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fomewhat hard and rough ar top, with feveral long 
fibres proceeding from it-, the Stalks are three or 
lour feet high, or more, having but few Joints; 
rhefe Stalks are rough, and bear large fpiked heads, 
let up a long Panicle, which are reddilh for fome 
time, but growing to ripenefs are of a Ihining Silver 
like whitenefs, and as foft as Wooll in handling; 
this Plant in its roughnels, drynefs, and form of 
Leaves, is not much unlike to that Baftard Loxtail- 
Grafs called PJeudqfch^nanthum , or Bajlard Squi- 
nanth , at Se£L 1 1 1. aforegoing, but much greater. 
CXCIII. q Calamogrojtls PaniculaTorofa, Large ^ 
rounds Tufted Reed-Grafs. Its Root is fmall and 
ftringy, it has narrow Leaves, fomething fofter and 
gentler in handling than the others before, yet not 
eaten by any Cattel except Goats-, the Tuft or Pa- 
nicle it felf is more round and thicker, with fhorter 
heads, fet clofe together like fmall Knots or Knobs, 
but fomewhat flat on one fide ; its Bloomings are of 
a yellowifh purple color, and fome of its Panicles 
are found to be more long than round. 
CXCIV. 6 . Cahimogro/tis Montana Enodis , Scir- 
pus prim 7/s Tragi , The greater Mountain Reed-Grafs. 
It has a Root of Lome fmall fubftance , hard , and 
having many Fibres adjoining to it, it grows up with 
Itrong Stalks as high as a Man, without any Joints 
on them, or having but one at themoft, having 
thereat not hard, but foft long Leaves ; at the tops 
of the Stalks are many long, llender, chaffie Spikes, 
growing more fparfedly than the others , each of 
which is of a bright reddilh yellow color, and Hand- 
ing upright. 
CXCV. 7. Calamogroftis Montana Enodis minor , 
The leffer Mountain Reed-Grafs. The Root is like 
the former, but the reft of the Plant is much lower 
and fmaller ; the Spikes are alfo lmaller and fhort- 
er, and not Handing fo upright. 
CXCVI. 8. Calamogrojlis Paluftris maxima , Gra- 
men Arundinaceum Palujtre maximum , Great Marjh 
Reed-Grafs. It has a Root which creeps far about 
in Wet Marfhy places, from which it Ihoots forth 
great, thick, and very tall Stalks, four, five, or fix 
Feet high, jointed up to the tops, with long and 
fomewhat broad, hard , rough , and flraked Leaves 
fet thereon, but lels than thole below ; towards the 
tops of the Stalks with the Leaves come forth many 
fparfed Tufts of chaffie heads , Handing on fmall 
long FootHalks , the whole Panicle being at leaft a 
Foot long, and fometimes more. 
CXCVII. 9. Calamogrofis nofir as ghona Acerofa 
Paluftris , Our great Marfh Reed-Grafs zoith chaffie 
heads. It has a jointed reddilh Root, from whence 
fpring many fair large Reed like Leaves, not much 
unlike to thofe of Millet-Grafs , but harder, rougher, 
and flraked all the length of them , having great 
Reed like Stalks, three, four, or five Feet high, 
jointed alfo and branched, and towards the tops ha- 
ving large and fomewhat hard Panicles of fpiky 
chaffie heads, each of them about feven , eight , or 
nine Inches long, of a whitilh color in fome places, 
and reddilh in others, in which chaffie or husky 
Heads there lyes fmall Seed . 
CXCV 1 II. 10. CalamogroJUs , vel Gramen Arun- 
dinaceum Taluftre Sericea molliore fpica , Soft headed 
Marfh Reed-Grafs. The Root is compofed of fe- 
veral fmall Fibres or Strings fet together at a head, 
it grows fomething like the laft , butlefler, with 
narrower and fhorter Leaves, and lower Stalks, ha- 
ving but few Joints and Leaves on them-, the tufted 
Heads which Hand at the tops are fometliing like to 
the Rufh which is called Bajiard Schananthum , and 
turn into Down , which is carried away with the 
Wind. 
