Chap. 327. ‘Englijh 'Herbs \ 
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CCXLIV. 1 1 . G rumen Spicatum Virginianum Spi- 
ed art iculate . Spiked Virginia-Grafs having a joint- 
ed Spike . It has a bufhy Root, which lives long, 
and is a goodly Grafs, growing great, with many 
fair, large, and broad Graffie Leaves,' very fmall 
pointed, and fomething hard in handlings the Stalk 
is alfo great and tall , bearing a long Spike at the 
iop , jointed in feveral parts , each of them almoft 
half an Inch a piece, being almoft round, yet a little 
fiat. 
CCXLV. The Places and Times. The firft five 
grow in Fields, Meadows , or Paftures , or near to 
them; the next five grow on Hills, Mountains, 
Woods, and Woody places, in many parts of Eng- 
land, as alfo in other Foreign Countries-, the ele- 
venth grows particularly in Virginia , and they all 
Flourilh much about the fame times when other 
Graffes do. 
XXXI. Gramen Bufonum , vel Bufonis 
Flandrorum , Gramen Junceum parvum , Holofli- 
um Matthioli , Toad-Grafs, three Kinds. 
CCXLVI. 1. Gramen Bufonum, vel Gramen 
Junceum parvum. The greater Toad-Grafs. It has 
a fibrous reddifh Root , and grows not to be above 
eight or nine Inches high, the Leaves are very fmall, 
and thofe on the (lender Stalks and Branches from 
the Joints leffer, whereat, and likewife at the tops, 
come forth fmall, yellowifh, chaffie Heads or Husks, 
with fhort Awnes at the ends, each upon a fhort 
Footftalk, one above another. 
CCXLVII. 2. Gramen Bufonum medium. The 
middle fiz d Toad-Grafs. It differs from the former 
only in its magnitude , this being of a middle fize 
between the former and the leaft ; there is alfo one 
fomething fmaller than this, whofe Heads are clofer 
or thicker fet together. 
CCXLV HI. 3. Gramen Bufonum minimum, Gra- 
men Junceum minimum Holojlio Matthioli Congener, 
The fmallejl Toad-Grafs, or fmalleft Rufh-Grafs, like 
the former Toad-Grafs at Se£L 246 above. It has 
a very fmall and fibrous Root, and grows with fe- 
veral fmall and Thread like Leaves, Icarcely an Inch 
and half long, with yet fmaller Leaves on the Stalks, 
which are not above three or four Inches high , at 
whofe tops Hand two or three fmall Heads, like to 
thofe of Rufhes , but with rounder Grains or Seeds 
therein, and fet clofer together. 
CCXLIX. The Places and Times. The firft 
grows in moift and wet Grounds, the fecond in 
moift or .wet places near Highgate, the third in low, 
moift, and Marfhy Land ; they all Flourifh and Seed 
in the Summer Months, viz. in June and July. 
XXXII. v A^f(ar/j ivvJ'&t, vJh’.TuSvt, Gratnen Aqud- 
ticum, Water-Grafs, feven Kinds. 
CCL. 1. Gramen Aquaticum Paniculatum minus-. 
Small Bearded Water-Grafs. It has a thick, hard, 
fibrous Root, which fends forth a round ltraked 
Stalk, about two Feet high, encompaffed with feve- 
ral broad, rough, pale green Leaves, nearly a Foot 
long; the top Panicle is a Span long, fparfedly or 
thinly placed, compofed of many whitifh Heads, ha- 
ving long Awnes or Beards. 
CCLI. 2. Gramen Aquaticum acute at um majus , 
The greater prickly headed Water-Grafs. It has a 
fmall Root, which runs deep into the Mud, and fends 
up a Stalk or Stalks two Feet high or more above 
the Water in Ditches where it grows ; the Leaves 
are long and narrow, bearing at the tops of the 
Stalks feveral fmall prickly Heads, with long Leaves 
at them. 
CCLII. 3. Gramen Aquaticum aculeatum minus ; 
The leffer prickly headed Water-Grafs. This is like 
to the laft both in Stalks, Leaves, and prickly heads, 
but fmaller, nor has it any Leaves growing with 
I them as the others have. 
CCL 1 II. 4. Gramen Aquaticum aculeatum alte - 
1 rum. Another prickly headed or Bur headed Water - 
I Grafs. It has long, fmooth, and tender Leaves , a- 
mong which rifes up a Stalk, about half a Yard 
high, with a few Leaves fet thereon, and at the top 
many fmall rough Heads like Burs. 
CCLIV. y. Gramen Aquaticum, vel Fluviatile 
Cornutum, Horned Water-Grafs. It has a fmall and 
fibrous Root, which fends up a {lender Stalk, about 
two Feet high , jointed at' feveral places, and two 
fmall Rufhy Leaves for the moft part fet at each of 
them, growing fomething broad, and compaffing it 
at the bottom with a large Skin, from whence alfo 
rife one or two Stalks, ending in a skinny Head, 
which has at the end three or four narrow Leaves, 
turning downwards, and feeming like Horns. 
CCLV. 6. Gramen Fluviatile Spicatum, vel Aqua- 
ticum Spicatum- , Spiked Water or Float-Grafs. It 
has a Root compa£t and Tufted, or bufhy in the 
Mud, compofed of many Strings and Fibres, it has 
feveral weak Stalks, leaning every way, full of 
crooked Joints, which are knobby, or round, taking 
Root again in divers places, having long and narrow 
Leaves upon them, which lye floating under and up- 
on the Water that part which grows up has fome 
Leaves likewife thereon, and a long, (lender, brown 
fpiked Head at the top. 
CCL VI. 7. Gramen Fluviatile, vel Aquaticum 
Spica multiplici. Many Spiked Water or h lout -Grafs. 
It has a long and round Root, fomewhat thick, like 
unto Dogs-Grafs , fet on even Joints, with fmall 
Strings and Fibres , from which rife up long and 
crooked Stalks, croffing and Winding, and folding 
one within another, with many flaggy Leaves on 
them, more in number than the former, which Hor- 
fes and other Cattel eat greedily ; at the tops of 
thefe Stalks, and fomewhat lower down upon them, 
come forth very many little Spikes or Ears, of a whi- 
tifli color, compofed of two ranks of fmall chaffie 
Seeds , fet alternately on the Stalks, each of thefe 
fmall Ears being almoft an Inch in length. 
CCLVII; The Places and Times. They all grow 
in watery Ditches and Ponds in many parts of this 
Land;? 
