110 © The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
Panicle, which ic having another time of the year, may be his Uieba or A- 
yundo Sagittaria, but if his Defcriptions or Figures were more exact, One 
could tell better what to fay to them. 
Indians make Arrows of them. Benz. 
Du Terrtewas miflaken in giving this the name cf Rofeaux d’ E(pague. Sa- 
vages, who are pox’d, ufe to rub themfelves over with the Afhes of this 
Reed to cure their Difeafe. 
The Patagons make their Atrows of Reeds, an Ell long, with Heads very 
artificially framed of Flint-Stone. Hakl. p.3- p.751. but { belicve they differ 
from thele made of this Reed. 
XV, Arundo alta gracilis, foliis @ viridi ceruleis, locuftis minorilus. Cat. 
?.33. Tab.67. "The Trumpet Reed. 
This puts forth Rocts from every Joint, and ferids up Stalks, or Cul- 
mi, they are round, hollow, jointed at every two Inches diftfance; of a 
Clay Colour, and about the bignefS of ones little Finger. The Leaves 
come from the Joints. Their Foot-Stalks, or under part, covers the 
whole Zxternodium, and the Leaf rifes at the upper Joint where ‘tis near 
ha'f an Inch broad, and tapers for more than a Foot in length, where it 
ends in a Point of a blewith green colour. The Stalks rife fourteen or 
fifteen Foot high, the top is a Panicle of a Foot long, branch’d out into ma- 
ny rough Spikes, being a Foot long, ftanding like thofe of other Reeds, 
and containing, in a downy Matter, within Chaff, the Seed, {carce dif- 
cernible, plac’d rarely on it, here and there of a light brown colour, in 
every thing like thofe of the other Reeds. 
They grow going to the Laguna above the Ferry, and in the Laguma 
neat Paflaze Fort very Plentifully. 
XVI. Gramen dattylon bicorne tomentofum minus. Cat. p.33.. Tab. 68. Fig. 2. 
This has feveral long, ftrong, white, crooked Threads at bottom, to draw 
its Nourifhment, from whence rife af harfh, narrow, nine Inch long 
Leaves, having fharp Backs like the Cyperus Grafles, and being reddifh 
when dry. From the middle of thefe rife feveral Culmi, or Stalks having 
about three Joints, being a Foot and an half high, fwell'd at each Joint, and 
having there Leaves {welling and covering the Stalk a little way, out of the 
Ala of which rifes, as out of an atriculus (after the manner of Gramen dactye 
lon Siculum, évc. Rati) afmall Pediculus, or Culmus, whofe Panicle is made up 
of two Spikes, ftanding onthe top like a pair of Horns, as the other forts 
of this Gramen dactylon bicorne, only they are fhorter, being not over three 
quarters of an Inch long, having very much long. foft very white Hair, or 
Tomentum, much finer and fofter than Cotton. 
It grows on Palmetto Savanna, towards Sir Francis Watfons by feven 
Plantations, on Lime-Tree Savanna very plentifully, and on a Savanna by 
Mr, Batcheler’s Plantation going towards Black River, though rarely. 
XVII. Gramen dactylon fpicis brevibus crafis plerumqne quatuor cruciformiter 
difpofitis. Cat. p. 33. An Gramen ifchemon Malabaricum {peciofins, longioribns, 
> mucronatis folits Plukenet. Phyt. Tab, 300. Fig.? Alm. p.175? Mantiff. 
P. 94- a 
It has a creeping Root, hoary Leaves, a Span long jointed Stalk, and at 
the top four Spikes, for the moft part, each of which is thicker and fhorter 
than any other of this Kind, being but half an Inch long, fometimes of a 
reddifh, and fometimes of'a white Colour, fet crofS ways, and in every 
thing agreeing with Alpinus’s Cut and Defcription, fo that J doubt not but 
that ‘tis exactly the fame. EB 
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