CXCIX. ii. Calamogroftis Aquatic a major, Gra- 
men Arundinaceum Aquaticum majt/s , Great H'ater 
Reed-Grafs. . it has Roots which run and fpread 
them felves far, Ihooting up in feveral places, the 
Stalks are great and rail, full of Joints, with large 
Reed like Leaves at them , flriped with White and 
Green, like Ladies Laces, but not fo evidently to 
be feen, up to the top almofl, where Hands a large 
and foft tufted Panicle, confifling of many Branches 
and parts, almofl like to the Vulgar or Common 
Reed 
CC. 1 2. Calamogroftis , feu Gramen Arundinace- 
um Aquaticum magnum , The great Water Reed- 
Grafs. The Root is almofl like, but creeps not fo 
much as the former , the Stalks are great and high, 
having broader and longer Leaves than the former, 
and fomething harder alfo; the Joints likewife are 
fewer, and the tutted Panicle is much more fpread, 
and loft in handling, and of a purplith green color, 
and its Bloomings are white. 
C.C 1 . 1 3. Calamogroftis, five Gramen Arundina- 
ceum Aquaticum Panic ula fpeciofa. Pair headed Wa- 
ter Reed-Grafs. It riles to be three Feet or more 
high, the Leaves are broad, and a Foot long, but 
flenderly fet on the Stalks, a little rough on the ed- 
ges, fome of which will be hollow, like a Trunk, 
that the Stalk will go thro’ it half way ; the top Pa- 
nicle is made of many fine, foft, fcaly Tufts, very 
beautiful to behold. 
CCII. The Places and Times. The firft and fe- 
cond grow in moilt Meadows, which are Sandy, and 
rather Barren than Fertile; the fecond alfo is found 
growing in fome moifl Fields near Hackney ; the 
third is exprefled in its Title-, the fourth in the bor- 
ders of dry Fields, and by Hedge fides , in many 
Countries of this Kingdom, efpecially in Dorfetfhire ; 
the fifth grows in the like places-, the fixth and fe- 
ven th grow in moifl Woods which are on Mountains 
and Hills; the eighth grows in Marfhy places, and 
Ditches overflowed with the Tide, I have found it 
growing in fome parts of Carolina ; the ninth and 
tenth grow in low moifl Grounds by Ratcliff , near 
London-, the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth grow 
in Ditches, Ponds, and Lakes in feveral places of 
England, as alfo in other Countries-, the firft feven, 
as alfo the other fix, flourilh in the Summer Months’ 
and their Stalks perilh before Winter. 
XXVII. S^cmygastf, Schcenogrojtis , <r%tvdj'n{ i 
« )<rxmvh t Gramen Junceum, Rufh-Grafs, feven- 
teen Kinds, viz. feven of the Land , fix Marfh 
Kinds , and four Water Kinds, of all which in 
order. 
CCIII. 1. Schcenogrofis communis , vel Gramen 
Junceum vulgare , The common Rajh-Grafs. Its 
Root confifts of brownifh yellow Fibres or Threads 
the Leaves are almoft round, feven or eight Inches 
long, from among which fpring up the Stalks, which 
are about eight or nine Inches high, which bear at 
their heads leveral fmall Panicles Spike fafhion, one 
above another. 
CCIV. 2. Schcenogrofis Montanum fpica Subcie- 
ruha Cambro Eritanicum , Weljh Mountain Rufh- 
Grafs. From a fibrous or ftringy Root fpring up a 
great many fine, 'llender, Rujh like Leaves, nearly 
a Foot and half long, from among which rife up 
two or three llender finall Stalks, eight or nine 
Inches long, and much lower than the Leaves, bear- 
ing at their tops, from between two Leaves, which 
are rather like Skins, being broad below and fmall 
towards their ends , yet always the one longer than 
the other, a fmall , fpiked , fcaly head , of a fine 
blewifh color. 
CCV. 3. Schcenogrofis , feu Gramen Junceum 
Speciofum minus , Another Treble or Excellent fmall 
Nnn Rujh- 
