R I BE 15, 
The Theater of ‘Plants. 
Char. 2 6. 1183 
6 . CalamogwJlitmmtaHaeHiidisfiV'ScirpHipnmvTrxgi. The greater Mountaine Reede grade. 
This greater mountaine Reede grade groweth up with rtrong (hikes, as high as a man, without any j'oynts on 
them,or but one at the mod, having thereat loft, and not hard long leaves: at the toppes whereof are many lonp 
(lender chaffie (pikes, let more fpar ledly then the others, each whereof is of a bright reddifh yellow colour, and 
Handing upright. Another fort hereof is much lower and fmaller,thc lpikes being fmaller and (horter, and not 
lb upright, ot a darke red colour: the rootc is fomewhat hard,but with divers fibres thereat. 
The Place and Time, 
The firft fort, both the greater and the letter grow in moift Medowes that are Tandy, rather barren then fertile. 
The fecond and third are expretted in their titles. The fourth in the borders of dry fields, and by the hedge (ides 
in many Countries of this Kingdome, efpecially in Dorjetjhire, The fifth alfo in the like places. The laft groweth 
in the snoift Woods that are on hills and mountaines s they flouri/h in the Summer time, and their ftalkes perifh 
before W infer. 
The Thames. 
The Grcekes call it ^^^'yfan^CalamogrofilszlCo and Gramen Arttndinacettm in Latine, Label calleth the firft 
Calamogrofin forte BabyhnicHm 3 7 i\d Bauhtntu Gramen arnndinaceum jpica mnltiplici. The fecond is not remem* 
bred by any, before Lohel noted it in Norwaj, when he went into thole parts with the Lord Zanche Ambattadour. 
The third alfo is to be knowne by the title. The fourth is called by Lobel 3 Gramentome»tojpim CalamoorofHs quo - 
rnndarn,&vttlgi Gramen plttmofum^x^nz in his ‘Dutch Booke,and it may be is that Gramen arundinaceum phlma- 
fumalbum ,thac Batthinw deferibeth for the 44* in his Frodromw. or very like it. The fifth alfo is not remcinbred 
by any Authour before. The fixth of both forts is called by Tragus, S cirpi primum & alterurngenus } andis thought 
to be ihe I uncut Ljchnanthemos of Thaliuj i and by Banhinw , Gramen arnndinacenm enode montmum] 
The Vert he s. 
There is none of thcfe Graffcslerviceablc for any Pttyficall u(e that we knouf, neither doe any Cattle feede 
thereon,by reafon of their hard and ftiarpc cutting leaves excepc the fixe,and that but feldome neither: the llalkes 
of Tome of them arc platted into mats,for Country women to lay and dry their new pretted cheefes on. and for o- 
the like ufes. 
Almutx. 
Mr 
Chap. XXVI. 
Gramen NemorofumgUbrum. Smooth Wood Gratte. ( 
Here are two kindcs of Wood grattes, the one with fmooth leaves, wheffe forts fhall be entreated 
of in this Chapter,and the other with rough or hairy leaves,in the Chapter following. 
I. Gramen nemorofum capitlaceumpanicula alba. White tufteii Wood grafie* 
■ Tnisfmall gfatte groweth thicke and clofc together in a tuft having a number of gr^ene leaves ri- 
fing hum the roote, being as fmall as haires,and of a f oote long, the Italkcs rife up among them a cm 
, Gramen nemurofum majuijpita rnfefcente. 
The greater brewne Wood grade/ 
