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Show Cwa PLA, Tbéatram Botahicum, Fripp 13° , i The Place and Time, Theplaces of both thefe Reedesare expreffed; im their titles, the former properly in Eviot. ‘ : phraftus faith,and in E nphrates alfo,neere Babylon as Pliny faith. The other ei in aint in Ita/y,and other places,being in growth mnriete then'the formergand flourifh in the end of Summer. ange The Names, i Iriscalled in Grecké »7ve,andin Latine Pepyrms alfo,the Galk.was called 6i2aGQj Ente, which the Latines aucheor apeants iei fer Liber, or. cortex for neoteee knowing other. wifethe property. of the word,but as.P/iny fheweth, there was no .Charte leaves of Paper but ofthe inner foulds,, which. they divided into thinne flakes,whereinto itnaturally — oes ae ona Table, and moiltening them with the glutinous waterof the river,they preft them, and afterdr ed then, in the Sunne, and accordingtothe largeneffé thereof wasthe greater prife, but becaufe the later cline of tan old age,grew fo copionsin writing and tranferibing Bookes,;-that they-eould not.at any price, get tafficient their ufc, Arta/ss asitis thought firft at Perpamys,iavenced theskinnesof beatts to be drefled and dryed,ficto for fe that purpofe, w hich ever fince have beenecalled Pergamene, fheeres or Bookes of Parchment, for it is faid ine Aitalus farnifhed his Library at Pergamus with Oo900.volumes, written on this Parchment, This by Efe. chius & Guilandingt de Papyro iscalled Papyrus -Lcyptiafive Biblus eFgyptia,The fecondis called by Exftachi . Biblusfecunda, by Guilandinus Pepyri altera [pecies, que. Paperus in Sicilia vocatur, by Lobel Papyrus Nilotica, in by Bawhinws Papyrus Syriaca,and Siciliana, andis likely to.be chat Papyrus that Alpinus faith, groweth sedi Egipt,and called Berd or Bardsbythe Egiptians, andas faid before,is moft likely to bethe Sari of Theephraft . which fome doe thereuponcall P/e#do, papyrus. ms ds The Vertues. ; The rootes of thé ancient Papyrus. was muchufed to be eaten, asis before faid, eithenraw, boyle bythe people of: Egiptin former timesfucking the juice, and {pitting ont the reta8 aaegtaa Pliny doe thew, it was uled as‘Dio/corides faith, to open the clofed mouthesof Fiftulaes being putintothem. the manner whercofis to take the dryed {talkes of Paper, andto lay them in foake, which being bound abou elie with a thred, isto be dryed againe,and then being unboundis tobe put intothofe Vicersy whole mouthesare too {uddenlyclofed, thereby notéalily tobe cleanfed and healed, which thisbeing put.thereinto, by the ‘heate and moiftare of the Vicer, is caufedito {well to that bigneffe ic had when it was greene, or foaked, making fairer way_for the cure,in which manneralfo Grilandinus in Papyro, faith that the Chirurgions, in Jta/y ufed the pith in the ftalkes of the UVMilium Indicum IndianMillet. The burntathes thercof were ufed to. ftay running in anyplace of the body,but efpecially thafe in the mouth, But the afhes-of the writing Paperit felfe,- Vicers, thar was made of the ftalkes performed it better : but whereas now adayes many by miftaking the ancient word Charta doe ufe the afhes of our Paper,whichis made of linnencloutés, for the fame purpofes aforefaid, they erre panic: ly, and befides doe no goodar all therewith, but in the ftead thereof divers. learned men doe advifeto take the dryed ftalke of Typha,to performe the fameeffeet. Theophraftys declareththat they formerly. ufed to rootes hereof inftead of fewell, as alfo applyed them to make manyforts of utenfils,or houfhold veffelssburnethe for they ycelded much woodand very good, for as he faith, they made Ships thereof, and of the Bib/os (which I fhewed, the Tranflators not knowing the true meaning of the word,did tutneit into Cortex,the barcke)the ftalke they made {ailes,and coverlets,a kinde of garmentalfo,mats, andropes.. 