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1048 i Of the Hiﬁorie of Plants. A d u-

thereoﬂwhenee the ftalkes and leaues come forth :it gtowes vpon fomeihillsmin H ungafl’ 3“ f’tria,and Homes in Iuly. 13

{I The Place. _ Saxifrage groweth in moi’: ﬁelds and medowes euery where throughout this on

England.

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It floureth from the beginning of May to the end of Auguﬁ.

{I The Names. g _

saxzﬁniga Anglicamz is called in our mother tongue Stone-btealte or Englilh Sax_iFrag€_ n Loéel call it by this name Szzxzﬁaga Anglz‘c4r24:for that it groweth more plentifully in EH8 3 in any other countrey.

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t _ qr The Temperature. Stone-breake is hot and dry in the third degree. Tlze I/_ertm_::. _ I ddc, and A decoétion made with the feeds and roots of Saxifrage,breaketh the Prone In the b 3 lc.idnies,helpeth the Perangury,and caufeth one to piﬂe freely. women; The root of {tone-breake boiled in wine, and the decoétion drunken, bringeth d0W"C ﬁclcenell‘e,expelleth the fecondine and dead childe. ; The root dried and made into ponder, and taken with fugancomforteth and macke, cureth the gnawing and griping paines of the belly. ' It hel peth the collicke,and driueth away ventoﬁties or windineffe.

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(where I was borne) where the belt cheefe of this Land is made. W . 4 ~ _ . h°fl‘.“

1 I luucformerly Chap.i83 dcliiicred the hiltory of the Saxiﬁaga mior ofumrrtbiolut, and Sakifiaga ./Iutiguarur» of Label; not thlhklngthﬁotﬁé ;':;crip“°”5 J their dcfcriptinns here amongﬁ the Vmbelliﬂfﬁa f°‘l” hadsl 1'-hollld haucfparcd my labour there bellowed, and hauc giuen the figures N” ‘° , ournutlionwhich are now omitted-The ﬁgure formerly here was ofthe (malu,dsfcribcd inthethlrd plate of the 40 5-chapter.

C H A P. 425. Of Siler Mo;gntaine,or ba_/Z4rdLou4ge-‘

_1f 2r Seﬁlipratimfe Monjﬁﬁlﬂ”/‘Wm’

fl I Siler mmmzmcm Oﬁicinaramg Horfe Fennell.

Ballard Louage.

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LIB. 2.‘ \\_F“\m.w

Of the Hliiiorie of Plants.

q 772:’ Defcrz'ptz'm.

I Tﬁe naturall plants of Scfeli,be.ing now better know ne than in times pail, efpecially a-" mong our Apothecaries, is called by them Siler mimtamma, and Seféleor .- this plant they

camgd ‘ haue retained to very good purpofe and eonlideration 5 but the errour of the name hath as :1 diners of our late writers to erre,and to fuppofe thut szler montanrim, celled in {hops Scﬁleos, Ore‘) ‘her then Srfcli Mnj.<':z‘[i’c7’iﬁrtm of Dz'o[corz‘des._ But this plant C0f1_t3‘lﬂ€tl1 in his fubﬁance much ﬁa kegfflmony, lharpeneﬂe, and efﬁcacy in working, than any of the pants called Scfélias. It hath cutor d _lke Fertile, two cubits high. The root fnielleth like Léguﬁzcum :‘-the leaues are very much” W iuidcd,lil:e the leaues of Fennell or Sejfelz itlzﬂzlzcnﬁ, nu broader than the leaues ofPm6ca’4~, feed-lit the top of the ﬁalkes grow pokie tufts lilte Angelica,which bring fortha long and leaﬁe. with,‘ e Cumine,of a pale colour 5 in tafle feerning as though it were condited with fugar, but aufomeivhat {harpe.and flwarper than Scfelz]7r.4tL’77_ﬂ“. r ‘ r . . _ '_ QM: There is a fecond kinde ofsiler whieh lferrirand Latlel fer forth vnder the title o_£'.rcﬁlipr.arenﬁ_ “kn ”/P6’/I€2zﬁrim,ivhich Dodonxm in his lallf edition calleth Sgler pratenfe 4/temm, that is in ﬂ‘l€W very ‘ t <3 fmfner. The (tallies thereof grow to the height of two cubits,but his leaues are fornewhatp dedadlfr and blacker ; there are not fo mafny leaues growing upon the ftalke, and they are lelle diui-. r Iran the former, and are ofalittle fauour. The feed is fmaller thanthe former,and lauouring di Yﬁlétle or nothing. The root is blaclce without, and white within, diuiding it felfe into fundryp

