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fides of the flalks,among the Ieaues.which arc thicke and grea focouerTw h ? g "•?" thc 

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 flue or fix foothigh,bigbencath,and now and then of a purple coloured by little and little (mall 

 aboue : the leaues are broad,long,fet with veins like thofe of the Reed The cares on the top of the 

 ftalke be a fpanne Iong,Iike vnto the feather-top of the common Reed diuided into many plumes 

 hanging dovvnward,ernpty and barren without feed, yet b looming as R.e : doth . The flou re irei- 

 thei white s yellow,or purple,*" is to fay,euen as the fruit will be. The fruit is contained in venc 

 btecarcs which grow out of the joints of the ftalke 5 three or foure from one ftalke, orderly placed 

 on! KKoueied with coats and filmes like husks & leaues as ifit were a certain fheat : 

 out of which do ftand long and flender beard Sj foft and tender,hke thofc laces that grow vpon i* 

 uoie but greater and long!r,euerie one faftned vpon his owne feed The feeds are great,of the b.g- 

 nXof common peafon^ornered in that part whereby they are faftned to *jegt^ £ «£ 

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the Irtands adioining as out ot Flonda,and Virgmmor N*enatag^nc > ^ 



to make bread of inhere ,t growes ^J»#^™%'^Bm B £ «Jclb outio be 



lire and hot 5 *s my fclfc haue feen by proof in myne owne garden 



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