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Spikes one above another , an Inch or two long 
with a fmall Leaf at the foot of - each of them. 
LIII. Ti. Cj r amen Cyperoides Paluftree , Great 
Hater Cyperus-Grafts. The Root is compact of ma- 
ny long and tough Strings, or Threads, the Leaves 
are long and broad, like unto the Sedge , called Ca- 
re x., from among which rife up feveral long three- 
iquare Stalks, at the top of each of which there is a 
Spike or Ear, like to a Plant ane Head, commonly 
of a yellow ilh green color, and very prickly.^ 
LIV. 12. Gramen Cyperoides Mtliaceum, Lypcrus 
Gramme us Miliaccus , Pfteuiocyperus Gramme us Mi- 
liaceus , Millet Cy t per us*G rafs , or Baftard Cyperus- 
Grafs Tufted. It has a thick fibrous black bulky 
Root, from whence riles divers fair, long, and 
fomewhat broad , alfo lhorter green Leaves, paler 
than thofe at Se£L 43. above, from among which 
arife threefquare Stalks, like thofe of Cyperus , a- 
bout half a yard high, let with Leaves from the bot- 
tom to about fix or feven Inches high of the Stalk, 
and encompaffing the Stalk alfo at their bottoms * 
the tops are turnilhed with a large Tufted Head, (al- 
molt like the True Cyperus ) and greater than is pro- 
portional to the Plant, where two or three pretty 
large Leaves come forth , between which rife up 
many fmall Footftalks, very much Branched, which 
bear many black Seeds , fomewhat like Millet , or 
Riejhes. 
L V. 13. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre Panic ula 
[par fa , Aquaticum vulgatius Lobelij, Marfh Cyperus- 
Grajs with fparfed Heads. It has a Root which 
fpreads fomewhat like the True Cyperus , but harder, 
fuller of blackilh Fibres , and without fmell •, the 
Leaves are long , and fomewhat narrow , hard, and 
cutting on both edges ^ the Stalk is triangular, tall, 
without any Leaves thereon to the top, where,- be- 
tween two long Leaves, and very narrow, divers 
fhort Footftalks lpread forth , bearing each of them 
four or five fmall rough Heads. 
LVI. 14. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre maju s, Gra- 
men junceum triquetum Thalij , The greater Marfh 
Cyperus-Grafts The Root is a bulk of many black- 
ilh Fibres, like unto Grafts Roots, it has feveral long 
and narrow hard cutting Leaves like the laft, and 
among them divers upright Stalks, without any 
Leaves at all on them, each of them bearing a long, 
round, and fomewhat large prickly head, in which 
lies the Seed. 
LVII. 1 5. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre minus , 
The leffer Marfh Cyperus-Grafts. The Root of this 
is like unto the former, but is leffer, as is the whole 
Plant-, the Stalk bears fharp, rough, fpiked heads, 
four or five together , one above another , on both 
fides thereof, with a long Leaf at the foot of them. 
LVIII. t 6 . Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre ftpicis mi- 
nus compacts , The leffer Marfh Cyperus with more 
open heads. Its Root is fomewhat hard or woody, 
and full of Fibres, bearing many long and narrow 
Leaves, like to Grafts , among which rifes up a 
rough threefquare Stalk, bare of Leaves for the 
molt part up to the top, where ftand feveral fmall 
rough Heads or Spikes, more loofe or open than the 
former, having lharp pricking Seed within them. 
LIX. 17. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre Subflaveft- 
cerie Panicula ftparfta , Carex minus Tonicerus , Tel- 
lovoifh Marfh Cyperus-Grafts open headed. The Root 
is great at the head, with feveral Fibres thereat, it 
has fmalier and lhorter Leaves than any of the for- 
mer , and naked Stalks , bearing at the tops of the 
Stalks, between two fmall long Leaves, a head fe- 
vered into many fmall parts or fpikes, of a yellow- 
ilh color. Of this fort there is another, differing 
very little from it, but in the color of the fmall 
Spikes, which are blackilh. 
