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Show 180 Theatrum Botanicum. CHaP.25, Trisey, of our owne Land, but he third is ufvally fowen as Corneis in their fieldsin many places in Germany, yet itis fift is found in Spaine fayd to be natural in Jtaly the fourth inthe Le whichis not farre from Orleaunce,: the are knowre bytheir the two laft and Narbone in France, and {ois the fixtalfo, and is there the moftcommon : The Theater ofPlants. Trispe 13. + ji majisi 1. Calanogro/fis five Gramen Arundinaceum the greater Reede gralfe, Cwar.25- minuse accum us Avendin eer ramena 1, vee grafle, letlerReede titles; they all keepe the fame time thatf#he others doe. The Names; Tris called in Greeke I'ge'yor,and fo likewife J/chemonin Latin, itis alfotaken toke Canaria Pliny by Anguilara, and called Gall crus Apulei by bim alfo, and Gramen I/chamon by all other Authors, onely Leonicenm was decea. one. ved in taking it tobe Ceronoput, becaufe the Sclavonsans called it Cornicés pes Baubinus and Tabermontanm adde ¢fenlentum, becaufe ly make mentionof the {econd : the thirdis called generally Gramen Afanne, and fome aculeatum, Cordus upon iris of fo mnch ufe among the Germanes,yer Thalins and {ome otherseall it Gramen Diofeorides.alfo callethit Frumentum Germanicum Scioaven Oryxefpecies : the Italians call both this and the firtt Sanguinaria,Sanguinella and Capriola : the fourth Lobel calleth Gramen Scoparinm I{chems paniculis as it is inthe title : the fife Label formerly called Gramen Canarinm alterum, but afterwards Gramen (axarinm I/chami pania n, for] cannot finde cuits, Lugdunenfir Gramen vuleare Dalechampiy as Banbinus faith, but Ithinke he is miltake otherscall it Gramemas it it were the firft of Dicfcorides, and fo Clufiss alfotakethit to be, calling it Gra- ir fo, as Banbinus notethit troly but men legitimm: the fixt iscalled by Lugdunerfis, Gramen vulgare Dalechampy of Egyptian plants, andfaith nor fo in the other : thefeaventh Profper Alpixs hath made mention of inhis booke thar the Eeyptianscall it Neiemelm/alb ot Gramen crucis: T he laft is nor remembred by any before, and therefore this title is {ufficient for its They maybeall called Gramen Daéfylon or Dabtyloides, as Banhinws doth fromthe forme of the:pannickles,-reprefenting {pread fingers, and thereupon might as well bee called in Exglifh Finger erafleas Cockes foote graffe :the Germanes call the third Himmeldaw quaficeliros, and wee in Englif) Dew Grafie, SSS SS The Vertes, Cockes foote graffe bruifed and layd roanyplace that bleedeth,doth ftay the bloed prefently whether from the nofe or wound,yet if the rough fpike be putt into the nofe and robbed it will make it bleed:thus the divers manner of nfing it workes a contrarycfect,both ro draw blood and to flay it: being boyled with daxngia, thatis, Hogs Suet and (ome honfhould bread doth quickly heale the biting of amad dogge : the famealfo applyed to hardtwmors diffoli eththem: it is fayd thatthe juice of branch that beareth onely three fpikes together taken in the waine of the Moone, and putinto theeyes that runne and water by fome diftillation of rheume, making them to lock red & to be bleare eyed, or elfe being bound to thenecke in the beginning of the fay difeafe,doth quickly difcuffe the humour and heale the eyes. The Dew graffeis fayd to difcuffe the hardneffe of womens brealts: like the feede is food for {mall birds,and Pidgeons and Hens and for menalfo, for the Germanes and others feethit Rice and fo cate it; or putitinto the brothof ficfh as we doe Qatemeale and divers other wayes, being as familiar and comménto themas Oatemealeis tous.. The Cocks foote Quich graffe is thought to have all the properreferre ties,and ¢ffe@uall alfu thareyther of the Quich grafles before fpoken of have, and therefore for brevitie ! womento belpeto breaketle youtothem. The Egyptian Cocks foote as Alpin faith isufed by the Egyptian effeAuall, yer ftone, cyther in the reimes or bladder, but Vel/ingim aforefayd faith he could not learreitto be fo in the uretory faith that he met witha Religious man comming from mount Sinai, that declared that the ftone veffels,but not in the bladder might bee voyded, by putting up the finger and preffing the»bladcer, and by putting into the neck of the bladder by the Vrinary paflage a Goofe quill, and blowing flrongly therein, which he himfelfe faith knew to betrue. They alfoufe the decoétion ofthe rootes and feedes to provoke their courfes and to give it to children toexpell or drive forth the meafels,fmall pox, faint fpots, purples or petec- ; f 2, Calamogroftis altera Norwegitae Reede grafle of Norway. 3. Calamogrofis (ylue Di foannis, Reede gralle of Saint Jobns Woods, chie inthem, -asalfo they nfe to give it in peftilentiall feavers: the whole herbe, ‘but efpecially the rootes they hold to be of fingular good ufe to heale both greene wounds and old Vicers ; fome of them alfo ufe the decotti- on thereofto procure {weate familiarly. wind sthe root is full of white firings, and fome and having’a flockyfubftance in them are’ carryed away withthe fo full of spikes, a8 whofe toppe is not joynted ones,which fpread inthe ground, There isa leffer fort hereof, haying but one‘or two thereon. ‘ ! 2. Calamogroftis altera Norwegica. Reede graffe ofNorway: both in flalkes and leaves then This other Reedegraffe of Worway growethnotfo great but harder and rcugher, feverall panickles,, fharper alfoand rougher in the former ? ‘the {poky rufe.at the toppe is larger,more {preadinto growing pere one like hereunto, handling : therootes hereof likewife ‘confift of many long firings. We have rougbneffe) faving’ that this bath a tuft of haiHackney if it be not the fame (our milder Country altering the ry threds growing at the headof the rote. j . Reede grafic of Saint Johns wood. 3. Calamogroftis nofiras fylve St.Leannis : woolly Reede graffe, bur the flalkes are joyn= This Reede praffeis in ftalke and leaves {omewhatlike the next leaves fharper and almoft two cubits long,3D ted in rwo orthree places.two or three enbits high, with narrower {pikes, or more long, paited into many Icng alittle ftriped.withall : the toppe pannickles are fometimes a foote e Qrings,wbich ne mustey colour : the roote is white withthick which are foft-as filke andofa fhining over-wor 4. Calamogrofi%s . Spread in the gtound fometimes, = in this Chapter, ard the that grow inthe Vp-land grounds, fhall be entreated of 1. Calamogroftisfive Gramen Arundinacenm matus, The greater Reede grafle. F and large fharpe cuttingleaveson The ereater Reede grafie rifethup with many joynted {talkesthe ftalkes are furnifhed withdis of thetoppe lefler: Reede,bur water the of thofé to like them ; when they bave ftood long docopen; vers hard long {pikes or head¢s, fomewhatlike the common Reede, which SS So SSS grow on the land end otkérsin the water, thofe 4Of the Reede graffes there are divers forts, fome otherhereafter. SSS SS sSOS SS = LSR SN St Cuarp. XXV. Gramen Arundinaceum. Reedegraffe. |
