Lib. i 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
z 7 
Chap. zo. Of Deyp~(fraffe* 
TheB efcripion. 
1 T''\Evv-grafl!e hath very hard and tough roots long and fibrous : the ftalkes are meat of 
l J three or fbure cubits high, very rough and hairy, ioynted and kneed like the common 
Reed : the leaues are large and broad like vnto corne. The tuft or care is diuided into 
fundry branches, chaffie, and of a purple colour . wherein is contained fec-d like Milium wherewith 
the Germanes do make pottage and fuch like meat, as we in England do with Otemeale • and it is 
fent into Middleborough and other townes of the Low-countries, in great quantitie for riu fame 
purpofe,as Lolcl hath told me. 
2 The fecondkinde of Dew-gralfe or Ifchtmonh fomewhat like the firft kinde of Medow- 
grafle,refemb!ing one the other m leaues and ftalkes, fauing that the creft or tuft is fpred or ftret- 
ched out abroad like a Cocks foot fet downe vpon the ground, 'whereupon it was called Galls eras 
by Afuldas Thefe tops are cleere and vpnght, of a glillering purple colour, or rather violet • and 
it is dmided into foure or hue branches like the former Dew-graffe. The rootconhfts of a meat 
many fmall fibres. & 
t 3 To thefe may fitly be added another GraiTe, which Clufha hath iudmd to be the medi 
email Gralfe of the Antients : and Lobcl referres it to the Dogs gralTes,becaufe it hath a root iom- 
ted thicke, and creeping like as the Dogs-grafles : the ftalkes are home foot high, round and ofa 
purplifh colour : but the top is very like to that of the laft defcribed, ofa darke purple colour 
The Place dndfime. 
1 The firft groweth naturally in Germanic, Bohemia, Italy, and in the territories of Goritia 
and Carinthia 5 as c JMatthioltis reporteth. 
2 The fecond groweth neere vnto rough bankes of fields, as I hauefeene in the hilly ba'nkes 
neere Greenhithe in Kent. It d ifrereth not in time from thofe we haue fpoken of, 
I 3 Thw 
