Of the Hiﬁorie of Iilants. ‘ Li B. 2.

tli<:“Clj.apttf.*irs AOi.C’zl!:;1d72£(.,Cy77056dMf,Hc@£’r()C/I/113',Cl:0!i€0g0?20Zl, and diners others,which are or feeme {UL/C lignncant, an to import fometliing by their name 5 yet he faith nothing thereof. It may he that which they would exprefii: by the name, was, that the herbe had fo piercing a faculty that it would eat into the very ﬂe{h.The fecond and third argument both are anfwered,ir’ this ﬁrﬂ: W0? be GT€Cl<€, 35 1 hat“? already {hewed_it to be, and there are not many words in Greeke that more frequently enter into fuch connpoﬁtion than Gary.’ : as Pampbagay , poly];/,,,,,0,. 0”; [M 0, and many other ipaly ii1§Vl7(.i Zloreouerl, itﬁhagl been obfurd, for Diafroridé}, or any C;{‘Cf1.l:m, hilplge ﬂower they were i t e ia nowne t ie t wo d t ' ,- - ’- ly affcgthailtlie Romanes called it Sa:ciﬁ3n§::l:rliS'ca€:cni;zijit 2:) ho day ag§'ln7‘cvi);:i‘7E'rilt.' but I feare that the aﬂinitie offounds more than of ﬂgiiiﬁcation hath caufed tnhiS2$)tnflfﬁi)é; €{P°' cially in the middle times betweene vs and Diofcorides, when learning was at a ver low ebbe. The chiefe reafons that induce me to thinke this chapter worthy to keep: his former ylace in Diofcorz‘- 1/er,are thefe :i:’irl‘s, the genetall confentof all both of Greeke and Latine copies (as L214?!‘ 1"” ﬁlth) l10W 303151“ f0‘~’”€f they be. Secondly,the mention of this hetbe,for the fame CflC&i11f0mc Gre-el:e Authors of areafonable good antiquitie 5 for PM/us tﬂginetzz tefiiﬁeth that :a,gr«p;,;; d>vr»*7“ u;~:1«>“;y,$; /115131!-S-pu-nilkvﬁ. Then T74/lldﬂldi amongﬂ: other things in a Camiitzzr/2 ‘.7‘{gp/iriticgm mentions rafts-av - but ]\'0i1It.f a later Greeke calls it Ixfwectjnc: fo that it is euident they knew and vfed {omc {im- pie medicine that had both the names ofsarxzﬂaagan and Sizxipimzgos, which is the Latine Saxi 4‘ 3"'d IgI°“’ fefmg ‘:93’ had, Elgld léntifjv fucha ﬁmple medicine,rit reriiaines we encjuire after the H1393 an glare t icreo . ..2rafc0rz' be: 1: cribesit to be a (hrubby plant, growing vpon rockes and craggfc paces, ike vn_to Epzr ymimx. oy ed in wine and drunke,ithath the faculty to hel e the Stranguric and H1Cl<C_t 5 Half‘) bfffakes the Rone in the bladder and prouokes vrine This Vi73Ol‘Cl E itbymﬁm is 110} found In 11393 ¢-‘0P1C$.b‘uta f pace left for fome word or words that weie wanting.B,_,€Ur1/zgirce/v/I45 faith, he found it expreﬁ in a booke which was onmium vcruﬂzﬁimu: &« p,,54;,y§,,,,,, .and Harm. lam‘ Biiréarur faith, Vetmmi in Diofcoride pic7rir4m bum: /zeréaz vidi, nonplu: fb[g‘;‘.5,;;4,«,,.,,',,;'; mimrtzls fer rumor ex mterrwz/lo (M7411!t5‘,ﬂL'€ﬁ€qI¢£77Ii£IlI,i77 cacuminefurculorumﬂacci féu armter otim mm "W" /z_,fziém6za';z radzce ﬂoﬂﬁileﬁéftii. A ﬁgure reafonable well agreeing w irh this defcri ptjion ofqﬁermalaim I lately receiued from my friend M‘ Gooz{yer,who writ to me that he had fou ht to know w 3‘ S‘”‘’f;‘’£4 (10 W1t,of the Ancients) {hould be : and ﬁnding no antient Author thgt had d fcribcd i‘ to fmy P“rP°fC>hC fought Apuleiu: 5 which word Apuleius (faith he) is the printed title - in IVIZW‘ f°“_P€ 3€l<I10wlcdgeth no Author but Apelien/2‘: pzmnhere is no deicription neither bui thle M3“"' fcript hath a ﬁgure which I haue drawneand fent on and ll th 5 ‘ ’ ' ﬂof it Ilhould be Glad to him th' E y ’ a aw” mm that he hath Mme ' b , 9 Is gure cut and added to your worke torrether with his WOfd59 caufe there hath beene fo little written thereof by the Antients Thais iiis re u it I th h 5‘ ' performe, and haue (for the better fatisfaétion of the Reader).aS you fee mgd e F hang” uiri thereohwherefore Iwill onelyaddc this that th l -4‘ - ea "" 5.”. q o C l _ _ J _ e p ants here deicribed, and the Alfine Saxzﬁagﬁ 0 Wgtogether with the two Chickweed Saxzﬁ’-age: formerly defcrihed Chap. I 7 I .come necre any I at I know to the ﬁgure and delineation of this of the Anrjenrs,

