Book VIII. Yland of B ARBADOS. 
Doa’s-GRass. 
HIS derives its Name frony common Obfervation, that Dogs, when 
fick, often eat of this Grafs, which foon after clears their Stomachs 
by its €metic Quality. This Grafs is fo well defcribed by Mr. Miller, in 
his Botanicum Officinale, that it would thew more Impertinence than 
Judgment to give it the Reader in any other Words. “« Dog’s-Grafs hath 
“ many long flender creeping Roots, ‘white and Jointed, {preading much 
“in the Earth, with {mall Fibres at every Joint ; from which arife feyeral 
tall Stalks, not fo thick as the Stalk of Wheat, having two or three 
“ Joints, and as many long fomewhat broad Leaves, one at each Knot or 
“ Joint : On the Top of each Stalk grows one long fpiked Head, in Shape 
“ jike an Ear of Wheat, but fomewhat flatter, confifting of two Rows of 
“ chafty Glumes.” It grows in moft Parts of the land: And a Decoétion 
of it is looked upon to be good againft the Gravel, 
The Witp-Dwrau. 
(THis hath an hard bulbous Root, its grafly Stalk, which is green and 
~- triangular, feldom rifing above feventeen Inches high. It regularly 
branches near the Top into a Star-fathion, generally into three or four 
grafly Leaves; from the Centre of thefe rife two or three Spikes, coyer’d 
at the Top with a coarfe Flag, like that of a Reed. 
The Nut-Grass. 
4h FITS is of two Sorts, the one intirely Propagating its Species by its 
Seed, the other by its numerous Nuts or Roots. The former is lefs 
prejudicial to the Planter, tho’, both by its very quick Growth and 
Increafe, it is of great Differvice, by preventing, or, at leaft, by fucking up, 
the Nourifhment of the Manure from the planted Canes, or Corn, as well 
as, by its thick Growth, choaking them with their numerous wreathing 
Roots. This was firft brought here in a Pot of Flowers fent from England, 
to Mr. Lillington in St. Thomas's Parith: From thence it hath been more 
or lefs unluckily propagated throughout the whole Ifland, 
RED-FLacG, or PLusu-Grass. 
| Be IS grows to the Height of the laft-defcrib’d, and every way re- 
fembles it ; except that its Pannicle is longer, and of a deep-red 
Colour, furrounding the Extremity of the Stalk in a circular Manner 3 
each capfular Seed-veflel guarded with half an Inch long foft- pointed 
Briftle. Neither this nor the former is eaten by Cattle, unlefs in great 
Want. 
The GINGER-GRAss, 
Tals is called Ginger-Grafs, from the great Refemblance there is 
between the Leaves of this, and the Flags, or fpire-like Leaves, of 
Ginger. WYTHS 
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