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growes forne halfe yard high, with round brownifh heads, and the leaues are ioyntedasyou fee 
themexpreffedinthefigureweheregiueyou. | 1 
IT The Place , Time, Names,Nature, and Vertues. 
All theGraffes which vve haue deferibed in this chapter doe grow in marifh and watery places 
neere to the fea, or other fenny grounds, or by muddy and my rie ditches, at the lame time that the 
others do grow and flourilTi. Their names are eafily gathered of the places they grow in orbv 
their Defections, and are ofnovertue nor propertie in medicine, or any other neceffaricVe as 
yetknowne. 
T Formerly in the eighth place (but very vnfitly) was the figure of Grimm 
reRorcd to his due place, being the fourth in the fixth chapter . 0 ThctwoRce 
Chapter. 
pmiajffttie fricifmp . being the third in the thirteenth chapter. The ninth alfo is 
d-grafiesthac were in the clcucnth and twelfth places are alfo before in the fifth 
C h a x>. 17. Of Qoucb'CjrajJe, or Vogs-grafe . 
The Defcription. 
•t i r THe common or beft knowne Dogs-grafle, or Couch-grafle hath long leaues of a 
J. whitifh greene colour : the ftalke is a cubit and a halfe high, with ioynts or knees 
lineffe The Dlnnlrmft^i T’ bl,t , th ® fe '?y nts are couered with a little Ihort downorwool- 
it creenedi in Ae^ounH^ >v, lke 1 j® bu • (J 1131 er and more chaffic, and ofagrayilh colour : 
hauini a pleafmt IWer la her f “ d th ! ther J vvlth lon S vvhlte roots > 10 ynted at certaine diftances, 
much as where ir hTn 3nd , arC pktted or vvra PP cd one within another very intricately, info- 
b c deftroved e ach n? m g3rdenS amon § ft pot-berbes,great labour muft be taken before it can 
dc del troy ed, each piece berng apt to grow, and eucry way to dilate ir felfe. 
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