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Show 8 .Gramen Cyperoides fpicatum. Spike Cyptefle gratie. 21 HISTORIE OF PLANTS. THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE 20 % The defeription. Thefirftof thefe graffesis a finall barren grafle, and hath manynarrow thin graffie leaues: out 9 of which fpring finall ftalks, as in Medowgraffe, bearing onthe top finall feather-like chaffie 2 of eares. His rooteis long and threddie. the earthlike a turfe, which in deepe growing ftrings, ie toughandhait long hath fecond The 10 make the roote: from which rife many crooked, tough and ruthie ftalks, hauingtoward the top {calie and chaffie knobs or buttons. Il Gramen harundinacenmmaiws. GreatReede grafle. 9 Gram lake, Gramen filuaticum minus. Small Wood graffe. 12 Gramen harundinacenm minus, Small Reedegrafle. a Iunceum[yluaticum. i Lo. Gramen WoodRuhhiegrafle, Sloe <SAIQiass — % The defeription. tr The firfthathmanyfaireand vpright wheatenftalks, rifing fromathicke ‘knobbie and rough roote, iointed andkneed like vnto Wheate. His Jeaues are very well like the common Reede, hauing at the top a feather-like eare, {pike or knopofa chaffie fubftance, like vate the common Reede whereofirtooke hismame. a2 The fecondkinde doth not differ fromthe precedent,fauing thatthis is fmaller than ie. % The place time pames,natures and vertues. All the grafles which we haue defcribedin this chapter, do growe in marithandwaterie places neere to the fea, or other fenny grounds, or by muddieand mirie ditches, at the fame time'thar the others do growe and flourifh.Theirnames are eafily gathered ofthe places they grow in,or by their Jefcriptions sand and are ofno-vertue nornor propertie for : medicine,or neceflaric ari vieas yet knowen. seicriptions are of no-vertue OfCouchgraffe orDogsgraffe. Chap.17. ¥ The defi ription, t beft knowen Dogs grafle or Couch grafle, hath long leaues like vnto.the pe at the point, cuttinglike aknife at the edges. The ftalke isa cubitand g» with ioints or knees like wheaten ftraw + theplume or tuftis like the Reede; B 3 but |