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Show ae — 1176 - Cwap.22, Tbeatrum Botanicum. 3,2. Gramen Caninum bulbo/um vulgare : Trips 13. Crap. 23. ater of Plants:a LheThe Trese .. n g 3.35 i i «39 Cramen Sramen bull ou bofom geminum @& nodofum vulgare. alrerum nodofum (picaparva, Knotted Quich orafle, and double Common knobbed Quich graff. And another with a fall rourtd {pikey bulbed Graffes 1177 Cuars XXITL : Gramen geniculatnm, Kneed Graffe. ich andet 2 lefferae as ‘hall bee Fee onely a greater is onely here is| i the uplands, there ia growethin inde nde of graffe that MSHA thatdc F thatdki oS in the waters, g growin others are there but er, ' dinthis Chapt I : : wie 5 ls aonlani ; fhall be declaredin their proper praces. ulatum majus. The greater Kneed Grafle. 1s Gramen genic ng branches uponthe ground, with fandry great, trayli The areater of thefe graffes hach many longthat fometimes run lye next the ground,{fo that ic doth joynts as em, andshooting our fitres from thofe atthe end but broadeft below, from which e ech,with one long leafe at each Joynt, {mall ateinlleng iculati J najus» n 2. Gramen2 geniculatum minus, Theleffer kneed Graffe. es e ra Thegreater kaced Graffe, sire __§. Gramen bulbofum Meffanenfe. The Sicilian bulbed Graffe, Let me addethis planthere,for I know no fitter place to infertir, although it be not anfwerable to the relt, whofe defcription is thas. The rooteis very {mall and round fomewhatlike unto a wilde Saffron roote. and o A the table of a Che(nut,haying onely two or threelong leaves, as {mall as haires, with fome fhorter ontheltalke on the toppe whereof groweth a {mall long and round knobor bulbe, of the bigneffe of an ordinary beane, fomewhatyellow or browne on the outfide,and having three rough circles about it, equally diftant one fromanother, but white within,and of the {ubitance ofa Chefnut. The Placeand Time, The firft groweth not fo common with us as the creeping rooted Grafts, yet fufficient plentifull in many plow- ed fieldes in the Land, The fecond neere Baffill, The chird in Spaine. The fourth neere Aleppe in Syria, The laft both nere Verona and Italy,and at Drepanum, and MefJanain Sicilia, Ses The Names, The firlt is called Gramen nodofum avenacea pluma by Bauhinus, who alfo doubteth whether ic may not be the eAgilops Plinij,which hath akinde of bulbe; otherscall it Gramen bulbo(um,tuberofnm,or nodofum : The fecond ismentioned oncly by Basbinns inhis Prodromusand Pinax, by the fametitle ithath, The third is the fecond Gramen nodofam by Bauhinus and the Coix A4zcom in Lugdunenfis, who tooke itto be the Coix of 7 beaphraftus ib. 8.6.16, Cefalpinus faithit is called by the commonpeople in Italy,Perlare,and Oryza (ylveftrs. The lalt is men- tioned by Iohannes Baptifti Cortefins in Mifcalancorum medicinalinm decade quinta, fol.206. where hee faich that itis called Bafyliby the Sicilians, that ufually fell it in the Markets, and by fome others there where it groweth, Caftancalos.tcom the fweetetafte like Chefnuts,that both roots and heades have ineating ,WZentagnana alfo, as he there faith, mentioneth this roore, and that they of Verona call it Futrofinm,or 4=4l.num. The VUertues, 3 _ Thefirlt knobbed Quich-graffe is found by certaine experience not oncly with us, but in S2vo7, Geneva, GC. whereit plentifully groweth, and is ufed to be moreeffeCtuall to provoke urine and to breake the ftone, to cafe thofe torments of the belly, that come by loofeneffe,cruditics of humours, and obftruétions, and gencrallyis held fafely to te ufed in any the like caufes that the otheris,and with as good fuccefle : The third Adjconus faith hee could underftand of no ‘phyficall ufe it was put unto, but that Hares were muchdeliphtedtoseft by it,and to digge up.and eate the rootes: thelaft is ufed for food,being windy withal],that is not uied Phyficaly. Car. ~ Hl) A\ NAY buskes of 'an overworve colour, which asat the toppecome’ forth divers {mall long, {pikes of chaffie Cattle much morethanany other Hay, and joynts are fo fall of a molt.pleafant juice that it feedeth fe Farmersthat have it vrowing intheir grounds,doe. keepethe Hay thereof for their chiefe wintherefor 3 ter provifion,and in ftead of Provinder tbe rooieis bufhing and fibrous, 2. Gramen cenieulatsim minus, Theleffer Kneed Graffe. fpreadeth more upright with This other kneed erafle creeperh not{o muchn the ground as the former, but at the tops, {piked heads ris branches. whofe joynts are not alrogether fo great as the other, the ftalles fend forth threddy like the precedent. buc fomewhat largerthen the former,andof a fadder overwotne colour s the roore is Thé Place and Time; the greaboth growin moft medowes in {undry places ofthis Land, but have beeneefpecially obferved, ter tothe Earle of owabout Wilten,\in agreat medowlying among the bridges at the xownes end,belonging f Pembrooke,and the orher at W4 minfter, both of them in Wiltfires The Names, a . Gramen dattylon,-or I/chemon, Pauhinus as not well knowing thefe refirreth the former fort tothe kindesOf €the divers Panicles ic beareth together ina ruft.and calleth it 4quatichm as Tabeymontanus and Gerard bec { oke it for thar other which groweth in waters in our Land as well as/others zthey haye their n che great joynts or knees on their ftalkes. The Vertues Vc have not knowne thefe ufed to any Other purpofe then is formerlydeclared, Hhhhh 2 |
