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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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Cyperm 

 fafliior 

 grafle. 



Water Gladiole is called of L'ohlius, Iuncus Cyperoides floridus paludofu 

 Rufli : Iuncus, for that his ftalke is like the rufh : Cyperoides, becaufc his 



Lilly of Alexandria,thewhich it is very like,and therefore I had rather call it jmi 



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Grafles wholly 



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Writers, whereof fome few are touched „,*. wv „ 7 „„ »~^,. ,•«..«». Mtw i Uras 



much as they haue onely named them, I will referre the better consideration of them to theindti. 

 ftrie and diligence ofpainefullfearchers of nature, and profecute my purpofed labour, to vnfold 

 the diuers forts and manifold kindes of Cy/xr«.r,Flags,and Rufties : and becaufe that there is added 

 vnto many of the Grafles before mentioned, this difference, Cyperoides, that is to fay, refembling 

 CyperusJ. thought it therefore exp~ J: — — : ^-^^-n /••>«- :.. ,.,- .6 



Cyperus. and his kinds,which are a 



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hap. 24. Of Englijl) (jalingak. 



i Cyperus longus. 



Englifh Galingale; 



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2 Cyperus rotundus vulgaris. 



Round Galingale. 



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ftalke is three fquare, two cubits high : vpon whofe top ftand fundry branches, euery 



fmallchaffie 



g nitner and thither, occupying much ground by reafon of his Spreading : it is of a raoft free* 



-and pleafant fmell when it is broken. 





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