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7. Gramen paniculosum Phalarioides. Eragrostis major Host.^ 



' Grasse called in Surrey, braunched grasse in Coarne : and in 



orchardes, & shaddowye places usually mowen. They seathe y* in 



water w^^ purselane and small Peysons for wormes, in the sommer 



tyme, and gyve y* commonly to very younge chylderen.' 



10. Gramen typhinum. Phleum pratense L., var. nodosum. 



' An other Sedge Grasse in watery moyste places in my Alderes 

 & (?) muche.' 



11. Gramen palustre maius. Carex acuta L. 



' The sharpe edge grasse flaggis he in black brookes [in Est 

 mallinge] growinge in Tuffettes, very Common.' 



12. Gramen aquaticum alterum. Juticus acutiflorus Yh\x\. 



' Ponde grasse growinge in a Ponde in Snodelande, w^t ys some- 

 tyme allmoste drye.' 



13. Panici effigie, Gramen simplici spica. Hordeum murinum L.^ 



' Barley grasse : because yt resembleth Barleye in hye wayes, 

 and pathes about London.' 



16. Gramen hirsutum nemorosum. Luzula vernalis DC. 



' Hearye or hoarye Grasse in my orcharde.' 



1 7. Gramen iunceum marinum dense stipatum. 



Eleocharis uniflorus Reichenb. (?) ^ 



' Pusshye grasse : in the sandes by the Castles betweene 



Sandwyche and Douer (in Kent).' 



20. Gramen Canarium. Triticum repens L 



' In all places where the wryters use this worde : Gramen : It 



ys to be understoode y* they meane Quycke or Couche grasse, 



whereof there be dy verse kyndes well knowen. The best in my 



opynyon hathe longe greate rootes creeping in lengthe ij yeardes 



greater than wheate strawes full of ioyntes agroinge wth ye shape, 



folo. 23. Yt groweth in Addington in Kent in the sandy drye 



dustie hye wayes there. The same prevayleth against the straw, 



and against wormes in my experience.' 



22. Gramen caninum longius radicatum marinum alterum. 



} Agropyrtcfn junceiim Beau v. 

 ' Of Dogges Grasse, or Couche grasse, thus writeth Poena, and 

 Lobell, fol. 2. ... I have used the Grasse with ye great roote, 

 growinge in sandye wayes set downe here, fol". 23 : growinge 

 in Addington in Kent and doe fynde yt muche better then the 

 usuall Couche grasse. W'": Mount.' 



23. Gramen caninum alterum. 



Cynodon Dadylon Pers., or Digitaria glabra Beauv. 



'Quyche grasse growinge in sandye wayes the very trewe 



Cowche grasse whereof the Phisiciones wryte. It groweth in the 



sandy hie waye plentifullye betweene Wrothame and Addington 



' Dr. Stapf writes : ' How this came to be noted down for Kent is a puzzle, 



unless he saw it in a garden. Tabernaemontanus says it was grown in gardens, 



and as it had an old popular name " amourette ", it may not have been unknown 



in English gardens of the period.' 



"^ The figure and name are of Setaria viridis Beauv. (O. S., J.). 

 ^ The figure is Scirpus caespitosus L. (O. S.) ; the name belongs to Brovius 

 asper (J.). 



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