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Of the Biftorie of Plants. 
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I B. 1. 
jt is sailed Gramen plmnofum : and in Englilh, a Bent, or Feather-top GrafTe. 
2 Gramm pamnculatum is called by l'ome Hcrarroflts in Greeke. Label calls this Gramen panni. 
■culofim pbalaroides . And it is named in the Hijt. Lu^d. Gramen filicetimjeupolyanthos : that is, Feme, 
or many-floured GrafTe. $ 
3 Gtamcn fjluatiaein, or as it pleafeth others, G rumen nemorofum , is called in our tongue, wood 
Graffe,orfh;Siaw Graffe. *- 
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Chap. 7, Of great Fox-taile fraffe: 
ThcDefcription . 
I (T 1 He great Fox-taile GrafTe hath many threddy foots like the common Medow graffe ; 
S and the ftalke rifeth immediatly from the root, in fafhion like vnto Barley, with two 
. or three leaues or blades like Otes •, but is nothing rough in handling , but Toft and 
downie, and fomewhat hoarie, bearing one eare or tuft on the top, and neuer more ; fafhtoned like 
a Fox-taile, whereofit tooke his name. At the approch of W inter it dieth, and recouereth it felfe 
the next yeareby falling of his feed. 
I Gramen AlopccuroidcsmajHs'. 
Great Fox-taile Graffe. 
"t i Gramen AhpecurQtdes minus. 
Small Fox-taile Graffe. 
a The leffer Fox-taile Gralfe hath a tuffe and hard root compaft of many fmall firings, yeel- 
ding a flravvie ftalke like the former, though fomvvhac lefTer,with the like top or creft,but ofa whi- 
tifti colour. 
3 Great baftard Fox-taile Graffe hath a ftrawie ftalke or ftemme , which rifeth to the height 
ofa cubit and an haffe, hauing a finall root conftfting of many fibres . H is leafe is fmall and graft 
fie, and hath on his top one tuft or fpike,or eare of a hard chaffie fubftance,fome three inches long, 
compofedoflongKh feeds, each hauing a little beard orawne. 
4 Small baftard Fox-taile Graffe doth refemble the former, fauing that this kinde doth not 
fend 
