or weightiest is in time blowne away with the winde: the roote is white fomewhat thicke knobbed and joyn- 
ted,fpreadingmuch with many long fibres at ir,fweet in take if it be chewrd. 
2. Typha minor. The Idler Reede Mace. 
This differeth in nothing from the former, but in that it attainetlTnot to that height and greatneffe that the 
former doth. 
3. Typha minima. The leak Reede Mate. 
The leak Reede Mace likewilcdiffereth not from the lak,bm;in being lmaller both in leafs and Oalke,which 
are more hard or rough,and in the top which in fome places beareth a fmaller fpike above, the lower being grea¬ 
ter with a lmall dikance betweene them,and a fmall leafe at the bottome of it. 
The Place and Time. 
They doe all grow either in the middle of watery ditches or ponds,or by the banckes and f des of them in many 
places of this kingdome,and flower about Midlommer, the Torch Mace being ripe in Angr.fi. 
The Names, 
It is called in Greeke TcV and in Latine Typha a cylindro turbinataque (pics ejfgie , qnafi typhonis fife eyrantls tur . 
lioem, ant gigantic fiaturamminacemimitatur : ant rtt inquit Ruellius^qnodfeeptra rcmim ch clavas argcnte.is vcl 
aureas 3 qtt£ ante primos magiftratus gefiantur. vulgo a Mace, dillas perpolitas y caiilii lanofa {loccum den(itate % fumma- 
timfaftigiatus emuietur : lome call it (fefirum morionU as Hodonaus laith, and lome Typha aqtiatica or pa/ufiris^ to 
pnt a differencebetwecr.e it and that kind of Typha is put among the Cornes, and therefore called Typha Cercali,: 
Theopbrafius maketh mention of them both as it is thought, and IDioJcorides but,of this one; bur Theophrastus 
faith that his Typhapalufiris is without leaves, which therefore cannot agree hereunto l'liny alio Ipeakcth hereof, 
fib. 1 6 .c, 36. among the forts ofwaterReedes.Ithathno other name given ic by any aiuhor,laving that Anyuilara 
tookc it to be 'Vina and Dodontits calleth it papyriJpecies , and Litgditnenfis pucteth it by the name of lunette ajper 
Dodonx 1: 7 ) odon aits leemeth to take this to be that Scirpus that Ovid i n ft xto p a forum mentioneth in thefe words, 
1>. plaufrofcirpea matt a fait : but not onely I but divers others more learned doe doubt thereof, as alfo that lie re- 
ferreth it to the Phleam of Thespbrafius (but not Ph/eos, for that is a thorny plant, as I have here before (hewed; 
which be numbereth inter palufiria Orchomenij, and Arifiophanei alfo as I recited him in the Chapter of rhe Iweete 
Cyperui bringeth in the Frogs rejoycing that they had fpent the day inter Cjpirr.m <$■ Phlessm, wlmfc flower 
Theopbrafius faith is called Anthelaas Vodoneus faith, but I rather fudge ir ot the fruit; for Tbeopbrafim menti- 
onethboth TyphaznAPhlcum, Thefecond isonely remembred by cfufiut if it be not the fame that Gerard faith 
he faw growing in Sbepey ; the lak is called Typbaminor by Lobel in his Adverfaria, and by luodxnenfs, as alfo 
Typhtilazndmnrim by Clufimin his PoOTowr dp Obfcrvations, She Italians call itcJl lazkaforda, becaufe that 
if the duff of the heads get into the cates of any it will make them deafe ; the Spaniards Schordo and In>r.a- 
rccodacez 
