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Show aea atcae iiik Gramsen Typhinum minus. Small Cats-taile Grafle, T Can l. “Lr Ofthe Hiftorie ‘of Plants. 12 Ofthe! Hiftorie of Plants, Pecemarninieenenener handfomely made in the fafhion of the precedent, whichin the fhape it doth very much refemble. + a @ The Defcription. Yperus Grafle hath roots fomewhat like: Cyperus,whereof it todke his name’: his leaves. are long and large:dike ynto the commonreed : the ftalke doth grow to the height dfa cubit in fome places ; vpon which growethlittle. foaly/:knobs¢or‘eares monly foure or fiue inches longgy clofely and {pike fathion, fomewhat like vnto Cats-taile,or Reed-maee, very chaffie, rough,and rugged. @ The Place and Time. Thefekindes of Graffes do grow very well neere watetie places, as Gramen Cyperoides doth, and flourifhat the fame time that allthe others doe. + The latter may be found by the bridge entring into Chelfeyfield, as one goeth from , 2 »;Ruthy Water-grafle hath his roots like the former, withmany fibres or firings hanging at them; and creepeth along vpon the vppermoftfaceof the earth, or rather mud, wherein itgtoweth, bearing at each ioynt one flenderbenty ftalke;fet with afew {mall graffie blades or leagues bringing forthatthe topinlittle hoods, fal] feather-like tufts oreares, ’ q The Place, Time, and Names, They grow,as I haue infintiated, in myrieand muddy grounds, in the fame feafon that others do. And concerningtheir names there hath beenfaid enough in their titles, Saint Jamesto little Chelfey. + Cuar.to. @ The Names. The Latines borrow thefe names of the Greekes, and call it Gramen Typhinum,ofTypha,a Of Water-Graffe. X Gramen aquaticum: 2 Gramen aquaticum fpicatum: Water-grafle. Spiked Water-graffe, * Cats taile: and it may in Englifhas welbe called round Bent-graffe, as Cats-taile Graffe. $ _Thelaftdefcribed isby Banhine, whofirt gauethe figure and defcription thereof in his Prodomus, pag.x0/called Gramen Typhoides maximum{pica longifima , that is, The largeft Foxe- taile Graffe with avery long earé, + 4 Of Coperus Grajse. '‘ Gramen Cyperoides> CyperusGraffe, 2 Gramen Iunctum aquaticum: Rughy Water-Graffe, @ The Defeription. woe Atet-gtaffe, oras we terme it, Water Burre-gfaffe, hath a few long narrow flendet and ioynted leaues : among whichrifeth vp a ftalke of two foot high, 7 bearing vponhis {mall and tender branches certaine little rough knobs,or brownith fharpepointed feeds madevp into cornered heads : his rootis {mal] and threddy, <The figure of this plant is not well expreft,for it fhould haue had the leaues made narrower, and Loynts expreft in them,like as you may fee in the’ Gramen junceum fyluaticum, which is ‘the ninth inthe fixteenth chapter ; for that and this are folike,that I knowno other difference betweene them, bur thaggbis hath leaues longer andnarrower thanthat, and the heads fmaller and whiter. There isa teafonable good figure ofthis in the Hifforia Lugd.p.roor, vnder the name of —47wido minima, , 2 Spiked |