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Show THE THE FIRST BOOKE OF a , +8 ieints, . Wilde Reede. Darnell grafle, % The place time,names ature and vertues. % The place. They grow in fennie waterifh placeslike vnto the former, aie % Thetime, : Theygrowin fennie and waterie places, at the fame time that other graflesdo: and haue theit vertues and natures commonwithother graffes, for any thing thatwe can finde in writing. The Theyflowerandfadé at the fame time that the others do. %& The names. Lincolnefhire, itis called Sheeregrafle or Henne: in other placesof the land, Wilde Reede: in realon of their names may be gathered out ofthe defcription, OfDarnellgraffe.. Latine Cslamogrostis, out of the Greeke, xaacyoypias. As fortheirnacures and vertues, we do not finde any ereat vic of them worth the fetting downe, Chap.s. %& The defcripticn. j a Arnell grafle or Sorghimum, as Lobelins hath veryproperly fet downe, hatha brownilh ftalke, thicke and knottie , fet with long fharpe leaucs like vnto the common Reede: at OfPannic kegraffe. the top whereof groweth a tuft or eare, of a browne colour, fomewhatlike Sorghum, whereofit tookehis name,as alfo ofthe Italian corne Pannicke,itis called Pazniculatum. 2 Wilde Reede or Gramen harundinaceum, or Panniculatum, called alfo Calamocrostis, foode for cattell isa Caule of 2 Gramen harundinacewmpanniculatun. t Gramen Sorchinun. Great Water Millergrafle. > than € ouch grafl or 7 HISTORIEB OF PLANTS. 1 fome newrootes, from the middle ofthe ftalks and this Water grafle doth gety nto itfelfe not, doth r whichthe othe 2 Grammen mAiUs AgUMtiCM A ceumhe n Milia Gra I Grame graffe. ° grafle 5 8cyet in ftalks and leaues more rough.t opedand curting. - throte, and draweth downebloodinto the ftomacke or mawe: whereof ifiech inflammation, and art.And not onelythis Calar ogrostisishurtfull,but alf all other kindes of 1n¢ ¢,orwhinne, which haueasit were edges and cut on both fides § downwardverydeepe, Thefpikeor eare is lik atrefe bling Pannicke. 2 % The de ‘[cription. : 1ey want,or be very hungrie: bicaufe that,asthe husbandman doth fay, =m, thirft, and confiumption, cutteth their toong, ftraiteneththe gullet! RSC attels mouthes, This herbeis ina meane betweene reede anc Ch 1.6. ) Annicke graffe is garnifhed with chaffie and downie tufts, fet vypon along bentie ftalke,.of twocubits high or fomewhat more; naked without anybladesor leaues, for the moft pait, His roote is is tongh andhard, grafic hath manythicke and threadie rootes, compaétogither inmaner of a tuft, from : : e ring immediately out of the ground manygraffie leaues, ks, r among the which are fundri¢ nakedandwithout leaues or blades like the former, bearing atthe topa fpikic tuftor ofa brownifh colour. A4 1 Granen |