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Show = TO Ofthe Hiftorie’ of Plants, Limi. it is called-Gramsen plamofum > and in Englith, a Bent,or Feather-top Graffe. oy F bas. ; Gramen panniculaum jsealléd by {ome Heragroftis in Greeke. Lobel calls this Gramenpanni. 2 sulofum phalarordes. Andit is namedin the Hit. Lugd.Gramenfiliceum,feupolyanthos : that is,Ferne, ; ( or mafly-floured Graffe. $ pleateth others, Gramen nemorofinn, is called in our tongue, wood it as or filuaticum, Siemen 3 , : Graffe,or fhadow Grafle. ‘Cuar. 7... Of thé Hiftorie of Plants. fend-forth fuchlatge ftalkes and eares as the other, but fmaller, and not fo clofe. packed togenhicr neither hauing fo long beards orawnes. k 3 Gramen Alopecurinum majus. 4 Gramenm Alopecurinum minus. Great baftard Fox-taile Grafle. Small baftard Fox-taile Graffe, Ofgreat Fox-taile Graffe. @| The Deféription. Hegreat Fox-taile Graffe hath many threddy roots like the common Medowgrafte; and the ftalke rifeth immediatly fromtheroot,in fafhionlike vnto Barley,with two’ or three leaites ot blades like Otes ; but is nothing rough in handling , but foft and downie, and fomewhat hoatie, Searing one eare or tuft on the top, and neuer more; fafhionedlike a Fox-tailewhereofit tookehis name. At the approch ofWinterit dieth, and reconerethit {elfe thenext yeate byfalling ofhis feed, 1 Gramen Alopecuroides majuss Great Fox-taile Grafle, ‘t 2 Gramen Alopecuroides minus. , Small Fox-taile Grafle, I (| | | q The Place and Time, _, Thefewildebaftard Fox-taile Graffes doe grow in the moift furrowesoffertile fields, towards the later end of Sommer, a The Names, _ ¥$ Thefirft by Zobel and Zabern. is called Gramenphalaroides, The other Lobel calleth 2 Gramen Alopecuroides, 3. minus, 4.minus alterum, Cuap. 8. Of Great Cats-taile Graffe. | The Defiription. Reat Cats-taile Graffe hath very {mall roots, compaét ofmany{mallskins or thteds} which may eafily be taken from the wholeroor. The ftalke rifeth vp in the middeft, e. aer le Fox-taile 2 Theleffer -t Graffe hath a tuffe‘ and hard é root com ompaé ofmanyfinall ftrings, i yeel- ange:— ie ftalke like the former,though fomvwhat leffer,with the like 3 top or creft,butof,a whi- Great baftard Fox-taile Graffe hath a ftrawieftalke or ftemme , which rifeth to the height ofa cubit and an halfe, hauinga {mall tootconfifting of many fibres. His leafe is fmall and orale fie, and hath on his top onetuft orfpike,or eare of a hard chaffie {ubftance,fo me three inches long.’ compofed ofllongith feeds,cach hauinga littlebeard or awne. 40 and is fomewhatlike vnto wilde Barley, kneed and ioynted like corne, ofa foot high cnetare ; bearing at the top a handfome round clofe compa& eare refembling the Cats. taile. _ 2. The fmall Cats-taile graff is like vnto the other, differing chiefely in thatit is leffer than it. The root is thickeand cloued like thofe of Ruth Onions,or Ciues, with manyfinall ftrings or hairie threads annexedvntoit. ie + 3 There is another that growesplentifully inmanyplaces about London,the which may fitly be referred to this Claffis.. The root thereofis a little bulbe, frony whence arifeth a ftalke fend monly Small baftard Fox-taile Graffe doth refemble the formet,fauing that this kinde doth not ame two foor or better high, fet at each ioynt with long graffie leaues: the {pike oreare is Sams |