N - . . - 4 g 1 am» zﬂm: l2er6.¢,S4xtﬁaga. Icon 3C defcriptio ex lwanufcl-ipgo vetllf

tiﬂimo.

agiiidam dicunt mm Scelopendrimi ‘W S60/1077105, 4/if Vitzls mmim,quia’4m vvero 3’ .. cos. Itali Saxéﬁdgam. Egypt? Pg/,‘,,.m,,a'. Lamprogcar/2 cam mimimmt. 2\Qifcitm‘ mi!” _ <.Z«!0rzt:5u:&f' laciiﬂrxoﬁs, , .

V03 Cl"?-ipiitis ad calculos expellendosf

Hi”5‘”“’” 1'/‘am S axiﬁagam contuﬂvn 54”.’ W‘? petzim clzréia in vino. Ipfe ever» ﬁ/4'5""- tzwtrzt cum’ aqua calida; tam frcﬂm‘ e rlfIW_’ “6 ""1""?! mzditum , wt eodem dz'zft”f""W

j;f""’f7'“ cm Mme» vxrueirv *

x h This ﬁrﬁ little herbe,faith canard‘ rim hb - »n0 frorii ihe §§lf§i'fr3 ‘§?”£’if°”g1Z$€Z:’h,v* 95 his faculties:The ﬁalke is w'oodd“”

“ " ‘“ gyrithel‘

L I is. 7.. Of the Hiitorie of Plants. . 605 wiixthgfliand below fometirnes as thiclte as ones little ﬁnger , from which grow many fmall and hard branches,and thofe {lender ones.the leaues are little, long and {harpe pointedzthe ﬂoures are white and fmall,and grow in cups which "are finely fnipt at the top in manner of a coronet,whereini

- 3 V . . . is contained a {mall red feedzthc roots grow to fat’: impaét in the Roclces, that they cannot by an‘; means be got out. It grows vpon diuers rocks in Italy and Germany,and is the Saxiﬁaga mzrgrm 0;

M4"/"‘0lwi and the Italians.-

il: 2 Saxzj‘i:igaAntiqiidr:¢m,1ia6.

1‘ 1 Sﬁﬂﬁdga mzgzm czrattliioiii l . _ _ _ Saxifrage of the Antien.ts,according to L05.’

Mattbiolm his great Saxifrage.

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bl \ “-. \»

. gr,

'2 Pam and Z0531 fay , this growes in great plenty in Italic, in Dolphonie in France, and England, hauing many {mall {lender branches a foot hig'h,in- tricately wrapped within one another, where they are fet with many grafﬁe joints:the root is {mall and white,wirh fome few ﬁbres : the leaues {fund by couples at the joints , being long and n3I'l'OW;Of the‘ bigne (Fe and ii rnilitude

of thofe of the wild Pinkes, or Rocke

S_auorie:vp0_n each wooddie,fmall,ca‘.

pillarie, ﬂraight , and creeping little

like ap, _ V _ branghigtows one little ﬂour fornwhatf cad T ml“. be-I_ng ﬁnely fnipt about the edgesrand in the head is contained a round fr-nall reddilh‘

° C forefaid Authors call this S4x1ﬁ‘agm,ﬁue Saxzﬁaga Amzquorum.

q; The Vermer.

in;ula‘:"”’1.l{0l_w_faith,that Calceolariizs ofVetona mightily comr_n'e'n‘ded this plant to hiin,_t'or the léleua i_tie it had to expell or driue forth the ii0n€_0f the lcidneies, and that I might in verie

-ch weruﬁ ;t_,cilie lent me abundance of ftones,whereol diners exceeded the bigneife‘ of a beane, ,m;,_bm 3:791 ed by drinking of this plant by one onely Citizen of Verona, called Hzeronyma ale fathers‘ is made me moi! to wonder, for that there were fome [tones among them that feemed

0 come out of the Bladder,tlian forth of the Kidneies.

i5_(faY the Authors of the Adverf) as it is the lateii receiued in vfe and name for Saxi- I i

2 fr . - 33°31: 13 It the better and truer, efpecially fo thought by" the Italians, both for the highly co:n~ e facultie, as alfo for the neete aiﬁnitie which it feems to haue with Epitlzymnm, 8zc- 1?

Eee Cris A P.-‘