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Show Tripet - Lheatrum Botanicum. Car. 50. 146 vulgatior. 3. Cyperus totudus odoratus Weleats # |. Cyperas volihdes oderdtus Syriacus minor. ee Thenare common round rooted {weet Cyperus, | The Theater ofPlants. 5.Cyperus dalcis rotundus efculentys Trafi dulce vocatus, Cuap.s0, 5+ Cypervs efculentus five Trafi cum fates The moft delicare {weet Gyperus,or Rutt: Nur, The Ruth Nur flowsing. rooted fyycet-Gyper: f IT helefleeflcia ronnd ti. Cy <i (na ited Viz _ i SES v Te— ASS=Ss V f = ¥ W\) if ‘ e Dah Bea y OR SE re T= RES Rud : 1M L, = ecld Ti, ro 4. Cyperus longus odoratus. Theordinary tweet Cyperus , or Englifh Galingd! This ordinary {weet Cyperus hathhis leaves long, andsit were three fquarelike the formér, and as roughot hard in handling alfo : the ftalkes are {mooth, ftuffed witha white matter, like as the others are, and three-{quare like the other, rifing fomewhat higher, and having fome (hort narrow leavesat the toppes ofthem, and {mall long panicles like untothe other in all things,fo that theyare hardly difcern ed afunder above ground ; the onely rence confilting in the roote, whichin thisis long and round, of a blackifh browne éolour on the out-fide, and diffe uthwithin, full and firme,creeping under the {uperfic whiies ofthe earth round about, whereby it is quickly increafed, - poithallo avery good {weet {cent, aswell greene asdry, yet more being dry than wheni t is greene and eth, 5« Cyperus dulcis rotundus elculentys,Trafi dulce vocatus, The mot delicate fy eet G yperts, or Ruth Nut. a . Lheleaves hereof are long andnarrowlike the other, witha thicke ridge in the middle, and fharpe pointed , a jjote anda tength; ‘among whichrife up the falkes, fmooth,without joynts,$, thr three-fquarejand a cubite igh, or of morehalfe mor ; atinthe high, toppesay whereof ftand ; e {1hort narrow five orfix ae like {tarre from amon cnet ied, we orthfont pa vite,spepuinong anie' } leaves, ee the ftalke, and whic come . fanding eyel ow' ith {piked earesy which are the flowers, wherein fall lyeth the our is thorowly wafted and decayed : Gomaeltens one end, than at the other,hanging therootes are {mall,long and round, and “matiy’ of them or growing atthe ends of longfirings, fomewhat likeunto of the bien w ree the \ irginia Potatoes, of the a pale reddifh colour on the outfide, and white and fitme within, eating ie eee beanes 5 ot no fw eet fcent, nor bitter or aromaticall tafte like the other, but pleafant g tothe €{nuts, or rather more delicate, taftes Thefirltis found in moiftmo; and maoorith oho : grounds, Tieboth ‘Place. foun in onM ountainés, andat the foote of them; in fundry places dens ofthe he : $ aay Nilns, and otherplaces in Egyp t, ase-dipingsfaith, but is not to bee feene but in gar- sybataeweThadere seteend wrth aly enehe Wi ethin many Countries, and as Well in Spaine ler,.as mthefe colder Northerne a d t ats "i Se ae eet enrc \ountries,where oe ed ormer Hot the rootes are fweeter, although fordlfomewhat moilt and not too ders Ae ude aie BM groweth atele burt neare unto Verona in Italy Snr s .‘iat C ous gardens) epeeaty eeeon a aysede, yy many Writersto Anditis probablehe sy . t fake its bur ae areplantedin: found naturally growing no where, setae uelitanus faith, theyare broughtbeout of «£th and $ Thomas Wand. a Sicilia, for Baptifta Coy 4 sin his Afifcelania Ate: indlia meaneth this, as I sme and nd other other ho ntries forfor their hot Countries their delight deliat. and ufe, n ms Ir hardly groweth with us = to to ahy perfection,neither will ic abide thé extremities ofout Winters ; foras Camerarius faith it will tot, ifit bet not taken up before Winter, and new fet againe in - Spring,after it hath beene well Reeped in water. The Time, Allthefe round rooted Céperi doe flower orcarry their bufhy toppes.in Auguft with us, but the ordinary> tong rooted kinde, giveth his tufted head in the endofIuly for the molt part. ; X The Names, The Greeke words s:inipG- Cypirses, wie Cyperus, and. wiazpie Cyperis, dretaken by divers good Authors, to be. one andthe fameplant, others tobe different, efpecially Cypirvs from Cyperas, becaufe that. Pliny G6. an. cap, 18, maketh Cyperus tobe Gladiolus, whom Gaza in his tranflation of 7)heopbraftus doth invall places follow, and Pliny in anotherplace calleth the longrooted {weetkind Cyperida z but if I might fhew my opinion , I would fay that Cyperus is the fweet round rooted kinde, then which no other was knowne to Diofcoridesy and that Cyperte is the long fweer kind as P4ay doth take it : and that Cypirws is the water or marth Cyper#s, my opinion h¢rein being confirmed by Ariftophanes in Dialogo de canis, where he maketh the quire or companyto fay Saltavinsus per Cy- pirts G Phlewm gandentes cantibes.: {o that hereby Cypirvs muft of necefity-be hére underftood to bee a water or marth hearbe,asPhleum is alfo, among which the Frogges are converfant : x/rep@+ is fo called from the round formeofthe roote, whichis like a {mall boxe or veffell, in Latine alfo Cyperus and Juncus triangularis, & angulofirss to diftinguith betweeneit and the Juncus levss or vulgaris, ordinary Ruthesy yer Cornelius Celfuscalleth it Tuncus quadratss,becaufe atit is likely in thofe places wherehe obfervedit, it did peradventuerbeare foure-{quareftalkess but it isnot fo in many other places : in Englifh many doe call it Gallinga or Gallingale after the name the Dutch pive it, becaufé the round tootes are fomewhatlike anto the rootes of the {mall Gallinga, and yet that kindé with ro&nd rootes, is not fo frequent in our land as the other with longreotes, to be fo called for the likenéffe.thereof etweenethem, I thinke the name is tranfpofed from the onetotheother. Itis called alfo as commonly Cyperus, and {weet Cyperus, after the Greeke and Latinenames. The firlt is generally by all Writers,’ called Cyperus rotun. S4s, and odoratus is added for a diftin&tion betweene this kind that is {weet, and another that hath no {cent, which fhall be declared in his place. The fecond Lobel and Camerarius upon Matthiolus, call Cyperus major rotundus Sy= Tiacus, and Profper Alpinus faith the Egyptians call it Hodveg, Rawwolfiuscallethit Cyperus Orientalis major vel Babylonicus The third is called by Lobel Cyperus rotundns Syriacus minor: and Camerarius on Matthiolus callech it Cyperusminor Cretitus, Banhinus calleth it Cyperus rotundus orientalis minor, The fourthas I faid before, is called by P&ny Gyperss, by «Matthiolus C yperus, and by others tior, Cyperus longus. Lobel and Lugdunenfis Cjperss longusbabi Cordus upon Diofcorides calleth it, Cyperus Romanusfive loacus, The laft is called by (amerarius and Taber~ . ; aha OL montae |
