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per colour^alfo the fpike or eare is greener,and about fome two handfuls long,it much in (hape re, 

 fembles an Ote, yet far fmaller, and is much more difperfed than the figure prefents to you. The 

 roots of this are fomewhat knotty and tuberous,but that is chiefely about the Spring of the'"— 

 for afterwards they become kite and leffe vntill the end of Sommer. And thefe Bulbes doe 

 confufedly together, not retaining any certaine fhape or number. 



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i The firft grows in gardens and arable Iands,as an infirmitie or plague of the field Sj nothin? 

 pleafing to husbandmen; for after the field is plovved,they areconftrained to gather the roots to 



-left they fhoukl grow againe. 



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w , .. growmg 3 and plucked vpwithharrowes,as before is re 

 hearfed, in the fields next toSaint lames wall,as ye go to Chelfey,and in the fields as yee goe from 

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It is called G^w« Cm'mum, or Sangmnde, and P/wo&. The countreymen of Brabant name it 



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Gramer* Cammtm bulbofam oxnodofum^ is called in ' 



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The nature o£Couch-grafle, efpecially thcroots, agreeth with the nature of common Qfafle. 

 Although that Gouch- grafle be an vnwelcome gueft to fields and gardens, yet his phy ficke ver' 

 tucs do rccompenfe thofe hurts • for it openeth the ftoppings of the liner and reins.without any 

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 reeing with the common Couch-graiTCjbut in vermes more cfftftuall. 





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or Grahqboilcd in wine rill halfe be confumed,prelTed forth, ftrained, and giuen to drinke tobim 

 that is troubled with the ftranguric, hath fo great vertue, that after the Patient harh once begun 

 to make water without paine,it may not be gkien any more. But it mull be giuen with water only 

 to fuch as haue a feuer. By which words it appeareth,that this knotted Grade was taken for that 



wh ! C !V s P ro P cr] y caIIed Grmen, or ^groftis ; and hath been alfo commended againft the Stone 

 and difeaies of the bladder. . \/ 



The later Phy fitions vfe the roots fomtimes of this, and fomtimes of the other indifferently. 









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le Sea Dogs-grafTe is very like vnto the other before named : his Jeaues are long and 

 (lender, and very thicke compact together,fet vpon a knotty ftalke fpiked at the ty 

 like the former. Alfo the root crambleth and creepcth hither and thither vndcr the 



earth,occupying much ground by reafonof his great encreafe of roots. 



firft figure and defcription,vnder the name o 

 to be that which growes plentifully vpon the 



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the fait mariftcs by Dartford in Kent.and raoft other fait places by the fea • as al fo iamany banks 



and orchards about London, and moft other places farre from the fea. Now Lobels figure beeing 

 not good, and the description notextan t in any of his Latine Workes, I cannot certainly affirme 

 any thing. Yet I thinke it fit to giue you an cxaft defcription of that I do probably iudgc to W 



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