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three Joints, and. fair Wheat-like Leaves at them 
a Foot long, beating at the tops a longer Spike or 
Far than Wheat, and broader, made of feveral parts, 
like the Husks of Corn, but Separated more afunder, 
rh.ereby (hewing it to be a Grais, and no true Corn, 
vet the Spike grows clofer than the next, and with- 
out any (hew of Awnes or Beard thereon, 
XX . 2. Gramen fegetale , vel Triticeum lat foli- 
um Spied diviilfa , Broai-teitifd thin-eaPd red Wheat 
Grafs. It differs little from the former, but in the 
Spike, which has the fmall parts thereof more de- 
purated, and let on both fides of the Stalk, and 
armed every one with a (mail (hort Awne or 
Beard. 
XXI. 3. Gramen fegetale, vel Triticeum ingulli- 
folium Spied compalla. Broad-leaved clofe-eard red 
Wheat Grafs. It has a Stalk which is fmooth and 
round, two Feet high, fet with long narrower white 
Leaves, rough and pointed. The Spike is about a 
Span long, lomewhat like unto Red Wheat , clofely 
fet, but each of the Husks has a lharp rough Awne 
thereat. 
XXII. 4. Gramen fegetum, vel Triticeum angu- 
[ii folium fpica mutica, Narrow-leav d or Rujh-leav’d 
rohite-ear’d Wheat Grafs , without Awnes. It has a 
Root which is white, knotty and creeping , from 
whence fpring up Leaves which are long and round, 
like Rufhes , and pointed at the ends, fet on round 
Stalks, a Foot and half high, whofelpiked tops are 
long and llender, without any Awnes at the tops of 
the Husks, and fomewhat like unto White IVheat 
without Beards. 
XXIII. ;. Gramen fegetum , vel Triticeum majus 
fpica Brize, The greater Spelt Wheat Grafs. Its 
Roots and Stalks are like unto Corn, four or five 
Feet high, or more, fet with narrow Leaves : the 
tops of the Stalks have feveral long Spikes, about a 
Hand breadth long, fet on both fide of them, one a- 
bove another, each whereof is very like a fmall Ear 
of Wheat, armed with fmall Awnes, but very 
Ihort. 
XXIV. 6. Gramen fegetum, vel Triticeum minus 
fpica Brize, The leffer Spelt Wheat Grafs. It grows 
not above an Hand breadth high, with fmall, Ihort, 
foft and hoary Leaves ; and at top of the Stalk there 
is fometitnes but one, and fometimes two or three 
Spikes or Ears, of an Inch long, and bearded. 
XXV. The Places and Times. They grow in 
many parts of England, in Paftures and Corn 
Grounds in Kent, not far from the Thames ; and 
Houtilh anti feed in the Summer Months, when o- 
ther GraJJes do. 
V. 'lsjfintt, Ifchemon & Gramen lfchemon , five Da- 
lly loides, Cocks-foot or Finger Grafs, Six hinds. 
XXVI. 1. Ifchemon fylvejlre folio latiore. Com- 
mon Cocks-foot Grafs. It is called, Galli Crus Apu- 
leii , and has a Root confifting of a great many fmall 
Fibres ; ftom whence fpring forth feveral dear, red- 
dilh , jointed Stalks , with fair Graffy Leaves on 
them, a little dented on the edges, broad at the bot- 
tom, and fmall at the end, ofaharfh or binding 
Tafte. At the tops of the Stalks grow divers long, 
llender, rough Spikes, of a glillering purple, or ra- 
ther Violet color, but of a brownifh color when they 
are ripe, and are divided into four or five Spikes, 
which are fptead or llretched out abroad , like a 
Cock’s Foot, when it is fet down upon the Ground, 
or the Fingers of a Man’s Hand, when they are 
fpread abroad. 
XXVII. 2. Ifchemon fy heft re f pic is Villofis, Wild 
Cocks-foot Grafs , with a bearded or hairy Spike or 
Ear. Its Root is a Bulh of Fibres, like the other : 
it has purplilh Stalks, a Cubit high, with fewer 
and much narrower Leaves on them. The fpiked 
Heads are more in number than the former, and 
more hairy, having, as it were, (hort yellow Beards, 
fet on both fides of the Panicles, in which lye 
the Seed. 
