6 . Gramen 'Datlylon rrprnr. 
Creeping Cockes foote Grade. 
This fmall grade fendeth forth (fom a fparfed threddy 
i oote many long (lender and weake branches,trayling or 
creeping upon the ground,and (hooting forth roots at the 
joynrs, the leaves that grow at the joynts are fmall and 
graflic long and narrow, and at the toppesofthe (lalkes 
which rife not much above a fpanne high, foure or five 
fmall (lender blackiftr (pikes within the huskes whereof 
lyethcfecdc. 
7. Cjramcn T> ally Ion Egyptiacum. 
Egyptian Cockes foote Grade. 
The roote of this Egyptian Grade doth fomewhat 
creepe under ground like unto Quich grade, but much 
led'e, the leaves arc very fmall, fetupon fmafi ftalkes of 
an hand breadth long,having foure (mall long panicles let 
at their tops and no more, oppofite one to another like a 
erode,with lmall feede in them. 
This is Alpinw his figure and defeription, but Joanne 1 
Vcjlingm Mirtdantu a Chirurgion having lived long in 
£jr7/tf,hathfetoutfome notes upon Alpir'ut his Egyptian 
plants, and among others giveth us a little differing fi¬ 
gure, withthetoppe panniclesdiftributed into five or fix 
parts refcmbling a ftarre.and therefore calleth it ficUatnm, 
one of the toppes whereof I have thought good to /oyne 
unto the other,that the difference betweene them may be 
difeemed. 
8. Gramen ‘Vattylon Af'icantem. 
C ockcs foote Grade of Africa. 
This grade of Africa is in mod things like unto the laft, 
but growing a little higher, the leaves are as fmall, and thefpikes or panicles fomewhatlongerandbi^gcr more 
endented or fet as it were with graines: thereof creepcth about as the lad and abideth extremitie of our winters. 
The Place and Time. 
The two firft arc ufually found naturall in divers places of Italy ,and Nor fane in France, as alfo in divers places 
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