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6 . Cypirui rotundas inadarus aqmUciu alter, 
Aiioih.r unfavouiy meet round looted v’ peras. 
(hike alio is three fquare,two footehigh and more,at each upper joynt whereof with the leaves come forth long 
dole heads, the whole plant is utterly without fent at all. 
4. Cjpirus rotundiu littoreut inodorm tsfnglicus alter. Another round rooted Englifb Sea Cyptrus. 
This Ocher Englifb fort is very like the laft,both in rootes and leaves, hut differcthfrom it in this, tnat it hath 2C 
the toppes of the ftalkes three or foure blackifh fcaly heads fet together at fevcrall places wich the leaves. 
5. Cypirus rotundas inodortu aquation-, Vnlavoury water round rooted Cyperus. J 
This fort of Cyperus hath fundry blackifh round rootes.fec with many fmall fibres as they fpread in the ground! 
from whence rife fuch like cornered leaves andftalkes, as in the former, a the toppes w. ereof wich the leave# J 
come forh long pannickles. 
6 . Cjpirus rotund** inodorus aquation alter. 
Another Vnfavoury water round rooted Cyperus. 
This Cyperus is very like the laft fort in the rootes,being 
fomewhat long and round, like Olives, and many fibres at 
them, but the leaves are much longer, and the ftalkes farre 
higher,the rough hcades Iikewile or pannicklcs arc fiiorter 
and more eminent, wich (ome long leaves amongft them. 
The Place and Time. 
The firft is often found with us in the borders of fields 
and in woods: the fecond in Germany, «the third and fourth 
in’our Sea coafts, in divers places both of S bepey, and Thanet 
in Kent ,and in other places, the fifehon thebanckesand in 
the ditches of the river Scheld by Anttvcrpc, and the laft plen¬ 
tifully in the low marfhes beyond Ratcliffe^nd arc in feede 
in the end of Atsguft. 
The Names. 
The firft is called by Lobel Cyperus longus inodorw fylve - 
ftriSj and by Bauhinus Cyperus lor.gtn inedoTM Cjermanicw ; 
The fecond he callerh as it is in the title. The third Lobel 
cal lech Cyperus rotundas inodorus littorews. Cafa/pinus Pfen» 
dr.cyperu *, faying the Florentines call it Noa/o, and Bauhinus 
Cypcr m rotundas inodorus ^Anglicw as I doc, but that I adde 
Uttorew thereunto, and terme both it and all the reft Cypirus 
far the rcafons fhc wed before in the firft Chills. The fourth 
is zjpecies of the laft, chiefly differing in the toppe heads, 
which Bauhinus czV.eth Cyperus rotundvs inodorus Cjermani - 
cus^ and faith that bccaufe the figuseof Lobels aquations 
Septentriona/ium, which is my fifth was faife,hc let out this 
as the right,but thisdiffercthboth in roote and heads from 
it, and agreeing better with the former, which is my third 
for Lobel faith his aquaticus Septcntrionalium,h2Xh long pan- 
nickles which this hath not. The fifth is termed aslfaidby 
Lobel, Cyperus aquaticus Septentrionalium , by Cameraritts 
Cyperus rotundas nigras inodoreu radices habeas a different loitallo from the next>elpecially in the heads, the 
laft hath not beene publilhcd by any before. 
The Vertrses . 
All thefe forts of unfavoury Cyperus, doe declare that they are as defc&ive in heate and drynefft, as in fent 
from the fweete kindcs,and therefore f6r any thing I can learne are notulcd for any parpole in Phyficke. 
Chap. XXXVI. 
Gramina Cyperoidca, Cyperus like Grades. 
[Here are fo many forts of tWe Cyperus like Grades that I know not well how to divide them, and 
therefore muft fet them all together in one Chapter, and fpeake as brief! v of them as I can. 
1. Gramen Cyperoides majus latifolium . The greater fort of Cyperus Grade. 
This greater Cyperus Grade hath fundry large and long leaves like unto thole of Reedes, (Lobel 
faith like unco thole of Gillofiowers)among which rife up divers three fquare ftalkes, bearing three 
or foure clofe fpiked brownilh heads thereon one above another: the roote isbrownifla and foulding ft lelfc one 
within another with many fibres at them. Of this fore there is another, called by Bauhinus , Gramen Cyperoides l a - dltctum . 
ttfoliumfpicafpadicea viridi majus } whofe rootesare more bulhy and fibrous,and the fpiked heads more greene, ha¬ 
ving a long narrow leafe under the loweft head. 
2. gramen Cyperoides majus anguftifolium. A great fort of Cyperus Grade, with narow leaves. 
This other differeth little from the laft,but in growing lower, with narrower leaves and fpiked heads, that are 
thinner and longer, but of the fame brownifh greene colour with it. 
a. Gramen Cyperoides minus anguftifolium. The Ielfer narrow leafed Cyperws grade. 
This Idler fort hath narrower leaves and three fquare ftalkes, bearing fmaller and more fpiked long heads, at 
the toppes, three ufually fet together one a little from the other more ftiffc alfo and upright, the roote hach long 
(hinges and fibrestherear,lliooting foith like Cyperus. 'v 
4. Pfettdccypirwfpica brevi penaula, Baftard Cyperus withdhort-pendttlous heads. 
This Baftard Cyperus groweth fomewhat like unto the true long Cypep u%haying large and iong gralfic leaves 
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