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a confiderable price. We have it fparingly in fome 
places by the fides of our Avon. 
27. ARUNDO CALAMAGROSTIS. | 
Hedge-Reed. 
A ftately grafs, and an ornament to the banks and 
hedges; but that is all, being rejected by all forts of 
cattle. Grows in the hedges between Hinton- 
Abbey and the church. 
28. ARUNDO EPIGEIOs. 
Small-Reed. 
This grafs is peculiar to the fens about Ely; no- 
thing eats it; it is called, by the fen-men, Maiden- 
Hair. Waflocks of it dug up are converted into 
peffes for churches, &c. 
29.*° ARUNDO ARENARIA, 
Sea-Reed. 
This grafs is of great fervice in keeping up the 
fand-banks againft the fea-fide. There are alfo very 
good befoms made of it at Axbridge. They call 
them fedge-befoms. It grows in vaft abundance, for 
eight miles together, about Burnham and Barrow, 
in Somerfetfhire. 
30. Avena Nupa. 
Naked Oats, or Pillars. 
This is reckoned amongft the indigenous plants of 
England, but I have never found it wild; it is cul- 
tivated 
