IB. I. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
29 
Ch 
A P. 23. 
Of Qotton Cjr.ijje. 
The description. 
5 His fttangc Cotton grade, which L'obelius hath comprehended vnder the 1 ,-indcs 
, ofRulhes; notwithdanding that it may pafle with the Rufhes yet I finde in 
, mine owne experience that it doth rather referable grade than rufhes and may 
'"“Terentiy be taken for either, for that it doth participate of both f he dalke 
is {hull and nifty, garnifted with many grady leaues alongft the fame, bearing at the top a bufh 
or tuft of mod. pleafant downe or cotton like vnto the mod fine and foft white filke The mnV 
is very tough, fmall and threddy. ' 
a This Water Gladiole, or grady Rudi, of all others is the faired and mod pleafant to be- 
hold, and ferueth very well for the decking and trimming vp of houfes, becaufe of the beautv 
and Srauerie thereof ; confiding of fundry fmall leaues, of a white colour mixed with carnation 7 
growing at the ton of a bare and naked dalke, fine or fix foot long, and fometime more The 
leaues are long and flaggy, not much vnlike the common reed.The root is threddy, and not Ion°-. 
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I GramenTomentariitm. 
Cotton Grade. 
n cotton ijrane. , ■ , . . 
a G Lidiolfts prdufiris Cordi. 
ft ld\ l tJU. dJXZ 
Theplace and time. 
1 < -' ot£on g ta(rc groweth vpon bogs and fuch like mooriih places, and it is to be feene vpon 
the bogs on Hampfied heath. It gtoweth likeivife in Highgate parke neere London. 
2 Water Gladiole groweth in danding pooles, motes, and water ditches. I found it in great 
plenty being in company with a Worfhipfull Gentleman Mader Robert Wilbraham, at a Yilla°-e 
fifteene miles from London called Budiey. It groweth likevvife neere Redritfe by London, and 
many other places: the feafonanfwerethall others. 
•f The names. 
1 Gramen Toment ofum is called likewife Iancus bombicinus : of Cordus LinnmpratmCe, and Gnu, 
phnhnm Hicronymi Bockij. In Englifh Cotton grade. 
G s Water 
