

Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



IB. I. 



f 3 Gramcn barundinaceum mintts* 



The leffcrRcecl-grafle. 





tongue 3 ftraitneth the gullet or throat^nd draw- 

 erh dovvne bloud into the ftomacke or maw • 

 whereof enfueth inflammation,and death for the 

 moftpart. And not onely this Calamogrofii$\% 

 hurtful! , but alfo all other kindes of fhearing 

 Ieaued Reeds 3 FJagges 5 Sedge D and the like.which 

 haueas it were edges , and cut on both fides like 

 kniues 5 as well mens fingers, as cattels mouthes. 

 This herb is in a meane between reed and graiTe. 

 The root is white, creeping downewards very 

 deepe. The fpike oreare is like vnto the Reed 

 being foft and cottony, fomewhat refembling 

 Panicke. 



% 3 Thisinroot,ftalks,andleaues,isliketo 

 the iaft dcfcribed 3 but that they are letter. The 



top or head is a long fingle fpike or care, notfe- 

 uered or parted into many eares , like the top of 

 the precedent, and by this and the magnitude it 

 may chiefely bediftinguifhed from it. This was 

 in the twelfth place in the fifteenth chapter,vn- 

 der the title otGramen harundinaceum minus .-and 



vftis but now defcribed 



* 



H 



-- : z>~ www, .a fields 4nd Orchard 



euerie where. 



grow in fenny 





^ The Names, 







2 



This in Lincolnflure is called Sheere.graffe or Henne ; in other parts of England, Wilde 



Reed : in Latinc,CaUmo£roJlis i out of the Greeke Kalamogrojlis. / 



As for their natures and vertues, we do not finde any great vfe of them worth the relating. 



/ 



t Thcfigure that waun the fecond place iva s of Grime* m*w lytaucum , being the feeond of the precedent Chapter. The tr«c fieurcofthiswaspac.il 

 xida the title of UtzmcnbxuidvMceitmmiiui. Thcthirdbcing there alfo, as I haue touched in the Dcfcription. ^ \ C ngmcor tnis was f ac.*i 



i 





Chap. 6. 



Of Feather-toptFernejr JVoo d ~Gr ajfe . 



% The. Defcriptzoit. 



t l 



going chap 



Names 



of 



guie you. $ This Graffe is garnifhed with chaffie and downie tufts,fet vpon a long benty ftalk 

 of two cubits high, or fomewhat more 3 naked without any blades or leaues for the raoft part. His 



^. jfe tQ p » s common jy Q f a re( j or murre y co ] our) anc j the leaues foft 



root is tough and hard. 



and downy. $ 

 ± 2 This 



Vf 



much different from it , is a very pretty and elegant grafle : it in roots and leaues is not vmike to 

 the vluall medow Graffe : the ftalke rifeth to theheight of a foot,and at the top thereof it beareth 

 abeautifull pannicle, whence the French and Spanifli Nations call itt^w*m/«,that is,Loiiely 

 GraHe. This head confifts of many little eares,(Laped much like thofeof theordinarie Quaking 

 Graffe, longer and flatter, being compofed of more skales, fo that each of them fomewhat rcfem- 

 bles the Ieafe of a fmall Fern . whence I haue called it Ferngraffc. Thefe tops when they are ripe 

 are white, andare gathered where they grow natural ly, to beaut i fie garlands . £ 



3 yVood-granehath manyfmalland threddy roots comoatt toother in manner nf a mft: 



from which fpring immediatly out of the earth many graffie 



benty 



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