Ch A P.40 
Theairum Botariieum . Tribe 13. 
7 “Ac f/ace and Time. 
The places of both tbefc Reedesareexpreffed in their titles, the former properly in Egipt, and Syria, as Then, 
phrafhu i'aith,and in Euphrates alfo,neer e Babylon as Pliny faith. The other groweth in Sicilia, and as it is thought 
in Italy,2nd other places,being in growth much Idle then the former, and flourilh in the end of Summer. 
The Names. • 
It is called in Grecke rm- ni{&,and in Latine Papyrus alfo,the ffalk was called whereof were made £!£*/«, 
which the Latines call Chart* or Wn,becaufc the tranflatorsfet/<£«-, or cortex for not knowing othet- 
wife the property of the word.but as Pliny fheweth, there was no Charta leaves of Paper madcofthebarke, 
but of the inner toulds, which they divided into thinr.c flakes,whereintoitnaturally parteth, then laying them 
on a Table, and moiliening them with the glutinous water ol the river,they preft them, and after dryed them 
intheSunne, and according to the Iargeneile thereof was the greater prife, but becaufe the later times of thac 
old age,grew fo copious in writing and tranfcribing Bookes, that they could not at any price, get Sufficient for 
their nlc. Attaitss as it is thought lirftat Pergamus,\ave nted the skinr.ts of beads to be drefled anddryed.fittoierve 
that pnrpofe, which ever fincc have beene called Per game**, fheetes or Bookes of Parchment, for it is laid that 
Attala* furnifhedhis Library at P ergsmus with 200000. volumes, written on this Parchment. This by Eufla- 
chitts & GuiS.ir.diKM de Papyro is called Papyrus nEgyptiafive r Biblws ssEgyptia.'fhe fecond is called by Euftachius, 
Tiblm jectinda, by Guilandinus Papyri alteraJpeeies, qua Paper us m Sicilia vocatitr, by Label Papyrus Nilotic*, and 
by Bauhir.us Papyrus Syriac*,and Sicilian*, and is likely to be that Papyrus that Alpinus faith, groweth nowin 
Eg ip. t,and called Berdor Bardiby the Egiptians, andas I Laid before,is moftlikely tobethe Sari of 7 heophrajlus 
which fome doe thereupon call Pjcudo papyrus. 
TheVertues . 
The rootes of the ancient Papyrus was much ufed to be eaten, as is before laid, either raw, boyled, or roafled 
by tbe people of Egipt in former times fucking the juice, and fpitting out the reft as Theephrafius, Dmfcorides ,and 
Pliny doe Ihew, it was ul'ed as ‘Diofcoridcs faith, to open theclofed mouthes of Fiftulaes being put into them, the 
manner whereof is to take the dryed ftalkes of Paper, and to lay them in foakc, which being bound about clofe 
with a thred.is to be dryed againe,and then being unbound is tobe put into thofe VIcers, whole mouthes are too 
fuddenlyc’.ofed, thereby not ealily to be cleanfed and healed, which this being put thereinto, by the heate and 
moifture of the Vlcer, iscauledto fwellto thatbigneffe it had when itwasgreene, or foaked, making a fairer 
way for thecure,in which manneralfo Guilandinus tn Papyro, faith that the Chirurgions in Italy a led the pith in 
theftalkes of the UHilium Indicum,\ndhn Millet. The burnt aflr.es thereof weicufed to flay running VIcers, in 
any place of the body,but efpccially thofe in the mouth. Buttheafhes of the writing Paper it felfe, thatwas 
made of the ftalkes performed it better: but whereas now adayes many by miftaking the ancient word Chart*, 
doeufetheafhesof our Paper,which is made of linnen cloutes,for lhe fame purpofes aforefaid, they erre gredfe- 
ly, and befides doe no good ac all therewith, but in the Head thereo 1 divers learned men doe advife to take the 
dryed ftalke of 7 )y> 6 .«,to performs the fameeffeff. 7 'fe<’/>f’ru/>»declareththat they formerly ufed to burnethe 
rootes hereof inftead of fewell, asalfoapplyedthemto make many forts of utenfils,or houlhoid vcflcls, for they 
yeelded much wood and very good, for as he faith, they made Ships thereof, and of the Biblos (which I fhew- 
ed, the Tranflators not knowing the true meaning of the word,did turneit into Oruw,thebarcke)theftalke they 
made fades,and covcrlctsa kinde of garment alfo,mats, and ropes. Alpinus faith that the Eg.ti saris uie the s rises 
of the burnt ftalkes of this their fort, in the fame manncr,and to the fame purpofes that the formed was ufed to be 
put unto. And befides, faiih that the diddled water of theftalkes is very profitably ufed tc take away the pin and 
web,and other mills and darkneffe happening to the eyes. 
Chap, XL. 
Hartsndo, The Reedr. 
r-raF Rcedcs there are two principal! kindes.theone fweete, called Calamus arcmaticus,or edo-mtu* ,whete- 
fejppiviJ of I have fpoken in the end of thefirftCIaflisof this Booke : the other not fweete, whereof there 
h l are many forts, Diofcoridcs numbreth up livc.Naftos five farbla, Thely five Etrims, Syringingfivefiftu- 
laris.DonaxJive fypria, and Pbragmiter five Vallatoria. Theophrajhn hath many more,and Pliny num¬ 
breth up five and twenty : molt of which being knowne onely to us by the dry Canes, 1 fliall give you the figures 
of fome here,and fpcake of thofe that are proper to thefe neercr climates in this Chapter. 
i. MarundoVa/latoria five vulgaris. Cur Common Reede. 
Our Common Reede fliooteth forth with many great round hollow ftalkes, full of joynts, fome what clofely 
fet one unto another, toagveat height in fome places more then in others, with long ar.dlomewhat broad hard 
greene leaves at each ofthem.fliarpe on both edges and fomewhat comparing the ftalke, at the bottomes bearing 
a long and broad fpread foftbrownifla pannicklcat the toppe, whofechaffieor downy feede, flyeth away with 
thewinde: the rooteis white, hard, round, long, and with divers knobbed j'oynts the rein, running aflope, but 
not decpe,and fhootingup ftalkes from divers of the joynts: the whole ftalke dyeth and periflieth every y tare, 
yetis ulually cut dotvne before Winter, when as it is growne white to ferve for many pnrpoles. 
a. Harundo Are lie a multifida. F inger Reede. 
This rare Reede is like the former, in the manner and greatndle of growing, differing onely in the leaves, 
which are each ofthemhalfe a yard long, and two or chree inches broad, with fundry great ribbes or vcines run¬ 
ning along them, and parted at the ends into three or foure parts, fome what like unto the Finger Harts- 
tongue. 
3. Harundo'Dcnax. The Spaxifb Reede or Cane. 
k The Spanifb Reede differeth not in the manner ofgrowing from the former, but in the greatneffe, the canes or 
jfalkes being harder,thicker and rifing unto two mens height fometimes, whofe j'oynts ate more feperate in iun- 
dcr,with larger leaves at them,and a larger pannickle at the toppe. Very like here unto arc the Reedes that grow 
