Lib. i. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
and not onely fo, but I iudge it to be the fame Grafle that Bauhrne in his Prodrome hath fct forth 
f*g- i7.vnder thenaracof Gramen Ltifolium /pica triticet competed. This is a very tail Graffe • font 
fends forth a ftalke commonly in good ground to the height of a yard and an halfe : the leaues are 
large, ftilfe,and_greene,almoft as big as thofe of white Wheat-, the which it alfovery much re- 
femblesm the eare, which vfually is fomehandfull and an halfe long, little fpokes ftandino- by 
courfe with their flat fides towards the ft raw. About the beginning of Iuly it is hung with little 
i Gramen Cminum mtirimm , 
SeaDogs-gralfe. 
2 Gr amen Cminum marinutn alterum. 
Sea Couch-grafle. 
whitilh yellow floures fuch as Wheat hath. The roots of this are like thofe of the firft deferibed. 
fins lometimes varies in the largenefle of the whole Plant, as alfo in the greatneffe, fparfednefle 
and compadtnefle of the eare. J 51 3 
2 The fecond Sea Dogs-grafle is according vnto Lobel fomewhat like the former : his roots 
arc m ® fpreading and longer, difpcrfmg themfelues vnder the ground farther than any of the 
re . The leaues are like the former, thicke bullied at the top, with a chiller or bufh of (fort thick 
eaues one folded within another. The ftalke and tuft is ofa middle kinde,betweene Itibamon and 
the common Couch-grafle. J 
U The place. Time, Names, Nature, andVertnes . 
They grow on the fea fhore at the fame time that others do ; and are fo called becaufe they grow 
neere the fea fide. Their nature and vertues are to be referred vnto Dogs-graffe, 
a o 
C h a p. i p. Of vprigbt 'Dogs-fjrafe. 
The Vefcription. 
1 \ 7 'P r ;g ht Dogs-grafle, or Quich-grafle, by reafon of his long fpreading ioynted roots is 
V like vnto the former, and hath at euery knot in the root funary firings of hairie fub- 
„ - r , , ftan «:,fhooting into the ground at euery ioint as it fpreadeth : the ftalks ly creeping 
rue but a little from the ground, and at their tops haue fpokie panniclcs farre final ler than the 
commoi t 
