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Show Theatrnm Botanicam. Cuar.38, -- 2,Spargantum won ramo/ume Wabranched Burre Recde. Tripe 13. T rise 1 Cuap.j9.° . 1207 Lhe Theater ofPlants, 4. Sparganinm majus five ramofam Virginianum, The great branched Burre Reede ofVirginia, Cwar, XXXIX. Papyrus The Paper Reeds. ef cidat Reede called Ra Theophraft,iofcorides,Pling,and others, whereofthe Paper, ENG bookie were Toeaeoa fncheie and their formertimes,we may out of their writings now in Egypt, and they ee de(cribe unto you,if it be the fame which Alpinws and others fay,it groweth was,and how it grew, and withNY call by thatname + however we will thew you what theyfaid K S S all (hew you how /A/piue and others deferibe itnow,and likewife fhew you another fort thereof, aie 1, Papyrus antiquorém Nilotica, The Paper Reede ofthe ancients growing in Nilu. a9 arte “This ancient Paper reede(which Theophraf?ue & trom him Plinydodefcribe)growingfay they notin thédeptts it {elfe > SS of the River 1Vélws,but in the pooles of Exiptwhereinto the River 1Véilws hath broken out,and in the River alfo;y et not in the depth of the ftreamie,but necre the bankes,where the water is oftely about two cubits from the fhore, or lefle,whofe roote is of the thickeneffe of2 great mans wrift orfilt,as he can grafpe, ( Pliny hath an armes' thicknefle ) about renne cubies‘in length, {pieading divers ofthe long but {mall and t icke rootesabove on the toppe of the mudde and earth wherein it groweth, from whencérife thrée {quare corned {talkes, (they are inthe Text termed Papyros,which I fo tranflate, for of leaves they havé no-mention) offoure cubits bignefie almott, fpreading into manyparts,and growing{mallet to the reppe, where it carrieth an unproficable buth or taft,without any fruite or feed, Thisis 7)heophraftus his: “Pyperus Nilotica Alpino. relation word for word;asnetre as the defeription could The Paper Reede of Nilus now growing, be-bronght into fence, which P/iny hath altered im fome’ things and curtalled in others, fetting downe Thyr/we for: Coma, they being’ of different forme, yet Ve/lingius faith the rafcexpreffeth them both, and leaving out Tcophra- ; ‘ Se WHY : fis his foure cubits gteatneffe, which is fomewhat difficult wellto underftand and to apply to the purpofe ; therefore will [heregive you the defcription therof, as Alpinus frlt,and Veflingivs Gince hath amended it. It rie: feth up above the water, froma reede like roote, with manyfibres thereat; with fundry three fquare ftalkes, fometimes fevencubits high or more, witha pithina the middle, with leaves both above and below it,the greater that are at the bottomeare large (and three fquare as A/- ~~ Pe Zs SST ~ pinus {aith,but Veflingivs faith nothing thereof.) bending downewardlike to the Burre reede or Cyperus, the Ieffer are under the tufts atthe toppes, which are compofed ! of divers long and upright threds,{et'thicke together,and nara or ae, 2 the ee arial {mall round héad, and another lefle then it thereupon, of the ame formeand malcigas bight:colourof the former,having onc teen eae g foure or tive long g narrow na leavesftanding i on cachfideoftheftaleke, «4, 4+ Sparganitm majus five ramofum Virginianum. The great branched Burre reede of Virginia, _ Thiskinde ofBurre reede hath onely twoor three very long and fomewhat broad, pale greene leaves rifing from the roote,and in the wid{t of them a {trong round ftalke, without any leaves thereon, but branching forth neare the toppeinto many round fomewhatprickly Burres, of the bigneffe of a Wallnur, without any fhew of flowers appearing thereon.Theroote is fomewhat knobbyat the head,with divers ftrings thereat. The Place and Time, Thefe Burre