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Show Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 14 Spiked Water-graffe hath long narrow leaites :the ftalke is {mall, fingle, and naked, with- 2 out leaues or blades; bearing along ft the fame toward the topan care or {pike madeOf certaine 8 tough, {mall buttons, refembling the buttoniefloures of Sea VW orme-wood, His rootis thick 3H fullof fibres orthteds. Ofthe Hiltorie of Plants, Lis. @ The Place and Time, They differ not fromthe former kindesiof Graffes in place and time tand their names are ma- @ The Names. The firkt is called Gramen fluviatile,andalfo Gramenaquisinnatans : in Englith,Flote-stafk p Bus calls it,Gramen cAnatum, Ducks-grafle. The fecondis called Gramenfluviatile fpicatumand fluviatile album by Taber in Englith it is called Flote-graffe , and Floter-graffe, becaufe th. y {wi water. nifeft. @ The Nature and Vertues. whereofwewill fpeake hereafter, Their natureand vertues are referred vito Dogs Graffe, Carer Cuarw Of Kneed-Graffe. Of Flote-Grafe. 1 Gramenfluviatile, @| The Defiription. 2 Gramenflaviatile fpicatum, Flote-graffe. Need-graffe hath ftraight and vpright ftrawie ftalkes, with ioynts like to the fttaw of Spiked Flote-graffe. corne, and beareth {mall graffie leaties or blades {piked at the toplike vnto Pannick, witha rough eare ofadarke browne colour. His roots aré hairy and threddy,andth« goynts ofthe ftraw are very large and confpicuous. &B Gramenceniculaum, Kneed-graffe, C 2 Gramengeniculatum Aquaticiite Water Kneed-gtaffe, NX ZaSS : ; q The Defeription. Ote-gratla hath a long and roundroot fomewhat thicke,like vnto raffe,fet — pete. with {mall ftrings or threds ; from the whichrife vpDogs-g long and croo- fox eo aa kes; Croffing,winding,and folding one. within another with many flaggie eae sm ae . = Rate Steedily of, Arthe top of thefe ftalks, and fomewhatlower there come soeee eey arias ; cates of awhitith colour, compofed oftworanks of littl e chaffie feeds fet e YS ~ vof thefe{mall eares being almoftaninchin length Spike Flote-e Gr:ondsaeesdFlot phe me i fpikedea C e-gratfe bearethat the :top ofeac h flender creeping Cdarinaniewn mie other many, Ee + which maketha difference betwixt them; Fils root is;compadt,tufted, and made of many thrummie LG], Place, The firkt ofthefe growes cuery where inwateThe rs. The fecondis harder to be found a The = WaterKneed-graffe hath many long and flendet flemmies, ioynted with many knobbyand gouty knees likevnto Reed,fet with broad flagey leaues fomewhatfharpe pointed; bearing a top tuft or pannicle diuided into fundry {mall branches, ofa duskifhcolour. Hisrootis threds die like the other. q The Place, Time,andNames. Thefe Graffes do grow in fertile moift medowes , not differing in time fromothers. And they arecalled Geniculata, becaufe they hauelarge toynts likeas itWere knees, We haue nothing deliueted ys of their nature and properties, : |