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Inches long the longeft ; very narrow, foft, and of a very green colour... The 
Stalk is cornered, firiated, compreffed, two Foot long, on the top of which 
{tand above two or three very fmall, and fhort Leaves, three or four ob- 
long, round, compacted, ferrugineous Spikes, {landing fome of them on 
half an Inch long Petioli, others on none, from whence the others. proceed, 
and may be termed proéifera. Eeach of them is made up of Scales, lying 
ued another, between which are lodged yellowith, fhining, cornered 
ceeds. 
It grew in the Sea Marfhes near the Landing-place at Mr. Delacrees in 
Liguanee. | 
Dr. Plukemet, in his Mantiffa,p.97. queftions if this Grafs be not his Gra- 
men cyperoides rarins Gy tenuins fpicatum @ Maderafpatan, Phyt. Tab. 192. Fig. &. 
alm.p.279. The Figures and Defcriptions fhew them plainly different. 
XLIV. Gramen eyperoides [pica compacta alba, foliis ad fpicam partim albis, 
partim viridibus. Cat. p.36. Tab. 78. Fig. 1. 3 
Froma fibrous and ftringy Root, {pring up feveral triangular -blunt edg'd 
Stalks, of abour a Foot in heighth. The Leaves are harfh to the touch. 
The Spike is compact, made up of many white Spikes, fet clofe in a Head, 
and has fome long, harfh, graflie Leaves clofe under it, which for the firft 
part, or half, are white, and towards the ends are green. The Seed is {mall 
and yellowifh. ; | , : 
it grows in thofe places where water hasin rainy times ftood on the Ground, 
asin the Pafture beyond the Angels Ford going to fixteen Mile Walk, in the 
Caymanes in feveral places, cc. ' 
XLV. Gramen cyperoides minus, {pica compacta [ubrotunda viridi, radice odes 
vata. Cat. p. 36. Tab.78. Fig.r. An Pee-Mottenga, H. M. Tab. 53? 
This has feveral fibers of a reddifh colour, which united make a crooked, 
oblong Root, fending up feveral graflie, very green Leaves, of about 
four Inchéslong, the under part being reddifh. «The Stalk. comes: up in the 
middle of them: it is five or fix Inches high, of the fame:colour with the 
Leaves, triangular, having at the top one pretty large, and on the fides of 
it one or two {inaller, oblong, compact Buttons, or little Burs, and under 
this Head fome graffie Leaves two or three Inches long. 
The Root‘is very odoriferous. q shi . 
It grew in Coll. Nedham’s Plantation, in fixteen Mile Walk. 
There is a variety of this, which is much larger in all its parts. 
The whole Plant (if it be that of the A. M1.) boiled in Rice, Water, 
and Oil Aurotti, and green Curcuma, or in Coco-Nut-Oil and Cumin or 
long Pepper, makes a Liniment againft the Liver Difeafe, A. 47. 
XLVI. Gramen cyperoides minus, fpicis compactis fobrotundis flavicantibuss 
Cat. p. 36. Tab. 79. Fig. i. 
This has {everal long reddifh, brown, ftrings, which united make a {mall 
knobby Root, fending forth {everal harfh, green Leaves, fix: Inches long, 
two of them ufually inclofe a blunt triangular fix Inches long Stem, at the 
top of which ftands one oval, oblong Button, yellowith green, made up of 
green Chaff or Locufte, between each of which lies a triangular fhining Grain, 
having two ‘others lefler, {tanding above it on one Inch long Foot-Stalk. 
The Spikes are invirond below on the end of the Culmus, by one five Inches 
jong, and two fhorter Leaves, like thofe at bottom. 
It grows onthe fides of fandy Gullies round the Town. 
Dr. Plake- 
