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The Theater of 'Plants, 
flowring after another, after which come ttoo fmall round heads 
t0 ^ ether 011 eacl1 ^ ootcllal ^ e > 0 f the btgneffe of the Candy bittar 
The Place miTime, 
The firft groweth in watery ditches,paolesand plalhes, in tnoft 
parts of this Kingdoms; The other hath beer» obferved in Sseif. 
ferlanfm fundry placea.and are flpwrifhing all the Summer long, 
ripening the feede in the meane time. 
The Names', 
Although this hath no Greeke name, yetit hath founddivers 
Latine names, being called by Tragus Calamogroftis [icunda, by 
<JM*tthiolu,,Lu<rdunenfis,Camerarius ,and others. Internfior’idus 
by -Label, luncus Cyperdde 1 floridus patadofus,by Cordus, Gladiolus 
palttJl'U, by TIodenausgladiolus aquaticus, who (indent it erro- 
nious in them that call it luncus fioribus, but is in as great an error 
himfelfe to follow Cerdas, that calleth ic Gladiolus from the falfe 
tranflatjonof Gaza, malting Thecphraflus his Cyprrus to beGla- 
d‘oius,zs PUy{ it may bcjmdlcd him before, whereunto it hath no 
correlpondence.faving a little in the leaves, hec alfo tiketh it to 
be Sparoanium T)iofeoridis ,wherunto it agreeth as little.fome alio 
call it BatomosTheophrafti, and Lonkcrus Carex alteram. The 
Italians call it Giunco fioride. The Dutch Waiter Ufcl, mi Gerard 
Water Gladioli, following Cerdas, who confoundethrWW. 
Has his Cyperit, with THofcoridi, his Gladiolus. 
The Vertues, 
Matthielas faith.it is thought to worke the like effefts that the 
other forts of Rufhes doe, but according to Cerdas his mi- 
liaking ic to be Gladiolus, he faith it is good to helpe the paines of 
women in their delivery of chiding, being boyled in wine and 
drunke. 
Cmap 35. U97 
i , loncm floridus. The flowring Rulh. 
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Chap. XXXV. 
Spartum herbajive luncus. Matt weed or Mat Rufhes: 
«uktbe other for rrnT/^^fT 6 & u*" growing rather in dry then moilt places, yetbe- 
caufe the other forts of Graffes that ferve with us for the fame pnrpofcs, to make Mats and other 
fame nmc g T° W a “n M ° or l 5 1 S rou , nds > nearc the Sea fide, and are called by the 
iame namc ot spartum,l mud rather then divide it place it with the other. • 1 
- ^ *■ Spartum PlinijfiveluucmHifrauicitt. Sptnijb Rulhes. 
lazSpanJb Ruin rifethup with a number of round Rufliesacubit long, each whereof is parted * 
httle above the ground, into three or fours mow flender long, rough and greene Rufhes, fomewhat broader at 
the firft, being whittih m the middle, which foone after have both their edges fo drawee together,that it rnakcrh 
them feeme round fo.that the partition is hardly difeerned, and then grow harder, and whitilh, when theyare 
dry, (as we fee them in frailes.aud m the round mats wherewith thefloores of chambers are matted, ss they are 
wronght there and brought over to us; from among which rife up fundry (hikes, fomewhat higher thenthe 
eaves bearing at the toppe a fmall long bead of many (harpe pointed huskes, after which come fmall long icede 
hkeuntofome of theotner Graffes: toe rootesfpread in the ground into many tufts, matting therein that in 
iomc places they cake up two foote fquare or more. 1 b 
2 > Spartum TUmjalteram molliut. The foftcr Spanijh Rulh 
■ This other Rulh groweth m the very fame manner and order,that the former doth, and differeth from 
K onely in thefe particulars,the Rufoesare morefine aud flender, fofter alfo and bearing a (horrer rule at the tom 
breaking out of a skinny huske or hole: the rootes hereofdoc mat like the other,and grow in moifler places 
3. S partummartuummflrae. Our Matweed or Marram. 
This Matweed hath divers long hard, and very (harpe pointed Rufhes, piercing their lee^es that are not boo 
ted going among them, the (hikes have fofc fpiked long heads, Uke unto the cares of Rye, and bloom.n" like it’ 
alfo, the rootes creepe in the ground,and fatten themfelves ftrongly therein. ' - a 
. , 4 - Spartum mannnm no fir as alteram. The other of our Sea Matwcedes 
ThisotherMatwecdeism the growing like the former, but that the rufhes are broader and fhorter, and the 
heads or fpikes alfo: the rootes hkewife creepe and are ftrongly fattened into the ground " 
T , - .... par-cam Bauvkumci-Anglicum. Small Matwecdc.' ' 
The Small Matweed hath (hotter fmaHer and harder rufhes, the Italkes are a cubit high.havin" fmal' thin lonn 
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