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Show 1192 Cuar.31. Tbeatrum Botanicum. Trise iy, 6; Inncus eccignns montanus mucrone carens, Small {moothpointed Rufhes. The roote hereof is {mall blacke and threddy, {hooting forth afmooth roundftalke foure or five inches high Pix ves 13 The Eheater ofPlants, 1. Juncus, aeuolslarylgariny * CommonPhapd'Ruflies: Cuar.312... 1gncus.ashtus Cambrobyitanicms, Well hasd ot Sharpe Ruthesy bearing at the toppe, a brownifh red foure fquare head, having a {mallhard long thred above it, it hath alfo three {mall long leaves at the foote of the ftalke of aninchlong, like unto Rufhes. : 7. Inncellus five Chamefchenos, Smell or Dwarfe Ruthes, having Dwarfe Ruthes grow not above an inch or two high, althoughtheynaturally grow by ponds fides, three or foure Rathes fomewhat great and thicke for their.proportion rifing from a fibrous rooté, this hath not ris beene obferved to bring.any heads for feede, and therefore is called inutil. Like hereuntois that {mall Ruth : mentioned inthe Adverfaria by thename of Iescells but that itgroweth fomewhat higher, and beareth round tufts on the Rufhes. : The Prace and Time. Many of thefe Rufhes growin wateryplafhes and ‘grounds, and thefirft ufually inthe deeperwaters;the three laft erow in. dryer places: and flourith chicfly untill the end of Auguf ot September yet abide greene all the yeare.- The Names, Syt:@ in Greeke (0 called a Joris c furibus for fo in former times it wasufed, is Juncus a jungendo in Latine; fromthe fame_eff.& of binding things together: the firlt istaken by Cordws and Banhinus to bee the Adarifcus plixy furthered by Gazahistranflation of Theophraftms,fetting downe AMarifens alwayes for his Holo/chenos ag being the steatelt, which is as Pliny faith ad texandastegetes aptum : yet as Lugdsnenfis faith, fome take the Iuncys foridis or Gladiolus paluftris to be it,ecing itas well as thisis fitto be brought into fundry workes:Bambinus alfo and others take it tobe Scirpus : yet it is thought that the ancients tooke them to be different plants. Terence in i@bringethin Donatus to fay funci fpecies eff [cirpus levis et enodts; and fuchanone is this Ruth without of ein, whereupon camé the proverbe, Nodum ix /cirpo querere, to {eekea knotinarnth, fpoken ypulous anddoubtfull, whereof no fcruple or doubt neede to bee made : fome thinke that rhe texr is corrupt and thar in ftead of =x0#”@ 2212, Tuncus levis it fhould be yiv@-erate Tpncus paluftrie,and comparing Paslys -Egineta therewith, whohath ‘22 and fo hath Hermolaus Barbarws alfo obleryed it, rand Dadoneus call it Tancus grandis Holofchenos, and Lugdanenfis Holofchenos TLheophrafti,Tragus and others us paluftris major, and Lobeland others lamcus aquaticus levis maximus + the fecond Bauhinys calleth IunScirpus medins,and faith itis the fame that Tabermontanus calleth lancus /glvaticus : the third isthe [vnaris alter of Tragus, Iuncas levis & vulgaris of Cordus, Dodoneus and Lobel, and Oxyfchenos by AnguilaFtand Lugdunenfs : the fourth Lobel calleth glomerato flore and Iuncas fimply by A4etthiolus and others, and Iuncus levisby Lagdunenfis ; the fitcis Baxbinus his title and fo are the two laft : the Arabians call it Dis, the Italians Ginnco,the Spaniards Inco, the French Ionc,the Germanes Bintzen,the Dutch Biefen,and we Ruthes. The Vertues. The feede of Ruthes of this foft kind efpecially faich Galen and Diofcorides,cofted faith Pliny being drunke in wise and watér,doth {taythe flax of the belly or Laske and womens Courfes, whenthey come downe two abundantly: it provokethalio Vrine;, bur it cauféth headach : it proveketh fleepe likewife; but it muft be given with caution,leaft it bring a dead fleepe withit: the bottome or tenderleaves or part ofthe Rufhes next tothe roote ; the roote faith P/iny boiled being applyed to the bitings of the Phalangium or poyfonous Spider healeth them in water tothe thirds helpeth the cough.’ Péizy maketh mentionofan Olcam \uncinum madeofIancns as {weete as that of Rofes, but {ure it was not made of any oftthc(e forts of Rufhes but of the Twucus odorasns, {weete {melit is compounded ofanearthly ling Ruth.Gales fheweth excellently the property of the (eedes of Rufhes, that eflence iomewhat cold,and a watery fomewhathor: fo that by drying the lower parts it doth leafurcly fendup vapoutsto the head,wherebyfleepe is procured, Cuar.e XXXI. Tuncus afper five Acutus, Hard or Sharpe Ruthes. E this kinde of Rafhesthere ate alfo divers forts, fome great, and fomefmall, fome bearing teede others barrenor bearing mone. y 1. Inncus atutes vulgaris, Common hatd Rufhes, in the fame Our common Rafhesthat erve to ftrew the roomes and chambers in houfes, groweth from mannerthat the former fortdoth,, but that fometimes the ftalkes as ic were give Ruthes out of another, and not all from the roote feperately as others, and are alfo hard and {harper pointed, withlittle or the as coppes the no pith within them,the tufts are {mall,hard,fpread abroad and fhort, that breake out towards other forts doc. hes, 2. Oxylchenos five Iuncus acutus Alpinn. Cambro britanicus. welfbhard or fharpeRuf y andfharpe pointed, The Rufhes of this fort are many about halfe a foote long or more, fomewhat great hard from aniong which rife up naked Ruthesorftalkes halfe a yard high, and from betweene two Borg eaves br a the colour: king forth 2 {parfed pannicldle,of fundry {mall chaffie huskes like unto Reed graffe, of a brownith roote is a buth of brownith hard fibres. 3. Oxy[ehenos fide Tancus acutus minor. Small hard Rufhes. é A. This fmall Rufh groweth very like unto'thefirft, but withfiner{maller, and as hard Ruthes as the other, the : taft or panicklealfois verylike jt,but cloferand not fo muchfpreadopenasks 4. Luncus maritinus capitula Sorghi. Sea hard Rufbes with blackifh round headsof feede. hat bel long floperoote which This hard Sea Ruth hath fundry skinny browneheads, fet next about the hard from cen ny{mall fibres under it,out of which rife rhickeround hard, long and very fharpe pointed Rufhes, at the toppes from berweene two fhort leaves which rife other Rufhy(talkes threé cubirs high fometimes,bearing : ; 2s : ; one and fometime pointed, fometimes anumber of blackifh round heades'a little : nn but : ing clole twoor three> a oyn We aii AM N NY 3.7 Ox: fchenos Tineus (eu acutizg mindy,ch Tangns deutua Wiavisiaus Anglicus. Small hard Ruthes and Engli/h Sea hard Rushes: F: 4. Tumis maritivans capitalis Sorghi: ~ Sea hardRuythes with blackith round heads of feedea |