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Show _ Of the’ Hiftory of Plants, II4. a ic ene ence atlas 3 Equifitum (ecetale, a ead Liner Lis. 2. 4 Equifetumpalufire. - Corne Horfe-taile. Water Horfe-taile, $0 OE the Fiftory of Planes. 4 g Tumcaria Salmanticen(is. Wis 6 The female Horfe taile growethfor the molt part in waterifh places , abd by the brinks of fmall rills and pirling brookes; it hatha long root like that of Couch grafle, from whichrife vp diters ‘hollowftalkes, fer Jralian ruthie Hort-raile, atoutat certaine diftances with {mal Jeaues in rundics lise thofe of W'oodiod/,altovether barren of fed and foure whereof it was called by Lad1, Polyronon famiad imine 7idea. + This is fometimes found wick tenn ormore [cedes at each ioynt; whenee Bay- hinehath calied it Ea [am pate lrewicrtbus folys poly [permon.t 1 + 7 In fome bogpie places a? this kingdomeis found arare and pretty #ppuris or Horfetaile, which growes vp with. many little branches , fome two orthree inches high,putting forth ateach ioynt many little leaues,cluftering clofe about tkeftalke, and fet after the manner ofozher Horfe-taifes: to- wards the tops of the branches the ioynts i 5 Equifetumfluaticum: Wood Horfe-taile. are very thicke:the colour ofthe whole plant is gray, alittle inclining to green, very brittle, andas it were ftony or gravelly Irke Coralline, and will crath wnder yourfeet,asif it were frozen.; and if you chewit , you thall finde it all ftonie or grauelly. My friend M'. Leonard Buckner was the firft that found ‘this plant,and brought it to me; he had ‘it three’ miles beyond Oxford, a little on this fide Euantham-ferry, in a bog vpon a common by the Beacon hill neere. Cumner-wood, in theend of Aucuft.1622. M*. Bowles hath fince found it growing vpona bognotfar from Chiffelburt in Kent,| queftion whether this bee not the Hippuris lacuftris quedane folys manfw arenofis of Gefner sbut if Gefnersbe thatwhich Bawhine in his Prodromus,pag.2 4.fets forth by the name ofEqué[tie iad minus variecatum then iudge it not tobe this ofmy defeription : for Bawhines differs Hom this in that itis without leaucs,and ofttimes bigger:theftalks of his are hollow, thefe notfo: thismay becalied Hppurés Coralloid.s ) Horfe-tatle Coralline, 8 Towards the lat-r endofthe yeare,ir? divers ditches,.as in Saint lameshis Parke, in the pts Olthe bic ke of$ oathwarke towards Saint Georges fields, 8c. you mayfinde couered ee teeere ches, and each ioinr fet with leaues, as in che other Horfe > but they are at 4 “oecdotdivided rowards the tops.I take this tobe the Equifétum fatidum (ub aqua repens,deferibed Vonage i / Niky METrajA fp ywpMe) i BASaeEyiwtAl ihYell Bi Zs YZ a WEE » Mithe fit place ofBanhinus his Pro tromus : we maycall it in Englith,Stinking water Horfe-taile.t dete scat hath fet fortha plant,that he referreth vnto the ftocke of oe bethus i A eth itkath many tywiggie or.rufhie ftalks,whereupon it wascalle Binbarig : and may bee if liked, Ruth-weed ; the Jeaues grow vpon the branches like thofe of Flax: onthe toppes ofthe alkprov finall chaffie floures of awhitith colour. The feed is fmall,and blacke ofcolour, The Us little and white: the whole plant is fweetith in tafte. = uileeroy fc treth Horth another Horfe-tailewhich hegeae iin One Nada h S f mpus. There is(faich he)another plant like Horfe taile, but greaterand higher. Itri i "poftcttimes witha ftalke as big as a mans atme, divided into many branches our ofwhich boerthes. Jong flender {prigs very full of ioints, like to the firft Horfe-taile. the Roures ftand a- Paccntss0f a moflie {ub tance, {nail as ave thofe of theCornell treesin places whereo grow ted ed fruit fuif of fowre iuice,not volike tolittle Mulberries,in whichts the feed. The to ts hard ees. : “oodie. This growes nowandthen toa great height, and fomerimes lower. BeMonéus writeth ay aN tha) SY ¢ Moen 5 fonttatities;that itharh been feene to be equall in height with the Plane ues it commeth a farsi to fhorterand leffer trees or fhrubs, yetdoth it not faften it felfeto the’ trees with ay és or clafping agfets, much leflc doth icwiade ic fel fe about them, yet do-b itdelight to 2tere and clofe varo them, q The |