4/pinss faith that the Egiptians ufe the afhes of the burnt ftalkes of this their fort, in the fame manner,andto the fame purpofes that the formed was nfedto be putunto. Andbefides, faith chat the diftilled water ofthe {talkes is very profitably ufedto take awaythe pinand web,and other mifts and darkneffe happening to the eyes, t Titee i3. i eenGe Cuap. 40, 1 The Theater of Plants. Seen, parmageea Reede, common Our vulgaris, Yallstoriafive Harando 1. grow they greater’heate dfthé by-reafon but Indies, inthe both taller and greater, fo that they ferve in ftead of timber bothto build their houfes and to cover them. 4. Harvindo Indica verficolor, Theftript or party coloured Reede, This Reedeis in the growing like unto the lalt,growing in its naturall place as great and as high, althoughit: be not fo with us, the chiefett difference herein confilteth in the arge long leaves which are p.rted with white & greenlike the Ladies Laces or painted graffe buc with larger ftripes There is another fort hereot growing in Bengala which is fmaller and morepliable and apt ro bend, whereof they make Baskets and many other {uch pretty things, 5. Harundo Saccharifera. The Sugar Cane or Reede, The Sugar Cane or Reede groweth(naturally both in the Eaft and Welt sdies bur planted in. fundry warme coun~ tries)to bee feavenor cight foote hizh, whofe Canes are bigger then onesithumbe, fullof.a {weetepith, thicke fer with joynts and very long but natrow leaves at them, with divers great ribbes in them, the tuft or pannickle at the top islike unto the other but shorter ; the roote isnot fo hard ot wooddy but fpreadeth knobbed joynts and heads at them whereby it may be enerea(ed,and is almolt as {weeteas the Canes ; In the naturall places this yeeldeth forth ofit felfe oftentimes orelfe being cut a certaine white, juice or liquor which being dryed and hardned in the Sunne wascalled by theancient writers Sal Indwm and Saccharum Indum, which was ufed before Sugar was madeout of the Canesby boyling. 6. Harnudoramofa five Epigeios Lugdunenfis. Low branched Reede, The branched Reede. hath the lower part of the ftalke with fhort joynts onely without any branches, covered with a ycllowifh barke, -but upwardsit fhooteth forth branches onall fides, and“they againe other leffer branches up to the toppe almoft at every joynt, andall of them 3. HarandoDonax, The Spanifh Reede, 4. Harundo tudica Lacontca verficolor. thy SSW} SS SEN f SSN) = SY S x ay SA The party colouredReed. SSS =~Ss Be SS Cuar, XL, Fiarundo, The Reede. F Reedes there aré two principalkindes,the one fweete,called Calamus aromaticus or edoratiuwhereof [have {poken in the end of the firlt Claffis of this Booke: the other not fweete, whereof there ae SAG are many forts, Diofcorides numbreth up five, Naftosfive fara, Thely five Femina, Syringiasfive fifinlaris, Donaxfive (ypriaand Phragmites five Uallatoria, Theophraftus hath many more,and Pliaynum~ brethup five and twenty: moft of which being knowne onely tous by the dry. Canes; 1 {hall give you the figures of fomehere,and {peake of thofe that are proper to thefe neeret climates in this Chapter. 1. Harundo Vallatoria five vulgaris, Our Common Reede. Our Common Reedé fhooteth forth with many great round hollow ftalkes, full of joynts,. fomewhat clofely fetone unto another, toa great height in fome places more thenin others,.. with long and {omew hat broad hard greene leavesat each ofthem,{harpe on both edges and fomewhat compaffingthe {talke,..at the bortomes bearing 2 longand broad {pread foft browni(h pannickle at the toppe, whofe chaffie or downy. feede, flyeth away with the winde: theroote is whité, hard, round, long,and with divers knobbed joynts therein, running aflope, but not deepe,and fhootingup {talkes ftom divers of the Joynts’: the whole ftalke dyeth. and perifheth every yeare, yet is ulually cut downe before’ Winter, when asit is growne white to ferve for many parpoles. : 2. Harundo Anglicamultifide, Finger Reede. V Se a>, AO Ep Y FnY) ER y F Thisrare Reedeis like the former, inthe manner and greatnefle of growing, «differing onely in the leaves, which ate each of them halfe a yard long, and twoor threc inchesbroad, with fundry great ribbes of yeines runsrg along ‘them, and parted’ at the.cndsinto thtee or foure parts, fome.whatlike unto the Finger Hartsongue. ; : : 3. HarundoDonax., The SpanifsReede or Cane. } The Spanif> Reedediffereth norin the manner ofgrowing from the former,, burin the greatmeffe, the canésor ftalkes being harder,thicker andtifing unto two mensheight fometimes, whofe joyntsate more feperare in funder,with larget leaves at them,anda larger pannickleat here beat the th toppe.2.Very like LIKE het unto are i: the Reedes that grow in ae “iy WYZN SS == 3208 |