1200 Chap .36. 
Tbeatnm Botanicum. 
Tribe 13. 
Label calleth Spurtumno fritnUcru^ni Buuhmut, Grum'n wTtb'uf.lwdUswith 
turn noflr.u parvum of Label and I hive added Anglicxm to it in the title,being to be found With us« well as with 
them B.Jlnmts calleth it Gramm Spurtcum Lmcfolmm. The fixth is the Cjrum'n Spart'um Mon/pelrmfeolBau. 
,h-Z but it being Tent to Doftor Lkl from thence was named as it is in the title which « not much diffeting. 
The fev nth was found in our owne Land, and for the fmallneffe called mi^.The two laft are »Uedbyaff«>- 
hLs, Grimm Spur, cum, with the reft of their titles as I here fet them. The !«!«»/. and Sp^ards, call 11 Sf-rre 
and the fecond fort Atiurdi, The Dutch Helm. And we inB#. Hj- 1 ™. ’"rJJ?*’ iw^de.but the people 
aion" the Coafts of Norfolk? and Si»f«M?,call it Marram,and may be called Sea Rufhes as well. 
a The Vermes. 
We know of no ufe theft have in Phyficke: but are employedwholly by the S*«*r 4 ,in all the placesWhere 
it nroweth (I meane the Spanifh kinde) not onely for Mats, imall and great, for Chambers, trades, and baskets 
owed with the fame ftufle together,or for Bootes.Shooes.Coates Ropes or Corde,and many other fuch like nfes: 
but the fecond in being lof te,', and not fit for fuch purpofes, are ufed to fill fackes to ferve them forUds as we 
doe with draw to lye upon, our Sea kindes are ufed by d.verfe, both with us and in the Low Countries for Mats, 
Haffockes,anddiverfe other fuch like meane workesvery fervtceatne. 
Chap. XXXVI. 
Ecju'tfcum. Hori'etaile or rough joynted Rufhes. 
H S a Complement to finifh this hiftory of Rufhes, let me joyne this unto them, for fo I thmke they 
may very well be.both for their forme, although differing m roughndft, joyms, and poflureof 
leaves,as place of growing, wherof there are many forts,both of the moorifb and Vplandgrounds, 
as fhall be (hewed. „ , w „ T t r .-i • 
1. Eauifetttm mayis paluftre. The greater Marlh Horletaile. 
The greater Horfetaile that groweth in wet grounds, atthefirft fpnnging hath heads fome- 
what like to thoft of Afparagus.and after grow to be hard rough,hollow ftalkes, joynted at fundry places up to 
fte tonpe,. foote high, To made as ifthe lower part were put into theupper,whereat grow on each fide a bufh of 
final?long Ru(h like hard lcavcs.each part telcmbling a Horfetaile, whereof it came to befo called, at the toppe. 
of the ftalkes come form fmall catkins like unto thofe of trees: the rootecreepeth under ground having joynu at 
j Equifetum palujlrc Linar ie fcoparin folio. Broad leafed Horfetaile. , , , 
The rootc of this Horfetaile creepcth.and is joynted like the former, thcftalkeslikcwiicareacubithigh, hoi- 
I. Equifctam m.ijuip.ilufire. 
The greater Marfli Horfetaile. 
3 ,4. Ecjinfiturnfalu/lrt taifiui & almum brciioribtu folijr. 
Small Marfti Horfetaile, and Barren Horfefaile. 