Reedes grow in watery ditches,ponds,andrivers ufually,or by thé fides of them in fundry parts ofthis Land, except the two laft,the one whereofin Germany the otherin Virginia,bronght by Mr, 77 ade/cant the younger,they flourifh with the Reede maceor thereabouts. z ; ; i The Names. Ttis called in Greeke = 2apytrioy amt ray cmupydvaov quod foliys ejys Latis c& vitilinm modo lentis, pro fafcys nmtrices wtantar + inLatine alfo Sparganinm, and Xiphidion alfo as Dio/corides faith in his time. The firlt is called Sparga- ninm generally by molt Authors, yet Anguilara, Ruellius, and Dodonews takeit to be Butomos Theophrafti, Dodonews alfo and Thalius call it Platanaria, becaufe the burres of it as I faid are like thofe of the Planetree, Lonicerus takethit tobe Carex, Lugdunenfis maketh it tobe Phleosfemina of Theopbraftus. butas Lhave formerly fhewed, thereis great difference betweenehis Phlees and Phlenm, this lat being a moorith plant, and the other a thorny = The fecond {mall flowers at the toppes of them, which paffe away withoutfeede, as itis thought, for none hattr beene ob- ferved, Thisis their exaé defcription of it, fo tharby comparing them both together, we may fay that the roote is like other Reedes, but much greater, that is as bigge as ones wriftorarme, yepnot of ten cubits long, for that fize I thinke is more properto the {talke, from the. roote to the roppe ofthe tuft, the ftalke,ic felfe ( cannot be of foure cubits greatnefle,forthat compaffe exceedeth a great tree but)are about fouretéené or fifteene inches compaffe,which may very well agree to the; naturall largeft breadth of Paper, which was thirteene inches as Pliny recordeth it, which was after it was wetted with the water of Nia and fmoothed out, andthereby enlarged,each fold cloven out from the ftalke, thofe inward being leffer and leffer. The plant fay the ancienteis {weete and nfed by che Egyptians, before that bread of Corne was knowne unto them for their food,and in their time was >= chawed and the (weetcneffe fucked forth, the reft being : is called Sparganinm alteram by Lobel , Lngdunenfis and others, and Platanaria altera by Dodonews, whofindeth fault with that which A4Zatthiolus fet torth for Sparganinm,and faith this without branches doth bet- {pit out, the roore ferveth them not onely for fewelltoburne, but to make many forts of veflels to ufe, for ic yeelded much matter forthe purpofe : Papyrus sp/e (fay they) chat is the {talke,as I cranflatedic before, is profitableto many ufes,as to make Ships,and of the barke to weave, and make failes, mats,carpets, fome kindes of gar- Golen in is 8 Ola of Aacrying dryii faculty, ae zs AT TANIIROL i ‘ Sa aarram ai gainit theonelyfaith poyfon ofthatSj Ser “th and Diofcorsdes, that théiS roote taken in wint is good das a-a This othor Paper Reede ( which maybe the Sari ofTheopbraftns,racntioned by hima,next unto the Papyrus, lib, ° 4-hifterc:9. whichashe faithis very like it but leffe, being three {quate alfo) ‘rifeth fixe orfeaven cubic above ter to Dio/corides his defeription, Kethagree mention of, and thelatt by no otherhavin; eo at the toppe ofthe ftalke, The third Bawhinus onely ma- ments and ropes alfo. 2, Papyrus Siciliana, The Paper Reede ofSicily. é Deena t che water,having many three {quate and foft leaves broader and longer then thole ofCyperas,or Sparganinm : the ftaikes are many, full of pithy wooll, fmooth and naked, without any leafe unto the toppe, whereit beareth a faire large thicke tuft ofclofe fet fenderftalkes,- with {mall Moffie flowers onthcheads chem,anda few fhort Cuar. leavesunderthe tufts; which become frniteleffe,not bearing any feede: che roote ts fomewhatlong likeatecde, wich manyfibres thereat. ! |