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Show HISTORIE OF PLANTS. 2 Gladiolus palustris Cordi. Water Gladiole. SSS Fw 1 Gramen Tomentarium. Cottongraffe. % Theplace aridtime. 1 Cottongraffe groweth vpon bogs, and fuchlike moorithplaces, asit isto be feene vpon a bog at the further end of Hampfted heathin a valley, vponthe right hand neereto a {mall cottage,as ye * go from Londonto Henden: in whichplace doth growelikewife many otherrare fimples, as you {hall vnderftandheerafter in this treatife, It growethlikewife in Highgate parke neere London. 2 Water Gladiole growethin ftanding pooles , motes , and water ditches. I found it in great plentic, being in companie with a worfhipfull gentleman Mafter Robert VVilbraham, atavillage fifteene miles from London called Buthey.It growethlikewife by the famous riuer Thame/is, not far froma peece of ground called the Diuels neckerchiefe neere Redriffe by London, and manyother places. The feafon anfwereth allothers, % Thenames. 1 _Gramen tomentofianis called likewile Juncus bombicinus : ofCordus, Linum pratenfe, and Gyafalium Hieronimi Bochy.1n Englith Cottongraffe. 2 Water Gladioleis called of L’Obelius; Iuncus Cyperoidesfloridus paludofus, Flowring Cyprefie ruth. Juncus, faith he, for thathis {talke is like the Ruth: Cyperosdes, bicaute his leaues do refemble Cyperus: Floridus, bicaufe it hath on the top of euery ruthie ftalke , afine ymble ot tuft oF fall flowers, in fafhion ofthe Lillie of Alexandria, the whichitis very like, and therefore [hadtather callit the Lillie graffe. % The nature and vertues, Cordus faith , that Juncus bombicinus{odden in wine , and fo taken, helpeththe throwes and gri; A, pings of thc bellie,that women hauein their childing, There be alfo fundrie kindes ofgraffes wholy vnknowen, or atthe leaft not temembred ofthe oldwriters, whereof fomefew are touched in name onely by the late and newwriters: now foras muchas they haue onely named them, I wil] refer the berter confiderationofthemto the induftrie and |