Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. i. 
whcrby it doth greatly increafe. i Batthinus reports, That he receiaed from D .Cargill, a Scartifh- 
man a Reed vvhofe leaties were a cubit long, and two or three inches broad, with fame ncmcs a n- 
parantly running alongft the lcafe ; thefe leaties at the top were ditiided into two, three, or hoare 
points or parts . as yet I hatie not obferucd it. Batthine termcs it Arundo Aurika folus tn liumnitate 
dijfettis. $ 
i The Cypreffe Reed is a great Reed hailing fta-lkes exceeding long, fomctintes twenty or 
thirty foot high, ofa woody fubftance, fet with very great leaties like thole of Turky wheare It 
carrieth at the top the like downie tuft that the former doth. 
3 Thefe Reeds Lobelias hath feene in the Low coun- 
tries brought from Conftantinople, where, as it is laid 
the people of that countrey haiie procured them from 
the parts of the Adriaticke lea fide where they do grow. 
They are full lhift with a fpongeous fubftance,- fo that 
there is no hollownefle in the fame, as in Canes & otlier 
Reeds, except here and there certainc fmall pores or naf- 
fages of the bignefle of a pinnes point ; in manner fuch 
a pith as is to be found in the Bull-Rufh,but more firms 
and folid. 
4 The feconcWiffereth in fmalncffe, and that it will 
wiride open in fleakes, otherwife they are very like , and 
arc vfed for darts, arrowes, and fuch like. 
5 This great fort of Reeds or Canes hath no parti- 
cular defeription to anfwcr your expectation, for that as 
yet there is not any man which hath written thereof . 
efpecially of the manner ofgrowing of them, either of 
hisoivne knowledge or report from others : fo that it 
fhal-1 fuffice that yee know that that great cane is vfed 
efpecially in Conftantinople and thereabout, of aged 
and wealthy Citifens,and alfo Noblemen and fuch great 
perfonages,to make them walking ftaues of, caruing 
them at the top with fundry Scutchions, and pretty 
toyes of imagerie for the beautifying of them ; and fo 
they of the better fort do garnifh them both with fil- 
uer and gold, as the figure doth moft liuely fet forth vn- 
toyou. 
6 In like manner the fmaller fort hath not as vet 
beene feene growing of any that liaue becne curious in 
herbarilme, whereby they might fet downe any certain- 
tie thereof ; onely it hath beene vfed in Conftantinople 
and thereabout, etien to this day, to make writing pens 
withall, for the vtjhich it doth very fitly ferue, as alfo to 
make pipes, and filch like things ofpleaftive. 
f Tit place. 
The common Reed groweth in (landing waters and in the edges and borders of riuers almoft 
etiery where :and the other being the angling Cane for FuTW-ts groweth in Spaineand thofc hot 
Regions. 
The time. 
' They flourifh and flower from April to the end of September, at what time they are cut down 
for the vfe of man, as all do know. 
IT rhe names. 
The common Reed is called Arundo and// arundo vaHatoria : in French Rofiau in Dutch UtCt * 
in Italian Canne afarjiepo : of Diofc. Phragmitis : in Englifh,Reed. 
Arundo Cyprii i-,or after Lobelias, Arundo Donax .• in French Canne in Spanifh Cana in Italian 
Calami afar Comochia : In Englifh,Pole reed, and Cane, or Canes. 
The nature. 
Reeds are hot and dry in the fecond degree, as Galen faith. 
The vertues . 
The roots of reed ftamped final draw forth thorns and fplintets fixed in any part of mans body . r \ 
I be fame ftamped with vineger cafe all luxations and members out ofioynt. ' j. 
And like wife ftamped they hearle hot and fharpe inflammations. The allies of the it mixed q 
w h vineger helpeth the fcaks and feurfe ofthe head, andlielperh the falling of the halve. 
Tlje 
3 Arundo far Ha. 
Stuffed Canes. 
4 Calamus fagittalts Lo belli . 
Small Huffed Reed . 
5 NaftosClufij. 
Turky walking ftaues. 
C Aritndofcriptoria. 
T urky writing Reeds. 
