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3 Next to this I thinke fit to place the Grmcn Crijlatum, or Cocks-combe grafie of 
This Graffe hath for the root many white fibrous threds thicke packt together ; the leaues are but J ° 
fhort, about the bignefle of the ordinarie medow graffe •, the ftalks are fome cubit and halfc- high, 
with fome two or three knots a piece : the leaues of the ftalke are fome foure or fine inches long : 
theeare is fmall,longifh,of a pale greene colour, fomewhat bending, fo that in fomefort it re- 
sembles the combe ofa Cocke, or the leed-veflfell of that plant which is called Caput Gallinaceum „ 
This is ordinarily tobe found in molt medowcs about Mid-fummer. 
4 There is alfo commonly about the lametime in our medowcs tobe founda Graffe gfow- -j 
ing to fome cubit high, hauing a fmall ftalke, at the top whereof there growes an eare fome inch 
and an halfe, or two inches long, confifting as it were of two rankes of come : it very much refem- 
bles Rie both in fhape and colour, and in his fhort bearded awnes, wherefore it may very fitly be 
termed Gramm fecaliuum,oxRic-gta&. Yetis it not Gramen fpica [ecalina which Battbine deforibes 
in the fifty feuenth place, in his Prodromus,pitg. 1 8. for that is much taller, and the eare much lar- 
ger than this of my defcription. 
5 In diners places about hedges, in Iuly and Auguft is to be founda fine large tall Grafie, 
which Bttuhine (who alfo firft defcribed it) hath vnder the name of Gramenjj/ica Bn\xmiijus. This 
hath ftalkesas tall as Rie, but not fo thicke, neither are the leaues fo broad : at the topofthe ftalk 
grow diners pretty little flattifh earns confifting of two rankes of chaffie huskes or feed-vefiells, 
which bane yellovvifh little floures like to thofe of Wheat. 
6 There is alfo commonly tobe found about Mayor the beginning oflune, in medowcs and 
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