LX. 18. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre majus lati- 
, folium Lobehj U Camerarij , Carex 1 ragi Cf Lugdu- 
nenfis , The greater broad Leav'd Cyperus-Grafts. It 
has a brownilh Root, and folding it felf one within 
another, with many Fibres adjoining, it has feveral 
large and long Leaves, like unto thofe of Reeds, a- 
mong which rife up feveral threefquare Stalks, bear- 
ing three or four clofe fpiked brownilh heads there- 
on, one above another. There is another of this 
great broad Leav’d kind, called by Bauhinus Gramen 
Cyperoides majus latifolium , ftpica Spodicea viridi , 
whofe Roots are more bulhy and fibrous, and the 
fpiked heads more green, having a long narrow Leaf 
under the loweft Spike or Head. 
LXI. 19. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre majus an- 
guftifolium , The greater Cyperus-Grafts with narrow 
Leaves. This differs little from the laft, but in its 
growing lower, with narrower Leaves, and fpiked 
heads, which are thinner and longer, but of the lame 
brown greenilh color with it. 
LXII. 20. Gramen Cyperoides Paluftre minus an- 
gufti folium. The leffer narrow Leav’d Cyperus-Grafts. 
It has a Root with long Strings and Fibres thereat, 
Ihooting forth like Cyperus, has narrower Leaves, 
and threefquare Stalks , bearing fmalier and more 
fpiked long heads, three ufually fet together, one a 
little from the other, more ftiff alfo and upright. 
LXIII. 21. Pfteudo Cyperus ftpica brevi pcndula, 
Lobelij , Geftneri , DodonH , Baftard Cyperus-Grajs 
with fhort pendulous heads. The Roots of this do 
fomewhat refemble the True ftweet long Cyperus , but 
lcofer , and not fo firm , fuller alfo of Fibres , and 
not fuelling fweet at all -, it grows alfo fomewhat 
like unto the True long Cyperus , having large and 
long gralfie Leaves, in a manner threefquare, and fa 
is the Stalk alfo, at the top whereof among divers 
Leaves , come forth great fpiked , thick and fhort 
heads , hanging downwards , every one by a fhort 
Footftalk. 
LXIV. 22. Pfteudo-Cyperus , five Gramen Cype- 
roides Paluftre ftpica pendula longiore , Another Ba- 
ftard Cyperus-Grafts with longer heads. It has a Root 
like the former, with a triangular ftriped Stalk, a- 
bout a yard high , bearing long and narrow Leaves 
thereon, which encompals rhe Stalk at bottom with 
a Skin, or hollow Sheath, having at top feveral long 
and narrow pendulous heads, five or fix Inches long 
each, with a long Leaf under each head. 
LXV. The Places and Times. They all grow in 
low, moift , and Moorifh Grounds , in many places 
of this Kingdom, as alfo in feveral other Countries, 
as their Names exprefs, and do all Flourifh and Seed 
in the end of Summer. 
X. j [ ofTwJ'nff, Phcenix Graminea, Darnel-Grafts , 
fix kinds. 
LXVI. 1. Phccnix ftimplici , Cf rariffima Gluma , 
The fmallcft jingle Darnel-Grafts. It is very like to 
Red Darnel , but that it has very few flenderer and 
lhorter Stalks than it, and the Leaves alfo narrow- 
er ^ the fpiked head has a few fingle Husks let very 
fparfed ly. 
LXVII. 2. Phccnix altera brevier ibus denftioribuft- 
que ftpicis , The greater fingle Darnel-Grafts. The 
Roots and Leaves hereof are like the Red Darnel , 
the Stalks grow a yard high , jointed and ftraked , 
and the Spike is thinly fet with chaffie heads, but 
they are bigger, rounder, and thicker. 
LXVIII. 3. Phccnix acerofta aculeata. Small prick- 
ly Darnel-Grafts. It has a Root confifting of fmall 
white Threads or Fibres, the Stalks hereof are about 
five, fix , or feven Inches high , being rough, hard, 
full of Joints, pointed or prickly at the ends, and 
with a few Ihort Leaves on them, and have withal 
finall. 
