The Vertues. 
There is nothing of any propertie in them fit for medicine or any other uic, the Cattle alfb rcfuling themby 
rcalon of their hairincfl'e. 
) Lthough fome of thefe grades grow fometiines in tnoorifli grounds yet chey are as often found in the 
* modt corners and low places of medowes alfo, 
i and therefore may more fitly be inlerted into this 
Clalfis then rhe next. 
Gramen aculeatrim Italicttm, 
Afatthiolne his prickly headed grade. 
_ This (mail grade hath leaves and (hikes fjmewhac like the 
fmall ordinary grades but that at the j'oynts with the leaves 
come forth fmall prickly heads, foulded in huskes, and ending 
in three points wherein lye fmall long poinced (cede, 
a Gramen aculeatum Germanicum, 
The prickly headed Graft of Germany. 
Trom a white threddy roote rife up divers graflic leaves, and 
among them (undry flender (hikes leaning this wav and that, 
whe.eon are fetfhort fpiked heads very rough and fharpe, 
made of many huskes wherein lye white Cede. 
3. Oxagrofiia pnmi/a Hi(p*nica. 
Sfanijb fharpe pointed Grade. 
This fmall Spamjh grade groweth not above halfe a footc, 
andfometimes but three or foure inches high riling from the 
roote, with two or three (hikes branching forth into fundry 
fprigs, and fomewhat long, narrow and fharpe pointed hard 
leaves fet one againd another, and at the toppes of the" (hikes 
fmall fpiked heads of halfe an inch or more in length,fafhioncd 
fomewhat like the heads of Holafleum Matthioli ; the roote is 
white,long, joynted and creeping in che ground. 
3. Oxpfrrofti, pumila nijeniej. 
Spanijb lharpe pointed Grade. 
6. Grama Tri&bcfriu. 
Anoys headed Grade. 
t- Echinato capite '. 
Round prickly headed Grade, 
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