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de glmyctli of it felfe in Liguria, not far from Genuain the craggy mountaines,and in the gar-_‘ 0 diligent I-lerbariﬂzs. . ll ‘

Th _ — {I The Time. “re plants do floure from Iune to the end of Auguﬁ.’

It‘ 7 11.7‘/7éN4me:. . _ .. . . I E L in i‘3 Called commonly Silrr a1{_mtanu_m 5 in French and Dutch by a corrupt name serthgtrantain : raineuefs thopsgsefc-leogbut vntruly : for it is not Srﬁlzgnor a ltinde thereof: in $Engl1_fh, Siler rnoun-_ An-'t.>3!ter the Latine name,and bjaﬁard Louage, 1: Theﬁrﬂ is thought to be the U5“./‘Wm Ofthe

ientsiand it is (0 called by tmattbiolm and others. ;t k

TH qr The Terféperltture. _ 1‘ Plant with his feed is hot and dry in the third degree.‘

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fgdglge ﬁfeds of Siler drunlte with VVormewood Wine,or Wine wherein Wotntewood héth beene A

in .5’: miiueth wometis difeafes in great abundance : cureth the fuffocatmn and ﬂrangling of the X’ and caufeth it to returne vnto the naturall place againé- r _ and “extent {tamped with hony,and applied or put into old {Cress d°th Cule them, and cone: bare . 9d bones with ﬂcfh. p , . . - _ 4 or raW:g§.ﬂ_1nke it prouolteth urine, ea feththe pnines of the tits or entrails proceeding ofcrudity Th E @211: hel eth concoc‘:‘tion,con(ume_th W1DCl€,ai'ld‘{WC lingofthe l’tom.acke. _ ‘ f e root hath the fame vertue or operation,but not {'0 efl'e&uall, as not being fo hot and dry.

'zlien[E defcribcd in the next chagater in the Fourtl-iplae-.-, ;,m4.,}m which bdongcd :0 ‘hi, Pix‘ W‘,

M: £9? ofxflcggiiewh-ch for-merlv was he re was oFthe .S‘c,"eli M4. ormcrly vnder the title nfl~'¢hic_i‘i!um dulct.

. man. Lat) Jag’ Alfg that ﬁvurc belonged to lhC l-CCOﬂd dcfciiption W35 3 * t - . I’) ~

C H A P.’ 4.24; Of Sejé/ior, orlHartLwl'ort‘l5 of Candy."

qr The Deféription.

I N His plant beeing the Seféli of Candy, and in times pail not elfewhere founds t‘i-'>0l<e his _ furname of that place where it was ﬁrli found, but now adaies it is to be feene in the It

1 my Come ﬁelds about Narbone in France, from whence I had feeds, which prof per well '_1‘l-lclegardﬁn-This is but an annuall plant, and increafeth from yeare to Yea": bl’ his 0Wne fowing; In fhagges gtowat the ﬁrﬂ: euen with the ground, fomewhat hairy, 053” °“‘ilW°m° greens COIOUT»

theh much like vnto Cheruill, but thicker : among which rifeth vp an hairy rough {laIk'e,of

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folbeight 053 cubit, beating at the top fpoltie tufts with white ﬂoures : which being vzided, there 7

Wm‘ ‘mind and ﬂat feed, compaifed and cunningly wreathed about the edges like axing;

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