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7. Gramm mKr arum radicerefente, Wall graffe with a creeping roote. 
This Wall graffe from ablackifh creeping roote,come forth many lmai ilaikcs a foote high,bend,ing or crooking 
with a few narrow Ihort leaves on them,at whofe toppes Hand fsnall white panickles,of an inch and a halfe longj 
made of many ftnall chafEe huskes. 
The Tlace and Time. 
The firft is nfuall and common through the Land in divers plowed grounds, which trcableth the husbandmen 
asmuchaftertheploaghingupoffemeofthcm, as to pull up the reft by hand after the (pringing, and being ra¬ 
ked together to burne them,as it doth Gardiners where ithappenech,to weed it out from among- their trees and 
herbes: the fecond and third are nothing fo frequent,and are more haturall to fandy and chalkye 'grounds: the 
three next are likewile found in fields that have beene ploughed and doe lye fallow, and the lalt is often found 
growing on old decayed walles,in divers places: they all keepe the time of Sommer with the reft. 
7 he Names, 
This is called in Greeke nfually «Vf‘“srt ) that is (imply Gramen, as of moft ufe,and in Latine gramen (aninum^g 
Label Gramen Canariitm,medkatnm, from Fluty who firft called it Canaria epuafiacanibuf invent a, qua faslidium 
deducant^vomitum citmpituita/rejicientes hinc ^ynogrojlis alqs, & a foliorum prime predeuntium forma qnibn/d.zm 
Deui Cants dicitnr. Gefner itihortis callethit, gramenDiafcoridie, and ocher Authors call it onely Gramen, and 
Lrtgdunenfis G rumen vulgare, The iecond and third Label called in his other part tothe Adver[aria,GramenCa- 
uarium longius redkatnm,ma)w & minuted I thinke is alfo the gramen Caninum vine ale of Bauhimu. The fourth 
Label calleth Gramen Caninnm/upinum y znd added arvenfe afterwards to it: the fifth is fo called alfo by him, be- 
caufeit was fent him from tJMompelier. The fixth is the Gramendulce of Label, The lalt is fo called by Banker, ue 
as it is in the title. The Italians call it Gramigna , as the belt of all others,the Trench Chieu dent, and Dent de chieu „ 
And we Quich graffe,or Couch graffe. 
The Verities, 
This Quichgraffe is the moft medecinablc graffe of all others, ferving to open obfiraftions of the liver and 
gall, and the (toppings of the urine, being boy led and drunke.and to ealetiie griping paines of the belly, andin- 
flammitiqns,and waiteth the excrementirious matter olthe (lone in the bladder, and the Vlcers thereof alfo, the 
rootes beingbrufed and applyeddoth confolidate wounds.- thefeedfaith Dicfcarides doth more powerfully ex- 
pell urine, and flayeth the belly or laske, and callings or vomittings. Galen faith the fame thing,and further ad- 
deth.that the roote is moderately cold and dry,and hath alfo a little mordacity in it, and feme tenuity of parts,the 
herbe is cold in the firlT degrce.nnd moderate in moifture and dryneffe: but the feed is much mote cold and dry¬ 
ing of feme tenuity of parts,and foroewhat harfh. Pliny confoundeth this and the Parnaffus graffe together, ap¬ 
plying the fame properties to the one, that are attributed to the other: the diddled water, or the deception ah ne 
is often given to children for the wormes: butiffome wormefeede be put to it, it is the more < ffeftuall. The 
firff .Quich graffc is that which hath beene ever in ufe in our Land with the Apothecaries for their medicines, as 
ir was alfo in the hether parts of Trance , but the further parts thereof,and about Geneva, they ufe rhe knobbed or 
bulbed kinde, but neither of them, was knownc to Lfrlattbiolus , or the Getmanes ,or Italians in his time, as it is 
evident in that he hath made no mention of it. 
Chap. XXII. 
Gramen Caninum bulbofum cJ- nedofum. Bulbed and knobbed Quich graffe. 
Mto this kinde ofDogs graffe,is to be j’oyned feme other graffes,whofe rootes are knobbed or bpibed,’ 
yet that fort which Batshinut maketh mention of in his Pradromw, growing in the water, I wiiire- 
ferre to the next Claflis.whereunto it is proper. 
I. Gramen Caninum bulbefvm mdofumvnlgare. Common bulbed andknobbed Quichgraffe. 
This kinde of Quich graffc hath for his rootes, three or foure, or more round white knobs or 
bulbes, one fet upon the head of another, with divers fibres underneath them, from the uppermoit of whom 
fpringeth forth divers long hard graffie leaves, fharpe at the edges, andintbe middle of them a joynted flake, 
with three or fonre fuch like leaves upon them,at the toppe whereof is a long panick!e,fpread into many parts like 
to that of Oates, whereunto feme have comparsd it. Label exhibited another foi thereof differing little in any 
part, but the rootes which are fmall and round; and fit at diiiances all along the rootes, and as fweete as the o- N ° d> t ua i 
ther. 
I. Gramen nodai r nm Jpica parva. Knobbed graffe with a finall round fpike, 
This fmall Grade hath a fmall whitifh round knob or bulbe for the roote, with (mail fibres under it, fhooting 
forth from the head thereof another, femewhat like unto a bulbe,but much fmallcr, and like a Gender knob, wim 
a fmall joynted ftalke above it,and'a long narrow pointed lcafe at each of them being foure or five inches long, 
and at the toppe one fbort fofc lpiked head,femewhat like unto the head of the Cats taile graffr. 
GramenbMaJnmgtminum. Double bulbed graffe. c *- '' : 
This double bulbed Graffe, hath a greater round fweete bulbed roote below, covered with a reddffh skinne 
and one like a leffer at the head thereof, the upright ftalke is not a foote high, j'oynted and kneed, like unto a" 
Wheate draw, having foure or five narrow grafie-like leaves on them, and at the head thereof a fmall lotw pa- 
nickle made of diverfe hushes, each ftanding by it felfe, like the huskc of an Oatc, out of which aDpearech (mail 
reddifh bloomings. 
4. Gramen bulbofum Alepiimm. The bulbed graffe cf Aleppo, 
This graffe hath a firme white round roote, covered over with a netted outer skinne, and fmall white 
fibres underneath,from the midit whereof come forth two or three (baked ftalkes, above a foote high, and with 
many graffie leaves fet on them, the fpike is femewhat like to the Wa!J Barley, breaking out of a broadc lcafe 
.Whofe point rifeth above it. 
H h h b h 2 . (j ram'*- 
