Lib. I. 



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0/ Tte^grafe 





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with the Germans make pottage and flich like meat, as we in England do with Ote-meale ; and it 

 is fenc into Middleborow and other tovvnes of the Low-countries, in great quantitie for the fame 



purpofe, as Lobel hath told me. 



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2 The fecond kinde of Dew-gtafFe or Ifchtmon is foraevvhat like the firft kinde of Medow- 

 graffe, rcfembling one the other in leaues and ftalks 5 fauing that the creft or tuft is fpread or ftret- 

 ched out abroad like a Cocks footfet downe vpon the ground, whereupon it was called Gaffi cru* 

 by /iptdeitu. Thefe tops arec!eereandvpright,ofa gliftering Purple coIour,or rather Vio!et,and 

 it is diuided into foure or Sue branches, like the former Dew- graffe. The root conli fts of a great 

 many fmall fibres. 



t 3 To thefe may fitly be added another Graffe.which Clufius hath iudged to be the medf- 

 cinall Gra fie of the Antients: and Lobcl refers it to the Dogs grafTes,becaufe it hatha root join- 

 ted thicke,and creeping like as the Dogs graffes . The ftalks are fome foot high 5 round, and of a 



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Gtdmen (JWann* cfculentum 

 Dew-graffc. 



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Cocks foot GrafTe. 





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differeth not in time from thofe vvc hatie fpoken 



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