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Show ee F1go AP.29. wee vider lune: (par fa,panicyla. (le, with reth-irke iparled leavis. Theatrum Botanicum. G 8.. Gramen funceam ” parunm five Holowum Marttioli, ‘Téde Graile 9. 9 Trips 1. Tripe 13. The Fheater of ‘Plants. Gramen montanum lunceum cepite (auanol amojo. pite (quamo Mountaine Rut Grafle withfcaly heads : Cu aP. 32. Cuar, XXX, funcus, Rufhes. Ze) Here are divers forts of Rufhes,(ome great fome fmall fome foft and {mooth others bard fome barren 9) others bearing {eede,fome fharpe pointed, others not,fome onthe Land,eyther in uplands or neare the vey tT ey Sea, others in the frefh waters,fome againie {weet, others not at allsof thofe I meane to entreatein this K fay, Chapter that are not {weete,foror thole kindes,the one called Schenanthos or Tuncus odoratus, and the 7 other Juncus angnilofus or Cyperus odovatus, \ have {poken in thefirft Claffis of this worke among the the other fweere herbes : and firft of the {oft or {moothforts of Ruthes in thisChapter. 1. Innes levis maxima, The greatelt Ball Rufh, The great Bull Ruth fendethforth fundrytall,foft round {mooth thootes which are the Rufhes, of a freth pale greene colour.greater then any ofthe other forts of Rufhes,having certaine fheathes like leaves compaffing theen at the bottome,and pointed at the ends bitt not fharpe, full of a white pith whichare ferviceable (che. outer rinde being pilled away) for lighrs, being divers of them bound together and dipped in Suet or Tallow’: towards the toppesof which onthe one fide breake farth fundry {mall brownifh chaffie heads, each upon afhore foorltalke, wherein lye three {quate blackifh feede ; the route is of a blackifh browne colour, and groweth fomewhat great and flope with divers {rings or fibres thereat. © a. daacus levis valgari, ThecommonfmoothRofh, i Xu{his in all things Jike the former but much leffer and fhorter having a whitifh pith within them as the h fic for the like u/es, bur that the headsare longer and the tuft or pannicle is clofe and not fpread open the rootes hereof are not greatas the other,buc are a bufh of {trings or threds. 3. dancus levis panicula{par[amajor, Another fort ofgreatfmooth Rufhes. eater {ort is like the laft but wich fewer {tore of Rufbes, of'a darkifh greene colour, and the tuft ) pannicle is more fpread at large,andeach part ftanding ona pretty long footftalke, and is broad below and pointed upward : the roote is bufhie like the laft. 40 Puncustevis glomerataflore. Round headed Rathes. Be ve aded Rufhes have divers fhootesrifing from the roote like unto the fecond fort and'pitthy within like ft difference conGitech herein that the tufted heads ftand fomewhat clofe together and are round, not puinted puintedatall. 3 da at all 5 Lancs levis panicula [parfa minor, Small Rufhes withdifperfed 8. ~. tie Med um & minus, Gramin Inncenm parvum five Holoffium Adatchieli G& Gramen buforys Flandrorum, Tode Gyafle. This {mall Rufh graffe (which the Flemmings generally call Padde graffe,chat is, Tode grafle, and taken tobee the Holoftinm of AMatthiolw in his lait edition) groweth not much above a {panne high, whofe leaves are very {mall, and thofe on the flender ftalkes and branches from the joyntsleffer, whereat and likewife at the toppes growforth fmall yellowith chaffie heads or huskes, withthortaunes.as it were at theends, each upona fhort footeltalke one above another ; the rooteis fibrous and reddifh, Theré groweth about Highgate and fome other wetplaces one or two otherforts hereofdiffering from-it in fmalnefle, and likewife,the one {maller then the a ee i as other, whofe heads are thicker or clofer fet together. 9. Gramtn montanim Iuncenm capite(quamofa; Mountaine Ruth Graffe withifcaly heads: From a {mall 'fib¥ous rooterife up two or three rufh-like leaves abonthalfe a tooté long; the ftalkes are {moothand without any joyritor leafe thereon rifing a foote high, at the toppe whereof from betweenetwo rough leaves, the one being fong the other fhort fhootethfortha fcaly head, {mall at the toppe omewhat refembling the head'of the Phalatis Canary Graffe, The Place and Time, Some of thefé eraffes growonhills othersin woods or neare them the firftan abigh bill im Hales called Berwin continually covered with clouds and milts,and watered with fundry fhowers of taine,when at the fame time the Suon€ will fhine faire in the vallies below it : the woods neare Highgateand the medowes theieabout doc nourifh manyof the other varieties : the laft was found on mount Baldvs, andidoe all flourifh in the Sommer moneths of Ivneand Luly, The Names; By the name i47275@- in Greeke,and Gramen Funcenm or Iuncoides in Latine beall thefe plants knowne : The firlt Lobel had entended to call Wardo Gangiti fpurie fimilis capillarss planta, but I have alteredit and referredit ra- ther to thefe Rufh Graffes whereuntoit is moft like, and {0 is the fecond alfo, being neither of them mcntioned by any before : the twoforts of the fixe, the feaventhand chetwo {maller forts of the cight are nor likewife extant in any other author :the third fourth fift andeight are fqentituled by others as they are here fetdowne, yet Thalins calleth the eight Gramen epigonato caulon,and Baubinus Gramen nemoro(umcaliculis pateaces:buel thinke it is feldome in any wood : the lalt Baxhinws {o called as itis in the title. The Vertues, All thefe forts of Graffes have beene fo lately found out,that there is no knownenfe made of themin Phyficke; andfor the eight although (Matthiolus in his lalt edition gave the figure of it, entituling it Holo/tinm, ar d without any defcription, and feemed to referreit to that of Diofcorides, whofe propertie isto binde and confolidate fieth whereof thisismo way, gulitys bucitis alrogether imfipede like a grafle:and without fappe like aruth, and is therefore called. Heloftium Aatthioli ever fince by all:authors.or by. thefe other titiles ic beareth,for it isnot yee a what that trac Holoftinm of Diofcerides is not any-knowneplant can bee found in all things to ¢quall sofullys Cuar. tufts, sent fereth fromthe greaterfort before defcribed,onely in the fmalneffe of the plant, and growingin dryer which may peradventure caufe the {malneffe,, 1, /uncuslevis maximus, The ? great Bull SRuth. 2. 3. luncuslevis panirula [par/a majar ey? ¢lomerato fore. 7 1 Anotherfore o' grearfmooth Kufand-round headed Ruthes. |