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Show Crap. 4o, Theatram Botanicam. or 5- Harando Saschaifera, Trip 13, 5, Harundo mola five Bpigeion, The Suger Cane or Keede, Love branched Reede, Trine 13. ’ The Theater ofPlants. ae ———_> Cuar,4o.. 123 I scien ftriped athwart, with lines and fcales thicke fet.on thermwithoutany leaves that werefeeneonit,being onely found by changéjina fackefull OF Coftw and Ginger asit was bronghe trom Arabia, aS ee Hartado minor five Elegia, “The {mall writing Cane. ~ : ; This {mall Reede miey feeme tobe thé fame with the laft recited,and fo Lugdunenfis doth take it,correing P/ny where he mentionechithe Reeds E/e¢ia thatirgroweth not high but{preadeth about the ground likea buth,. bing pleafant to cattle while itis frefh, faying it fhould be rather Epigeios’s but Bellonivs in his firlt booke of Odfervationsand 47.Chapter faithshe foundehis Reede growing ina valley on mount Athos, which the Grecke that was withhim called F/écia,? whereofthey made writing pens,a$ alfo /sb,2 ¢.86. it the Riyer orden, know ingicthén asfeene before, for throughounall Tark-p theyiute no pens made of Goofe quills as we dee, and rhofe writing pens which we have feene have beene brought us out of 7#: key doe declare it to bee a {mall Cane with joyntslikeunto other Reedes, hollow likea quills whereas that Epigeios, of Theophrasfiu and Lugdunenfis have greater {t alkes and thicker jdynts;then that thereof an be made any quill or pen to write Withall, wee have yer nofurther knowledge thereof: this onely let me adde hereunto that none maymiftake’ thie.for the Harando S4_ gittaria whichis bigger and folidsnot holfows Je i % 8. eArundograminea aculeata. The thorny Reede, This Reede fhootethforth thicke and fhort rootes with fibres at them, from whence extend on the ground manyjoyntedround Reede-like Aalkcs about a finger thicknefle,{preading out intobranches with finall and long leavesfet on bath fides.at diftances, whofe lower parts being broad compafle the joynts, growing narrow to the end whichis very tharpe, hard and thorny; yetit hath neyther flower nor feede that ever could be obferved,and is almo(t-withoutrafte or but alittle¢actimony therein : it growethin moilt grounds and. watery places as other Reedes doe. é 4 : The Place and, Time, Peis Allthefe forts ofReedes delight to grow in watersior. watery overflownegrounds, the feverall countties are {pecitied in theirtitles. or defcriptions,and areallipe about the end of September, ‘ t The Names, : Tris called in GteeKke watand in Latine Calamus and Harundo or Arundoas Lome writes it,whereof the zs according to Theophraftus is the Najfosfaréta, the folid orftuffed Reede; and thefemiza the hollow. The firttis Phragmatisas Ruellius and Dodoneus callethitand Ualarisor Vallatoria, as Lobel, Dodoneus, Luga cHfis and others doe'call it, an@ Arando paluftisas Matibiolus and Tabermontanus doe, but Ahguilaracaller! , femina Dicfeoridis amd Cordes Calanows vulgaris: the fecond hath beene onely foundwithus ; the thitd is‘called Aranda domestica by Matthiolws and-others,“and Donax sve Cypria by Dodonens, Lobeland others, andJtalica major by Camerarius, tor mdeede itistone-andthe fame fort whether it grow in Italy, Spaine or'elie where,al- ahem Harundo Elegia,Sapittatis,feria, he fin ft cing Reede,the Arsow‘or DartReede, and the greater andlefler folid Reede. ; ? 5 : 8. {drundo gramines atuleara, Zhe thorny Reeds, though one country greater and higher thenin another,according to the foile and climate : the fourth is probablé tometo be the fame that Theophraftas calleth Laconica,although it was entituled Zadica by thear that {ent it: the fift is generally called Arsndo Saccharifera and Sacel-arata by all that have written of it: the fixs is.as I fayd the Arundo Epigeios of Theophraftus by Lugdunenfis, which Bakbinns calleth Arundorepens, for what caufe I know not,and Chamecalamus, and thinkethit to be that which Ge/nerin bortia calleth Arunde humilis, and Copia Elegia asit was termed by them thar hadir, but furely the Zpigeios is differing from the true Elegia-as T have before fhewed : the fcavench jis called as I fayd before: Arundo Elegia by the Grecians with whom it groweth:. “The laft latt is {0 called by Alpinus as icishere. The Arabianscallrit Cafab,the Italians Canna; the Spaniards Cannas, the French Caane and Rofean,the Germans Korh,the Dutch Rietand we Reede. The Vertues. Galen faith that the rootes havea cleanfing quilitie but not fharpe and the leavesao; The freth leaves bruifed, orche rootes applyed to thofé places that have thornes{phintersorthe like in the flefh,doe draw them forth ina short {pace : the fame alfo applyed wich vinegar helpeth members ou: ofjoyntjand caferh the paines inthe loines, the freth leaves alfo bruifed and applyed unto hot impoftumes, inflammations or S.Anthonies fire, eafeth them = the afhes made of the outer rinde of the {talke mingled with Vinegar helpeththefalling of the haire, the fame things doe the other fotts of Reedes as well : the flower or woolly fubftantce if it happen into the eares,ir ftick. eth therein fo faft as thatbyno meanest willbe gotten forth againe, but will proctire deafeneffe withall ; Some haveasit is fayd obferved, that the Ferne and the Reede areat perpetuall enmicie the one not abiding where the other is,as alfo the amitie betweene the Afparaguis andthe Reede to thrive wonderous well being planted among Reedes, hey are alfo' put to many very neceflary matters bothto thatch houfes, to fervé as walles anddefence to gardiners in the cherifhing of their plants, to Watermenito trim their Boates, to Weavers to winde their yarne on, and divers others ufes.. The Sugar that is made ofthe Sugar Reede,hath obtained now a dayes fo con- tinuall and daily ufe,thar it is almoft not accounted Phyficall,becaufe‘of the tempateneffe of heate and moifture ther¢in,nourifhing much and helping coughes and hoarfgnefle ofthe throate,and1s ufed to be put into covling as wellas heating and warming medecines. BRO LUlbs |