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Of the Hiiforie of Plants. 



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whereby it doth greatly iucrcafc. XBxubint reports, That he receiued from D.CargilU Scottifh 

 man a Reed whole Jcaues were a cubit long, and two or three inches broad, with fome ncrucs appa- 

 rantly running aloagft the leafcjthefc leaucs at the top wercdiuided into two, three,or foure 

 points or parts j as yet I haue not obferued it. Bmbine tcrmes it Arundo Antficafolijs in' jummitatt 

 difreel*. % 



i The CyprefleReed is a great Reed bailing ftalkes exceeding long, fometimes twenty or 

 thirtie foot high, of a woody fuitance, fet with very great Icaues like that of Turky Wheate. It 

 oarrieth at the top the like downie tuft that the former doth . 



Thcfe Reeds Lobtlim hath feene in the Low coun- 



4 



K^irundo ft 



Stuflfed Canes. 



Cd/jmNsfa^ittati' LobtU 



Small fluffed Reed. 



5 NdjtosCluflh 

 Turky walking ftaues. 



Arundo fcr if tort * . 



Turkic writing Reed. 



3 



tries brought from Conftantinoplejwhere^sitis (aid, 

 the people of that countrey haue procured them from 



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Adriaticke 



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there is no hollowne fTe in the fame^as in Canes and other 



Reeds, except here and there certainc fmall pores or pafc 



fages of the bigneffe of a ninnes point • in manner fuch 



a pith as is to be found intheBull-Rufh 3 but more firme 

 andfolid. 



4 The fecond diffcrerh in fmalnefTc, and that it will 

 windeopeninfleakeSjOtherwife they arc very like,and 

 are vfed for darts^arrowes, and fuch like. 



5 This great fort of Reeds or Canes hath no parti- 

 cular defcription to an fiver your expc&ation, for that as 

 yet there is not any man which hath written thereof,efpe- 

 cially of the manner of growing of them, either of bis 

 owne knowledge or report from others y Co that it fliall 

 fuffice that ye know that that great cane is vfed cfpecial- 

 ly in Conftantinopleand thereabout, of aged and weal- 

 thy Citifens, and alfo Noblemen and fuch great perfb- 

 nages, to make them walking flaues of 3 earning them at 

 the top with fundry Scutchions, and pretty toyes of 

 iraagerte for the beautifying of them $ and fo they of 

 the better fort doe garnifli them both with filuer and 

 gold^as the figure doth mod iiuely fet forth vntoyou. 



6 In like manner the fmaller fort hath not as yet 

 beene feene growing of any rhat haue bcene curious in 



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any certainty 



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thereabout, euen to this day to make writing pens with- 

 al^ for the which it doth very fitly ferue, as alfo to make 

 pipes,andfuch like things of pleafure. 



•T the Place. 





Regions. 



ng the angling 



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for 



September,at what time they 



farjiepo : ofDtofc 



•J TheTidtnes. 



id Hdrundo va/Utoria : in French^ Rofeau : in Dutch, |$fef 



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hdrundo 



\ 1 be Nature. 

 s;ree, as Galen fa 



f The Vert ties. 



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roots of reed ftamped fmall draw forth thorns and fpHnters fixed in any part of mans body. A 



The fame ftamped with vinegre eafc all luxations and members out of toynt. 



And 



fcales and fcurfe of the head, and the falling 



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