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Salmon ’ s 'Herbal. 
Lib. 1. 
ing, having many long and narrow Leaves growing 
at the Roor, as hairy as any*, the Stalk has two or 
three Joints, and Ihorc Leaves on them , and at the 
top leveral fmall heads Handing upright on a lmull 
hairv Footftalk. 
CXV. 3 . Grams n h'irfutum Nemorum ft tear ma- 
jus tuberofa Radicc , A greater early hairy W ood-Grajs 
with a tuberous Root. The Root is thick , lome- 
what ihort and brown, almoft like a Torment il Root, 
with a great number of fmall brownifh hairs cover- 
ing it very thick*, the Leaves aie larger than the 
firft of a deeper green color, and as hairy tilio ^ at 
the joints of the Stalks are Leaves, as in the other, 
and luch like heads or knops of flowers as in the 
firft. . f .. 
CXVI. 4 . Gramcn birfutum Nemorum latijoliim 
minus Juncea Paniculu , The leffer broad Leav d 
hairy Wood-Grafs with Rufh like Panicles. It is ve- 
ry like in its growing to the firft, but that the Leaves 
hereof are narrower, and the Panicle or tufted head 
at top of the fmall Stalks is fmaller, and lomething 
refembling the tops of Rujhes. 
CXVII. 5 . G ramenhirfutum Nemorum majusan- 
eul} folium , The greater narrow Leav'd hairy Wood- 
Grafs. The Root is fmall and long, with fmall 
Fibres adjoined thereto *, this Plant is very like in 
its manner of growing unto the firft broad Leav d 
Kind , but that the Leaves are much narrower, lhort- 
er, and turning downwards at firft j the Stalk is 
bare, without Joint or Leaf, having at the top three 
fmall , rough , and almoft round fcaly heads let 
together. ,* _ T 
CXVIII. 6. Gramcn hirfutum Nemorum majus 
angullifolium alterum , Another great narrow Leav'd 
hairy Wood-Grafs. It has a fmall reddifh fibrous 
Root, from whence rifes up a Stalk, about two feet 
high, and fmooth , bearing commonly at top a loft 
white Panicle, fomewhat fpread abroad, and com- 
pofed of feveral fmall Scales as it were in every 
one of which lies a fmall round blackilh Seed } the 
Leaves are few , a little hairy , and fome of them 
encompaffing the Stalk; the whole Panicle has two 
fmall Leaves fet at bottom thereof, the one riling 
higher than it, the other lower. 
CX1X 7 . Gramen birfutum Nemorum minimum , 
The fmalletl hairy Wood-Graft. This has a greater 
itore of long hairy Leaves than the fecond, but in 
all things elle , as in its Heads and Flowers , it a- 
grees therewith , hut is indeed whiter than the 
reft. 
CXX. 8 . Gramcn birfutum Nemorum , five exile 
ferrugineum, Small brown hairy Wood-Grafs. It has 
a Root which is fmall and fibrous, and the Grafs 
it felf is as fmall as the laft, but with leffer ftore ol 
Leaves- the heads on the Stalks are woolly , and 
not fully round, but a little flat, and of a yellowifti 
brown color, and the Stalks themfelves are about 
four or five Inches high. 
CXXL 9 . Gramen birfutum capitulis G/obofs, 
Globe beaded baity Wood-Grafs. The Root is fmall 
and thready , from whence rifes long Leaves , as 
broad as the fourth Kind aforegoing, with fome 
fmall foft hairs about the edges; the Stalks are a- 
bout a Foot high, with Joints and Leaves on them, 
the tops being furnilhed with two or three round, 
foft, white woolly heads, compofed of many fmall 
Silver Like Threads. 
CXXII. T be Places and Times. All thefe grow 
in many Woods throughout England , fome about 
Hiebgate , and in Hornfey Wood, and other places, 
and Flower all of them in the Summer Months, or 
near the end of Summer, except the third, which 
Flowers a Month or two earlier than the reft. 
XVII. ’Ao1m4. bejhtca, Octtlus Capri nits , Haver- 
Grafs, or Peter-Corn, two Kinds. . 
CXX1II. t. JEgilops Ita/ica , JEgilops Narbonen- 
fts , Fejluca Ita/ica , JEgilops Diofcoridis , P rumentum 
Sy/veftre Sicilie , Italian Havergrafs , or Peter-Corn. 
It has a Root compofed of a lmall head, with ma- 
ny long Fibres growing from it, from which fpring 
feveral Grafs-like Leaves, of a pale green colot; the 
Stalk is jointed in three or four places, with Leaves 
at them , and at the tops two or three heads , fet 
one above another, which are round, and fomewhat 
long, hard and ftiiped, having feveral Beards at the 
ends of them ; the Seeds ate a little fmaller than 
Barley, each Seed wrapped up in a crefted Skin, out 
of which the Awnes put themfelves forth. 
CXX1V. 2 . JEgilops Bromoides Belgarum Lobe- 
lij, teftuca prior Dodonn , Avena SylveflrU , five 
nigra Thalij, Dutch Havergrafs , or Peter-Corn. It 
has a Root which is fomewhat like the former, but 
the head from whence the Fibres proceed is not fo 
confpicuous , and indeed the Grafs is very like the 
laft both in Stalk and Leaf, the top only is in part 
like to the Naked Oat , and in part to the former 
Havergrafs, having fome Beards fet at every husk, 
within which lye long rough brown Seed. 
CXXV. The Places and Times. The firft is fre- 
quent in Italy and prance, where it is found among 
their Corn, being a degenerate kind of Barley, and 
in fome places the Poorer People ufe it to make 
Bread of; with us it is only Sown in Gardens ; the 
fecond is found as plentifully in England as the Low 
Countries, and they are both ripe in July and An- 
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The Virtues. 
CXXVI. Lobe! fays that he had often tryed the 
JEgilops to be effeflual in curing that hollow Ulcet 
in the Eyes called JEgilops, or Fiftula Tacbrymalit , 
for it has a drying quality without fhatpnefs ; heal- 
fo fays that the Seed put into Drink caufes a kind 
of Druukennefs , and that the burnt Afties of the 
Stalks 