XXVIII. 3. Ifchemon fitivum, five Gramen man- 
ne Efculentum, Gramen aculeatum Thalii, prumen- 
tum Germanicum Cordi, (upon Diofcorides ) becaule 
they account it Oryze Species ■, Sanguinaria, San- 
guinelta , and Capriola ha/ica. Dew Grafs. It has a 
Root greater and more bufhy than any of the for- 
mer, the whole Plant differing from the two afore- 
going no otherwife almoft , than a Manured Plant 
from a Wild. It has fair jointed purplidi Stalks, 
and large GraJJy or Reed like Leaves on them, fome- 
what hairy or woolly at their bottoms ; and about 
the Joints at the tops of the Stalks Hand larger 
Spikes or Pannicles, and more alfo fet together than 
in the former, which are made of many fmall, chaf- 
fy Husks, with long white Seeds in them, fome- 
what greater than /II diet, and lelfcr than Rice, 
Handing all, as it were, on one fide. 
XXIX. 4. Gramen Jcopanum lfcbemi pariiculie, 
Befom or Brujh Grafs. It has a Root confifting of 
many very long hard Fibres or Threads, a Foot and 
half long, or more, ( whereof are made, in Prance , 
where it grows naturally , thofe kinds of Bm(hes 
with which we ufually brulh our Heads, (fc.) the 
Stalks are hard, flendet, and jointed, about a Cubit 
high , with fmall long Leaves on them , like unto 
the fecond Ifchemon aforegoing, but Tweeter in tafte ; 
at the tops of the Stalks Hand five or fix , or more, 
bright long Panicles , like unto the Cocksfoot, but 
larger. Hatter, and lefs dented. 
XXX. 5. Gramen Ifchemon Canarium , Dogs- 
Grafs like Cocksfoot. It has running jointed Roots, 
like to the Common Quitch-Grafs, and lo both Stalks 
and Leaves fomewhat refemble it, fo that it might 
have as well been enumerated among the fuiich- 
Grajjes , or Dogs-Graffes , as among the Cocksfoot- 
Grafes, becaule it is, as it were, indifferent between 
them both ; but the Head is difpeifed or fpread into 
fuch like llender long Panicles as the Cocksfoot-Grafs 
is, the fmall Chaffie Husks whereof contain the 
Seed. 
XXXI. 6 . Gramen Dally ion repens. Creeping 
Cocksfoot-Grafs. It has a fparfed thready Root, 
which fends forth many long , llender , and weak 
Branches, trailing or creeping upon the Ground, and 
fliooting forth Roots at the Joints; the Leaves which 
grow at the Joints are fmall and Graffie, long and 
narrow ; and at the tops of the Stalks , which rife 
not much above a Span high, four or five fmall, 
llender, blackilh Spikes or Ears come forth, within 
the Husks whereof the Seed is found to lye. 
XXXII. The Place and Time. The two fill! 
Kinds ate found growing naturally in feveral places 
of Italy, as alfo at Narbone in prance, and in divers 
places of England , but the third is ulually Sown in 
Fields, as Corn, in many places of Germany , where 
with the Seed thereof they make Pottage or Broth , 
as we here In England do with Rice and Oatmeal, 
and it is fent into Midd/eburgh, and ocher Towns of 
the Low Countries in great Quantities for the lame 
purpofe, as Label has affirmed, but with us it only 
grows in Gardens, tho’ Ihould we Sow it as the Ger- 
mans do, in Fields, it is probable that it might 
thrive full as well with us as it does with them ; the 
fourth, fifth and lixth glow in Prance , but witli us 
chiefly in Gardens ; the fifth has been lound growing 
in Spain , and the fill! Gerard lays he found grow- 
ing upon the Hilly Banks neat Greenhilh in Kent , 
and that it grows upon the rough Banks of Fields, 
C/c. They all Flourilh and Seed in the Summer 
Months when the other GraJJes do. 
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