Tk i b e i^, 
in the ladies, butby reafon ofthe greater hcite they grow 
both caller and greater, lo that they ferve in Head dum¬ 
ber both to build their houtes and to cover chcnr- 
4 . Hantudo Inciicaverficolor, 
The llript or party coloured Reede. 
This Rcedeisin the growing like unto the lad,growing 
in its natural! place as great and as high, although it be not 
iowith us, thechiefeft difference herein confilleth in the 
arge long leaves which are pared with white green like 
the Ladies Laces or painted grade but with larger firipes 
There is an.othcr Lort hereot growing in "Bengal* which 
is (mailer and more puable and apt co bend, wheieofthey 
make Baskets and in my other fuch pretty things. 
5. rltl r undo Saccbarifera. The Sugar Cane or Reede. 
The Sugar Cane or Reede groweth(naturally both in the 
Tad and Wed Wie/but planted in fundry warmecoun- 
tries)to bee Leaven or eight foore hi:h, whofe Canes are 
bigger then onesihumbe, full of a fwcetc pith,thicke fee 
with j'oynts and very long bur narrow leaves at them, with 
divers great ribbes in them, the tuft or pannickle at the top 
is like unto the other but fhorter: the roote is not fo hard 
or wooddy but fpreadeth knobbed j'oynts and heads at them 
whereby it may be encreafed, and is almod as fweete as the 
Canes; In the naturall placet this yeeldeth forth of it (elfe 
oftentimes or elfe being cut a certaine white juice or liquor 
which being dryed and hardned in the Sunne was called 
by the ancient writers ,W Indnm and Saccbarum Indnm , 
which was ufed before Sugar was made out of the Canes by 
boyling. 1 
6 . Harnnde ramofaJ,ve Splgeios Lagctnnen^s. 
Low branched Reede. 
The branched Reede hath the lower part of the dalke 
with ill ore j'oynts onely without any branches, covered 
with a ycllowidi barke, but upwards it fhooteth forih 
branches on all Tides, and they againe other leffer bran¬ 
ches up to the toppe almoft at every joynt, and all of them 
3. H.irundoT)onax. The Spanijh Reede. 
TheT heater of 1 Plants . C h a f „ 40, 
1. Harundo ValLtoria pvevulgaTU. Our common RcctJc. 
HttTundo ludka Ltcenica verfisolor. 
