13 T Of the’Hi;ltor'ie of Plants.

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. . - «. ‘ ' th l of ll ‘nmolt :,t 3"Gramen daffzlazdcs rirdzce repmfe. 1 9 Tms grow‘: P en 1 u Y 1 Cocks-foot Gra ﬁe with creeping roots.

parts of Spaine and France: and it is probag ble, that this was the gralfe our Author found neere Greenhithe in Kent,

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1 The Germans call it iairiitlhaui Tl“-3?: is to fay, Cal? 705'; whereupon it was caitecl Gmmm Mannie .~ it ieemes to be M213; _(j,'/.'-vzﬂrzi glaurium qzzaddiimgcnm, a certaine wilde or na-

'ﬁard kintle of Millet. Lconicerm and line/Ira-r name it Capriola and Smgainaria .- fotne would haue it to be Grawm aculcamm Pliny 5 but be- caufe the defcription thereof is very {hort,no.. thing can he certainly afﬁrmed. But they are far deceiued who thinke it to be C'07‘07.70]Jt}I/5 , as fome very learned haue fer tlowne: but euerie one in rhefe dayes is able to controll thater- rot. Loéel calleth it Gmmm Mzmme cﬁzileatzznz, for that in Germany and other parts,a; Bohe- mia and Italy, they vfe to eat the fame as a. kinda ofbread-come, and alfo make pottage therewith, as we do with Ote-meale 5 for the

‘ which purpofe it is there fowne as come, and {cm into the Low—Countries , and there {old by rhe._pound. In Engiifh it may be called

Manna Graffe or Dew-gralfe , but more ﬁtly, Rice-graﬂ'e.

2 This is iudged to be Ifclmmon of Pliny 5 and G411: Cm: of Apuleim.

qr The auture.

A Thefe Graffes are afiringent and drying, in taﬂe fweet like the common Dogs graffe.

qr The V ertuts.

B Vfpuleiuxr faith, ifa plaiiterbe made of this Graffe, Hogs greafe, and the Leauen of houfhold

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bl-e1:,ds,ilr: Ehxecdgfcgiiagion igtold you, this Plant in his tuft or eate is diuided into fund ry branches, fome tuft into thrce,fome foure, and fome ﬂue clouen parts like Cocks toes. Apuleim reporteth,if you take that eare which is diuided onlyinto three parts, it wontlerfully helpeth the running or dropping of the eyes, and thofe that begin to be bleare eyed, being bound about the necke,and fo vfed for certaine dayes together, it turneth the humors away from the weake part.

1: Mann_a—graﬂ'e or Rice-graﬂe is faid to be very good to be put into pu1tefi'es,to dii'cuﬂ'e hard

fwellings in womens breafts.

D The Cocks-foot Dogsgraife is very good in allcaies as the other Dogs-Graffes are, and equal-

ly as effeétuall. ll:

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779:: D efcri‘12z’z"m.. 33 1 "l"He ﬁrft of thefe hath reafonable ﬁrong ﬁbrous roots, from whence rife fiiife long

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and narrow leaues like thofe of other Cyperus Graiies : the Iialkes alfo ( as it is roper to all the plants of this kindred)_are three fquarqbearing at their tops fome time brownim cares fgft and chaffie like the ref’: of this kinde, fiariding Vprgghtaand not hanging i h «s 0. _ i ~ ("Cine :31-shfizﬁl ﬁtgtpfétry thicke creeping blacke roots,from whence arife three ltalksfet with‘fhOt- R, leauegyet broader than thofe of the laft defcribed 5 and from the top of the Ptalke come forth

three or foure foot-Ptalks,wh€teUp0n haﬁg longlﬂl "ough Skaly and Yeuowml h€3d5- 3 Tm; mots gf this are blaCl{C,Witl1OL1t fmell , and fomewhat larger than thofe of the Earl: ' i defctilimti t

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' i 2 Pfeudatyperus, Baitard. Cyperusg

tlefcribed : the 3 fqiiare {talke alfo is Tome two cubits high, bearing at the top difper. fedly round icaly heads fomewhat like’ thofe of the wood RL1lh~gi'ail‘e: the leaues are fotnewhat {liaipe and triangular like thofe of the other Cyperus.

4. This Cyperus hath creeping blacke roots, hauing here and there knotty tube- rous heads for the rnoit part, putting vp leaueslike thofe of the laft defcribed, as alfo a iialke hearing at the top long chailie cares like to fome others of this liiﬂdﬁg

3' This Cyperus-Graffe hath pretty

thicke ﬁbrous and hlacke roots , from whence arifeth a ﬁalke fome cubit high, pretty itiife, triangular,}ointed,fet at each yoynt with a large greene leafe which at the bottoine incompafles the italke,whi'c1i is omitted in the figure. At the top of the Ptalke, as in the true Cyperus,comC f0rEh two or three pretty large leaues, betweene which rife vp many {mall foot-italltes very much branched, and bearing many biackei feeds (‘omewhat like Millet or Ruihesi V

H gr The Placeaxzifime. All there grow in ditches and waterie placesg