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1 COmmon Medow Grasse hath very small tufts or roots, with thicke hairy threds depending vpon the highest turfe, matting and creeping on the ground with a most thicke and appatant shew of wheaten leaues, lifting vp long thinne ioynted and light stalks, a foot or a cubit high, growing small and sharpe at the top, with a loose 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hanging downward, like the tuft or top of the common Reed.
2 Small medow Grasse differeth from the former in varietie of the soile; for as the first kind groweth in medowes, so doth this small grasse clothe the hilly and more dry grounds vntilled, and barren by nature; a Grasse more fit for sheepe than for greater cattell. And because the kindes of Grasse do differ apparantly in root, tuft, stalke, leafe, sheath, eare, or crest, we may assure our selues that they are endowed with seuerall vertues, formed by the Creator for the vse of man, although they haue been by a common negligence hidden and vnknowne. And therefore in this our Labor we haue placed each of them in their seuerall bed, where the diligent searcher of Nature may, if so he please, place his learned obseruations.