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rifing a foot high; with fuch-like green leaves as the ordinary, but. fhorter; the; 
fpiked head is bright, and fpreadeth abroad fomewhat like the field-grafs. 
5. Gramen canintim fupinum monfpelienfe. This differeth very little from the laft, im 
any other part thereof than in the panicle, or fpiked head ; which is longer, and not 
fpread or branched into parts as that is. 
6. A fall fweet grafs like quick-gtafs, gramen’ ovile tenui ifolium; anataalioea ei 
gramen dulce. This {mall grafs hath many low creeping branches, rooting at the 
joints, like the two laft; having a number of fmall and narrow leaves on them, much. 
lefs than they ; anda fmall fparfed panicle, fomewhat like the red dwarf-grafs. 
9, Wall-grafs with a creeping root, gramen murorum radice repente. This wall- 
grafs, from a blackifh creeping root, fpringeth forth with many {talks .a foot high, 
bending or crooking with a few narrow fhort leaves on them, at whofe tops ftand 
{mall white panicles, of an inch anda half long, made’of many fmall chaffy hufks. 
Peace anp Time. The firftis ufual and common in divers plowed grounds and 
dertlihie, where it is often more bold than welcome, troubling the hufbandmen as 
much after the plowing up of fome of them, (as, to pull up the reft after the fpring- 
ing, and, being raked together, to burn them,) as it doth gardeners, where it hap- 
peneth, to weed it out from amongft their trees.and herbs ; the fecond and third are 
more fcarce, and delight in fandy and chalky grounds ; the three next are likewife 
found in fields that have been plowed and do lie fallow; and the laft is often found 
-onold decayed walls in divers places ; they flourifh in the beginning of. funmer. sis 
~~ Government anp Virtues. Thefe are plants of Mercury. The root is of 
temperature cold and dry, and hath a little mordacity in it, and fome tenuity of 
parts ; the herb is cold in the firft degree, and moderate in moifture and drinefs 5 but 
the feed is much morecoldand drying. . This quick-grafs is. moft medicinal of all 
other forts of graffes: it iseffectual to open obftructions of the liver and fpleen, and 
the ftoppings of urine ; the decoction thereof, being drunk, and to eafe the. griping 
‘Pains in the belly, and inflammations, and wafteth the excrementitious matter of the 
Hone in the bladder, and the ulcers thereof; alfo the root, being bruifed and applied, 
doth knit together and confolidate wounds: the feed doth more powerfully, expel 
‘bindeth the belly, and ftayeth vomiting the diftilled water is good to be given 
to children forthe worms, 
ay, “RADISH ayo HORSE-RADISH: 
THE garden radifh is fo well known that it needeth no defcription. 
_ Description. The horfe-radith hath its firft leaves rifing before winter, about 
a foot and a half long, very much cut in or torn on i edges into many parts, ‘of a 
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