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6 Chap. 54 . 
Tbeatrum Botanicum . 
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1. /ji/waf aquation capitulit Equifeti. 
Aolec headed Ruliits. 
z. luneus Equifctl capitulu alter, 
The other Aglet headed Rulli, 
, hencedue capitulii Equifetiflreitetns' Floting Rufhes With Agkttoppes 
This Ml Rulh hath from a fmall threday rootr, commeth forth1 i very fmall (lender bovtag Rulh, which 
divideth it feife into many other fmall Rulhes about two or three inches long.floating upon the waters, where it 
qrowetli. W hereof fame grow upright and others doe bow ot bend downe againe.each of them bearing a fmall 
head iike the former,with a fmall long Rulh growing by it. 
The Place and Time, 
The'eall havebeenc found in our ownc land,as well as beyond Sea, the firft not onely in thepondsand waters 
of a fmall village called Anfiroyel hard by. Ar.twerpc in divers places with us alfo,the other in the brookes and 
ponds, ofboth V^r and England, in fundry places and are to be fecne in the end of Summer when they howrilh. 
The Names. 
The firft is called by Label Inncees acjHetiew fsinor capitals eejui[eti,znd by Lugdttnevtfis Imcus clavattes'Dale, 
champij. The fecond hath his title (ufficient to exprefl'cit.not being deferibed by any other. The laft 'Batehimts fo 
caltech as it is in the title,yet calling it minor ,as he doth the firlf major. 
The Vertues. 
There is no property knownc to what malady any of thefc maybeapplyedbutare held unprofitable as a great 
many others be. 
Chat. XXXIV. 
Imicuseyferoidesprideu. The flowring Cyperus Rulh. 
Here hath formerly bcene knowr.e but one fort of thefe flowring Rulhes, but Bahhimee hath added 
anothet leffer fort. . . „ - 
1 j. Ietnctupridiei major. The greater flowring Ruin* . . 
This greater (lowrinq CvperusRulh (as it is differing from all the other forts of Rufhes, foitex- 
- -cellcth them all in beauty ) hath fundry heads of leaves like unto thofe of Cy petus, riling from a long 
creeping or fpreading roote like the Rulhes, bulhing with many fibres,from whence fprmg round Imooth RuIR 
like (Hikes two or three cubits high.bearing at the top a largefpread tuft or umbell of ‘° 
( yet Trapes detcribeth them to be white) with force threds tipt with yellow in the middle, which tailing away 
bring in their places fmall round blackifh beads,containing fmall feede within them. 
I. 1 renewpridue minor. The leffer flowring Rufh. . . , 
The frnaller Cyperus Rufh hath a whitifh joyrited roote, a fmall ftalke of a hand bredth high, 
long (hirpe. pointed Rulh like leaves, two whereof tile higher then the ftalkc.and at the toppe five 
