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Show from which come 3 Smallhard Graffe hath {mall roots compact oflittle firings or threds, ahalfe: the tuft or eare is Compact of foreh many foureruthy leaves ofthe length ofan inchand many panicles or verylittle eares,which to your feeling are very hard or harfh, This Grafle is , vapleafantjand no wholefome food foreattell: Rufh:graffe isa fmall plant fome handfull high, hauingmanyfmall rufhyleaves tough and 4 pliaiit;as.are the commionRuthes : whereupondo grow {mall {alyor chaifie huskes, 'im‘ftead’ of flonres, like thofe ofRufhés, but fmaller.: The rootis threddy like the former. + There is 1 yal! rictie ofthis to be found in bogs, with the feeds bigger,and the leaues and whole plant lefler. + 2 Gramen minus duriufiulum, Smallhard Graffe. Lise L518501, Of thé Hiftorie of Plants. 4. q Gramenjuncenm, a Gramen ofMatthiolus, and Gramen bulbofum of Dale{champius. Our Author did not vnderftand what Xerampelinus fignified, when as he faid the white Dwarfe-graflewas fo termed, for the word imports red,or murrey,{rch acolouras the withered leauesof Vines areof, Gramenpanniculatum minus. 3. Lobel calls this,Exile Gramendurius. 2. 4. Tuabern calls this, Thisby- eaMatthiolus was called Holoftinm : by Thatins, Gramen epigonatocanlon « by Tabernamontaiys; Gra, Bufoniums that is, Toad-grafle. $ | The Nature and Vertues, Thefe kindes of Graffes doe agree as it is thought with the common Medow-grafle, innature andvertues, notwithf{tanding they haue not beene vfed in phyfickeasyet, that I can reade of, + Ruth-grafle,or Toad-eraffe: Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. The ficit figure was onely a vatietic of the {econd, according to Banhinus ; yet in my iudgementit was the fame with the thirdwhichis Gramen minus ditrin> culum Cusr.3. Of Corne-Graffe. z q The Defcription. : Ome-graffe hath manygraffie leaues refembling thofe ofRie, or rather Otes, an thewhich commeth vp flender benty ftalkes , knéed or ioynted like thofe of corne, whereupon growetha faire tuft or panniclenot much vnlike to the feather-like tuft ofcommon Reed, but rounder compag together likevnto Millet. Therootis threddy like thofe of Otes, me 5 : 2 Gramen barundinacenm, X Gramenfecetale, Reed-graffe,or Bent, Corne-graffe. @ The Plaw. The Dave ccate doth growonheathy roughand drybarren groundsin moft places of Enga and. 4= latwhich atwhi V at ayerice. in s any I have=oinen giuen youI haue2 not asSeperate yet obferued growing part of BT Eng-ace Thewhite Dwarfe-graffé isnot fo commonas the former, yetdoth it mong the Hop gardens. in Effex and manyother places. growvery plentifully a- Small I lard-graffe Stoweth in moift freth marifhes,and-fuch like places. > . ty De o ; ee thin falt marifhes neerevnto the fea, where the marifhes haue beene ouer: 1owne withfalt water. t Italfo growethin many wet woods, lanes,and firch places,as in the lane > fe going by Torenham Courttowards Hampftead. The lefler varietie hereofgrowes on the bogges vpon Hampftead heath, j hefe kind Be The Time, Thefe kindes of Graffes do grow, floure,andflourith whenth e common eee @ The Names, It fuficeth what hath beenefaid ofthe names in the defcrip n Medowgraffe doth. ton,as well inEnglifhas Latine; onely that fame haue deemed. White Dw arfe-graffe to be called h X¢erampelinum, Rufth-grafithathbeen taken for Holofte, um Matthioli. I St 1s ‘ “Fie 70) = 2% a ~ linum ofLobel:it is the Gram « Reed-graffehath many thin graffieléaues like the former: the bufhy top, with his long fea- ched vpona longflender reeden ftalke, kneed of ioynited like core. The rootis fmalland fibrous, q, The Place and Time. i The Names in particular. eregiue youinthe firft place is the Gramen minimum Xerampe 1¢ 2 ther-like pannicles dorefemble the common Reed, whichis lightly fhaken with thewinde; Drans : Thefekindes of Graffes grow for the moft part neete hedges, 8¢ in fallowfields in moft places, Their timeof fpringing, flouring,and fading maybe referred to the common Medow-gralle, A3 q TH |
