Chap. 3 27, Englifk Herbs, 
brownilh lpiked Heads , feparated a little one from 
another, and as it were a little Bearded. 
Wood-Grafs Greater. 
CCLXIV. 2. Gramen Nemorofum , vel Sylvati- 
cum Capillaceum Panicula alba , White Tufted Wood 
Grafs. It has a tufted ot bufliy fibrous Root, as 
finall as Hairs, from the head of which bufh of Fi- 
bres fpring finall Grafs Leaves , which grow thick 
and dole together in a Tuft in a great number, and 
riling to be about a Foot long ; the Stalks come up 
from among the Leaves , about a Foot and half or 
more high, fmooth, and bare, almoft without Joint 
or Leaf on them, the tops of which end in a white 
Panicle , two or three Inches long , compofed of 
fmall Husks with Beards. 
CCLXV. 3. Gramen Sylvaticum , vel Nemorale 
minus , The lejfer Wood-Grafs. This differs not 
from the firlt ox greater , but that it is in all its 
parts lelfer and lower., the fmall, chaffie, bearded 
Ears being fmaller, and nothing fo foft, but rather 
hard, and a little more fparfed. 
CCLXVI. 4. Gramen INemorofum , vel Sylvati- 
cum exile durum , Small hard Wood-Grafs. The 
Roots are fmall and fibrous, being in a bufti , from 
whence rife up many fmall hard Leaves , about a 
Span long, or a Span and half; the Stalks are (len- 
der, with very few Joints and Leaves on them, at 
which Joints, and at the tops alfo, come forth fmall, 
long, chaffie Spiked Heads. 
CCLXVII. The Places and Times. Thefe all 
grow in Woods , almoft every where throughout 
England , and they Hourifh when other Graffes do, 
viz. in the Summer Months ; they are never ufed in 
Phyfick, nor are they good Fodder for Cattel, but 
Goats will grow fat therewith. 
XXXV. ''Aygusiz \ cashes, ^ icj.CS ns, Gra- 
men Lanatum , vel Bombycinum , Woolly-Grafs 
two Kinds. 
CCLXVUI. 1 . Gramen Lanatum , Jive Bombyci- 
num, Gramen Juncoides Lanatum vulgaris , Common 
Woolly or Cotton-Grafs. It has a Root very bulhy, 
fmall, and fibrous, thrufting its Fibres fomewhat 
deep into the Moorilh Ground in which it grows , 
irom whence rife up many long, llender, andGraffie 
Leaves, almoft like unto Rujhes, whence the Name 
Juncoides Lanatum , or Juncus Bombycinus ; from 
among tliel'e Leaves rife up a fmall , Render’ h ard 
Ruftiy Stalk, about a Foot high, fometimes with a 
few Grjfiie Leaves thereon, and fometimes without 
either Leaf or Joint, bearing at their tops a Bufh or 
Tuft, fometimes one, fometimes two, three, four 
or more, of moll pleafanr, fine, foft white Down’ 
Wooll, or Cotton, as fine and foft and white as fine 
White Silk , fo that they feem to be rather fine foft 
White Silk like Heads, finer than the fineft whireft 
Wooll that is, and ufually about the bignefs of a 
Walnut, with its outward green Husk, which are 
lb eminent in ones Eye a far off, that they give 
much Delight and Admiration to the Beholders- 
thefe being full ripe pals away with the Wind. ’ 
CCLXIX. 2. Gramen Lanatum , fen Bombycinum 
minus , Gramen Junceum Lanatum minus , Small 
Woolly or Cotton-Grafs. The Root hrfomewhac 
black, and not much unlike the former, but this has 
many mote Ruftiy Leaves than that, but the Stalks 
rife not much higher, they bear at their Heads Tufts 
of Woolly or Cottony Heads , not fo large as the 
former, but are fmall , and fomewhat long, which 
being ripe fly away with the Wind, leaving a finall 
Head of Seed, like a Crowfoot Head, behind it. 
CCLXX. The Places and Times. They grow in 
moilt, wet. Boggy, and Moorifh places, the firft 
on the Bog on Hampftead Heath , near London , as 
alfo in Highgate Park, not far from the fame ;’the 
fecond lias been found about M ompelier in prance - 
they Flower in July. ’ 
The Virtues . 
CCLXXI. Cbhdus Pays, that the Decbftion of the 
firft 111 Wine, being taken warm, gives eafe in the 
griping pains of the Belly. The Woolly Heads are 
gathered by fome to Huff Pillows, Bolfters, and 
Cufliions with, far excelling in foftnefs and good- 
nefs any ThiJUe Down. Thu? have we given you 
a fhort Hiltory of Graffes , which we think is enough. 
