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Salmon 's Herbal. 
t'lfully in the Fenny Grounds of Lincolnshire, and 
fuch like places. ,, , „ . 
VII. TbeTimcs. they are green all the Spring 
and. Summer , and bring forth their Burrs or Seeay 
Knots in Augitft. . 
VIII. T be Qualities. They are cold dry in the 
firft Degree, and Alexipharmick, or refillers ot 
Poifon. , „ . . 
IX. The Specification. Authofs hive laid no 
more of the Virtues of thefe Plants, but that they 
are good againft the Poifon ol Serpents. 
x. The Preparations. There is only A DecoUt- 
on of the Root, or of the Burrs in Wine. 
The Virtues. 
XI The DecoSion. The Root being made into 
a DecotHon in Wine (for fo I fuppofe Dtofcondes 
is to be underftood, Datur radix ex vino, contra 
Serpent ium Venena :) is good againft the Poiftti 
of Serpents. But Gerard fays, that the Knobs or 
rough Burrs of thefe Plants boiled in Wine, are 
good againft the Bitings of Venomous Bealls if 
the DecoUion is either drank, or the Wound wafh- 
ed therewith. 
Reed Vool Common. 
CHAP. DXCIV. 
Of REED Common. 
I "-p H g Karnes. It is called in Arabic/:, 
| Cafab: in Greek, : in Lai me , 
Calamus, Harunio , O Amnio: in Englijh , 
Reed. 
II. The Kinds. We (hall not here enrmmerate 
the vaft numbers or Species of Reeds, which grow 
in molt parts of the World; but thofe only which 
grow in England , and our Plantations beyond Sea, 
m the Weft Indies, and thefe are the three follow- 
ing, viz. I. Phragmatis Dodonai Cf Ruellij -, 
Arundo Vallaris Lobelij, Harunio vcl Arundo 
Vallatoria , Arundo Pa/uliris Malthio/i, Arundo vel 
Calamus Vulgaris, Our common Pool Reed. 2. 
Harunio vel Arundo multifiin Anglica ; Our 
Englifli Finger Reed. ?. Arundo Donax, Cane 
Reed , Calamus vel Arundo Cypria Dodonxi ; Cala- 
mus lta/icus major-, Arunia ltalica major Came- 
rarij-, Arundo major Hifpaniea -, Calamus vel Arun- 
do major Carolimana, vel Plondiana , The Carolina, 
or Weft-Indian Cane Reed. This without doubt 
may be the fame Cane Reed which glows in the 
Eaft-lndies, which by reafon of the Clime, grows 
both taller and greater ; fo that they ferve inltead 
of Wood or Timber to make their little Houfes, 
Hovils, or Huts of, and to cover them. 
'The Defcriptions. 
III. The firfi , or Our common Pool Reed. Its 
Root A white, hard, round , long, and with many 
knobbed Joints , running a J. loop , but not deep, 
and fhooting up Stalks from divers of the Joints. 
Thefe Stalks are manifold, great , round, and hol- 
low, and full of Joints , not diftant very far one 
from another, and run up to a conftierable height, 
at to 4, 5, or 6 Feet high, or more, but higher in 
feme places than in others, with long and Some- 
what broad hard green Leaves St each of the 
Joints , Jharp on both edges, and fomembat 
cncompaffing the Stalk, at their bottoms-, bear- 
ing a long, and broad Spread, Jbft, brqwni/h 
Panniclc at top, whofte Chaffy , or Downy Seed 
flies away with the Wind. The whole Stalk dies, 
ami penfbes even Tear, but is ufual/y cut down 
before Winter, when as it is grown white, to ferve 
for fcveral Mechanick ufes. 
IV. The Jccond , . or Our finglifh Finger Reed. 
Its Root, form, magnitude and manner ef grow- 
ing , is much like the former ; its difference 
from that is only in the Leaves , which are 
each of them half a Lard long, and two or 
three Inches broad, with feveral great Ribs 
or Veins running along them , and parted at 
the ends into three or four parts , Something like 
unto our Finger Harts-'Tongue. 
V. The third, or Carolina or Welt-India Cane- 
Reed called alfo Spanilh Cane or Reed. This 
in its Root, Stalk , Leaf, and manner of grow- 
ing, differs not from the firft deferibed, but 
only in its great nefs, the Canes or Stalks be- 
ing harder , thicker, and lifting much higher , 
Sometimes to eight, ten or twelve feet high, (ac- 
cording to the goodnefs or richnefs of the Soil ) 
more or lefts-, whofe Joints are .farther diftant 
of under than in our Common Pool Reed; the 
Leaves are hkewfe much larger, broader , 
and longer, having alfo a very much larger 
Pannicle at top. Thefe Reeds or Canes are 
of feveral thicknejfes , ftome of them half an 
Inch thick or leffer , and fame three quarters 
of an Inch thick. Thefe are without doubt the 
fame with thofe Reeds or Canes which grow in 
the Eaft-lndies ; called Cane-Reed, where they . 
grow much greater , thicker, and taller, and 
are of fuch a Sulftancc as to ferve them to make 
their 
