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Show 6 RR THRaeS SS eerreTIC as 42 : 3 SpartamAnglicanum. : aad Li Bed, Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. — 4 Spartum Aaglicanumalterum. Small Englith Mat-Weed, or : I iel me. Englifh Mat-Weed, or Helme. | Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, 8 aue Glufins his figute forhis firft, and Tabernamontinus figure for the fecond Spartum Anglicanum a Lwill-thinke them both ofone plant ( though: Bavhine: diftinguith them) vntillfome. thal make the contrary manifeft. This theDutchcall Malme; and our Englithin Tenet;Helme-tw; wer calls.it Sea-Bent, 4» This is Spartum herba 4 Batavicum of Clufius ,Gramen Spartewm, ox Innci Spartium of Taber, and our Author cgaue Tabera. figure in the 23 Chapter of this Booke ynder the title. of Luncus tas 1 rims, Graminens ; Lobell calls it Spartum noftras alterums 5. 6 i Lobellcallsithis Spartum noftrasparvum: ' Clufins calls this Spartum Auftriacum, Dalefchampins, Gramen pinnatumwe in England call it Gramenplumofum, Or Feathered Graffe. ¢ |. The temperature,vertues, and vie. Thefe kindes of graffic or rather rufhie Reed haue no vfe in phyficke, but ferueto make Mats, A) and hangings for chambers,frailes; bas kets, and fuch like. The people of the Soneale: where they grow do make bedsof them, ftraw their houfes and chambersin ftead of Rufhes, t which they doexcell,as my felfe haue feene. Turner affirmeth, That they made hats of the Englith one : in Northumberland in his time. They do likewife in fundry places ofthe Iflands of Madera; Canaria, Saint Thomas, and other ofthe Iflands in the traét vato the Weft Indies, make of themtheir boots, fhooes ,. Herd-mens Coats, fires, and lights. It is very hurtfull forcattell, as Sheere-graffe is. The Feather-Grafleis wome by fundry Ladies and Gentlewomen in ftead of a Feather, the whichit exquifitely refembles. Cuar.35 OfCamels Hy. Scienanthum adulwerinums 1 Scenanthum Baftard Camels Hay. Camels Hay. £ 6 Spartum Aufiriacum, Feather-Graffe, \ q| Theplace. 12 3 Thefe two growindiuers places of Spaine. [being in companywith M. Tho. Hicks, William Broad, and three other London Apothecaries befides, in Auguft, 1632, to finde out rare plants in the Ifland ofTenet, found this bigger Englifh one ingreatplentic,as foone as we cameto thefeafide, going betweene Margateand Sandwich. Fe 4 5 Thefeitmay be grow alfo vpon our Coafts; howeuerthey growneere thefa fide in diuers parts of the Low-Countries. 6 This elegant Plant Clufius firft obferued to grow naturally in the mountaines nigh to the Bathes of Baden in Germany , andin diuers places of Auftria and Hungarie. It is nourithed for the beautie in fundri¢ of our Englith gardens, G Thetime, Thefe bearetheir heads in the middle, and fome in the later end-of Sommer. G The names. 1 Thisis called Spartume primumPliny . that is,the firft Mat-Weeddefcribed by Pliny ; in Spaine they « call it Sparto : the French in Prouenceterme it o/pho: - hr Spartum alterum Pliny, Plinie his fecond at-Weed,or Mat-weed.it isis called Albard bardin SS hie, 5 Hooded Mat-weed,it 3 Thisis Spartum tertium of Clufius, and Gramen Spartan ecundumiSchiwanthindhsnk ¥abas ioe Actit vere The defeription: re e his roots aremany,iin Amels Hay hath leaues veryke vnto Mat-Weed or Helme; quantitie meane, full of {mall haites or threds proceeding from rhe bigget ee deeply growing in the ground, nonin diuers long ftalkes like Cyperus Grafle ie 2 |