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Show HISTORIECO@R PLANTS, THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE It Graménfegerale. 4. Gramen Innceum. Ruth graffe, 3. Gramen minus durinfculum. Small hard grafle. 2 Gramen harundinaceum. Corne graffe. Reedegraffe. w= ; pain fi. = : . ¥ y : he Dwarfe graffe doth growonheathie, rough and drie barren grounds in moftplaces ofEng: ‘The sand, BLM 7<13e003860> RAAD) The white Dwarfe graffe is not fo commonas the former,and doth grow veryplentifully among the hop gardensin Effexand manyother places, 3 Small harder grafic growethin moift frefh marfhes andfichlike places. R uth grafle groweth infalt marfhes neere vnto the fea, where the marfhes haue been ouerflowen with lalt water, Sinaia ws The time. : iefe kindes of graffes do grow,flower,and flourifh when the common Medow grafle doth. %& The names. It fuffice ic th wha h athath beenfaiid d ofof the names inthe defcrip i tion,as well in (cripti i Englith as Latin, onely thatlome haue hau deemedwhite Dwarfe grafle,to be ca lled Xerampeliz 4 inum. Ruth graffe hath been taken for Holostenm Matthiol:. Piel is des of ert % The naturéund vertues. % The place. Thefekindes ofgrafles do growefor themoft part neere vnto hedges,andinfallowfields in moft places. st The time. Their time of fpringing flowringandfading maybe referredtothe common Medowgtaffe. x The names. edin Englifh Corne graffe. Of Zobelivs in his learned obferuations Agrorwn men agrorum : of others Gramen fegetale, eitherof the likenes it hath with corne, 1g corne,the which I hauenot as yet feene. Englith Reedegrafle. Of Lobeliusin Latine Gramen harundinacenm, or d ae icie kindes of graflesa do agree agree as as itis it j thought, { with iththe common Medowgraffe,in e,in nature ne am : uitanding they haue not beenvfed in phificke as yetthat I can readeof. acea Cy comofa panwicula, for that his tuft or pannicles do refemble erum: for byreafon of his feather top which is eafily Shaken withthe % Th temperature snd vertues. with common grafle, as well in temperature,as vertues, al- OfCornegraffe. wen, Chap.2. OF A fillet graffe. 3% The defeription, eraffe hart Orne h ae vie whic aot ) “th tender leaues, tefembling thofe of Rie,or rather Otes, amongt® ie ftalks ig i whereupo oe kneed ot iointed like thofe of corne,of doth grow a baie mkt -like tuft comme" feather the to vnlike much not e, pannict he tosi ompact ndet.c burrou Reede, 2 Reedegraffe hath en like vnto Millet, Theroote is threddie like thofeof Otes. long ith his i top, with f thin graffic leattes,5like vnto the €torme ati many hiss feather-likea pannicles The buthie do. re femble €tl fhaken with the winde: the common Reede, whichisr.lightly branc alongg {lend ’ hed ypon flende pom Mong t ; , kneed or ioint ae ed like corne Menace reedenftalke . The roote is finall a hbrous, x Gramen Chap.4.. % The defcription. care like vnto the common Reede, although not fo great and Vilium,Mill or Millet whereof itrooke hisname. Theftalke or »wherewith countrie people do trim their houfes, afe,tuft and reeden ftalke,doth very wel refemblethe grafle iéfum : and byour Englifh women,Ladies Laces, bicaule it is cene ftrakes, like filkelaces : but yet differeth from that, that A 3 this |