i *o6 Chap. 38. 
Theatrum ’Botanicttm. 
Tri.b* 13 . 
z.Spargantum non ramo{um» 
Vnbranchcd Burre f\ccde. 
4 . sparganinm majwfintrairofumVnghsiaawa, 
The great branched Burre Reede of Virginia, 
ftringesor fibres, on thetoppe whereof flandcth a (mail round head, and another lefle then it thereupon', of the 
fame forme and colour of the former,having foureor live long narrow leaves (landing on each fide ofthe Dalelie, 
and riling higher then the ftalke it Iclfe. 
4. Sparganinm majm five rtimo[umVirgimanum. The great branched Burre reede of Virginia'. 
This Itinde of Burre rcede hath onely two or three very long and fomewhat broad, pale grecne leaves rifihg 
from the roote.and in the Luidft of them a ftrong round ftalke, without any leaves thereon, but branching forth 
neare the toppe into many round fomewhat prickly Burres, ofthe bigneffeof aWallnur, without any (hew of 
flowers appearing thereon.The roote is fomewhat knobby at the head,witb divers firings thereat. 
The r placc and Time, 
Th.cfe Burre Reedts grow in watery ditches,ponds,and rivers ufually.or by the Tides of them in fundry parra 
of this Land, except tire two la(l,the one whereof in Germany the other in Virginia, brought by Mr. Tradefcant the 
younger,they llourifh with the Reede mace or thereabouts. 
The Karnes. 
It is called in Gee.tke-Zmtsdmvd-nlwiimfyivsiv quodfolijs ejui latk &vitilinmmoio Untie, pro fa/cifi tmtricet 
ataotur : in Laiine alfo Sparganinm, and Xifhidion alfo as Diofiorides faith in his time. The firft is called Spare a. 
tn«m generally by molt Authors, yet Anguilara , RneUim, and Dedomus take it to be BMemos Theophrafii, Dodo- 
vein alfo and ThaUut call it Vlatanana , becaufe the burres of it as I faid are like thofe of the Plane tree. Zenieerm 
taketh it to be Carcx, L agdunenfi, maketh it tobe Phleosfamina of Theephraftns. butaslbave formerly fhewed. 
there is great di Terence betweene his Ph/ees and Phleum , this I aft being a moorifh plant, and the other a thorny a 
The fecond is called Sparganinm alteram by Label, Lagduncnfis and others, and Platanaria alteraby Dodenavr; 
who findeth fault with that which Matthiolur fet forth for Sparganium,ind faith this without branches doth bet¬ 
ter agree to©; ofiorides his defcription, havingburres at the toppe ofthe ftalke. The third ’Banhinm onely ma- 
ketn mention of, and chtlau by no other before* J 
The Vertuet . 
g 1 mfi7hrpoy(onofSerpentT”' W,M “ ° f * dry ' nS f,culty > lniDl<: f c ‘ rU ' s , that the tpote taken in v/ml is good a; 
