Theatrnm Botanicum , 
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i,a. Granges Cawr.um hulbofum vulgaic dr 
aherum nodofum fpicaparva. 
Common knobbed Quick grafle* And 
another with a fmall roundfpike# 
Tr i b k 13. 
1 , 3 , G rumen bulbofumgeminum, dr nodofumvulgar e* 
Kn otted Quich grafle, and double 
bulbed Grafle* 
y. Gramcn bulbofum Adeffanenft. The .Jici/irfw bulbed Grafle. 
Let me adde this plant here,for I know no fitter place to infert it, although it be not anfwerable to the rtft, 
whofedefeription is thus. The roote is very fmall and rcund fomewhat like unto a wilde Saffron roote, and of 
the table of a Chef nut,having oncly two or three long leaves, as fmall as haircs, with fome (hotter on the ft alke 
on che toppe whereof groweth a lmall long and round knoborbulbe, of thebigneffeof an ordinary beane, fome¬ 
what yellow or browneon the outfide.and having three rough circles about it, equally diflantone from another, 
but white within,and of the lubltance ofa Chefnut. 
7 he Place and Time, 
The fird groweth not fo common with us as the creeping rooted Graffe, yet fufficient plentifull in many plow¬ 
ed fie Ides .n°the Land. The fecond neere BaJJllI. The third in Spaine. The fourth neere Aleppo in Sprit. The 
lad both nerc Verona and Italy,mi at Drepannm, and Afeflana in Sicilia, 
The Names, 
The firfi is called gramcr. nodofum aver, acea plumabyTlauhinm, whoatfo doubteth whether it may not be the 
tsErilops Phnij,which hath a kinds of bulbe; otherscallic Gramenbulbofum,tuberofnm,ornodofum : Thefecond 
is mentioned ornly by 5a«W»;«inhis Prodrome miTinax, bythefame title ic hath. The third is the fecond 
C, ..met nodofum bv 7>.;K(;iOTH,and the Coix Afycom in Lugduncnfis, who tooke it to be the Coix of 7 heophrajlusjii. 
5 r.i 5, Ccfalpintts faith it is called by the common people in Italy,PerUre,zn& Oryzafylvefirii. The Iaft is men¬ 
tioned by Iolr.nr.es Baptifli Ccrtefim in CMifcalaneorum medicinal,am decade ejuinta, fal. 206 . where hee faith that 
it is called Bafyliby the Sicilians, that ufually fell it in the Markets, and by fome others there where it groweth, 
Caftnr.calasfitom the fweete tade like Chefnuts.that both roots and heades have in eating, Montagnana alfo, as he 
there faith, mentioneth this roote, and that they of Verona call it Fntro(!um, or Amlinhm. 
The Venues. 
The Rid knobbed Quich-graffe is found by certaine experience not or.ely with us, but in Savoy, Geneva,es c. 
where i: plentifully groweth, and is ufed to be more cffeftuall to provoke urine andtobreake the done, to cafe 
thole torments of the belly, that come by loolenelfe,crudities of humours, and obflruftions, and generally is held 
lately to If.ufcd in any the like caufes that the other is, and with as good fucceffc : The third Myccr.ut faith hee 
could underhand of no jahjlficall ufe it was put unto, but that Hares were much delighted to red by it,and to 
d/gge uparid catethg Vootes: the lad is ufed for food,being windy withall,ihat is not ufed PhyOcally. 
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