Tr i b e. i. The ’Theater ofT (ants. Chap. 5o. 
<. Gy perm du'cis lotmdus e/culcntus Trafi dulce vacates. 
The moil delicate Tweet Cyperus,or RuiV. Nur. 
5. CyperUs efeu/ehtiti five Trafi cam forc» 
The Rufti Nuc flowring. 
£0 any perfection, neither will it abide the extremities of our Winters; for as Camerarius faith it will rotj if it bee 
not taken up before Winter, and new £et againe in the Spring, after it hath beene well fteeped in water. 
The Time . 
All thefe round rooted Ciperi doe flower or carry their bufhy toppes in Adguft with us, but the ordinary long 
footed kinde, giveth his tufted head in the end of duly for the molt part. 
The Names, 
TheGreekc words HuVsfy©- Cy pirns, xuVsp©* Cyperus, and Kumptf C}per is, are taken by divers good Authors, 
to be one and the fame plant, others to be different, efpecially Cypirns from Cyperus , bccaule that Tliny lib. 2 1. cap„ 
18. maketh Cyperus to be Gladiolus ^ whom Gaza in his translation of Theophrajlus doth in all places follow, and 
Tliny in another place calleth the long rooted fweet kind Cyperida : but if I might (he w my opinion, I would fa y 
that Cyperus is the fweet round rooted kinde, then which no other was knovvne to Diofcoriaes , and that Cy peris 
is the long fweet kind as Pliny doth take it: and that Cy pirns is the water or marfh Cyperus , my opinion herein be¬ 
ing confirmed by Arifiophanes in Dialog) de cams, where he maketh the quire or company to fay Saltavimusper Cy - 
ptrum of Bhleumgaudentes c antibus z fo that hereby Cypirus muft of necefiity be here underffood to bee a water or 
marfh hea/be, as Phleum is alfo, among which the Frogges are converfant: auVspG-, is’ fo called from the round 
forme of the roote, which is like afitiaU boxe or vefl'ell, in Latine ilfo Cyperus and I uncus triangularis & anqulofus^ 
to diftinguilh betweene it and the Inncus lav is or vulgaris, ordinary Rufhes, yet Cornelius Celfus calleth it luncus 
Tiadratusfozziwfe at it is likely in thofe places where he obferved it, it did peradventuer beare foure-lquare ftalkes, 
but it is not fo in many other places : in Englifh many doe call it Gallinga or Gallingale after the name the Dutch 
give it, becaule the round rootes are fomewhat like unto the rootes of the ftfiall Gallinga, and yet that kinde with 
round rootes, is not fo frequent in our land as the other with long rootes, to'befo called for the likeneffe thereof 
betweene them, 1 thinkc the name is tranfpofed from the one to the other. It is called alfo as commonly Cyperus, 
and fweet Cyperus, after the Greeke and Latine names. The firlt is generally by all Writers, called Cyperus rotun - 
dus, and odoratus is added for a diftinftion betweene this kind that is fweet, and another that hath no feent, which 
fhall be declared in his place. The fecond Lohel and Camerarius upon ftiatthiolus, call Cyperus major rotundas Sy~ 
riacur, and Proffer Alpinus faith the Egyptians call it Hodveg. Rauwolfius calleth it Cyperus Orient alls mayor vel 
abylonicus .The third is called by Lob cl Cyperus rotundas Syriac us minor 1 and Gainer arias on Mattbiolus calleth it 
Cyperus minor Crctisus. Tauhimis calleth it Cyperus rotundas orientalis minor . The fourth as I faid before, is called 
by Pliny Cy peris,by (JMatthiolus Cyperus, and by others Cyperus longus. Lobel and Lugdunenjis (yperns lonqus habL 
tior, C or dus upon Diofcorides calleth it, Cyperus Romanns five longus . The laft is called by fewer anus and T$ff? 
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