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Show Theatrum Botanicum. Cuar.25. 5 Calamogro/fis torofapanicula. Round tafted Reede sels on ss E = Ss S x x Z SSoooR ES N 4, Calamogroftis five Gramex tomentofam. The foftcr cr woolly headed Reedgraffe, T rise 13 (PS ° Crar 26, 1183 greater Monntaine Reedegraffe. 6. Calamogroftis montana nodsfive Scirpus primum Tragi. T'he (trong ftalkes; as high asaman, withoutany joyntson with up oweth graffegr Reede e mountain This greater are many long and not hard long leaves: at the toppes whereof them,or but one at the moft, having thereat foft, colour, and others, ¢ach whereofis ofa bright reddith yellow (lender chaffie (pikes, fet more fpariedly then the and fhorter, and not fmaller being {pikes the fmaller and lower much a jtanding ppright. Anothetfort hereofis fomeWhat hard,but with divers fibres thereat, to upright, ot adaikered colour: the rooreisThe Placeand Time. le. in moitt Medowes that are fandy, rather barren thénferti “The firft fore, both the greater and the lefler grow es fourthinthe borders of dry fields, and by the hedgefid The titles. their in expreffed are andthicd The fecond ire, Thefitttralfo in the tike places. Thelaft groweth inDorferp efpecially e, Kingdom this of Countties many in es + they flonridh in the Summer time, and their ftalkes petulh in the moift Woods thatare on hills and mountain before Winter. The Names. alfoand Gramen Arundinaceum in Latine, Lobel calleth the firlt The Greekes callit wd naue'ypasis,Calamogrofts rememariendinacenm [pica mulriplics, The fecond is not Gramen Baubinus Babylonicum,and forte Calamogroftss wentinto thofé pares with the Lord Zanche Ambafladourbred byany, before Lobel noted it in Norway,when he qnois calledby Lobel, Gramen tomentofam Calamogroftis The thirdal(o is to be knowne by the title. The fourthBooke,and it may be is that Gramen arsndinaceum plumorundam,cunlgi Gramen plamofwm extant in his Dutch remembred isnot it. The fifth alfo jumalbnm, thas Banhinus detcribethfor he 44.in his Pradromsus,ot verylike called by Trages, Scirpi primum alterum genus and is thought by any Auchcur before. The fixth-of both torte is enode montanum, arnndinaceum Gramen to be the Juncus Lychnanthernos of Thalius,and by Bauhinus, The Vertues, Lule thae’we know. neither doé any Cattle feede There enone of the(e Graffes ferviceable for any Phyfical fixt,andthat bur feldome neither + the ftalkes thereon,by reafon of cheir hard and fharpecutting leaves exceptthe dry their new preffed cheefes on, and for oand of {ome of them are platted into mats,for Country womento lay the like ufess a Gramen Nemorofum glabram. Smooth Wood Graffe. ; bs (‘ WEA 6, Calamogroftis montana errodia five Scirpus Tragi The greater Moudtsinc teal grate: a5 leaves, whofe forts fhall be entreated are two kindes of Wood graffes, the onc with {mooth : @As Here rfollowing. r.and the other with rongh oxhairy leaves,in the Chapte 5 a otinthigChapte gaffe. 1. Gramen nemoro(um capillacenm panicula alba, White tufted Wood 3} | ee eos in a taft having a number of greene leaves ri" This fmall gralle groweth thicke arid clofe together cuand of a foote long,t he ftalkesrifeup among thema fing fromthe rote, being as {mall as haires, 2. Gramen nemoro/iam majus fpica rnfefiente. The greater browne Wood gralle, 4: Calamogroftis five Gramen tormentofuw, The foft or Woolly Reede graffe, This woolly Reede graffe, isin the roughnes; dryneffz,and formeof the leaves, not much onlike to that fort of Foxetaile graffe before fpoken ofin the Chapter of Foxetailes,which they of Mompelier called Pfendofchenanthum, but muchgreater, andnot woolly as fome related them: the ftalkes likewife being two orthree cubits highyand with few joynts are rough,bearing large {piked heads, ferallalong a panickle, reddith for fome time,but growing toripeneffe ofa fhining filver likewhiteneffe, and as foft as woollin handling, from whenceit tooke the name, the roote is {omewhat hard and rough ar the toppe, with diverslong fibres iffuing from it. This deferiptionis according to'the Dwtch copy,tran flated by Lobe/himfelfe. 5. Calamogroftis torofa panic#la, _ Round tufted Reede graffe, This fortofReede graffe hath narrow long leaves {omiéwhatfofter and gentler in handling then the others before,yet not eaten by any cat~ tle: the tuft or panickle it felfe ismore round, and thicker, with fhorter heads, fet clofe together like {mall knots or knobs, but fomewhat flat on one fide, the bloomings hereof are ofa yellowith purple colour, fome panickleslikewife are found to be more long and narrowthe rootes are {mall and ftringys The Theater of Plant Cuap, XXVI. FS ) Frisei3, =o 4. Gramennemornm exile daria grafl $mall-hardwood |