Tribe 
Polygonum Great Knot-graffe.. 
He Knot-grades are divided into twokindes, male and female, ofthe male kindes I (hall fpeake 
in this and the following Chapters, becaufe they are of many forts, fome greater, others lelfer: 
and fame Sea plants, the female being called Sharegraffe, or Horfetaile, fhaJlbe entreated of in 
another place ; I thinke it fitted therefore to divide thefe into three parts, and fpeake of the 
greatefl: in this Chapter, ofthe lelfer kindes in the next, and of thofe kinds that beare finite or 
berryeHn another following them, thatfobeingorderlyfetdowne, everyone apart, it might 
! yeeld the more profit to the reader. 
j. PolygonummM vulgar?msijuf. The greater common Knot-graffe. 
The greater common Knot-grade fhooteth forth many long (lender branches full of joynts, lying upon the 
ground, with divers long and narrow leaves let thereon, one for the mod part at a joynt, having mod ulually 
a fmall white skinne that coxereth the joynt; whereat,efpccially from the middle of the branches upwards come 
: forth the flowers, which are fo fmall, that they are for the mod part not feene and difeerned, which in fome are 
white, mothers of a whmfh purple colour, which after turne into very fmall fquarefecd : like unto Sorrell 
feede : the roote is reddilh,(mall, Ihort and round, abiding the Winter, and (hooting a new every yeare. I 
faw m Mr. D r foxes booke of dryed herbes which he received from ‘Fade* a greater fort hereof, whole figure I 
here give you. “ 
’■ Polygonum vulgar? nunm. The leffer common Knotgraffe. 
This lelfer Knotgraffe groweth ini all things like the former, and differeth from it onely in the leaves, which 
are fmaller.and neither fo broad or long,and the flowers hereof are alwayes white 
r i- Fohgonsmmwmbnvmefolio. Small fhort leafed Knotgraffe. 
This other fmall kmde, hath likewife many flender j'oynted branches, but more wooddy then the former, 
lpread alfo into fome other fmaller ones, whereon grow fmall fhort leaves, leffer then thofe of the fmall St Mbit 
wort: the flowers are lmall and white like the other. 
4 - Polygonum Saxatile. Stony Knotgraffe. 
The ftony Knotgraffe hath many weake tray ling branches full of joynt*. rifing from a fmall white fibrous 
rootes, lying upon the ground round about it, whereon grow leaves that are fomewhat round, being of an inch 
in length,and halfe an inch in breadth, but growing fmaller to the ftalkeward, greene on the upperfide, and of 
a whitilh mealy colour underneath at the joynts come forth fmall pale reddifli flowers, like unto the other, and 
after them f ollowethfach like leede asm the other* 
