves, growing divers togetherat every joynt,at the toppe whereof come forth SA) SZ Very{mall purplith white flowers, fet with fomeleaves under them, this doth fomewhat refemRASS ble Time, both in the lowneffe and manner of growing, buthath no fuch {weete fent, or hot fharpetafte like untoit, wherebyit may be knowne tobe adif= Saxifraga vera Diofcoridis atatrhioli, Maitthiolus his true Saxiftage of Deofiorides. ferent Plant. The Place, Tt hath beenefent unto us outof J+a/y amongotherrare feeds, but where the naturall place of growing is, it is not readily knowne. The Time, Ttis veryflow in growing,fo thatit did not ower untillfo | late in the yeare, that anearly froft caufed ito perifh, that we could gather no feede. The Names. Itis very probable that it is the true =ap2fosazov Sarxiphragon S Or Saxifragon of Diofcorides, and differeth much from the Satureia or Thymbra St. Iuvliani ofPena and Lobel, fet forth before inthis worke, which Bahiaws calleth /picata, (that it may the better agree with Dio/corideshis Satureia) and. {uppoteth to be this plant ofAZatehio/ys, but Ibythefight and tafte ofthe planet notfinding it to agree, with the fell or tafte ofteither Time or Savory, cannot agree unto him, but doerather judgeit to be a peculiar plantofit felfe, and to come neerer unto his Thyreum 4. Saxifraga Cretica prior: Theformer of the two Saxifrages of Candy inodorum before mentioned, and therefore have feparated it from the other Saxiftages that follow Dodeneus: (and Gerard whohath but onelytranflated his words) judgeth the Serpyl= lumvulgare, tobe Diofcorides his Saxifrage, but they are both deceived. The Vertues, Idoe verily beleeve that this plant, hath either the fame é- {peciall vertues againft the tone and gtavell, reftraint of making waterand other the qualities, whereunto Dio/corides doth appropriate his Saxifrage, or commeth fomewhat neere there- unto, and Iam hereuntochiefly led by the Gght and forme of theplant; and from the nameof.Saxifraga Diofcoridy, whereby it was fent unto us, Cap. V, 1. Saxifragamajor Italorum Matthioli. Matthiolys his Italian great Saxifragé. Woes Hegreat Saxitrageof the Italians.as Afatthiolvs relateth it, hath a great wooddy ftemme ofthe bigrTwe nefle ofonesfinger, toward the lower end, full of chinkes or clefts, {preading very thicke, with Fievemany flender hard whitith branches full of Joynts, and two fmall long whitith greene pointed Efe po leaves, fet at every joynt very like unto Pinkes, and many other {mallerand fhorter {tanding with them: the flowers {tand at the toppes of the branches, out of whitifh greene huskes, apoiiingst ve 8, Soeeee cid ihe saxitrage o: ? |