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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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l Sparganium Rumofim. 
Branched Burre-Reed. 
,m-< Ta/rrurS 
2 S parg aniitm lat-ifolium. 
Great Water-Burre. - ... 
6 L S 
tu r ni r r IT The Mini is'. 
Thefe Plants of fome are called Sporgomum : Thcophraftus in his fourth Booke and eighteenth 
Chapter caUeth them Butomus : of fome, Plaumnn/.- I call them Burre-Reed • in the A 
tongue they are called Safarbe Bomon : in Italian Spargmio : of Dodonm, Cm * , Some call the 
nm Spargitmumramefum. or Branched Burre Reerl Tlik -i ‘ Jul “ecan tne 
branching Buife-Reed. - J. The ‘ ccond ,s m m„m„„ Not 
They are cold and dr, ofcomptaio?. 
c Tbevertucs. 
the ’ that thC k k° P i °” ou S h burres of therc plants boyled in wine , are good acainft a 
thebitings ofvenomous beafts,ifeitheritbe drunke, or the wound wafhed therewith ° A 
Chap. 37 . Of Qits Taile. 
T be description. 
white/ull offtrines and <r,-jod avvay withthewinde. TheRoots behard, thicke, and 
o , n & ood to burne, where there is plenty thereof to be had. 
Ihauc ^foimcL^ ftanding waters, and fometimesin running ftreames. 
Shepey, going from Sherland toufe^^I^uerft^! 16 ^ ltC ^ eS mar * b * e S rounds In cll e Me of 
They floure and beare theirmace or tordi hfluly and Augiid. 
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