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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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jL Liiwic wi v/dw-wiajuiiug xixiii/^w^i.^^ ^^xx* <* wtut vji iwo cumpcict ui many imngSjamongft 

 the which it fliooteth vp two or three naked ftalkcs,fquare, and riling forne fix or feuen cubfes 

 high aboue the waterrar the top wherof there Hands a tuft or bundle of chaffie threds fet in come- 

 ly order, refembiins: a tuft of flourcs, but barren and void of feed . 





Papyrus Niloitca. 



Paper Reed, 



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The a flies burned 



about BabyIon,and neere the city Aic« 1IC 

 in rheriuer Nilus, and fuch other places of 

 thofe countries. 



*T The Time. 



The time of fpringing and flouriftung an- 

 fvvereth that of the common Reed. 



% The Names. 



This kindeof §eed, which I haue Eneli- 

 fhed Paper Reed,or Paper plants the fame 

 (as I doe teade) that Paper was made of in 

 -£gypr, before the inuention of paper made 

 of Iinnen clouts was found out.Itis thought 

 by men of great learning and vnderftanding 

 in the Scriptures,and fet downe by them for 

 truth, that this plant is the fame Reed men. 

 tioncd in the fecond chapter of Exodus. 

 whereof was made that basket or cradle! 

 which was dawbed within and without with 

 flime of thatcountrey,cal!ed Bitumen ludau 

 cum, wherein (JMofes was put being commit- 

 ted to the water, when Pharaoh gaue com- 

 mandement that all the male children of the 

 Hebrewes ftiould be drowned. 



«[ The Nature, Vertuts^ndrfe. 



The roots of Paper Reed doe nourifb, as 

 may appeare by the people of ^gypt,which 

 doe vfe to chew them in their mouthes,and 

 iwallow downe the juice, finding therein 

 great delightand comfort. 



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of the body, but chicfely in the mouth. 



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: , " • — p"«»«v. muiu chccxs more 



reof haue a Angular vfe and priuiledge in opening 



ges or a Fiftula, being put therein • for they 



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Nilus do vfe to burne 



Spartum 



1 1 tZ^ ,t^\^ 6 3l' K fon *«<- »ade hereof S W generally 



h a p. 34. Of elMat-Weed. 





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% The Kincles. 



,as fhal 1 be declared 



% The Defer iptiov. 



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«-.v.„j» ~r /1 a k. ■ \ ' »*"""" Wi " iCllc > auu lenaetn tortn rrom the root a mm' 



collr I WK ° i CaUCS ° f a Cubit hi S h > or hi S her > to »Sh and pliable, of a wb itifr 



colour, which in rime draw** narrow mrr*^^ ~~\-°~^ nJ?«^n r , * _j *c 



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